All Films

Statistic

1983 • 27 min

‘Who needs a pregnant waitress?’ is just one of the questions that fills Ellie Connolly’s mind when she discovers she is pregnant in 1980s Ireland. Statistic was made by film student Alison Kelly in 1983, the year which saw the passing of the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution Act (which effectively criminalised abortion in most circumstances).  Ellie (Edel McCrann) is pregnant as “the result of a drunken screw between two people who hardly knew each other”.  She broods in her flat and discusses her predicament with her good friend Anne – she must tell her boyfriend Paul but she knows ’In the end it’s inside me, not him’.  She finds information in a magazine about abortion services in the UK and Anne accompanies her to the ferry – following the footsteps of the many women before her.

Four Corners

1983 • 15 min

Divided into seven segments, Bundy's film contemplates the physical and spiritual landscape of the U.S. 's "four corners," an area embracing the states of New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado and Utah. Jet streams divide the celestial quadrant marked by the movements of sun and moon. On the earth's surface, the camera captures the play of light as it lingers on mystical, geological landmarks - canyons, craters, sculpted rock formations and the cave drawings etched by the ancient dwellers of the Southwest.

Dream House

1983 • 2 min • Australia

Animated short.

Antanas Jonynas

1983 • 20 min • Soviet Union

A documentary short film about writer Antanas Jonynas.

L.A. Nickel

1983 • 8 min

L.A. Nickel envisions the urban landscape of Los Angeles as nightmare and dream. Recording from a window to suggest a vantage point of surveillance, Miller positions the viewer as a voyeur when she documents the interaction of people and policemen on the Skid Row street below. A harsh, "scratch" aural collage heightens the sense of confrontation and aggression. A lush, dramatic orchestration accompanies the second sequence, an evocative night drive through the streets of Los Angeles. This passage is blocked by the presence of a police car, which Miller transforms into an abstracted dance of lights. The thwarting of mobility by authority becomes a metaphor of social confinement.

Texas Transformed

1983 • 29 min

My 1984 summer vacation to the Republican National Convention in Dallas Texas. A 10 minute film that unfortunately lasts 30 minutes.

A Making Of FANTASTIC JOURNEY

1983 • 28 min

Making-of the film realized by the students of the Osaka Municipal High School Film Study Group.

Warning, Attack, Recovery

1983 • 17 min

Made as part of my degree show at Sheffield Polytechnic, this was originally presented as part of a performance piece involving a large number of monitors and a lengthy middle section in which I dropped water onto a hot iron (hence the black part of the video). The piece was constructed using old family Super8 footage, off-air TV material and some live footage shot in Sheffield. The soundtrack was constructed using some very basic monophonic synthesisers and a 4 track recorder on which I remixed some material found in the art school library.

Wraak

1983 • 8 min

A maniac is on the loose.

Vice Versa

1983 • 2 min • Poland

Short film showing the relationship between man and nature.

Nightmare Club

1983 • 4 min

Samantha Fearson (Eleonora Vandelli) is a young stripper so devoid of any sort of sex appeal or talent whatsoever, she incorporates her own disemboweling and scalping into her performance

Amžių prisilietimas

1983 • 19 min • Soviet Union

A film by director R. Šilinis about old Lithuanian architectural monuments, their interiors, frescoes and restoration.

Two days to Soft Rock Cafe - Exploring Mount Arthur's Caves

1983 • 47 min • New Zealand

This Feltex Award-winning documentary dives, abseils and squeezes under the mountain — Mt Arthur in Kahurangi National Park — to record the exploration of the subterranean world of the Nettlebed Cave System. At nearly one kilometre underground the system is New Zealand’s deepest cave, and a mecca for cavers from around the world. The cavers relay their motivations and anxieties as they negotiate the uncharted water-carved limestone labyrinth. Directed by Ian Taylor, it screened in the Lookout series. Claustrophobes beware: there are no lattes at Soft Rock Cafe.

Txikot egileak

1983 • 9 min • Spain

A documentary about the process of making mooring ropes.

Ocaña y los Niños

1983 • 15 min • Spain

March 1983. Spanish painter Ocaña held an event for children at the Museum of Fine Arts of Santander, where he introduced them to his exhibition and creative process, answered their questions, and raffled off several artworks.

Last Tango in Paris

1983 • 5 min • Yugoslavia

A short experimental film.

Giingoo

1983 • 59 min • Mongolia

The story of the film was based on the fact that the director of the association told the author of the film while he was working in Bayan Ovo Sum, Umungov Province, "The children of our Sum are trained during the summer holidays and have a task to start the new school year with the tasks they have trained."

鏗鏘集：越南難民

1983 • 48 min

documentary about Vietnamese boat people refuged to Hong Kong during the mid 70s to 80s

Чудо-Юдо

1983 • 7 min • Soviet Union

No Nukes

1983 • 5 min

Color UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Anti-nuclear film intercutting footage from nuclear bomb testing and nuclear power plants with footage of breakdancing, a baby being born, and other scenes of life.

Video documentation of the piece Metal, by Eva Lootz

1983 • 11 min • Spain

Metal is a circular sculpture, measuring 3 metres in diameter. Mercury is poured upon its base until the whole surface is covered in a layer of the metal, the thickness of which is established on the cohesiveness of the mercury itself, the liquid with the greatest surface tension. Once poured, the metal acts like a skin that picks up vibrations from the ground and the air while a spotlight transfers these surface waves onto the wall making them visible. The whole piece is simply supported to show the properties of the material.

Nuke the Duke

1983 • 5 min

An anti-war video game satire inspired by the cancerous deaths of John Wayne and many other cast members of a film being shot near a nuclear test site after the wind changed and blew over the film shoot.. Computer animation was produced at the University of North Carolina by Charles Kesler and Jaap Postma using the Datamax/Zgrass combination,

Greek Scientific Institutions - Evgenidio Planetarium

1983 • 52 min

The documentary begins with a reference to the views and achievements in astronomy up to the present day, followed by a presentation of the mechanical planetariums built from 287 BC until today, including the Greek one that was built in 1963 and is the first in the Balkans. The camera of the show records the Director of the Planetarium, Dionysis Simopoulos and the astrophysicist George Georgopoulos, preparing a projection of the Planetarium, thus presenting to the audience the way of working for the creation of each program, while then the former talks to us about what is really the Planetarium and what it offers to society.

Whirr

1983 • 4 min

A story inspired by the graphic record of national artist Ľudovít Fulla.