All Films

Soft White Underbelly

1982 • 3 min

16mm experimental short film.

Musikalische Arabesken: Suite

1982 • 5 min • East Germany, Germany

This short film is an animated interpretation of the Suite No. 4 by the music ensemble Bayon, which was founded in East Germany in 1971. Bayon’s music is a unique combination of Khmer pentatonic music with elements of classical, jazz and rock.

Bottles Again

1982 • 6 min • Romania

A retelling of the fairy tale "Cinderella" with bottles.

The Colour Black

1982 • 14 min • United Kingdom

A documentary made for BBC West in 1982, written and presented by Hugh Cornwell and Jet Black of The Stranglers. It focuses on the colour black and includes the Meninblack phenomenon and some Stranglers of course.

To Alter the Image

1982 • 10 min • France

1981: at the moment the left won power, French television commissioned Godard to make a film on the theme of change. Like Lettre à Freddy Buache, this film is born of the impossibility of carrying out the commission. For the space where change appears is not the image but the gap between images.

André Hazes: Live In Concertgebouw Amsterdam

1982 • 50 min • Netherlands

On December 28, 1982, André Hazes enters the stage of the Royal Concertgebouw, a hall normally reserved for classical music. Hazes reached superstar status a year earlier with the album Simply André, which takes first place in the album chart and the hits 'A little love', 'Say nothing more', 'No streamers on the wall for me', 'It last round' and 'She believes in me'.

Cabbage Garden Secret

1982 • 9 min • Soviet Union

The cabbage field was guarded by the Dog, but he was very lazy. Having once seen that most of the cabbage heads had been chewed, he decided that the hares were playing a prank. Having caught one Little Hare, the Dog put him on a chain and forced him to guard the field.

Brick by Brick

1982 • 33 min • United States of America

A prescient portrait of late-1970s Washington, D.C., that chronicles the city's creeping gentrification, the systematic expulsion of poor Black residents, and the community response in the form of the Seaton Street Project, in which tenants banded together to purchase buildings.

No Title

1982 • 14 min • Soviet Union

Poetic and romantic amateur footage of a young couple in a garden, as well as their travels — several spliced films with different plots were stored on one reel. The film includes the author's audio commentary.

Encounters

1982 • 13 min • Soviet Union

A spy film, which resulted from shooting a friends’ meeting with a hidden camera. Having persuaded his acquaintances to play a trick on his friends he was supposed to meet at the railway station in Vilnius, the filmmaker hires a taxi to film his experiment from the car.

Bops

1982 • 11 min • Yugoslavia

The human desire to win, shown through the fights at the World Freestyle Wrestling Championships held in 1981 in Skopje, Macedonia.

Jitsuroku mantoru: Kyûsho ijiri

1982 • 60 min • Japan

Alone in a Fallow Field

1982 • 7 min • Poland

Kalina links traditional animation with a re-projection. To the rhythm of the popular folk song Ukochany kraj, umiłowany kraj (Beloved country, dear country) he creates an anti-ballade about the farmer’s hard life and difficult work. Monotonous and mechanical activities degrade a man.

Jacques Lacan Speaks

1982 • 60 min • Belgium

Typically controversial speech by psychoanalyst/philosopher Lacan is disrupted by a student, ridiculing such public intellectuals. Lacan refuses to allow security to haul off the student, lets him speak and incorporates such criticisms into his presentation. The packed performance took place at the Catholic University of Louvain on October 13, 1972, with Lacan interrelating death, language, love, alienation, paranoia and life. His talk is followed by a probing interview of Lacan on his concepts of psychoanalysis, conducted by the director, Belgian documentarian Francoise Wolff. One of only 2 known filmed appearances by Lacan, both by Wolff, who also made documentaries of Albert Einstein and Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

Hör zu

1982 • 5 min • East Germany, Germany

A little fire breaks out in a man’s apartment. He panically tries to call the other inhabitants in the house for help, but nobody lets him speak. Instead he is being happily pulled from one apartment into the next one, making him more and more nervous. Eventually, he runs into the streets and gets into a big group of heady-with-victory football fans.

Five Year Diary, Reel 3: Christmas 1981 New Year 1982 (December 22, 1981–January 9, 1982)

1982 • 23 min • United States of America

The first of many year-end holiday reels. Cooking, cleaning, pixilation. (Liz Coffey)

Wenn's donnert, blüht der Gummibaum

1982 • 56 min • East Germany

Some unusually intense meteorological event causes a family to suddenly swap roles. That means that the children are in charge and the adults must obey. Coincidentally, mother’s new admirer, Mr. Droehmbüdel, proposes marriage but when he enters their apartment, he is very surprised by the strange family relationships. With determination her son (Tom) tries to chase him away against constant pleas from his mother and grandmother. But Mr. Droehmbüdel does not give up and is constantly inventing new ways to gain access to his future home.

Radio Adios

1982 • 11 min

A superabundance of useless information effectively subdues freedom of speech. Condense and survive!

Satanic Question

1982 • 11 min • Canada

Ancient legend swirls around the dark history of Les Forges du St. Maurice. Strange tales are still whispered by hushed voices... stories from the past that are impossible to forget.... In this animated film, the devil takes us on a tour of the iron works. The Son of Lucifer transforms himself into a cat and discovers the great water wheels, the lower forge, the blast furnace, and molten metal, before speeding back to hell with a rare present for his father... LUCIFER.

L'Afrique c'est loin

1982 • 55 min

Whatever Happened to Susan Jane?

1982 • 60 min • United States of America

Marcie, a suburban housewife, dissatisfied with her bouffant-and-barbecue lifestyle, is hot on the trail of an old high school chum, Susan Jane. When she reconnects with her, Marcie stumbles into the wild and wacky world of San Francisco bohemia.

Das Gaswerk

1982 • 19 min • East Germany, Germany

How are problems solved in a socialist country? The film centres on an old gasworks in the middle of a workers' district in Berlin, capital of the GDR. For 100 years it was polluting the environment - now it is closed. What has happened to the former workers? Have they been made redundant? Will the site of the old works be taken over by a new one, or will a park be laid out there for the local inhabitants?

Bless You!

1982 • 15 min • Soviet Union

Impressions De France

1982 • 18 min • France, United States of America

An 18-minute panoramic film showcasing the grandeur, charm and romance of one of Europe’s most enchanting countries.