All Films - Short Movie Database

Kajagoogoo - White Feathers Tour

1983 • 60 min

31st May 1983, Kajagoogoo played the second of two nights at the London Hammersmith Odeon, and the last night of the 1983 UK tour. This live footage was released on LaserDisc, VHD Videodisc, VHS and Betamax (and later on DVD by MusicVideoResource.com).

Bodyline

1983 • 40 min

Fifty years ago cricket was riven by an acrimonious feud. The cause of the furore was the determination of England's Captain, Douglas Jardine , to regain the Ashes at any cost. Against Australia's ' run machine ' Don Bradman and the rest of the team Jardine unleashed Harold Larwood , one of the fastest bowlers the world has ever seen. As Larwood scythed through the demoralised Australians' batting there were howls of anguish from cricket lovers, who branded it ' unsportsmanlike '. The story of that explosive tour is told by some of the men who played through cricket's darkest hour, and the man whose bowling changed the ethics of international cricket for ever, the former Notts miner - Harold Larwood.

Mezen Seaboard

1983 • 16 min • Soviet Union

The film, shot in the city of Mezen in the Arkhangelsk region, tells about the spiritual culture and traditions of the Pomors, the wooden architecture of Mezen, crafts and the city as a place of exile.

Don't Be Afraid of Computers

1983 • 27 min • United States of America

Danny has just received a computer as a gift and is intimidated by what he perceives to be an enormously complex and alien piece of machinery. Falling into a deep sleep, Danny is visited by his computer who proceeds to explain why he shouldn't be afraid of computers. Starting with identifying the similarities between a typewriter and a computer keyboard and stressing that a computer is nothing more than an information processing machine that combines, sorts, and rearranges numbers, the program quickly dispells much of the mystery surrounding this increasingly important part of our lives. By speaking in simple terms, we are made to understand that the computer is basically dumb until it receives direction from a human operator.

Trumpet Garden

1983 • 10 min

An environmental portrait: a magic garden in which a woman in black engages in rituals with nature and death. Inspired by, and a metaphor for, my pregnancy.

Latvia – My Home

1983 • 29 min • Soviet Union

Intended for foreign viewers, the film explores Latvia’s history and present day, national traditions, culture, and nature, with the filmmakers traveling in a horse-drawn carriage.

Circuit Meter

1983 • 15 min • Japan

“Movies shot on high-sensitivity 8mm film have rough grain, and you can see this grain moving in like a haze on the screen. Oil paintings show the texture of oil paint, and watercolors show the texture of watercolor paint and paper. Movies show the texture of film, and the smaller the area of the film, the larger the grain seems, so its texture becomes more pronounced. The plane that takes off in the film gets smaller and smaller as it moves away, until it becomes smaller than the film grains themselves and is buried in the grains of the blue sky.” (Isao Kota)

Hello From Bertha

1983 • 17 min

Loosely based on a one-act drama by Tennessee Williams about a prostitute dying in a fleabag bordello, Hello from Bertha is played out in a Boston bedroom with spotty Southern accents and loose wigs. One of Morrisroe’s three surviving films (a fourth, centered on the murder of his cat, was censored immediately after it was shown, and has been lost) that all engage with the experimental cinematic language of their time, incorporating elements of horror cinema, a punk ethos, and the outrageousness of artists like Jack Smith, Kenneth Anger, and John Waters.

Portrait in Paper-Cut

1983 • 15 min

The artist Edith Simon in conversation and at work creating intricate 'scalpel paintings' from paper. The work featured in this film is 'The Descent', the sitter is Andrea Targett-Adams.

Живу надеждой

1983 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Story of a mother who has been searching for 40 years for her son, who disappeared during the siege of Leningrad in 1942. Every May the 9th she comes to Moscow with his name written on the sign.

Allston's Parking Lot (American Still Life)

1983 • 3 min

Images of cars more or less broken: broken windows replaced by sheets or plastic flying in the wind, held together by construction bricks, broken headlights. These shots are interlaced with others of damaged plastic tarps on construction sites.

In the Shadow of the Capitol

1983 • 60 min

Frontline correspondent Charles Cobb journeys to a Washington, DC that tourists rarely see. The nation's capital, seventy-five percent black, faces widespread poverty, [despite being] run by some of the civil-rights movement's most effective and militant organizers, including Mayor Marion Barry

Rovdehorn

1983 • 13 min

Film recalling the Norwegian government's gift of the car ferry 'Rovdehorn' to Shetland and historical links formed between Shetland and Norway during World War II. [Re-editing of original black & white footage shot in 1965, with colour prologue. Epilogue recorded in 1988].

Three Brave Friends

1983 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A kid, a lamb and a baby camel make friends and bravely set out on a journey to catch up with their herds.

Grace, a Portrait of Grace DeCarlton Ross

1983 • 50 min • United States of America

Documentary chronicling the career of Grace DeCarlton Ross (1890-1983) from her days acting in silent movies to the 1980s when she was living in Portland, Maine and still dancing in her nineties.

Who Sees Farther?

1983 • 9 min • Bulgaria

The eagle, the sun, the mole, the owl and the fish argue over who sees farther. Each of them passionately claims that his gaze is the most important and sings the song "Further Away" aloud. While the answer lies elsewhere.

Au Pays D'amaria

1983 • 15 min • France

The daughter of Algerian immigrants, Amaria grew up and went to school in France, and she must now return to her parents’ homeland to marry a man she barely knows and doesn’t love. As she leaves this country where she grew up and studied, she also leaves her parents and friends from high school, one of which she is in love with. The school year comes to an end. Her future is somewhere else. Although the film was inspired by a real situation, it unfolds like a fiction film in that it takes us to a third land, the land of dreams and hopes, where everyhting finally works out for everyone. Reality, however, is stubborn, and Amaria will be forced to leave and do her duty to the end.

The Voice of Soviet Women

1983 • 27 min • Soviet Union

This documentary covers Soviet women's efforts for peace, friendship, and mutual understanding between peoples.

In my end is my beginning: Part One, Joseph Verge

1983 • 42 min

In my end is my beginning: Part One, Joseph Verge, by Norman Cohn with Gillian Robinson. Springdale, Newfoundland. One day in the life of Mr. Verge, age seventy-nine, reflecting on life and love.