All Films

Das Packeis-Syndrom

1982 • 60 min • Germany

Glass Gardens

1982 • 7 min

Glass Gardens is an animated allegory of the role creativity plays in the survival of the human spirit. The protagonist wanders the dystopian ruins of a consumer culture, gathering relics, and creating new works.

Little Panda Learns Carpenter

1982 • 17 min • China

Little Panda learns carpentry from Grandpa, but he lacks concentration. So when he goes out to do carpentry by himself, he makes many mistakes.

Cheap Imitations Part V/VI: Terms of Analysis

1982 • 16 min

Initially the subject of this film was the multiple threats constantly implicit in cinema ... especially in the perceptual acts of unifying with which we respond to the discontinuities of editing. So the basic images were knives and salamis. But as the music was reworked, highly charged objects began to appear and reappear; instinctual navigation took over, as always, in the editing room ... and the film seemed to adopt another subject entirely. As in all our work, many issues are in uneasy balance, and the film refuses to find a center. Words in the film refer to its own intertextuality. Who is speaking here? And who is addressed?

Archive Morlock: 1er mai 1982 (Manifestation CGT)

1982 • 3 min

A City Under the Skin

1982 • 28 min

Imaginative experimental film about the collision between a young man's inner and outer landscape.

Digital Dance

1982 • 4 min

A figure performs a dance to disco and beautiful abstractions are created.

Five Year Diary, Reel 5: Mourning (January 23–30, 1982)

1982 • 25 min • United States of America

Reel 5: Mourning (23 to 30 January 1982) follows in the wake of the death of Richard Robertson, the filmmaker’s father. [It] covers … seven days of the family going through their father’s papers, taking walks in the snow and huddling inside watching football. (Anjo-marí Gouws)

Why?

1982 • 28 min • Italy

Shot in Beirut and released during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982, the film both portrayed the brutality of the siege and the indiscriminate attacks as well as people’s survival. The film is rhythmed by the urgency of sirens, communicating the human toll of the violence to a wider world in an attempt to rally support for the Palestinian revolution. Simultaneously, the film is loaded with the specter of an unclear future, the seeds of a massacre that was yet to come.

La derrota de Samotracia

1982 • 15 min

Experimental film projected over a sculpture

No Escape from Christmas

1982 • 30 min

The death of a loved one is always hard, but when that loved one is a young child, the death seems all the more difficult to handle. The Fosters’ seven year old son died just before Christmas, Margo’s faith in God died, too. Now, one year later, she is constantly reminded of her loss. In order to help her deal with her grief, Dennis suggests a holiday backpacking trip. Alan, a dedicated young Christian boy is on the trip. He is able to lead Margo to a better understanding of Christmas.

Vicious Animal

1982 • 25 min • Soviet Union

Toad, the primeval inhabitant of the earth. One of the first living creatures who dared to venture from sea to land and some of whose species are now finding their way to the books of endangered species. Who are they really, these witch's creatures?

Real to Reel Momma

1982 • 20 min

"... portrays the views of a first generation Italian-American woman though her life experiences as immigrant, factory worker, and as the 'emotional heart of the family.'" – Fabrice Ziolkowski

Myth-Historima

1982 • 50 min

Traumasyl

1982 • 25 min

The video works 'Traumasyl' and 'Jukai, the Sea of Trees' are characterized by a cinematic and associative style, in which atmosphere plays an important role. There is certainly no word of a plot or unambiguous content. Influenced by the Italian film maker Michelangelo Antonioni, he draws a picture here of mental and physical oppression. A monitor in an empty room alternately shows the faces of a woman and a man. Their lips are moving, but you cannot hear their voices. Their faces are 'blindfolded', and 'tied up' with a rope which is fastened around the monitor. Then there are images of the woman in the empty room in which she looks at herself on the screen and in a broken mirror. Locked up in this circuit and her own thoughts, she is unable to make contact.

Opening New Frontiers - The Orbital Flight Tests Of The Space Transportation System

1982 • 28 min

Documentary of the Space Shuttle tests from NASA footage.

Foire du trône

1982 • 45 min • France

Foire du trône was made in a big annual Paris fair, like Coney Island. I filmed the people and the games, and that forms the first part of the film. The second part is an elaborate working of the coloured lights. (T.H.)

El tubo de rayos catódicos

1982 • 6 min • Spain

A portrait of a young man in a process of self destruction by watching TV

Leather Poltergeist

1982 • 16 min

A young man has supernatural experiences of a phantom leatherman.

The Three Knights

1982 • 11 min

An early animated short from the creator of Peppa Pig about the adventures of three hapless knights.

Automaddix

1982 • 3 min • Netherlands

Short film about two men in a car

Lullaby

1982 • 59 min • Bulgaria

"Nani-na, sleep tight" is the song Bulgarian mothers sing to their little babies. It is obvious that the same song is sung to the little babies in the women's prison in Sliven where the great Bulgarian director Binka Zhelyazkova made two documentaries, the first one named "Nani-Na" /"Lullaby"/ with the incredible true stories of the prisoners in that facility. Immediately forbidden, this movie plus the other one - "Lice i opako" or "The Bright and Dark Side of Things" also made the same year were shown 8 years later when the socialist regime wrongly named as communist one fell apart in 1989. Sadly, Binka Zhelyazkova made no other movie after 1990 until her death in 2011. Deeply insulted by the Bulgarian authorities she decided to decline from cinematographic work, which is something very frustrating indeed, given that all her movies are now evergreen classics.

I Wish You

1982 • 22 min • Soviet Union

Boris Petrovich, a modest employee of the registry office, selflessly and creatively in love with his work. All his life he wishes his fellow countrymen health, happiness, good luck on days of celebrations, comforts them in days of sorrow, but remains a kind eccentric for everyone, giving many reasons for jokes and bullying. But three times in a row his evil wishes come true, accidentally dropped from his lips, and Boris Petrovich begins to be feared and respected.

João da Mata: Um documento

1982 • 10 min

Documentary about Brazilian silent film "João da Mata"