All Films

... And the soup is right on time

1983 • 19 min • Soviet Union

The staff of the workers' canteen of V. Klementi sewing enterprise make an effort to prepare food every day despite the deteriorating machinery and defective produce.

In & Out

1983 • 3 min

A lyrical study of the World Trade Center occupying space and reflecting space.

Sakuhin

1983 • 2 min • Japan

Yumi Shima's animated short film is an experiment with geometric objects.

Insect

1983 • 3 min • Japan

8mm film directed by Teruo Koike

City

1983 • 15 min

The content of the film is a set of reflections of the author reflected in unusual combinations of trick shots based on the principles of geometric division of the frame. People and the city walls around them, their everyday life presented in an unusual way, create conditions for personal perception of the film by each viewer individually.

Box of Treasures

1983 • 28 min • Canada

In 1921 the Kwakiut'l people of Alert Bay, British Columbia, held their last secret potlatch. In 1980 at Alert Bay, the U'mista Cultural Centre (U'mista means "something of great value that has come back") opened its doors to receive and house the cultural treasures which were seized decades earlier and only then returned to the people. The center also took up activities such as recording stories told by elders so that some part of the past would always be alive and teaching children about their heritage in order to make them feel connected to their ancestors. This film documents the cultural significance of these events for today's Kwakiut'l people. It is an eloquent testimony to the persistence and complexity of Kwakiut'l society and to the struggle for redefining cultural identity for them.

Iron Boots

1983 • 15 min • Czechoslovakia

A fairy tale about the love of a mermaid and a young fisherman, which had to overcome many adversities before reaching its fulfillment.

Hanyas vagy?

1983 • 7 min • Hungary

A Béla Vajda Cartoon

Souvenirs/Rouen

1983 • 11 min • France

Fugitive images of the northwestern city of France.

Descarga

1983 • 9 min • Cuba

Performance by Cuban singers Elena Burke, Moraima Secada, and Omara Portuondo performing popular songs from the 1960s.

Brady's Bargain

1983 • 22 min

Brady has spent his life trying to outsmart the leprechauns and his big chance comes when he manages to capture one. Keeping the little man a prisoner, he starves the leprechaun until he reveals the secret of his wealth. Armed with this knowledge, Brady sets off across the moor to make himself a very rich man.

Soundtrack

1983 • 8 min

Directed by Lejf Marcussen.

Jeune femme à sa fenêtre lisant une lettre

1983 • 46 min • France

Jean-Claude Rousseau's Jeune femme à sa fenêtre lisant une lettre is not only his first medium-length film, but a chance to discover this filmmaker whom Jean-Marie Straub has called, along with Frans Van de Staak and Peter Nestler, the greatest working in Europe. With this newly restored print there is also a possibility to discover the relationship between Rousseau's art of filming and Jan Vermeer's famous painting. As Prosper Hillairet wrote in 1988, four years after Rousseau had finished Jeune femme ... (for the first time as we know today): «Without adopting the usual systematic spirit and form of cinéma structurel, Rousseau presents us with simple images and leaves it at that. Keeps the image in hand. A minimalist and ascetic expression of cinema: a shot that lasts.»

Alien Sex Fiend Purple Glistener

1983 • 40 min

Live show from ASF

European Rendezvous

1983 • 50 min • Canada, United Kingdom

A video of live performances by Chris & Cosy with visuals by John Lacey. Recorded during the CTI European tour of 1983. (throbbing-gristle.com)

Grandfather's Footsteps

1983 • 33 min

My Mother found an old cigar box full of glass negatives, stereoscopic views, mostly of the Somerset countryside taken by my great grandfather Henry Stiles Savory, who was a country clergyman. Later some more boxes of his negatives turned up at a country house sale. I printed them and made enlargements from some of them, and a few years later the idea came to me to use them in a film. 'In Grandfather's Footsteps the film-maker re-evokes the presence of her great-grandfather, Henry Stiles Savory, a Victorian clergyman, photographer and scientist. It's not a costume drama, bringing in his writings, and his personal effects - books, machines, photographs - Anne Rees-Mogg emphasizes her own links with him and his preoccupations. She achieves a real sense of timelessness.' - Jo Comino

action situation

1983 • 8 min • East Germany, Germany

"Leiberg embarks on a search for the interaction between painting and improvised music, tinkering with sound collages sets language and sounds against each other (...) Leiberg works with real-movie sequences and uses his pictorial color and form vocabulary as a design element in the film. He primarily uses the resulting films in their capacity as a depot of moving light images in order to project them onto the bodies of dancers in the performances. (Christoph Tannert in "Gegenbilder", p. 39f;)

Frontline: The Search for Truth in Wartime

1983 • 53 min • United Kingdom

“What is the role of the media in wartime? Is it simply to record or is it to explain, and from whose point of view – the military, the politicians or the victims?”

City of Honey Masters

1983 • 20 min • Soviet Union

A cognitive puppet animation for children of the wondrous and harmonic world of bees in the form of a fairy-tale.

Melodies

1983 • 10 min • Vietnam

Four animals try to play their instruments, but are annoyed by each other's noise.

Brian Winston Reads the TV News

1983 • 14 min • United States of America

This live show features the energetic analysis of television network news by Brian Winston. Winston looks at the news as a unique institution, governed by its own conventions and constraints.

The Cherry Tree

1983 • 25 min • Japan

In postwar Tokyo, while his mum works, Taichi spends his days alone and misses his dad who was killed in the war. Through his friendship with an old man who tends a seemingly dead cherry tree, Taichi learns about the tree and gradually becomes more positive. (Source: Treasures of the Heart)

Ghost Carol

1983 • 22 min

Super 8 short about a ghost that kills a group of teenagers at Christmastime.

Way to Your Neighbour

1983 • 2 min • Yugoslavia

This short animation is the author's cynical reaction to the contemporary international political situation.