All Films

Nico - Live in Amsterdam

1983 • 58 min

nicos cconcert in amsterdam in 1983

Lähikuvassa: Hassisen Kone

1983 • 30 min • Finland

A TV documentary about the Finnish band Hassisen Kone and its frontman Ismo Alanko.

Desapropriado

1983 • 59 min

After a year and a half of filming, Frederico Füllgraf releases this feature-length documentary focusing on the families displaced from their land, condemned to submersion by the future reservoir of the Itaipu Hydroelectric Plant. Important records of social movements and the leaders involved in the struggle for life and for productive land for those whose destinies were harshly altered by the plant unfold in a vital journey preserving the memory of one of the greatest disasters in the history of Paraná.

Thistledown

1983 • 15 min

A commentary-free documentary looking at the cotton-like down produced by thistles to disperse their seed. The film follows down drifting through various settings including the Water of Leith and the pitch at Partick Thistle Football Club.

Hands

1983 • 15 min

An artistic interpretation of the capability of the human hand.

A Chinese Affair

1983 • 60 min

For thirty-four years, those who fled to Taiwan in the wake of the Communist victory have had only their memories and fantasies of mainland China. Now they want to know much more, and a political struggle is underway to determine how Taiwan will relate to the mainland

The Morey Brothers

1983 • 54 min

Documentary about four East End criminal brothers who all discovered their artistic talents while in prison.

The Statue

1983 • 6 min • Romania

A man orders a statue.

The End

1983 • 9 min • Poland

A young woman waits on the platform for the train to arrive. The first one doesn’t even stop. Another one carries luxury goods, another one is a train full of film stars and the last one carries vodka and it crashes against a wall. It turns out that the woman is not alone in the pursuit of goods, career and alcohol.

Socialism

1983 • 1 min • Yugoslavia

Video dissects a sentence taken from a propaganda statement by a party politician. With gradual decostruction author leaves only traces of a word socialism.

El Negro, María y José

1983 • 7 min • Venezuela

Rosario lives alone in the slums (barrio) with her dog Ringo. She always wanted to be a truck driver but her mother never let her. One day she bought three miraculous prints from the " Lady in Black", who was initiated into the mysteries of "Sorte". (Sorte: A Rain Forest area in Venezuela where, priests from different religions worship Indian and African mythical entities). With the first print the Negro Primero saves her from the street gangs. With the second one, Maria Lionza makes the captain of police, who wanted to displace her from her home, falls in love with her. And with the third one, José Gregorio Hernández, doctor to the poor, rescues her from the debris of her destroyed home after it collapse from a storm. Rosario awakes after eating the stamp in front of the gangs and with her market bag scares them away. Rosario still lives in the same barrio with her dog Ringo.

My house

1983 • 10 min

Labor protection film warning against the usage of improper footwear, commissioned by the Ministry of Light Industries, the Department of Cotton Industries.

Music for the Millions

1983 • 3 min • Netherlands

Music for the millions is also considered the thirteenth film in the Jute project. Supported by a hardcore punk soundtrack, the remodelled images of television commercials are contrasted with recordings of starving masses in the Third World.

Put down

1983 • 15 min

Texts by Kerouac and Lamantia Preserved and digitized by the National Film and Business Archive

No End

1983 • 8 min

The subject of this video is the disturbing mental state of a woman whose life is turning into a routine which leaves her no opportunity to experience a world in its richness and complexity. Although she tries to understand her situation she is not able to find a way out. Therefore she concludes: “There will be no end because I have forgotten the beginning.” (Sanja Ivekovic)

Outbuilding

1983 • 9 min

Longin Szmyd’s darkly atmospheric, neo-noir-ish vision of a world that is hidden and yet in plain sight.

Radio Belén

1983 • 12 min • Peru

A documentary short about a town floating on a river in Iquitos, Peru.

The Soldier's Caftan

1983 • 9 min • Soviet Union

One day two foreign military men arrived to serve the Russian Tsar Peter. They were dressed in luxurious kaftans. Peter appreciated the beauty of their uniforms, but noted that it would not be easy for them to endure different weather conditions in them. This angered the guests. Thus began a dispute between the admiral, the general and a simple Russian soldier. The one who can withstand both cold and heat in his attire is destined to win.

Photomontage Today: Peter Kennard

1983 • 35 min

An analysis of the use of photomontage to distort meaning and create subversive and oppositional art, exemplified by the work of Peter Kennard.

Five Year Diary, Reel 31: Niagara Falls (August 19–28, 1983)

1983 • 27 min • United States of America

Anne takes a road trip to Niagara Falls trip with her family in this exceptionally beautiful Diary reel. (Liz Coffey)

Mutiny

1983 • 11 min • United States of America

Mutiny employs a panoply of expression, gesture, and repeated movement. Its central images are of women: at home, on the street, at the workplace, at school, talking, singing, jumping on trampolines, playing the violin. The syntax of the film reflects the possibilities and limitations of speech, while “politically, physically, and realistically” flirting with the language of opposition.

Mortgage on My Body

1983 • 24 min • United States of America

Stations throughout Connecticut and even New York City. Riding around with my father and back to the gas station.

Ironing to Greenham

1983 • 1 min

Lis Rhodes' poem dwells on the moments before a political thought is translated into a distinctive physical organisation, such as the women who surrounded the Greenham missile base. Part of 'Hang on a Minute', a series of thirteen 1 minute films which grew out of a series of short poems written by Lis Rhodes, reflecting on the traditional patterns of oppression in women's lives (pornography, violence, nuclear weapons) and the many forms that resistance takes. Made with the artist Jo Davis and commissioned by Channel 4 for television broadcast.

The Question is...

1983 • 13 min • United Kingdom

An exploration of personal and intimate spaces. video, colour, sound