All Films - Short Movie Database

So Much I Want to Say

1983 • 7 min • Canada

The video So Much I Want to Say consists of a series of still images, changing every eight seconds, which show the artist's face in close-up with a pair of male hands gagging her mouth and preventing her from speaking. Meanwhile her voice on the sound-track repeats over and over the words of the title.

White Throne

1983 • 7 min

Shot on Super-8, this short film depicts a post-apocalyptic cult worshiping a toilet bowl, in a cheeky, cautionary tale of nuclear holocaust.

Etiologie Ebouleuse

1983 • 6 min

Something happens in the relationship between two images if they are removed and reunited simultaneously. The passage of time also causes a kind of gap. More precisely, it is a film about shadow and light and about a series of actions.

Womb with a View

1983 • 41 min

The nine months of the filmmaker's pregnancy constructed as a serio-comic fractured nine-chapter narrative, from conception to birth, emphasizing the constantly changing transitional state of embodiment of pregnancy.

What Goes On

1983 • 9 min

In the Sky's Wild Noise

1983 • 28 min • Guyana

In the Sky's Wild Noise is based around an interview with Walter Rodney, the renowned Guyanese historian, author and political activist, who was assassinated in 1980. The interview-which was filmed in 1976, when the Victor Jara Collective were shooting their first documentary, The Terror and The Time-is intercut with archival footage, and explores the political, social, and economic conditions of the working class in Guyana in the 1970s.

Khoja Nasreddin II

1983 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Mary Manic's Decorum

1983 • 2 min • Canada

A man and a woman attempt to start a conversation with a third person. A spinoff of Spanghew Decorum.

Mall City

1983 • 48 min • United States of America

In 1983, a crew of young, DIY documentarians visited Long Island's Roosevelt Field Mall to study mall culture. This is Mall City.

Au Coeur De La Lumière

1983 • 8 min • France

Two sketches on the decomposition of the light spectrum, the relationship between light and the screen and its projection frame.

Brick and Tile

1983 • 14 min • Australia

“You can have a weatherboard house, a fibro house, or a brick and tile house. Here in Australia real estate is very strong, and ‘brick and tile’ is what we call a solid house. In this film I experimented with optical printing for the first time [i.e. re-combining images after shooting, rather than in-camera]... pretty much purely for my own aesthetic pleasure. I showed the film at a documentary festival in Germany but the audience were less than impressed when I explained that the film would hopefully assist potential home builders to select their desired brick and tile combination.” (Paul Winkler)

Soma

1983 • 3 min

Digitally manipulated shapes and photographs.

Written on the Wind

1983 • 40 min

What do you remember about a film when you haven’t seen it for ten years? James McCourt’s memory is prodigious. In an office in the Rockefeller Center in Manhattan, the American writer recounts his favourite film, Douglas Sirk’s 1956 melodrama WRITTEN ON THE WIND, scene by scene, sometimes almost shot by shot.

Võrokese

1983 • 26 min • Soviet Union

The physionomy of a city through its people.

Christmas Greetings

1983 • 9 min

An amateur home movie made by Betty Cook of a Christmas Day in 1983 with close family and relatives at home in Mandale Road, Middlesbrough. The group open presents around the Christmas tree, have dinner, and play Scrabble before falling asleep. Some parts of the film were re-staged the following July as certain family members were not available at the time. Betty Cook was the President of the Cleveland Cine Society and the North East Cine Society.