All Films

Demyan Bedny

1983 • 19 min • Soviet Union

A documentary on the life and works of Bolshevik poet Demyan Bedny.

Histrionic Response Section

1983 • 3 min

I heard some old pipe organ music which suggested "desperate fear" to me, and I envisioned a relentless series of faces looking terrified, as if they were in a horror movie and had just seen some terrible monster. I had about 50 people do two things for the camera: act horrified, and act relaxed and blissful. The resulting footage was edited to conform to that particular piece of organ music which is heard on the soundtrack. At once terrifying and comical.

Pigeon

1983 • 18 min • France

A moving camera opens up and fluidifies the world. In its audio version, this journey is drawn into an inner reverie.

The Haunted Mansion Mystery

1983 • 46 min

When Angel Wilson and her family move into a spooky old house, their new neighbour Billy informs her the place is haunted by an old miser -- who is rumored to have disappeared with a million dollars in cash. Learning of a secret room in the mansion's basement, the two sleuths make an astonishing discovery -- only to be trapped by a near-fatal cave-in. Now, they'll have to solve the mansion's baffling mystery, or end up missing...just like the miser and his legendary loot!

Liquidator

1983 • 15 min • Yugoslavia

The work related to the liquidation of the ‘Bogoslovec’ asbestos mine, in the village of Bogoslovec, has been entrusted to a man who has been doing the job for seventeen years. The mine's facilities and the crumbling machinery themselves speak for the absurdity of the entire procedure.

The Cloud’s Hat

1983 • 32 min

8mm film work from 1983 by the Film Studies Department of Bunkyō University.

Happy Birthday

1983 • 6 min

8mm film work from 1983 by the Film Studies Department of Bunkyō University.

Jack Nicklaus: Golf My Way

1983 • 34 min • United States of America

Jack Nicklaus' insights and instruction broken down through playing lessons that focus on various aspects of the game and appeal to golfers of all skill levels. The footage, much of which was filmed 25 years ago in the midst of Nicklaus' record-setting career

Double Suicide Story

1983 • 16 min

Bunkyo University Film Research Club 1983 8mm Film Production.

Miniatures: Many Berlin Artists in Hoisdorf

1983 • 16 min • Germany, Austria

On a weekend in June 1983, in what was deemed a "country outing,“ an impressive number of artists from Berlin went to a small village in Schleswig-Holstein; their intention was to give the local residents a taste of Berlin’s avant-garde art. This event included presentations of dance, music, performance art, painting, land art and film. Back in Berlin the footage was manipulated in several ways to produce an “experimental examination.” —independent film and video database

Syntagma

1983 • 18 min • Austria

The body and specifically the "woman's body" is often used as a focus for questions of origin, subject-object relations, political resistance and sexuality. Valie Export's notion of "body language" poses an ironic relation to these questions that acknowledges "the end of the body" or at least the final break with the way in which we understand it to be a biological, existential, or metaphysical entity. Export has broken away from any notion of unity - either body, space, or time - into the fragmented world of doubling and difference that is caught in representation.

The Planets

1983 • 50 min • United Kingdom

Based on the famous Gustav Holst musical suite, this musical film takes watchers on a magnificent journey of the planets of the Solar System.

Unfair Competition

1983 • 22 min • Greece

Dimos Avdeliodis pays homage to Charles Chaplin and all his favorite silent heroes. This is the first film he directed.

She Even Chewed Tobacco

1983 • 40 min

The Gold Rush. A new frontier. Nineteenth century California offered women the opportunity to pioneer new roles for themselves. Meet Babe Bean, the "trouser puzzle" who escaped the hot glare of tabloid headlines by disguising herself as Jack Garland and serving in the Spanish American War. Or Jeanne Bonnet who scored a record of 22+ arrests for wearing male attire, went to prison for her indiscretions and later organized a group of prostitutes into a shoplifting ring!

The Old Man and the Crane

1983 • 6 min • Soviet Union

Based on Belarussian folk tale. The poor old couple finds the crane who gives them a magic craft to produce the food. But the landlord and the pope see it and want to take it from poor couple...

Do I Kill Them?

1983 • 34 min • Brazil

The extermination of the last indigenous from the reserve of Mangueirinha, at the southeastern of Paraná, with the connivance from those who should protect them. With a biting irony, those questions develop with a structure of a multiple choice test.

Sluice

1983 • 5 min

Six images of water are brought together in a composition in which rhythmical combinations of frames, presented in repetitive but slightly varying sequences, build up a silent yet dramatically developing performance. The individual images of water, either standing still, falling down, or collecting in the lower part of the sluice, are broken into small segments as if they were the founding notes of a piece of modern music. Again, qualities of time and movement prevail in the creation of a highly sensual cinema in which logic is replaced by a new order.

On the Corner

1983 • 5 min • United States of America

An urban ballet performed by street children.

Fragment Video

1983 • 12 min

1983 German super 8 short work

A Color Movie

1983 • 5 min • France

"Film combining short sequences shot with the camera by myself and short ones created on underexposed materials manipulated with the artist's tools or coming from reels shot by my father. It's a "suite" of visual experiments cut with an overexposed self-portrait." -CF

Efpsychi

1983 • 20 min

“The details of the young actor’s face – his eyes, eyebrows, earlobe, chin, etc. – are set opposite the old buildings in the market quarter of Athens, where every street is named after a classic ancient Greek playwrite. In this setting of intense stillness, sometimes interrupted by sudden sounds and movements in the streets, he speaks a single word, “teleftea”, meaning the last (one), and as he repeats this word, it moves differently each time across his face and gains another sense from one scene to the next, suggesting the uncanny proximity of eroticism, the sacred and chance.” (Robert Beavers)

Cursed Woods

1983 • 19 min • United Kingdom

A group of camping enthusiasts embark on a weekend of fun in a local woodland, only to stumble across an abandoned car carefully hidden under foliage. Shortly after an unknown assailant begins to murder the group one by one.

Humpty Dumpty

1983 • 15 min • Soviet Union

Humpty Dumpty plays the banjo, and mice, fairies and what might be a cat play different games and rhymes.

Pies

1983 • 13 min

This animated film about blind prejudice is based on a short story by Canadian author Wilma Riley. Mrs. Cherwak is Polish and owns a cow. Mrs. Meuser is a German with entrenched notions of cleanliness. She does not appreciate the cow's inevitable by-product. The film describes their conflict and its curious resolution over coffee and mincemeat pie. While the author chose to write about the Germans and the Poles she grew up with on the outskirts of Regina, the situation she describes could apply anywhere in the world.