All Films

Devilish Tricks

1982 • 6 min • Czechoslovakia

An adventure with living figurines from a Christmas tree. A restless little devil bothers the other ornaments hanging on the Christmas tree. When he wakes up a child and makes it cry, he's finally punished.

Kubota

1982 • 20 min • Canada

A film featuring architect, sculptor, and musician Nobuo Kubota in a sound-sculpture performance. From within a cage-like structure filled with traditional musical instruments and sound-making devices fashioned from ordinary objects and toys, Kubota creates an aural/visual montage of musical notes and noises. Praised by music educators as a valuable tool for teaching creativity in sound exploration and musical innovation, the film reveals the infinite percussion possibilities of simple objects and presents a portrait of a versatile performer whose imagination has led him far beyond the confines of conventional music. Directed by Jonny Silver - 1982 | 20 min

Alice Cooper à Paris

1982 • 47 min

A collection of original music videos and live performances by shock-rocker Alice Cooper.

Blutige Exzesse im Führerbunker

1982 • 8 min • Germany

Early no budget experimental Super-8 short film made by Buttgereit in just one day in 1982. Nazi leader Adolf Hitler has survived the war, holed up in his bunker. There, he re-created his former wife Eva Braun as a Frankenstein monster, along with a “Germanic breeding bull”(played by Buttgereit). With the help of these Nazi-zombies, he wants to take over the world again. But as soon as the monsters awake, they tear their maker to shreds. Much fun and gory effects!

Reporting on the covering America

1982 • 19 min • Soviet Union

Americans are alarmed... What they have witnessed - a group of journalists from Soviet television, having appeared on American soil in the summer of 1982, America has not yet seen. To whom it would seem in our time to surprise with mass processions, demonstrations of many thousands. They are constantly reported in newspapers, their shots are now and then flashed in television news releases, and nevertheless, the events of this summer are something completely new in the political life of the United States...

George Burns in Concert

1982 • 58 min • United States of America

This 1982 concert shows the great George Burns at his absolute funniest, as he entertains a live audience.

Une villa aux environs de New York

1982 • 55 min • France

Karl, a young immigrant, lives with his uncle in New York who jealously watches over the education of his nephew. A friend, Mr. Pallunder invites Karl to spend a night at his house. Despite strong opposition from his uncle, Karl agrees. On the way, Karl realises he may have displeased his guardian. His desire to turn back will be prevented.

Remembering Kharlamov

1982 • 20 min • Soviet Union

About the Soviet hockey player V. Kharlamov. Teammates, children's coach B.P. Kulagin, and national team coach A. Tarasov share their memories.

Born to Film

1982 • 33 min • United States of America

A family album from the visionary photojournalist Danny Lyon traces three generations of image-makers.

Little Dinosaur

1982 • 9 min • Soviet Union

A cheeky and greedy Murlocotam lived on a magical island. One day a little Dinosaur appeared. He helped the inhabitants of the island defeat the Murlocotamus and return to them a beautiful orchard, which was taken away from them by a greedy bully.

The Tree of Knowledge

1982 • 23 min

Set in Huehuetla, Puebla, a Totonac Indian community in East Central Mexico, this documentary contrasts two systems of education. The public school system uses patriotic symbols to "integrate" Indian pupils into the national culture while teaching them to reject their own identity.

Families Are Forever

1982 • 12 min • United States of America

A photomontage telling the story of Jamie’s life from his birth to the moment his mother dies unexpectedly.

Squeeze In Concert

1982 • 45 min • United Kingdom

David Hepworth introduces part of a live concert by Squeeze from 1982 at the Regal Theatre in Hitchin, Hertfordshire.

Why is the Hare Hiding

1982 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Like a hare guarding a cabbage.

To Serve the Gods

1982 • 33 min • United States of America

A Haitian family conducts a traditional week-long ceremony in honor of their ancestral spirits. Music, dance, and sacrifice are incorporated to honor the ancestors and their gods.

Our Lady of Paris

1982 • 22 min • France

Magical Super-8 (shown on 16mm) single frame portrait of the Notre Dame cathedral featuring luminous light and a dense score incorporating players from the square. - Early Monthly Segments

Twice a Woman

1982 • 42 min • Costa Rica

The Costa Rican situation of women incorporated into the production in a double shift, jobs and housework.

Desert Island Discs

1982 • 47 min

Arena celebrates Roy Plomley's Desert Island Discs with the help of many celebrity castaways, including Frankie Howerd, Russell Harty, Trevor Brooking, the Lord Mayor of London, Professor JK Galbraith and Arthur Askey. The special guest for the 40th anniversary programme was Paul McCartney who was also a fan of the show: 'I love its homeliness. It conjures up the best in traditional British pleasure, like the great British breakfast. It's an honour to be asked'.

The Trout That Stole the Rainbow

1982 • 8 min

The vibrant images of this beautifully illustrated animation film will captivate all audiences, and will be particularly useful in the classroom to teachers of art and language arts. In this original fable the world loses its colours when a trout, obsessed by the beauty of the rainbow, steals it from the sky.

Crane

1982 • 9 min • Soviet Union

A little boy brings home a bird with a broken wing, which becomes a good friend. The boy himself becomes winged, happy from a beautiful act in which his soul is revealed.

Pošťácká pohádka

1982 • 29 min • Czechoslovakia

No Action

1982 • 5 min

This unusual short portrait film combines animation with live action in a way that makes the viewer wonder, at first, what is real and what has been manipulated. Natural settings are transformed through time-lapse animation, while ten discrete cyclic animations occur simultaneously in a bank of windows behind the motionless protagonist. NO ACTION contrasts sound and imagery to describe conflicting internal and external realities.

Sauro Bellini

1982 • 15 min • France

He tells me that his name is Sauro Bellini, a Bellini descendant, that he is twenty-two years old, that he studies maths, that he does not like to be photographed, much less to be filmed. He tells me that he has nothing to do with cinema, that he actually hates cinema - too violent for him. I invite him to a projection of my portrait film Isa en automne, which screens at "Studio 43" the next day, "... then we'll talk about it again ...". He comes to the screening, he likes the movie, he says OK. The next afternoon at the Jardin des Plantes for the shoot, he comes. He is here before the hour. Few words exchanged, almost everything goes through the eyes. He gives himself to my camera. He concentrates and he abandons himself. He becomes Sauro Bellini, angel of Venice .

Americas in Transition

1982 • 29 min

Americas in Transition provides a concise and fast-paced history of the volatile forces that rocked Chile, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua in the 1970s and 1980s. Drawing on interviews with the Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes, former CIA director Lyman Kirkpatrick, former U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador Murat Williams, and Maryknoll missioner Peggy Healy, the film examines the roots of dictatorship, attempts at democracy, communist influences, and the U.S. role in Latin American politics. Americas in Transition remains the best introduction to U.S. relations with Latin America, and the underlying causes of unrest there. 1981 Academy Award Nominee, Best Short Documentary.