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1982 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Heik Ernitsa's directorial debut "Encounter" is a humorous story about dreams and reality. "Street" by Valter Uusberg paints a nervous and gloomy picture of the artificial environment of the city. Mati Küti's satirical "Monument" dissects egocentrism in a grotesque tone.

The Private Life of the Ford Cortina

1982 • 45 min • United Kingdom

A ski run in Italy, a supermarket manager in Luton, a sandwich bar in London EC2, Arena opens the bonnet of the Ford Cortina, Britain's most popular, most stolen, and most misunderstood car. 'Dagenham dustbin'? 'Poor man's Rolls-Royce'? In the year that may well see the end of a legend, some of the motoring public, including Sir John Betjeman, Tom Robinson, Alexei Sayle, Sir Terence Beckett and Magnus Magnusson take apart the Ford Cortina: Life and Works 1962-1982.

Chas & Dave’s Christmas Knees-Up

1982 • 45 min • United Kingdom

The Cockney entertainers host a lively Christmas party complete with flowing alcohol, a jubilant crowd of Eastenders and guests including Eric Clapton.

金鹿

1982 • 44 min • China

1982 short film

The Shady Hill Kidnapping

1982 • 59 min • United States of America

John Cheever's wry comedy of errors comes to the screen in this filmed presentation from the Broadway Theatre Archive. An upper-middle-class suburb is turned upside-down by the apparent kidnapping of Toby Wooster (Garrett Hanf). Unaware that the whole thing is a setup, the town swings into action to raise funds to meet the kidnappers' ransom demands. George Grizzard, Polly Holliday, Katharine Balfour and Celeste Holm star.

Richard Williams and the Thief Who Never Gave Up

1982 • 52 min • United Kingdom

A documentary about the animator, Richard Williams,

This Woman Is Not a Car

1982 • 23 min • Australia

A depressed wife and mother whose reality is starting to fracture into fantasy, drives her children to the beach. On the return journey she stops at a service station to fill up with petrol. Four mechanics eye her off and, as one of them walks towards her car, a full-blown erotic fantasy develops.

Supermann

1982 • 7 min • Hungary

SUPERMAN is an early performance experimentation with video as mirror.

Ballet Robotique

1982 • 8 min

In Ballet Robotique, the graceful movements of giant assembly line robots are perfectly synchronized to classical music recorded by London's Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

Morris's Disappearing Bag

1982 • 7 min • United States of America

Morris impresses his older siblings when he opens the last box under the Christmas tree... and disappears.

Taxi!

1982 • 57 min • Canada

This feature documentary studies one of the city’s most visible yet most anonymous character: the taxi driver. Filmed by day and night, the film offers an entertaining and sometimes comical look at the drivers, fleet operators and dispatchers who are expected to deliver passengers, parcels… and even babies.

The Ravishing of Frank N. Stein

1982 • 9 min • Switzerland

The slow construction of an image, to the rhythm of steps, ends when the monster meets his Bride.

Debby Boone... One Step Closer

1982 • 60 min

A musical comedy special hosted by Debby Boone, about a company of singers and dancers preparing to open in a Broadway show. Taped at a theater in Detroit where Debby Boone and the rest of the cast were actually preparing a Broadway-bound adaptation of "Seven Brides For Seven Brothers."

Eugene Atget: Photographer

1982 • 48 min • United Kingdom

Meet France’s mysterious master of photography, neglected in his own lifetime but since feted for helping position the medium as an art form, and as an inspiration to surrealists. This meditative Arts Council documentary introduces Eugène Atget, a former actor who began to document the streets of old Paris from the 1890s. Little is known about his early life and the three decades he spent capturing, in eerie tableaux, urban spaces since lost to progress. The film includes dramatised scenes from his life, including his belated ‘discovery’ by American photographers Man Ray and Berenice Abbott, who published many of Atget’s works after his death in 1927.

A Shocking Accident

1982 • 25 min • United Kingdom

A Shocking Accident is a 1982 British short comedy film directed by James Scott, based on Graham Greene's short story by the same name. About a boy whose father is killed in Naples, when a pig falls on him as a balcony collapses. The incident haunts the boy through his later life until he meets a girl who understands his side of the story. The film won an Oscar at the 55th Academy Awards for Best Live Action Short and was nominated for BAFTA in 1983.

Lily for President?

1982 • 50 min

Comedian Lily Tomlin stars in this comical farce which deals with her experiences running for the office of President of the United States.

Round Trip to Glasgow

1982 • 14 min • United Kingdom

British Transport film.

L'Art d'exposer

1982 • 45 min • France

Afternoon

1982 • 6 min • United Kingdom

A couple of old friends drown their sorrows together while reveling in the naivety of a young newly-wed.

The First Ball

1982 • 32 min • Yugoslavia

Short documentary about the first football competition in Macedonia.

The Helm of Destiny

1982 • 59 min • United States of America

This cinematic journey in time and space is aiming to research the history of Ukrainian emigration to the United States, and to highlight the active members of the Ukrainian community. Following a brief historical introduction, we get to see an impressive gallery of Ukrainians of different professions – from a farmer to a spacecraft engineer – speaking out about their life experience, their roots, and their take on self-identification. Among the personalities featured in the film, there are famous artists, such as Jacques Hnizdovsky, and a celebrated American actor of Ukrainian decent Jack Palance, who is also narrating the picture.

Great Tailor

1982 • 9 min • Soviet Union

The plot of the film deals with the eternal theme, the fight between good and evil. The negative character is a man in black who tries to hinder the Tailor's creative work.

Phantasmagoria Theater

1982 • 2 min • Japan

An 8mm animated short that was produced by Hiroshi Harada in his early college years.

Ottawa 82 Logo

1982 • 5 min • Canada

A series of six opening logos and one closing logo produced as part of the NFB's contribution to the Ottawa '82 International Animation Film Festival.