All Films

Vida de ángel

1982 • 60 min • Mexico

Testimony from different women of different ages about housework, marriage, and gender roles: women cook, wash, and take care of the home, while men work.

Andy Warhol Eating a Hamburger

1982 • 4 min

And so I write. Ostap Vyshnia

1982 • 19 min • Soviet Union

Documentary film about the outstanding Ukrainian humorist Ostap Vyshnia.

Beim Arzt

1982 • 15 min

What actually goes on in a doctor's office? Do you have to be afraid of the doctor? How does an examination by a general practitioner work? The short feature film takes a look behind the scenes through the eyes of a boy of about 9 years and aims to help reduce fears of visiting a doctor.

The Human Face of Japan

1982 • 28 min • Australia

The world continues to look to Japan as a highly industrialized, future-oriented country that has retained much of its ancient tradition. This series provides an insight into the character of a highly complex nation by examining the lives of nine Japanese from widely diverse backgrounds in the context of social and economic developments.

Urusei Yatsura: Haru da, Tobidase!

1982 • 44 min • Japan

Urusei Yatsura: Haru da, Tobidase! aired between episodes 21 and 22 of the main series. The first segment is a clip show, while the second segment adapts three chapters of the manga.

Guitar Fantasia

1982 • 59 min • Japan

Perfect Peri

1982 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A statue of immense beauty has to come to life, and all wish to win her heart. But she is a peri, a Persian spirit of seraphic beauty, who should belong to none.

The Night School Students

1982 • 14 min • Romania

Bearing the signature melancholy, affection, and absurdist irony of associative form that would define his filmography, Copel Moscu’s debut is a loving portrait of miners and their arduous, sun-deprived existence.

K.C.I.: Beyond the Three R's

1982 • 27 min • Canada

Through candid views of school activities, classroom discussions, and interviews with staff and students, the film takes its audience through a busy day at Kitchener Waterloo Collegiate and Vocational School. It approaches many of the questions in the current debate on education.

William Penn and the Quakers (Pennsylvania Colony) (Revised)

1982 • 14 min • United States of America

Describes the Quakers' struggle for religious freedom and the founding of the Pennsylvania colony, under the leadership of William Penn. Describes the colony's belief in freedom of speech and religion, and in the equality of all. Explains why Pennsylvania prospered.

A Sheet of Paper

1982 • 9 min • Soviet Union

An ordinary sheet of paper adventures through a bureaucratic world and finally finds its calling.

静止空間2

1982 • 6 min

1982: 5th Pia Film Festival 1982 / 6 minutes / Color / 8mm Director: Ryoichiro Izubuchi Technical cooperation: Kazuhiko Shibata Sound effects: Kenji Sada Cooperation: Kyushu Institute of Technology, 1st and 3rd year image design department Model: Mitsuyo Masuda

鏗鏘集：邊緣少年

1982 • 17 min

documentary about teenager life in 1980's Hong Kong

ORION Live: At the North 40 Club

1982 • 51 min

Great opportunity to see Orion looking terrific and performing in his mask at the height of his Sun years popularity. Filmed on 16th. October 1982 in Newburg, Maryland and featuring 13 songs in the sixty minute playing time and in very good quality. Includes: Anybody Out There; Texas Tea; What's Forever For; Honky Tonk Heaven; Look Me Up; Gone At Last; Solitaire; Love Is In The Air. A rarity in that not much early footage exists of Orion from the Sun period and even better since the songs are mostly Jimmy's own with little Elvis orientated tracks.

Drawing Lesson

1982 • 8 min • Bulgaria

Claustrophobia

1982 • 7 min • Bulgaria

People are enclosed in transparent cubes. One of them manages to get out. He meets a lonely girl. They fly into space. It turns out that the two are locked in the cube again. The hero breaks out again. He meets many men and women, but returns to the girl he loves. This time, in their shared cube, they are separated by a partition.

Spanish Lesson

1982 • 10 min

Color UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Documentary about upper-class white women in Beverly Hills who are taking Spanish lessons for the purpose of commanding Spanish-speaking maids.

Ruja

1982 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The popular rock band on their tenth jubilee summer tour in 1981. In addition to being a concert film, the popularity of Ruja and the relations between the youth and popular music are investigated. Includes interviews with Valter Ojakäär, Ott Arder and the musicians themselves.

Fry It Safe

1982 • 12 min • United States of America

This vintage film discusses the importance of paying full attention when cooking with vegetable oils and shortening to prevent kitchen fires. It demonstrates through controlled experiments that oil and shortening can smoke and catch fire if left unattended over high heat, and emphasizes the need to reduce heat immediately if smoke is detected. The film highlights the basic safety guidelines for safe home frying, such as using a medium heat source and never leaving heating oil or shortening unattended.

Hunt Saboteurs

1982 • 40 min

Cameras follow shock troops of anti-hunt demonstrators disrupting hunt.

The Cocaine Express

1982 • 30 min

This half-hour documentary follows the journey of two prize-winning journalists from the Chicago Sun-Times, writer, Rick Sol and photographer, Henry Gill, as they make their way through South America investigating the business of cocaine. Their journey took them from the jungles of Peru to Miami International Airport. Along the way, they also explored the high-stakes business of marijuana in Columbia. This documentary consists entirely of black and white still photographs, along with the reporter's narration, and was a precursor to the work of Ken Burns. It was nominated for a Chicago Emmy Award for "Best investigative Report".

Giving Flowers

1982 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A tale about a lonely woman, a sad artist in love with her, an eccentric astronomer and the inhabitants of the Planet of the Lost Hats.

The Adventures of Khryapov

1982 • 8 min • Soviet Union

On moral topics. The hero of the film is Khryapov, a man who disregards generally accepted norms of behavior.