All Films

Roses in December

1982 • 56 min • United States of America

The film begins with the exhumation of four American women tortured, raped, and murdered by the right-wing government of El Salvador on December 2, 1980. The women — Dorothy Kazel, an Ursuline; Ita Ford and Maura Clarke, Maryknoll mission sisters; and Jean Donovan, a young laywoman from Cleveland — were providing food, shelter, medical care and burial to the poor. They were targeted for assassination by a death squad within the U.S.-supported Salvadoran military as part of a policy of suppressing the poor and “liberation theology.” The award-winning documentary focuses primarily on the life of Jean Donovan through archival news footage, interviews, home movies, and diary readings.

Старуха, дверь закрой!

1982 • 7 min • Soviet Union

Entrée de secours

1982 • 18 min • France

You'll see Johnny Rotten or rather his ghost Johnny Lyndon insulting human herd with "this is religion, your religion". The last images of a film which lets you no escape, no more escape than the punkette who exhibits her genitals in a toilet hallway, no more escape than all these rockstars who belch to fill the void. On the music aspect, there is a combinatorial saturation of sounds that looks like a requiem. The images : uninterrupted movement un a daily apocalyptic space. This is about savagery, frantic intoxication, suicidal energy.

Parvis Beaubourg

1982 • 26 min • France

Biological Cycle No. 5

1982 • 8 min • Japan

The series, based on the first 16mm film that was shot in a studio with Nakajima’s family and birds, moves through media and processing transformations over many iterations over the years. Once transferred to video, digital effects were added using the “Animaker,” an electronic image synthesizer that he invented (also nicknamed “Ko-puter”). Total of 6 parts exist.

Panorama

1982 • 13 min • United States of America

The hills and light of San Francisco create a continuous visual adventure in urban space: buildings and streets rove in height and depth as the open sky shifts from spot to spot, and nothing quite stays as it first appears.

The Space Creature

1982 • 16 min

The Jones Family of Indiana had an "SC" crash land his spaceship in their backyard. What's it like living with an "SC"?

Joulupukki

1982 • 48 min • Finland

Animated stories of Santa Clause and Christmas based on a book by Mauri Kunnas by the same name.

Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi Biopic

1982 • 17 min • India

Produced by Krishnaswamy associates (p) Ltd in 1982 Drawn from his home by the power of Arunachala, one of India's traditional holy sites, at the age of sixteen, he challenged death by a penetrating enquiry into the source of his being. He perfectly embodied the ultimate truth of Self-realization, or complete absorption in the Supreme itself, and stayed for the rest of his life as the Sage of Arunachala. Hailed as Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi he revealed the direct path of practice of Self-enquiry and awakened mankind to the immense spiritual power of the holy Arunachala Hill. This video biography was produced and directed by Dr. S. Krishnaswamy, founder of Krishnaswamy Associates P Ltd, Chennai.

I Get Up in the Morning with the Giraffes

1982 • 24 min

About the art of the painter Channa Bankier.

Ühe armastuse lugu

1982 • 28 min • Soviet Union

One summer, the life cycle of one great crested grebe couple. Screenwriter, director and cinematographer Rein Maran.

America Works...America Sings

1982 • 20 min • United States of America

Educational film about folk songs and their origins, along with performances.

Calligraphy

1982 • 7 min • Romania

A boy learning to write imagines letters becoming birds and numbers turning into trees.

Trompe-l'oeil

1982 • 13 min • France

On photographs taken by Cuchi White of trompe l'oeil painted on the walls of Paris and elsewhere, the comments of Georges Perec and Michel Butor are a reflection on the technique of artificial decor and the art of architectural illusion.

Bridges - Struga Poetry Evenings

1982 • 43 min • Macedonia

A review of the past Struga Poetry Evenings with a presentation of the laureates of the Golden Wreath of Poetry.

The Tale about Kyiv

1982 • 57 min • Soviet Union

TV documentary for the 1500th anniversary of Kyiv.

Cast Iron Lace

1982 • 7 min • Soviet Union

The film focuses on the grilles, patterns of cast iron gates in the city of Saratov.

A New Face of Debbie Harry by H.R. Giger

1982 • 34 min • Switzerland

Debbie Harry first solo album with banned art by H.R. Giger is covered.

Dream Land Express

1982 • 14 min • United Kingdom

A young boy is taken by a train on a mysterious journey. BAFTA-winning 14 minute adaptation of H.R. Millar's 1927 book, Dreamland Express.

Bread and Dripping

1982 • 17 min • Australia

Women's unwritten history is passed down through memories. Shows women talking about their experiences of the Great Depression in Australia. Covers such areas as: aboriginal women; paid and unpaid work; mothering; marriage; women's participation in the political struggles of the 1920's and 30's.

For the Poet Nikos Kavvadias

1982 • 16 min

Stavros Tornes directs this documentary centered on the poet Nikos Kavvadias and his poetry.

Die Glatze

1982 • 2 min • Germany

A man sings about his baldhead.

The Clown of God

1982 • 10 min • United States of America

based on the book by Tomie dePaola

Test for Adults

1982 • 58 min • Soviet Union

This film is the second installment (of five) of Igor Shadkhan and Svetlana Voloshina’s project Test for Adults (the first 16-year television observation of children and their parents in the USSR, 1978-1994). There are six television short stories, each dedicated to one of the children who are 10 years old at the time of shooting: Artyom, Julia, Pavel, Alyosha, Sveta, and Alexey. The authors are interested in the psychological portrait of children. The intimate nature of the interview and the delicacy of the interviewer allows them to touch upon difficult topics – loneliness in the hospital, the child’s experiences of parental divorce, the existential fears of children, leadership, attitudes, etc.