All Films

Coming Out

1983 • 26 min • United Kingdom

Television documentary about Scottish society's attitudes towards homosexuality, including interviews with gay men and couples and featuring footage of the Edinburgh Gay Centre and the Lavender Menace bookshop.

Interlúdio

1983 • 8 min • Brazil

Between a desperate love, the kind that ends up with the dishes on the floor, and a romantic passion, the kind that seems like it will never end, a supermarket goer has a temporary affair with the girl at the checkout.

Margarida Sempre Viva!

1983 • 40 min

Made immediately after the murder of Margarida Maria Alves, the film captures the raw emotions of the community in the aftermath and follows the investigation into the crime. Barroso uses various tools to tell the story, contrasting images from the offices of the authorities' responsible for investigating the murder with interviews with family members, testimonies from residents of Alagoa Grande, and the public commotion surrounding the event. We are invited to stare unflinchingly into a harsh reality of violence and impunity, but also of fortitude and bravery of the people in the face of injustice.

National Gallery of Art: A Treasury of Masterpieces

1983 • 50 min • United States of America

The artistic treasures of the National Gallery of Art are beautifully explored.This video is ideal for anyone who desires a lasting portrayal of this glorious art museum.

1 de Maio de 1983

1983 • 12 min

The film records the activities surrounding the events dedicated to Labor Day in the countryside of Paraíba. The features rare footage of Margarida Maria Alves.

Bauhaus Live, University Of London (1980-10-31)

1983 • 35 min

A Bauhaus live show which was part of the 1980 - In The Flat Field tour in the UK. It takes place in the University of London.

We Were Asking For It

1983 • 60 min • Mongolia

An old man conspires with two young men and agrees to drink hot deer blood, and they get their wish. The forest police will trace their misdeeds and take appropriate action. The nefarious actions of the poachers are shown in an exaggerated comical tone.

Industrial Robots

1983 • 10 min

" A popularisation film, based on our researches and discoveries in the domain of the most advanced branch of technology, an attempt of clarifying the principles by which these strong helpers of men function, especially of how their "senses" systems work. "

Inventor

1983 • 9 min

Incredible ideas from an inventor.

The 1st Year UFOp

1983 • 5 min • Soviet Union

An experimental film where imagination, creativity, freedom are intertwined. Young people paint in the courtyard of a Riga apartment building. A young man closes his eyes and imagines himself flying over meadows, forests and rivers.

A Single Regret

1983 • 22 min

A man videotapes a confession of a long-held secret to his family.

Tracy's Family Folk Festival

1983 • 10 min • United States of America

This is an impressionistic portrayal of the 1982 folk festival at Tracy and Eloise Schwarz’s farm in Central Pennsylvania. The festival, dedicated that year to the legendary Elizabeth Cotton, includes Bluegrass, Old Timey, Cajun, Country, and Gospel music. In contrast to the easygoing atmosphere of the festival, the film is a frenetic swirl of elaborately collaged shapes derived from traditional Pennsylvania Dutch designs. While sometimes the music seems to animate the image, at others the image itself becomes visual music on its own, eliciting ephemeral and sometimes forlorn emotions. The film offers an unusual meeting of a folk tradition and the avant garde, implying a fundamental connection between the two.

Aquarium

1983 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Godzilla vs. Underground Monster Pagos

1983 • 1 min

Godzilla faces off against Ultra Q monster: Pagos!

Chance Encounters

1983 • 6 min

Minimum budget and maximum creativity marry to produce an ever-changing mandala of light and color. EZTV founding member James Williams created this short experimental art piece by videotaping a television set through a kaleidoscope and then editing the images together to create an abstract music video. Shot using a home Betamax analog video deck and a one-tube camera.

Quarup Sete Quedas

1983 • 14 min

Quarup is a ritual honoring the dead. The Sete Quedas (Seven Falls) were the largest waterfalls in the world by water volume. In 1982, the violent flooding of the falls and the lands of traditional communities in the region was completed to create the reservoir of the Itaipu Hydroelectric Plant. In this short film, filmmaker Frederico Füllgraf captures the final days of this natural wonder of Paraná, accompanied by verses from Carlos Drummond de Andrade (written in reference to the waterfalls’ destruction) and the Avá-Guarani Quarup ritual.

Baghdad 83

1983 • 27 min • Iraq

Recorded in 1983, Baghdad landmarks on a tour

A Peacemaking Expedition

1983 • 12 min • Hungary

This animated film with hints of Monty Python satire and early 20th century burlesque has Earthlings land on Mars with the intention of bringing peace to the warring natives.

Hommage à Hölderlin

1983 • 53 min • East Germany

Stream of visual images, inspired by Friedrich Hölderlin's works.

Dostoevsky's Doodles

1983 • 20 min • Soviet Union

An attempt to analyze Fyodor Dostoevsky's creative process through sketches and doodles in the margins of his manuscripts.

Fei Tien: Goddess in Flight

1983 • 23 min

Based on the play, "Pigeons," by Ginny Lim, this film focuses on the meeting between an older immigrant and younger American-born woman living in Chinatown. The linkages in their pasts and possible futures unfold as their friendship grows.

Vineri 35 martie

1983 • 15 min • Romania

It is a dystopian world set during World War II, where a couple flees from an invisible but present enemy. A terminal point for humanity, where no one seems to know where to go or from which direction death may strike them.

The Mysterious Hippopotamus

1983 • 55 min • Soviet Union

One fine morning, a handsome and dexterous Lion Cub realized that he did not have a "true friend." How can a clumsy and fat Hippopotamus Borya be a true friend? No! Only the "Mysterious Hippopotamus" can become the most. Upon learning about this, the Lion Cub, allowing the clumsy Hippopotamus to accompany him, went in search of a Hippopotamus. He had to experience many different adventures. And every time his ordinary friend, the Hippopotamus Borya, came to the rescue.

I’m the one who films

1983 • 60 min

Experimental film by Yosuke Okawado.