All Films

Vem spökar Alfons Åberg?

1982 • 11 min • Sweden

Alfons knows that there are no ghosts or monsters, but if there were, they would certainly appear when you are alone and it is dark!

Waiting for Waiting for Godot

1982 • 7 min

Super 8 film by Derek Jarman.

The Author of These Words: Harold Horwood

1982 • 29 min • Canada

Newfoundland writer Harold Horwood has been called many things, but his own opinion of himself is undiminished. A former union organizer, politician in the Smallwood government, muckraking journalist, and founder of a counterculture "free school" in the 1960s, he is also an award-winning author whose regional base has not lessened his national stature.

A Dedicated Man

1982 • 60 min

Edith is a hotel waitress, single and in her mid-forties, with a major infatuation on Maurice Silcox, the hotel's head waiter. But Edith becomes distraught when she learns that Maurice has been offered a more prestigious job at a luxury hotel. Maurice explains to Edith that he can only take the position if he is married. Unaware Edith's crush, Maurice proposes. She accepts and they set up a household for business purposes only -- complete with a photograph of a make-believe son. As Edith continues to live with this charade, her obsession with Maurice and the "son" grows, leading to a shocking and disturbing outcome!

Mr. Kershaw's Dream System

1982 • 23 min • United Kingdom

A man grows insane when he hears the beeping of a Monarch telephone, and he seeks help of a psychiatrist.

It's Just Better

1982 • 16 min • Canada

In a farmhouse on Cape Breton Island where Shawn Peter Dwyer, age 10, lives with his mother and nine brothers and sisters, children's pockets are usually empty and their lives well filled.

Nothing As It Seems: The Films of Nicolas Roeg

1982 • 53 min

Documentary on Nicolas Roeg

Perry Como's Christmas in Paris

1982 • 60 min

Perry Como hosts this Christmas special, featuring music and songs Parisian-style.

A New Approach to Hong Kong

1982 • 22 min • United Kingdom

A look at British involvement in the construction of the new double-track railway from Kowloon, on Hong Kong's harbour, to the Chinese border.

Here's a Funny Thing

1982 • 60 min • United Kingdom

John Bardon performs his acclaimed stage show tribute to the comedian Max Miller for Channel 4. Miller's story is told as a part of his act, weaving biographical details amongst the gags and songs.

Spiral Labyrinth

1982 • 3 min • Japan

Drawing animation, Reshooting 8mm Film.

Fela Kuti: Music Is the Weapon

1982 • 54 min • France

Musician Fela Anikulapo Kuti recorded more than 60 albums to promote the magic of Afrobeat but never lost his political voice as an outspoken critic against widespread government corruption in Nigeria. This documentary examines the role that Fela, dubbed "Black President," played in shedding light on atrocities in his homeland and in promoting the ascent of African music worldwide.

Gods of Metal

1982 • 28 min • United States of America

Gods of Metal is a 1982 American short documentary film produced by Robert Richter for the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers on nuclear disarmament. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

So Is This

1982 • 49 min • Canada

English and French words flash individually over a black background.

The Triangle

1982 • 15 min • Soviet Union

Julia spends every night preparing a multi-course feast for her husband Viktor. Until one day Eduard appears from under the electric stove and starts demanding his share of the meal.

Any Friend of Nicholas Nickleby Is a Friend of Mine

1982 • 52 min • United States of America

The arrival in a small town of a stranger who calls himself 'Charles Dickens' makes a magical and lasting change in the lives of an imaginative 12-year-old boy and a loving young woman.

The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat

1982 • 25 min • United States of America

The Cat in the Hat is all set for a lovely picnic, but the evil Grinch changes his plans by inventing a contraption that captures noise and makes it sound ferocious. The Cat has to save the world from the clutches of the Grinch and the only way to do it is to reach Grinch's soft spot.

A Different Image

1982 • 51 min • United States of America

An African American woman living away from her family in Los Angeles yearns to be recognized for more than her physical attributes. In cultivating the friendship of a male office mate, she aspires to a relationship where romance is not a factor, seeking someone who can "see her as she is," rather than see only what he wants to see. (UCLA Film & Television Archive)

Los Alamos: The Beginning

1982 • 49 min

A documentary composed of historical footage and contemporary interviews from the men and women of Los Alamos, recalling their experiences of the community and the creation of the atomic bomb from the inception of the program in 1943.

Sunstream

1982 • 7 min

Experimental short film shot at Berkely in the Fine Art Department.

Pond and Waterfall

1982 • 15 min • United States of America

An experimental movie where the viewpoint starts in a placid pond high inland, and follows the flow of water down to the sea. The movie experiments with viewing both the air, the water, and the surface of the water at the same time. The tempo changes from calm to frenzied later in the movie as the water is more disturbed.

Singlehanders

1982 • 49 min • Canada

Follow two Canadians, Bob Lush and Mike Birch, aboard their yachts during the 1980 Observer Singlehanded Transatlantic Race. More than a record of this prestigious international sailing event, the resulting film is the starting point for an epic of challenge and determination.

Diamir - The Bewitched of Nanga Parbat

1982 • 51 min • France

Mountaineering documentary on the Nanga Parbat expedition, in India, in 1982. Led by mountaineer Pierre Mazeaud, this international expedition brings together eight French people, two Germans, an Iraqi, an Austrian and an Englishman including Michel Afanassieff, Michel Berrueux, Walter Cecchinel, Kurt Diemberger, Hans Engl, Shah Jehan, Karim Imamdad and others. On July 14, 1982, Hans Engl reached the summit after twelve hours of struggle.

Callahan

1982 • 25 min • United States of America

Indiana Jones spoof, an unsold pilot. Callahan and his new assistant try to solve the world's problems through science.