All Films

The Remarkable Riderless Runaway Tricycle

1982 • 12 min • United States of America

A boy riding his tricycle down the sidewalk is distracted by a kite he finds in the trash. While he runs off to play with the kite, his tricycle is picked up with the rest of the garbage. The panicked tricycle escapes at the dump and races to find the boy, with garbage men and police in hot pursuit.

Alix's Pictures

1982 • 19 min • France

Alix Cléo Roubaud, a photographer, describes her images to Eustache’s son Boris. An “essay in the shape of a hoax”, Eustache’s last film wittily questions the relationship between showing and telling as it gradually shifts Alix’s narration out of sync with what we see.

120 Minuten merkwürdig

1982 • 5 min • Germany

A man and a woman meet again.

Probation

1982 • 6 min • United Kingdom

A boy goes to see his probation officer.

Magic Journeys

1982 • 16 min • United States of America

Formerly showcased at various Disney parks around the world, Magic Journeys presents an abstract look into the mind of a child.

Marie Uguay

1982 • 56 min • Canada

Reflections on writing, life and death with French Canadian poet Marie Uguay, who would die of bone cancer shortly after the making of this film.

Los Montes

1982 • 35 min • France

Los Montes de la Ermita, region of Bierzo Alto, in the province of León, Spain. Six women assist Joaquín —the only and last inhabitant of the remote village, located on the slopes of the mythical and mysterious Catoute Peak—, who is in danger of death due to an unfortunate accident.

Berliner Stadtbahnbilder

1982 • 60 min

Documentation on the Berlin S-Bahn, which threatened to fall into oblivion as a result of the division of the city.

Little Filip

1982 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Filip, also called "Filipok" due to being small, dreams of being able to fly. He also wants to go to school, but his mother won't let him because he's too young. But one day, he's running to the school anyway.

Curious George

1982 • 15 min • United States of America

This adventure, directed by John Matthews, tells the story of the very first fateful meeting between George and the man with the yellow hat. Upon seeing him in the jungle, our nameless hero takes the little monkey to America with him, where he embarks on his very first series of urban antics!

Stop the Train!

1982 • 10 min • Soviet Union

How friendship with a dolphin taught a girl to understand the beauty of nature.

3rd Degree

1982 • 24 min • United States of America

Three-screen film. On the first screen, close-ups of an agitated match in front of a young woman's fearful face. On the soundtrack: matches, warnings of a rattlesnake, the phrase: "Listen, I will not speak." The ribbon runs at variable speeds, sometimes blurring, sometimes slowing down, to stop, on which the image / celluloid begins to fry and to burn, then leaves, runs, stops again, leaves again ... On the second screen we see the first rephotographed; here the "burns" are both fixed or new (a burn in the second degree). On the third screen, we see the second screen rephotographed. The subject of the film is the fragility of the film, as medium, as well as the vulnerability of man. Both the film and the figure resist threats / intimidation / mutilations.

Harlem Valentines Day: Blood Is Sex

1982 • 50 min • Japan

Set in the near future after a nuclear war, the film portrays a man who is searching for his former lover.

One Day of Life

1982 • 10 min • Yugoslavia

Apartment… factory… apartment… factory. All days are monochrome, similar. What happens when a man suddenly meets a friend he hasn’t seen in a long time.

The Case of Dashiell Hammett

1982 • 60 min

A one-hour public television (PBS) biography of Dashiell Hammett, creator of the "hardboiled" modern detective novel and author of "The Maltese Falcon" and "The Thin Man." It follows Hammett's life from Pinkerton detective in San Francisco to his career as fiction and screen writer, companion of playwright Lillian Hellman, and leftwing political activist. The biography investigates why Hammett stopped writing at the height of his fame.

Golf Film

1982 • 3 min • United States of America

Meat Loaf Live At Wembley 1982

1982 • 60 min

Live is a live video of Meat Loaf, recorded at the Wembley Arena in London, on April 29, 1982. According to a misprint on some versions, the songs "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" and "Read 'Em and Weep" were also performed, but neither song was ever released. Track listing[edit] 1."Bat Out of Hell" - 10:37 2."You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth" - 5:59 3."Dead Ringer for Love" - 6:06 4."All Revved Up with No Place to Go" - 9:27 5."I'm Gonna Love Her for Both of Us" - 7:59 6."The Promised Land" - 6:21 7."Two Out of Three Ain't Bad" - 5:09 8."All Revved Up" (reprise) - 0:47 All tracks written by Jim Steinman, except "The Promised Land" by Chuck Berry

Angus Lost

1982 • 11 min • United States of America

After a run-in with the family cat that leads to his exile from the house, this clever, curious Scottish terrier escapes from the yard and is off on a real adventure around town and the countryside.

Baryshnikov in Hollywood

1982 • 60 min

The famed dancer encounters various characters in a busy day at work on a movie studio lot.

Ear to the Ground

1982 • 4 min

In Ear to the Ground, David Van Tieghem uses the city of Manhattan as his musical instrument, playing the surfaces of the sidewalks, buildings and phone booths with his drumsticks to elicit an ingenious range of percussive sounds.

Flatlandia

1982 • 22 min

Asante Market Women

1982 • 53 min • Ghana, United Kingdom

As retailers, wholesalers, and negotiators, Asante women of Ghana dominate the huge Kumasi Central Market amid the laughter, argument, colour and music. The crew of this `Disappearing World' film have jumped into the fray, explored, and tried to explain the complexities of the market and its traders. As the film was to be about women traders, an all female film crew was selected and the rapport between the two groups of women is remarkable. The relationship was no doubt all the stronger because the anthropologist acting as advisor to the crew, Charlotte Boaitey, is herself an Asante. The people open up for the interviewers telling them about their lives as traders, about differences between men and women, in their perception of their society and also about marriage.

The Dummy

1982 • 7 min • United States of America

"The Dummy" is a 1982 student film by Louis La Volpe. It was picked up by HBO, USA Network, and Showtime in the early days of cable TV, receiving extensive play for almost ten years, more than any other short film. It was often used as a bumper for horror movies and suspense anthologies like "Alfred Hitchcock Presents." The film was the source of nightmares for a generation of kids watching late night television in the 1980s and inspired the "Child's Play" films.

Shirley MacLaine... Illusions

1982 • 60 min

Shirley MacLaine uses music and drama to look at ways in which things are not necessarily what they seem to be.