All Films

Aedniku talv

1983 • 20 min • Soviet Union, Estonia

A gardener won't rest even when the snow covers the ground and there are frozen flowers on the window glass. Now it is time to take part in the meetings and lectures held by the gardening cooperative as well as purchase new tools for the upcoming season. And of course one has to keep checking the gardening patch. Winter is an important time for a gardener to prepare for spring. The film serves as a continuation to TV films "Gardener's Spring", "Gardener's Summer" and "Gardener's Autumn".

Does This Town Need Beavers?

1983 • 25 min • Soviet Union

In the lush green town of Pushchino, scientific plans to establish a nature reserve meet opposition from industry.

Forbidden Colors

1983 • 4 min

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

The Profession of Arms

1983 • 57 min

Professional soldiers from six different nations discuss their combat experiences, job demands, and the effects of new technology.

Anthem

1983 • 12 min • United States of America

A series of shots depicting "America" are laid over a classic Gregorian Chant recreated through the distortion of a woman's screams.

Zona inquinata

1983 • 21 min • France

La Zone - the poor, dangerous quarters of Paris (George Lacombe, 1928); the administrative zone where Orpheus looks for his lost Eurydice (Jean Cocteau, 1950); Interzone - the working title for Naked Lunch (W.S. Burroughs, 1959). In 1983, Ossang created a synthesis of all these territories of unrest under a banner of dead colours. - IFFR

Beats of the Heart: Chase the Devil: Religious Music of the Appalachians

1983 • 54 min

From Baptist to bluegrass, this PBS documentary examines the unique culture of religious music in the Appalachian Mountains.

Erholungslandschaft spanische Mittelmeerküste

1983 • 18 min • Germany

A look at the small village of Benidorm on the Spanish Mediterranean coast. Within 20 years, the fishing village has become a magnet for tourists from all over the world, with unfavorable consequences for the locals.

The Netherlands

1983 • 15 min • Netherlands

Bert Haanstra was commissioned by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to make a short film about his own country. It had to be a piece of the work that mainly would be shown abroad, so that the rest of the world could make acquaintance with the beautiful countryside, with the modern side of the Dutch society and with historic building and old customs. After everything he had already made about these subjects, Haanstra was able to find a new angle, this time by observing the matter from the air. The result is a pretty mosaic of The Netherlands like it looked in the early eighties.

Cimarrones

1983 • 24 min • Canada

A dramatic reconstruction of a turn-of-the-century incident involving African slaves in South America.

Ich war ja auch wer - Chefkoch Hermann Reußner, Jahrgang 1891, erzählt aus seinem Leben

1983 • 17 min • East Germany, Germany

A life story from a bygone era. In a retirement home, the 90-year-old Hermann Reußner tells his story. He was born in 1891 in Dessau, back when a duke still reigned there. As a soldier under the German emperor, he participated in World War I. Reußner talks about his beginnings as a cook in the famous hotel Adlon at the Pariser Platz in Berlin. Later, he was head chef there for 30 years. This private life story gets impressively illustrated with photos and film footage.

I Dish

1983 • 15 min

In 'I Dish' a naked woman dredges in filthy water. What is she looking for? Gold? Something she's lost? She brings up a series of barbaric-looking bits of metal, nasty looking hooks. In a film which has considered notions of nourishment, sex, love, cleanliness, silence, obsession and compulsion, Parker demonstrates her poetic by letting imagery have its mystery, resonate unforcedly on its own terms.

Visages perdus

1983 • 11 min • France

Special Jury Mention at Hyères International Film Festival in 1983. "When my eyes, closed for an icy terror, opened again, at my side, scented on the canvas, these faces were shaking confusingly."

Esperalia

1983 • 9 min • Poland

A man living a dream experience linked to memories of his childhood.

Regard Jonathan/Jean Louvet, son oeuvre

1983 • 57 min

The Dardenne brothers profile left-wing playwright Jean Louvet in this documentary focused on memory and revolutionary activism.

Noli me tangere

1983 • 7 min

“The idea behind it is: Feminists claim that men objectify women’s bodies. So this was a revenge or a punishment for men who did that during their lifetimes, by being subjected to objectification by women in the after death state"

And Sometimes the Boats Are Low

1983 • 3 min • United States of America

The man, the woman and their multiples share the same space at different times while being in different places at the same time, creating a paradox of existence. Sometimes they meet and sometimes they don't.

Soldier's Tale

1983 • 8 min • Soviet Union

When Peter went to the war with the Nazis to the front, his son gave him a rhinoceros beetle he captured near his home, which the soldier took with him. Now they have to plunge into battle and fighting to see how the sky becomes black because of the gunpowder and the enemy siege, and hundreds of bullets are circling around them. But they will go back to where someone waits for them.

Linie 8

1983 • 31 min

Documentary about a subway line in Berlin.

Bloody Demon

1983 • 3 min • Japan

Three young people visit a murder scene in the mountains. As one finds an ice pick, he gets crazy as soon as he picks it up and attacks the two other people.

The Album

1983 • 11 min • Yugoslavia

A young girl is glancing through a family photo album. Childhood memories come to life, still pictures start moving. Souvenirs become a metaphorical imaginary story about past and future.

Almada, Um Nome de Guerra

1983 • 40 min • Portugal

In 1969, Ernesto de Sousa planned an experimental film in which Almada Negreiros would be protagonist. He raised funds, filmed Almada, interviewed him and worked on this multimedia project for several years, even after the artist's death. The result was a complex artistic work, with three simultaneous projections of slides and film, music by Jorge Peixinho and the incorporation of other projects by Ernesto de Sousa. In a text titled "Anticinema" he would write: "i do not make a movie / about almada / i make a movie with almada".

Dreamland Court

1983 • 60 min

A video adapted from dialogues from Dale Herd's short novel Dreamland Court. Filmed in Los Angeles and made with the cooperation of Barry Hall and his partner Beth Vanderwater

Julie, Julie

1983 • 25 min

The film starts with voice over by Julie (Jill Delaney) which sets the minimalist plot running as she rides on her Ducati 750 into Melbourne.