All Films

Choudenshi Bioman: The Movie

1984 • 45 min • Japan

Bioman must rescue two boys who possess an ancient treasure map that leads to Biobase, making them targeted by Gear.

The Snowman

1982 • 25 min • United Kingdom

A young boy makes a snowman one Christmas Eve, which comes to life at midnight and takes him on a magical adventure to the North Pole to meet Santa Claus.

Child Proof

1984 • 2 min • United States of America

A sickly elephant father struggles to open a jar of aspirin.

Story of White Coat: Indecent Acts

1984 • 56 min • Japan

A trainee has dream is to become a nurse and live a comfortable life. But that dream turns into a nightmare when she becomes the object of obsession for the sex crazed son of a major shareholder at the hospital where she works. When he is admitted to the hospital with alcohol poisoning, no nurse is safe! Will she escape his clutches or will she finally succumb to his amorous appetite?

Peter Frampton: Live In Brazil

1983 • 51 min

Peter Frampton Live In Brazil 1983 Setlist: 01. Introduction 02. Don't Think About Me 03. An Eye For An Eye 04. Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I'm Yours) 05. Baby, I Love Your Way 06. Show Me The Way (Yacht In Rio) 07. Do You Feel Like We Do 08. Guitar Solo 09. (I'll Give You) Money 10. I'm In You 11. Band Introduction / Breaking All The Rules The Band: Peter Frampton - Vocals & Lead Guitar John Regan - Bass Harry Stinson - Drums Mark Goldemberg - Guitar

Chanoyu

1983 • 11 min • Yugoslavia

Quotes from Okakura’s The Book of Tea are a connecting tissue and the tea ceremony is a dramatic scene of juxtaposing personal and public space in the video work of Sanja Iveković and Dalibor Martinis. Opposed to the stylized and highly spiritual-meditative dimension of the Japanese ritual, the omnipresent background of its metaphorically impregnated and pseudo-narrative staging of the Croatian artists is a TV image. The order of objects and the peace of the tea drinkers is penetrated by chaos; the calm ritual is turning into a drama...

Deutschlandbilder

1983 • 60 min • Germany

This compilation film focuses on the contents of Nazi propaganda shorts such as "The Beauty of Work" (1934), "We Have No Problems" (1933), or "The Will To Live" (1944) that preceded the feature films in German movie theaters between 1933 and 1945. The shorts reveal that men and women workers were idealized, uniformity was stressed, optimism in the face of adversity was the goal, and, in general, all the classic lies that dictatorships use to control and mold their citizens are featured.

Sibling Arrival

1983 • 3 min

A coarse but intimate documentary of birth. The eight year old sibling is heard but not seen as she watches and reacts to her brother being born.

The October Garden

1983 • 10 min • United States of America

After a farmer accidentally shoots a child, he buries the body in his garden. To avenge this crime against nature, the garden comes to life. Winner of over ten awards in international film festivals as an official entry representing the United States.

Krieg etc.

1983 • 4 min

Schatzl's schizophrenic animation of planes and falling paratroopers

Leonard Nimoy: Star Trek Memories

1983 • 49 min • United States of America

A TV special hosted by Leonard Nimoy and featuring the actor discussing the making of "The Original Series" and the first two Star Trek movies, "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" and "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan". Also included is a short preview of "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock".

A Goofy Look at Valentine's Day

1983 • 7 min • United States of America

An educational short featuring Goofy about Valentine's Day.

Holiday

1983 • 11 min • Yugoslavia

Experimental short film.

Formula Super VIII

1983 • 2 min

1983 German Super 8 short work

Craex Apart

1983 • 6 min

1983 German Super 8 short-form work.

Film-Wipe-Film

1983 • 28 min

The film is a journal (drawn by hand over a period of four years), opera, and journey through 100 animated sequences which are joined and transformed by 100 film wipes in continuous successsion. The film is a synthesis of both abstract and figurative imagery, analysis and commentary, writing and multiple languages, multi-layered sounds and music, lyrical and contrapuntal relationships, and elaborate animated compositions. The film plays with the thresholds of change between intuition and analytical thinking, as well as between what is read or heard as "figurative" or "abstract." The various animation sequences range from pure geometric abstraction to symbols, metaphors and icons (boxing ring, car, chair, airplanes, steps).

Landfall

1983 • 11 min • Canada

Landfall was shot in Prince Edward Island, near the family home on the Northumberland Strait. The original footage, shot in 1974, was a kind of interactive, camera “dance” with the environment. Poetry became important when the footage was later superimposed onto its own mirror-image, to help direct the viewer away from the luring yet limited world of image-identification. “I Thought There Were Limits,” by Quebec poet D.G. Jones, w as used to encourage the viewer to reject Newtonian notions of space and time, and to conceptualize the film’s interplay between absence, desire, and presence. Eventually, the limitation of text as spoken signifier is exposed through dynamic visual techniques reminiscent of concrete poetry. (RH)

Welcome/Adieu

1983 • 3 min

A patriotic rendering of all the verses of God Save the Queen with some Victorian lantern slides.

Peppimenarti

1983 • 48 min

In 1976 a number of Aboriginal people left missions and settlements to return to live on their tribal lands, between the Daly River and Port Keats, in the far north of the Northern Territory. Peppimenarti is a vast area of flood plains, rivers and forests. Its waters team with fish, its skies with birds. The Peppimenarti people began to convert this enormous tract of land into a cattle station. They brought in helicopters to muster the cattle that were already there, cattle so wild they easily escaped conventional muster by stockmen. They built yards, roads and houses and set up a store and a school. They also began to build up their ceremonial life. Today it is a successful cattle station, run by Aboriginal people, and a permanent town of several hundred. The Peppimenarti story has become an inspiration to other Indigenous Australians.

About Baby Mammoth

1983 • 9 min

Mammoth saves a favorite flower from the cold. A heartbreaking puppet cartoon about duty and affection.

Conversations with Roy DeCarava

1983 • 28 min • United States of America

Profiles the career of Roy DeCarava, the first African-American photographer to receive a Guggenheim fellowship.

Chicken Movie. Cluck!

1983 • 20 min

An urban poem, in which a chauffeur drives his Madam about in downtown Johannesburg; visits to friends, townships, wastelands. The trip ends with a nuptial-funeral ball where the men dance to the cock's crow and the rhythm of Zulu music. The film captures a certain Zeitgeist of the city of Johannesburg during the period of state of emergency in South Africa.

Beer Drinkers in Space

1983 • 59 min

In 1983, a group of friends who worked at Disney made a movie. It took nine long months to complete and consumed their lives as they constructed spaceship sets in their homes and garages. Elaborate models and pyrotechnics were shot. The intrepid moviemakers popped open a few beers and got in front of the camera to shoot this camp comedy feature about Captain Slosh and his bumbling crew of beer drinkers...in space!

Fireside

1983 • 6 min • United States of America

Inspired by enjoyment of looking into a bonfire or hearth, seeing shapes coalesce and disperse fleetingly, or by feeling the mind's desire work with the forms of flame that dance. The cinema is a similar form to that. Made without a camera by etching unexposed film with sandpaper, chemicals and light.