All Films

The Good Life

1983 • 3 min

A country club member gives new definition to the phrase "having a bad day".

Listen, You'll See...

1983 • 6 min

An animation film that illustrates how closely eye and ear are linked, and how one acts on the other. The film is divided into three sections--game, conflict and flirtation--that repeat themselves without seeming to do so. This illusion is created by the sound track, which varies and colours the action. A film without words.

How the Dinosaurs Really Died

1983 • 2 min • United States of America

Claymation short shows the real reason behind the demise of the dinosaurs.

Chillida: retrato en casa

1983 • 23 min • Spain

Short film on the basque sculptor Eduardo Chillida.

Lao shu jia nü (Love Story of Rats)

1983 • 10 min • China

Reality Fever

1983 • 6 min

An early, single-channel version of Bender's video collages, one with found, created, and manipulated imagery, including a Folgers coffee commercial, a children's superhero cartoon, and Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey."

Likely Stories, Vol. 3

1983 • 60 min

"Likely Stories" was one Pay-TV's first original comedy programs. The one-hour shows were a mixed-bag of short films, videos, and animation that helped define the cutting-edge of today's no-holds- barred cable comedy programming. Each episode was chock-full of notable comedy stars eager to dabble in pay-cable's new found freedoms.

Verão

1983 • 11 min • Brazil

In a beach house, snapshots of a couple's relationship are interspersed with flashbacks to a political past that still threatens their lives.

Home Was Never Like This

1983 • 7 min

Step-printed images of a “home” - a suburban house, no people in sight - combine with a children's story, told in saccarine tones, about the country mouse who discovers that "there's no place like home." A gently told tale of alienation.

Sudesha

1983 • 35 min • India

The story of a woman living in a village in the lower Himalayas. In this area, people depend entirely on the forest for their daily needs of firewood, food and water. But the forests have been destroyed by powerful timber traders. And along with the forest, the livelihood of the people has been greatly altered. The women of this region played an active role in the "Chipkow Movement". Sudesha was imprisoned for her protest.

Looking Obliquely

1983 • 52 min • Japan

In this work, I visited a religious scholar, Shinichi Nakazawa, with the question, "What does 'gazing' mean to people? At the time, he was interested in Japanese ethnic religious beliefs by going to winter festivals, etc., and thought that a view of life as a series of rebirths was cultivated on the basis of a life based on farming. Here, I believe that "looking" provides an opportunity for the mind to be reborn. Created in 1983. The artist was 48 years old. (Suzuki Shiroyasu).

I Dream Of Music

1983 • 37 min

A documentary about the life and music of the great Bulgarian folk-jazz clarinet player Ivo Papasov - Ibryama.

金魚のうんこ

1983 • 2 min • Japan

The director himself narrates the story of a boy throwing a knife in an abandoned building.

Starlife

1983 • 20 min • Canada

This visually spectacular and instructive film traces the evolution of a star from its birth in the depths of a black nebula to its final extinction. Animated drawings, recreating the beauty and immensity of the universe, are amplified by a dense narrative describing the differing evolutionary processes followed by stars of different masses. The film touches on the creation of elements in the core of stars, red giants, bursters, space-time relationships, and black holes. This animation film will be of particular interest to students of physics, chemistry, astronomy, and animation buffs.

Messaggio

1983 • 17 min

When a love story begins, differences, negative character sides, personal needs, are immolated on the altar of love…. Then, over time, everything inexorably resurfaces on the surface. One rediscovers with amazement one's own individuality, which seemed to have been diluted by love, relentlessly reaching the crossroads of transmutation. Then the veils of sentiment that concealed our tendency to individualism from ourselves become more and more transparent, revealing us sadly selfish and unrealistic beings. At that point comes the "big opportunity". Accept and be accepted for who we are, beautiful or ugly ... good or bad... in short, us. Paradoxically, at that moment we realize that everything was clearer, right from the start.

Love at Home

1983 • 1 min

16mm experimental short film.

Leugt

1983 • 13 min • Germany

This experimental film is constructed from still photos of the violent protests in response to then-US President Ronald Reagan’s visit to (West) Berlin in 1982 and illustrations by the French artist Gustave Doré.

The Butterfly

1983 • 1 min • Canada

A guy eats a butterfly.

The Hole

1983 • 7 min • Greece

A hermit decides to leave his underground sanctuary and returns to the surface, only to find out that the world is a cruel place and people misunderstand things easily. Even if you have the best of intentions...

In Oświęcim

1983 • 18 min • Poland

An impressionistic description of the camp experience of Xawery Dunikowski (1875-1964), sculptor, painter and educator, prisoner of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp (1940-45).

Blue Moon

1983 • 14 min

The audience observes the parallel events of a prostitute servicing a client intercut with a film producer visiting an old friend and guiltily offering him money for sex. "In a month of the blue moon a victim may rail with heroic defiance, but humiliation and restoration of order are inevitable." -Andrew Paterson, Parachute, February 1984

The Art of Murder

1983 • 25 min • United States of America

A short film by Gary Griffith

Marteze

1983 • 10 min • France

A breton movie about dreams.

Gisèle Jan-Simon, mirror and fairy

1983 • 22 min • France

Gisèle Jan-Simon, painter who lives in the world of Brocéliande talks about her work. From the magic of Celtic legends, she questions the present world.