All Films

Discovering Ireland

1982 • 29 min • Ireland

A showcase of what Ireland has to offer as a tourist destination.

Horse Gate

1982 • 18 min • Soviet Union

Breathing

1982 • 3 min

This is a small piece that I shot with a Fujica P300 equipped with an auto fader, repeating the fading in and out on the light and shadow in a room at a regular rhythm.

First Ascent

1982 • 13 min

The first all women climbing film. Lynn Hill and Beth Bennet make the first female free ascent of the Naked Edge, Eldorado Canyon, Colorado. A film by Robert Carmichael and Greg Lowe produced by Sports Imagery

Yesterdays

1982 • 25 min • United States of America

Yesterdays was co-produced by the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO) and the Oregon Historical Society (OHS) in 1982, by Jerry Baumgarner (MCSO) and Michelle Kribs (OHS). It is a little over 25 minutes long and is in both color and in black and white. It presents information from the 1930’s through the 1980’s about the history of some parts of MCSO operations. Segments include Poor Farm operations, the construction of Rocky Butte Jail in 1939-1944, Larch Mountain Road construction, the creation of the anti-protest Emergency Squad in 1963, the River Patrol, a 1966 plane crash search and rescue, and the motorcycle division and trick team.

El hacedor de milagros

1982 • 60 min • Venezuela

The journey of a Brazilian healer through Brazil, Panama, and Venezuela, and his various activities that blend fakirism, Christianity, and macumba, forming a noisy collective ceremony.

Aedniku sügis

1982 • 19 min • Soviet Union, Estonia

Spring has turned into autumn, and the beauty and yield of the garden have changed.

Hotel Cartograph

1982 • 12 min • United States of America

The movements across the 2-dimensional space, and in and out of elevators through 3-dimensional space, suggest a conceptual map of the visible environment, which is perhaps drawn by the camera itself. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.

Potya and Potiha

1982 • 19 min • Soviet Union

Potya and Potiha are newlyweds. Potya is a big eccentric, but his wife lovingly forgives him for all his stupid deeds.

Wolf Skin

1982 • 8 min • Soviet Union

About three friends who managed to scare the evil wolves.

Old Record

1982 • 15 min • Soviet Union

Aliens get acquainted with the music of earthlings by taking with them a box of Leonid Utyosov's records. This animated tribute to Utyosov was released on the first anniversary of his death.

Martha Rosler Reads "Vogue"

1982 • 26 min • United States of America

In this live performance for Paper Tiger Television's public-access cable program in New York, Rosler deconstructs the messages in Vogue and its advertising. Rosler looks at the institutional slants of the magazine industry and the fashion industry's reliance on sweatshops.

The First Film

1982 • 9 min • Poland

Experimental Polish short in which "Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory" from 1895 is reenacted and shown from different points of view.

European Crisis

1982 • 14 min • France

Professor Anatole Lacoste is having a meeting with one of the agents of doctor Brain at a Jackson Pollock exhibition at Centre Pompidou. Meanwhile, Deborah is about to take a bath when burglar Torlim Novak breaks into her house. Everything seems to be normal when the computer at the control station spots an anomaly in the way history functions. But how does one stop the film?

On a Shutter

1982 • 3 min • Japan

À quoi rêve l'araignée ?

1982 • 55 min • France

An autobiographical film that orchestrates the fragments of Michel Nedjar's life, to compose an architecture. The family films shot by his father, pieces of Michel's first films shot in the Balearic Islands and in Athens, contemporary images with Teo Hernandez, to stolen dialogues between his mother and and his aunt, recorded without their knowledge. The author is the spider, at the center of a device that allows him to survive: he has woven the threads of his own web and is now in control of his personal situation.

Como Um Olhar Sem Rosto (As Presidiárias)

1982 • 34 min

"Carandiru Women's Prison. An opportunity to talk about the freedom, loneliness and hope of women who, although incarcerated, keep their dreams alive." Adopting the semi-open prison regime, a penitentiary in São Paulo allows inmates to work outside. According to the psychologists of the establishment - who during the film talk about the scientific level and the practical results of their work - this system is seen and developed as a fair achievement of the inmates and not as a privilege, gradually ensuring their social reintegration. In their testimonies, the inmates expose the problems they face on the outside in the face of a society that marginalizes them, even after they have served their full sentence. Stimulus Award from the São Paulo State Culture Secretariat, 1982.

Passion - Disco 41

1982 • 4 min • East Germany, Germany

The Berlin rock group Passion presents their "Apple Song" and interprets it in a humorous way.

The Smile of the Garden

1982 • 19 min • Poland

A documentary film dedicated to Stefan Zeromski, shot in his villa in Konstancin, with the participation of his daughter Monika, wife Anna, and friends of the family - Elzbieta Osterwianka and professor Stanislaw Lorentz. A story about the private life of this great writer.

Stop Buying Grapes

1982 • 7 min • Canada

Experimental short film by Josephine Massarella

Magician

1982 • 1 min

A magician breaks down a classic M.C. Escher tessellation and a Rubin vase illusion. Created for Sesame Street.

Electric Blue Special: A Night at Paul Raymond’s Revuebar

1982 • 56 min

1 hour special filmed inside the world-famous SOHO striptease show palace

Kuuvikerkaar

1982 • 29 min • Estonia

The people of Suislepa. A humanist and warm poetic film about a generation, which will not show tiredness or old age in conducting their work. People who find wonder in the everyday, who take care in deepening their relationships with other people or the nature, who see the world as it is and to love it.

Sonho Destrela

1982 • 23 min • Brazil

In Cajazeiras, in the hinterlands of Paraíba, singer Núbia Galvão (her stage name, after singer Núbia Lafayette) talks about the difficulties she faced when she tried her professional career. In 1973, she went to the Chacrinha show, in Rio de Janeiro, but got frustrated for not being successful. She travels around her town selling perfumes, giving guitar lessons, and still sings serenades.