All Films

Agrotechnika

1982 • 5 min • Poland

An erotic episode about farming in the world of robots. Cuttings do not want to undergo mechanical stimulation. A space inspector is the only one who can change their opinion.

Fade In

1982 • 20 min • Japan

Hyperactivity: The Facts

1982 • 13 min

Norman is on his way to a doctor's appointment, where he is diagnosed with hyperactivity disorder. This film examines how diet and exercise can impact the behavior and physiology of an individual, and describes how blood sugar fluctuations can lead to agitation, moodiness and attention deficiencies.

Acid Rain: Requiem or Recovery

1982 • 27 min • Canada

Uses graphics and maps to show the devastation caused by precipitation containing excessive amounts of nitrogen oxides and sulphur dioxide. Documents American and Canadian studies on acid rain's dire effects on wildlife, plants, buildings and other structures.

Our Hands

1982 • 9 min

Hands, and the things hands do handsomely edited to some hand-conducted orchestral music. A short film by Syrian film director Abdellatif Abdul Hamid, produced after his return to Syira from the Soviet Union.

And Their Sister Lybid

1982 • 9 min • Soviet Union

There were three brothers, Kyi, Shchek and Khoryv, who founded Kyiv. The city swelled, craftsmen worked, builders created day-to-day the beautiful and places on the slopes. And brothers had beautyful sister Lybyd to get together with the rest of the townspeople to celebrate Midsummer. But no one thought that the upcoming feast will be irrigated with blood. The animation was created for the 1500th anniversary of Kyiv.

Le Frère André

1982 • 56 min • Canada

A look at the life of André Bessette through expert interviews and interviews with people who knew him.

Idol

1982 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The man sought to perpetuate his image. Pride leads him to loneliness and even to crime. In an effort to create his own image of a stone Idol, he forgets about everything in the world and when he returns to his native home, he finds only ruins in its place.

Blood Ah Go Run

1982 • 20 min • United Kingdom

Short 'newsfilm' looking back at the events of 1981, beginning with the killing of 13 young blacks in New Cross, London. The film goes on to show the anger this aroused among black people, and their march in demonstration - `The Black People's Day of Action'. Also covers the Brixton riots.

Chuchelo-myauchelo

1982 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Chuchelo-myauchelo shows that song and cheerful mood always help in the workplace.

The Neuron Suite

1982 • 58 min • United States of America

James Burke roams the Hotel del Coronado, using its services as a metaphor for the neuro-chemical activity of the human brain.

Taming the Bicycle

1982 • 8 min • Soviet Union

Based on the short story of the same name by Mark Twain.

Paris

1982 • 28 min • United States of America

A filming of Meredith Monk and Ping Chong's 1973 experimental theatre piece.

Ben's Mill

1982 • 59 min

The film, set in Barnet, Vermont, details the workings of the Thresher Mill on the Stevens River, including how energy from the river is used to drive a multitude of leather belts and various machines. The film focuses on the steps one man, Ben, uses to make one of his white pine watering tanks, and then a horse-drawn sled for different members of the Barnet community.

Through the Ruins

1982 • 9 min • Argentina

To film without looking trough the viewfinder; to emulate a tactile, subconscious vision. This was the intention of "A traves de las ruinas", made during the Falklands War (April-May 1982). The camera is a vacillating gaze that moves about in the darkness or is blinded by flickering. At the beginning, it delves into the sea, later it represents aerial bombardments through urban lights. Silhouettes of human figures appear that never manage to connect with each other. Scarcely lit places, photographed on the "threshold or exposure"; wintry, generalized interaction of spaces, distances and dynamics. A continual present made up of intuitions and imprecise memories.

Silent Film

1982 • 15 min

Shot through the process of travel and edited in camera the film presents those transitions in a direct and moving way. Focussing mostly on exteriors and landscape the film documents a series of instances and privileged moments within a range of spaces.

The Egg

1982 • 10 min • Poland

A short film about two children who stayed home alone.

Cao Chong Weighs an Elephant

1982 • 16 min • China

Set in the Three Kingdoms Period, ancient China, India presents Cao Cao an elephant. Cao Cao wants to know the elephant's weight, only his youngest son Cao Chong comes up with an idea to weigh the jumbo.

As Time Goes By...

1982 • 31 min • Germany

A poetic picture story of everyday life in Berlin, supplemented, contrasted and broken up by text quotes from Christa Wolf and Bertolt Brecht.

Reporter

1982 • 30 min • Soviet Union

Andres Sööt's portrait of the legendary radio man Feliks Leet, a long-time Pärnu correspondent of Estonian Radio. A lifelike, comic depiction of a tireless newsman in his daily work - conducting interviews and reports on current events and mentoring young reporters.

Van Morrison: Live at Rockpalast

1982 • 56 min • Germany

Van Morrison and his band perform live in Essen, Germany, in April 1982. Highlights include "Into the Mystic", "Full Force Gale", "Bright Side of the Road" and "Cleaning Windows".

And Now This...

1982 • 5 min

Shot in Saskatchewan, And Now This... transforms landscape through technology, evoking the pristine lines of wheat fields and abandoned farm buildings.

We Are Still Young

1982 • 45 min • China

Love story between three young workers and a girl in a large steel factory.

Backyard

1982 • 20 min

Experimental silent short shot on super 8, depicting scenes from 1980s Melbourne suburbia played back in slow-motion at four frames per second