All Films

Lost and Found: Film 2

1982 • 8 min

A basket of eggs arrives at the lost and found office. The dog sets off in search of the mother bird, who turns out to be a crocodile.

Memory of the People

1982 • 47 min • Soviet Union

Dedicated to the memory of L.I. Brezhnev.

Wagner e Venezia

1982 • 30 min

First Contact

1982 • 58 min • Australia, Canada, United States of America

First Contact is a 1983 documentary by Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson which recounts the discovery of a flourishing native population in the interior highlands of New Guinea in 1930 in what had been thought to be an uninhabited area. It is based on the book of the same name by the same authors. Inhabitants of the region and surviving members of the Leahy brothers' gold prospecting party recount their astonishment at this unforeseen meeting. The film includes still photographs taken by a member of the expedition and contemporary footage of the island's terrain. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

The Making of David Cronenberg's Videodrome

1982 • 8 min • United States of America

A featurette made in 1982 to promote the new film by David Cronenberg, including interviews with the cast and crew.

The Elephant

1982 • 1 min • Canada, United States of America

An elephant asks Nesbitt for directions to the zoo, but won't listen to him long enough.

The Court of Miracles

1982 • 40 min • United Kingdom

Through a series of tableaux/still life settings, characters are subjected to experiments dealing with elegance, science, violence, technology, glamour and love, attempting to examine the levels of alienation which the modern world and lifestyles encourage.

Night Shift

1982 • 12 min • Sweden

"Night Shift" - In the back seat of a taxi, one Saturday evening in Stockholm, people need a ride for all kinds of reasons and from all walks of life. One of the passengers feel that it's better if they that need to rough someone up, that's in it for the money, instead of they brutally raping someone innocent in the woods. It's ugly out there. Someone will get hurt.

Chief, It's Amazing

1982 • 60 min • Czechoslovakia

Criminal comedy, a first movie from the "Chief" series.

Random Frequencies #1

1982 • 4 min

Short film.

Who Will Tell A Fable?

1982 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The king loses half his kingdom to a peasant. Based on an Armenian folk tale.

The Last Mooseskin Boat

1982 • 28 min • Canada

This short documentary follows Gabe Etchinelle as builds a mooseskin boat as a tribute to an earlier way of life, where the Shotah Dene people would use a mooseskin boats and transport their families and cargo down mountain rivers to trading settlements throughout the Northwest Territories.

René Depestre, poète haïtien

1982 • 5 min

Maldoror casts a sympathetic light on one of Haitian literature’s most influential figures, the poet and political activist René Depestre.

The Daymaker

1982 • 7 min • United States of America

Sol, a batty old inventor, believes he can control the daytime.

M the Damned

1982 • 13 min • France

A Claude Chabrol remake of M by Fritz Lang for French television.

One in Five

1982 • 52 min

Invites a diverse throng of gay men and lesbians to a party in the hallowed arches of London’s Heaven nightclub. Lesbian punks, drag queens and moustachioed muscle Marys mingle and chat about the problems facing queer people in Britain and how to tackle them. Grace Jones performs.

La Grande Adozione di Lodi

1982 • 39 min

Directed by Alberto Lattuada

So Long, My Partner: Rock Is Sex

1982 • 58 min • Japan

Rachi has aspirations of becoming a punk rocker. But his tendency towards self-sabotage and a budding sexual addiction makes matters increasingly difficult for him and his band mates to make it big.

Doug Henning's World of Magic

1982 • 60 min

Fun with Mr. Future

1982 • 9 min • United States of America

An animatronic talking-head replica of Abraham Lincoln (voiced by Phil Proctor) hosts a tour of what the future will look like.

The Rodney Dangerfield Show: It's Not Easy Bein' Me

1982 • 60 min • United States of America

Rodney Dangerfield's first ABC special, featuring stand-up and sketches.

Brasília, segundo roteiro de Alberto Cavalcanti

1982 • 30 min • Brazil

It starts in the Indian tabas, goes through colonial architecture and arrives in the Brazilian capital. The film follows a script left by Alberto Cavalcanti, after a trip to Brasilia in 1978.

Victor Jaras barn

1982 • 40 min • Sweden

Rarely screened two part documentary on the Swedish-Chilean folk music group Victor Jaras barn [Victor Jara's Children], formed by folk musician and researcher Mariella Ferreira. One of several films by Peter and Zsóka Nestler in the 1970's and 1980's on the political situation in Latin America, produced for Swedish public television.

The Cracking of Glen Canyon Damn

1982 • 10 min

The birth of the radical environmental movement is captured in this short, poetic film on the legendary direct action at Glen Canyon Dam in March of 1981. The film contains one of the only interviews ever given by the late, great author Edward Abbey along with his classic speech from the back of a pick-up truck.