All Films

Our Athletes

1982 • 22 min • Yugoslavia

Three young athletes, alpine skier Bojan Križaj, swimmer Borut Petrič and tennis player Mima Jaušovec are always proud to represent Yugoslavia in sports competitions. Talent is not enough. They had to work hard to reach the top.

The Interchange

1982 • 23 min • France

A young boy moves with his mother into rent-controlled housing in a new banlieue. He begins sixth grade and meets a mysterious classmate. Produced for the "Contes pour enfants" television series that aired on former network Antenna-2.

Deadly Revenge

1982 • 4 min • United States of America

A lover's revenge from beyond the grave. Low-budget Super-8 Horror short, filmed at Patterson High School.

Tennis Club

1982 • 11 min

A brief overview of the history of the game of tennis from its origin in "4572 A.C." and follows its development through Roman times, the Age of Chivalry and up to the modern game as played today.

Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady

1982 • 60 min

Erotique

1982 • 2 min • Austria

One can determine a line in Tscherkassky’s oeuvre which turns around a game with filmic presentation, with degrees of recognisability — with the only-just and the not-any-more. Just to see desire. An example of this is Erotique. One sees swirling pictures, parts of a woman’s face, red lips, eyes in cyclical fragments of movement. Often it is difficult to tell which part of the body one actually sees (whoever wants to can see/imagine/think sexual organs and sexual acts.) The gaze gets hung up on partial objects, no integral, whole body to think about. No body, whose representation was always one of the problems in cinema.

Grey

1982 • 30 min • Japan

Transitions

1982 • 11 min • Canada

Transitions is a film of inner life and speaks of time, reality, power. It depicts the disquieting sensations of being in-between-between falling asleep and being awake, between here and there, between being and non-being. These metaphysical themes are evoked by the central image of a woman in white over which layers of images and sound (voices) are superimposed.

The Calendar: How to Use It

1982 • 14 min • United States of America

Children learn how to use a calendar.

Memories of the Seaside

1982 • 5 min • Japan

It consists of two repeated images: a scene of cutting the back of a hand with a utility knife and blood oozing out, and another one of a man being slaughtered at the beach.

A través del fútbol

1982 • 8 min

Short documentary on the history of spanish football with the colaboration of the Real Sociedad football club.

Rendez-Vous

1982 • 2 min • Soviet Union

A short animation from Vladimir Samsonov.

Baby Mice

1982 • 8 min • Soviet Union

A mischievous cat felt like a real master of the house. He drove the birds, liked to lie in the sun, and when he saw the mice rejoicing in the attic, he already imagined that he will soon have hearty lunch. But the mice were united and agile, so they will be able to stand up for themselves and fight back the cunning and high-handed cat.

A Trip to the Caucasus Mountains

1982 • 30 min • Soviet Union

The story of six-year-old Bobka, a kind and cheerful man who lives in Leningrad and desperately dreams of unexpectedly visiting his dad, who serves in the distant Caucasus Mountains. This is his most cherished dream, and it will certainly come true, but only after some adventures that are quite normal for this tomboy.

From the Ashes: Nicaragua Today

1982 • 60 min • United States of America, Nicaragua

Degrees of Limitation

1982 • 3 min

A silent film made completely in about 15 minutes on a partly cloudy day in San Francisco in 1982. With the 16mm Bolex camera mounted on a tripod, I wound the motor a single crank and ran as far as I could before the camera stopped (about 1 second). I returned and wound it 2 cranks and did the same, then repeated the process adding one crank each time. With these self-imposed limitations, would I make it to the top of the hill before the film ran out?

La phonie furieuse

1982 • 10 min • Canada

Through the Blooming Linden

1982 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Lithuanian documentary about bicycles.

Water

1982 • 2 min • Switzerland

8mm film by Swiss artist Roman Signer.

Робинзон и самолёт

1982 • 9 min • Soviet Union

The Close to Nature Garden

1982 • 24 min

Mr. Fukuoka has decided not to plow, not to grow rice in flooded fields, and not to use machinery to sow or harvest. What he does do on his farm is documented in this unique record of a full year of overlapping crops.

Babobilicons

1982 • 16 min • United States of America

Krumins’ fantasy sets the world of flora and fauna on its ear. At one moment grotesque greenish mushrooms grow, wither and reverse their life-cycle, at another, strange crustacean-like animals speed around on a bed of feathers, next a room is inundated with giant ladybugs… Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2009.

Maria Callas

1982 • 2 min

Why was Cairo Calm

1982 • 42 min

It begins in the days after Sadat's assassination in 1981 by an islamist cell of army officers. The American media had led an outpouring of shock and grief in the United States at the death of the heroic president. All the western leaders then travelled to Cairo to say goodbye to the man who had courageously changed the course of history. But then they found that practically no Egyptians turned up to the funeral. And the western politicians and the American TV reporters couldn't understand why. The documentary tries to find the answer.