All Films

The Survivalists

1982 • 48 min • United Kingdom

This documentary talks to women training with machine guns, to undergraduates taking courses in How to Stay Alive, to retired generals who run schools for mercenary killers, and to self-appointed clergy who say their native America has "gone soft on the Devil and the Reds" and has become a "Disneyland for Dummies".

Creativity with Bill Moyers: John Huston

1982 • 30 min • United States of America

Bill Moyers interviews film director and actor John Huston who discusses his career and the process of filmmaking. Includes a documentary segment on Huston's life, excerpts from some of his films, and an the on-set production of his latest film.

Nure hada irezumi o shibaru

1982 • 60 min • Japan

In the year of Japan's defeat, Kenji returned from the battlefield with nothing but his body. He then reunited with Kosada, who controlled the black market, and was taken care of by him. Kenji had a girlfriend named Misuzu, who he had even promised to marry before going to war, but her whereabouts were unknown. Kosada told Misuzu that Kenji had been killed in the war, and Misuzu was raped, tattooed all over her back, and forced to perform in a pervert show.

A Portrait of Samson Raphaelson

1982 • 29 min • United States of America

An interview with playwright and screenwriter Samson Raphaelson. First aired on PBS's "Creativity with Bill Moyers".

Lynda Carter: Street Life

1982 • 48 min • United States of America

Lynda Carter stars in her fourth musical TV special with guests George Benson, Tony Orlando, and Frank Stallone.

Lily Under the Gun

1982 • 60 min • Taiwan

In a valiant attempt to rescue her younger brother, a young woman goes head to head with a group of ruthless gangsters.

Sifted Evidence

1982 • 42 min

A woman is telling the story of how she went to Mexico looking for an obscure archaeological site; how she met a man who promised to take her there; how they stayed together locked in cross-purposes and misunderstandings - how, but never why. The central event has been reconstructed through stills, narration, and enactment by two performers in a tableau limited by the boundaries of the front projection screen.

An Outpost of Progress

1982 • 45 min • United States of America

A dramatic adaptation of a literary classic by Joseph Conrad, exploring universal themes dealing with individual morality and the responsibility of civilization.

The Monster Kid and The Demon's Sword

1982 • 52 min • Japan

Kaibutsu-kun's father, the Great Monster King, suddenly complains of pain in his chest and collapses. It turns out that the rival Demon King has placed a curse on him with the "Demon Sword". Kaibutsu-kun and his three companions head into enemy territory, Demon Land. Prince Demokin, the son of the Great Demon King, appears. Out of curiosity, he invites the monsters to the temple where the demon sword is located.

The Little Flying Fish Gets Sick

1982 • 19 min • Japan

The peaceful passage of daily life in the Pacific Ocean is upended in a flash on March 1, 1954, with the first American nuclear test at Bikini Atoll. The far-reaching fallout forever changes the lives of the ocean’s cheerful inhabitants.

Bittersweet Survival

1982 • 27 min • United States of America

This documentary examines the re-settlement of South-East Asian refugees in the United States in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. The film begins with a montage of riveting footage depicting the devastating effects of the war. It then unveils the mixed reception given Vietnamese refugees in the United States, from battles with local fishermen in Monterey, California, to conflicts in Philadelphia where their arrival in the city's poorest neighborhoods kindled resentment in the Black community. The film also explores their struggle to cope with life in the U.S. and maintain their identity.

The Gutsy Frog: The Movie

1982 • 37 min • Japan

A film version of New Gutsy Frog directed by Tsutomu Shibayama in 1982.

Arcade Attack

1982 • 25 min • United Kingdom

Heroes of the Pinball Arcade race to stop the invasion of the Video Game terrors

Pairs

1982 • 1 min • United States of America

A rapid-fire montage of images from black-and-white pornographic magazines.

Nami Matsukawa's Tied Crazy Flower Core

1982 • 30 min • Japan

On a stormy night, two couples are having a lively SM conversation at a literature professor's mansion. Late at night, Nami was visiting her professor's house when she was invited by the professor's daughter, Aya, and felt her lewd blood writhing inside her body. Aya, who says that she is a virgin, approaches Nami with her S play and forcibly asks her to have lesbian play. Nami's masochist instinct is awakening...

The Prom

1982 • 50 min • Austria

Ulrich Seidl applies his characteristically gentle eye to the wonderful people of his hometown of Horn, documented making fools of themselves during an annual student ball.

Groper Bus: Good Wife, Bad Wife, Normal Wife

1982 • 60 min • Japan

Yoshiro, who lives in a housing complex, is overwhelmed by his wife Yumi's lewdness and cannot keep his head up. However, the two share a common hobby: molesting women on crowded buses. Takuma and Michiyo, who live in the same housing complex, also attack women on the bus...

Audience

1982 • 32 min • United States of America

Barbara Hammer’s Audience is a fascinating deep cut from the director’s prodigious filmography. Relatively raw in its design, this 16mm diary of audience reactions at retrospectives of Hammer’s work in San Francisco, London, Toronto, and Montreal in the early 1980s bears none of the distinctive visual flourishes and essayistic form one usually finds in her filmmaking. Today, Audience serves as an invaluable historical archive, providing quick but complex portraits of lesbian scenes in different cities and countries: the San Francisco women are bold and raucous, treating Hammer like a celebrity; the London crowd more reserved and tentative; the Canadians politely critical after initial hesitation. It also functions as a testament to the power of Hammer herself as a figure of lesbian culture, showing how fully she engages audiences to incite new forms of discourse about representation.

The Visitor

1982 • 33 min • United States of America

In this adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's "Where Love Is, God Is," a cobbler named Martin has a crisis of faith after experiencing a personal tragedy and is told by a friend that an important visitor is coming to see him.

Precious Blood

1982 • 60 min

A one act play where a woman and a man share their life stories, till they inter stitch and conflict with each other.

Bartholemew

1982 • 6 min

First-person perspective of a child as their mother brings home a strangler as her date.

Barnet

1982 • 54 min • Sweden

Two women and a mentally ill daughter live in an isolated cabin for a couple of summer days.

A Charlie Brown Celebration

1982 • 48 min • United States of America

Several new different Peanuts sketches are featured in this TV special, adapted from the comic strip, including Peppermint Patty's stint at dog training school and Charlie Brown spending time in the hospital.

Rose Constellation

1982 • 58 min • Japan

Summer in Hiroshima, 1945. Hiroshi, who had volunteered to become a child soldier and was wearing a military uniform, hugged Junichi as the atom bomb goes off. Years later, Hiroshi spent every day drowning in Seiichiro Irie's caress, but sees a man who looks like Junichi...