All Films

The Hairdresser

1983 • 5 min • Netherlands

Short film in which Dutch author Simon Carmiggelt visits the hairdresser.

Elisa

1983 • 16 min

A girl leaves a dying present to be reborn.

Just Coincidence

1983 • 19 min • United States of America

A Journal of Dreams. An underground journal of an artist new to Florida but brought up in New England. Allusions to the space race, the moon, Christmas in Florida, mermaids and sunsets, and other hallucinations.

Un país sin desarrollo

1983 • 9 min • Peru

A tax collector, who manages to convince the distrustful inhabitants of a populous neighborhood of the city about the importance of paying taxes in order to contribute to the progress of the country.

The Hamer Herdsman and His Song

1983 • 45 min • Ethiopia

A shepherd sings some traditional songs of the Hamers, a nomadic ethnic group of southern Ethiopia.

Boop-Beep

1983 • 3 min • United States of America

A strange night in a small town, illuminated by the town's lighthouse.

RAC Rally 1983

1983 • 57 min

The historic RAC Rally - one of the most prestigious events in world rallying, and often one of the most competitive and unpredictable. Relive the incredible drama of the 1983 Lombard RAC Rally, as legendary drivers do battle on British special stages in the final round of the World Rally Championship. Follow the action from airfields, safari parks and famous racetracks to the forests of Yorkshire and Wales in this fascinating look back at five days of the incredibly challenging rally competition.

Luigeluum

1983 • 29 min • Soviet Union

A documentary about the everyday life on a film set and the elusiveness that still confronts the artist and without the pursuit of which there would probably not even be failures.

Throbbing Gristle - Live At Kezar

1983 • 58 min

Recorded live at Kezar Pavilion in San Francisco on the evening of May 29th, 1981. "Throbbing Gristle have ceased to exist. They are now pursuing solo projects."

It's a Cold City for Street Artists

1983 • 14 min • Canada

Experimental short film by Josephine Massarella

The Bread's Light

1983 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A short animated film set to music about hard grain-grower’s work

Knot

1983 • 8 min • Soviet Union

In the metamorphosis of two ordinary pieces of rope there is a clear meaning - all people in the world are inseparably related. It is better to live in friendship.

Kong's Island

1983 • 16 min

Back in 1983 there were still waves men were forbidden from riding. On Kong’s Island you were only going to score the most perfect wave you’d ever seen if you traversed its jungle with Kong himself. But aside from the spectacular surf there were also amazing electric guitar riffs, whacked out sound effects that coincided with each bash against the lip, and the classic creative genius Jack McCoy himself narrating your entire journey. Kong’s Island is The Three Stooges Gone Surfing, with Rabbit Bartholomew, Chappy Jennings, and Gary “Kong” Elkerton getting barreled silly. It’s such a classic it was featured for the crowd at the 13th annual Surfilm Festibal in San Sebastian. This is one you must watch and reminisce.

Touch

1983 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Animation short

Anegdote

1983 • 5 min • Bulgaria

Born in Chains

1983 • 2 min

A game of visual associations between ‘whiteness’ and ‘blackness’; ‘freedom’ and ‘constraint’.

Plague

1983 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A dark creature turns up in a city and starts turning everything it touches black.

Vanina Vanini

1983 • 58 min • Soviet Union

Vanina Vanini is a Roman aristocrat, “a black-haired girl with a fiery gaze,” who despises the timid and insignificant-hearted young people of her circle, but selflessly fell in love with the young Carbonari, whose courage and willingness to die for the liberation of Italy from the Austrians corresponds to her passion and pride. Faced with the need to make a sacrifice to duty, Vanina and Pietro, like the characters in classic literature, must choose between loyalty to their homeland and loyalty to their feelings, and this is the choice of fate. Vanina chooses love; In order to save Pietro, she betrays to the police the remaining members of the Venta he leads.

El banquete del gobierno o el ventarrón de las doce

1983 • 24 min • Venezuela

In a far forgotten village there are great expectations for the arrival of some important government authorities.

Pour Que Ses Jours Fleurissent

1983 • 39 min

Six o'clock in the morning, the sun rises behind the Djurdjura mountain. With precise gestures, learned since childhood, Ouardia raises the water, crouches down to splash his face with cool water. Soon her baby will be born. Hadjila, the traditional midwife, prepares herself internally to help the mother complete the transition from separation. This film talks about the knowledge surrounding birth that Kabyle women have passed down for centuries; knowledge that European women seek to rediscover in order to reclaim this founding passage of our lives.

Safely Walk To School

1983 • 13 min

A boy and a girl successfully walk to school in the eighties.

Mister Perks

1983 • 40 min

Documentary about Bernard Perks, who has spent 15 of his 20 adult years in prison, his impending release, and his problem in combating alcoholism.

The Golden Record

1983 • 29 min • Soviet Union

The following guests take part in the music concert-documentary: Rosa Rymbaeva, Dmitry Pokrovsky folklore Ensemble, Elena Kamburova, Alla Pugacheva, Bulat Okudzhava and the Nergebi children's vocal ensemble from Georgia.

Ingot

1983 • 2 min • Soviet Union

Instructional film about saving metal.