All Films

Echo

1982 • 3 min • Soviet Union

A magical old man of the forest helps a girl find her way home.

Mood

1982 • 2 min • Soviet Union

About fleeting mood swings.

KLOAKA, la película

1982 • 10 min • Peru

A film by Emilio Bustamante, recorded in the 80s, in which the story of Kloaka is revived by some of the members of the group. Kloaka was a Peruvian poetry group/movement formed in 1982. Its members were: Roger Santiváñez, Mariela Dreyfus, Guillermo Gutiérrez, Edián Novoa, Carlos Enrique Polanco, José Alberto Velarde, Domingo de Ramos, Mary Soto, and Julio Heredia.

Vocation is a Teacher

1982 • 17 min • Soviet Union

Teachers and students are in different parts of the country. The First of September is celebrated by first—graders in Ulyanovsk, history and literature lessons in an Azerbaijani village, music in the Lithuanian city of Siauliai, biology in Leningrad.

The Deer Cub and the Switchman

1982 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A kind switchman saved a deer freezing on the rails.

Meaning

1982 • 4 min • Soviet Union

The cult character of Vilnius, Artūras Barysas-Baras (1954-2005), even before he became the vocalist of the group "Ir vis tai ka yra gražu yražu", was a well-known author of short experimental films. His work was favorably evaluated by Lithuanian and foreign film critics and connoisseurs of avant-garde art. For the soundtracks of the films, Barr used music from records released in the West, which has made public showings of his films impossible these days.

The Blasters: Let's Rock Again - Live in Chicago

1982 • 57 min • United States of America

The Blasters are at the top of the Los Angeles Rockabilly world when they hit Stages Music Hall in Chicago. Assisted by the legendary Carl Perkins, Willie Dixon and Lee Allen, the crowd is left awestruck and sweaty. Selections include: Border Radio, Shakin', Blue Suede Shoes, Marie Marie and others.

Schwangerschaft und Geburt

1982 • 15 min

This educational film shows human reproduction as fertilization, growth and birth of the child with rules of conduct for the expectant mother. In a combination of live-action film, animated graphics and microfilmography/photography, “an everyday, ever-changing miracle” is accompanied until the birth.

Der Märchenmantel

1982 • 21 min • East Germany

A princess laments for her treasure. The knights Dick and Schick rush off to fetch it. A little bird joins them and they take it with them and defend it.

Colour

1982 • 16 min

A little girl, not allowed to play by older children, begins to "conjure". In her imagination, the grey town begins to be saturated with colours.

Arabesque For Marie Menken

1982 • 13 min

A film about a building, the newly restored Hoboken Railroad Terminal. As the title implies, it is an homage to Marie Menken and a take-off on her sketch of the Alhambra. It uses some of her fast-frame techniques, setting the building into motion, playing with the contrast of the stained glass windows against other decorative elements. The sound track is mostly informational, speaking of Menken's contribution to the Experimental film. It precedes the image. –M. G.

Moving On: The Hunger for Land in Zimbabwe

1982 • 51 min • United States of America

Documents the history of the independence movement in Zimbabwe through art prints, vintage documents and photographs, posters, and archival film footage. Shows the continuing disparity between Black farmers, who barely make a living on their inferior land, and affluent whites, who employ modern agricultural techniques on their lush acres.

Montana

1982 • 4 min

Inspired by the mountains of the northern United States, 'Montana' depicts both natural and man-made landmarks through early computer graphics.

Easter

1982 • 27 min

Short interviews with buried ancestors.

Magic Bus

1982 • 11 min • Soviet Union

Nameless monologues against the backdrop of a bustling city and relatives seeing off to a medical-labor prophylactic center.

The Stanley Baxter Hour

1982 • 50 min • United Kingdom

The sketches include too many feet, Whicker's World looks at marriage, somewhere in Hell...1982, at look at the use of language in Arra Gemme, Brideshead, Charmaine Globb on Probe looks at The Conned-Sumers, the unyielding parking attendant, high expectations, the upcoming ITV winter shows, finishing with the Fast Food Follies.

Belonging

1982 • 30 min • Soviet Union

It’s the 1st of September, a sunny and joyful day in Pripyat. Children are going to school, and the builders, engineers, and supervisors of yesterday are sharing their thoughts about the future of the city and the newly built power station. Mr. Kizima, head of construction at Chornobyl, speaks about the city planning process, and Mr. Voloshko, head of the city executive committee, speaks about the creation of recreational areas for workers. The main architect, Mr. Oleshko, talks about the construction of the local swimming pool, and the head doctor, Mr. Leonenko, gives an ironic overview of the problems of high birth rates in the Atomohrad.

Space Invaders

1982 • 6 min

Space Invaders is a science fantasy that maps the terrain of what might have been regarded, in the 60’s, as a ‘global village’, the giant video screen of the disco, the home television and the video arcade game.

Submarine Man

1982 • 1 min

A bird transforms into a variety of objects and back into itself.

Pension Hara

1982 • 1 min

8mm film made in 1982 by the Bunkyo University Film Research Club.

Target of the Primordial Demon

1982 • 14 min

8mm film work from 1982 by the Film Studies Department of Bunkyō University.

30 Second Portraits: New York Artists

1982 • 15 min

Inverting the form, style and time frame of commercial television advertising, Logue has produced a unique series of dynamic video portraits of avant-garde artists, writers, musicians and performers. In 30 Second Spots: New York, which Logue terms "commercials for artists," each of the succinct vignettes conveys the artistic essence of her subject with clarity, wit, and an elegant economy of means.

Finestra Santos

1982 • 11 min • Spain

Film divided into three parts in which the Valencian musician Carles Santos explores various sonorities, using the image as a means of expression.

A Day in the Life of... Beryl Cook

1982 • 30 min • United Kingdom

A look into the world of saucy Plymouth artist Beryl Cook, one of Britain's most popular painters.