All Films

Mercur: The Town that Can't Stay Dead

1983 • 28 min

A documentary about the town of Mercur, Utah, and its history of mining.

Our Little Paradise

1983 • 9 min • Uruguay

A man lives life intensely through his television set, turning his back on reality.

Anonymous Letter

1983 • 16 min • Soviet Union

The city of the beginning of the century with recognizable features of Saratov is immersed in summer heat and desolation. A young hunchback receives a letter from a stranger with an explanation of love and a request for a meeting. Having come on a date and seeing a hunchback in front of him, he leaves...

Rola

1983 • 5 min • Poland

a Leszek Komorowski Cartoon

80s Pilsen Backyard Circus

1983 • 5 min

Silent footage of an amateur circus performance in a backyard in the Chicago neighborhood of Pilsen in the 1980s.

Patagonie Force 10

1983 • 52 min • France

A team of 12 men, 5 sailors, a doctor, a writer, a film crew, and 3 mountaineers, Jean-Marc Boivin, Thierry Leroy, and Dominique Marchal, set off by sailboat from Mar del Plata in Argentina to reach Riso Patron in Chile, via the Strait of Magellan, the Patagonian Channels, and Falcon Fjord. Their goal is to climb Riso Patron and then make the first crossing of the Campo de Hielo Sur glacier, or Hielo Continental Patagónico, to meet up with the sailors in Puerto Williams on Navarino Island in Chile, a village at the end of the world. After three attempts and an accident for Leroy, who was repatriated, they gave up, crossed the glacier and rejoined the boat, to set off for Cape Horn to climb the South face, knowing that the weather was good one day a month... On January 20, 1983, Jean-Marc Boivin and Dominique Marchal succeeded in making the first ascent of the South face of Cape Horn.

With a Smile

1983 • 10 min • Czechoslovakia

An old circus clown has an unpleasant problem-even when he washes off his clown makeup, he still has a big red smile.

Augusta Makes Herself Beautiful

1983 • 5 min • Hungary

Augusta tries everything in order to make herself look beautiful.

Les Chemins de Ma Maison (TV Special)

1983 • 40 min

For the release of the album "Les chemins de ma maison”, the Canadian TV is broadcasting a special documentary on his young career. She is also undertaking her first career tour and a first biography is dedicated to her.

Selfridges

1983 • 29 min • United Kingdom

Behind the scenes at Selfridges, a department store on Oxford Street, London.

Dream City

1983 • 5 min • United States of America

Ulysses Jenkins composed "Dream City" from documentation of a twenty-four-hour performance he organized in collaboration with David Hammons, Maren Hassinger, and Senga Nengudi. A discordant, absurdist, and poetic montage, the video weaves together jazz and punk shows, recitations by Jenkins, and shots of the Los Angeles skyline and oil wells to comment on power and nation in the early years of Ronald Reagan's presidency.

Spotting a Cow

1983 • 7 min

Directed by Paul Driessen.

Coyoacan

1983 • 60 min • Mexico

Baby Gal

1983 • 51 min • Brazil

Gal Costa performed at the Ibirapuera Gymnasium in São Paulo for four consecutive nights. The "Baby Gal" special aired on Rede Globo on December 16, 1983, and served as the basis for promoting the self-titled LP, which would only be released a week after this year-end special.

Masaccio: A View of Mankind

1983 • 39 min

English artist, writer, curator and teacher Sir Lawrence Gowing narrates a personal exploration of some of the great Florentine painter Masaccio's key works.

Everything for Everyone

1983 • 3 min • Soviet Union

Based on a poem by Julian Tuwim.

Freeze Frame

1983 • 9 min

Freeze Frame is an example of a filmic significator from which the transparency and invisibility has been removed. Material which has been repeatedly re-filmed (a construction site, a rubbish incinerating plant, industrial graveyards, an antenna and line-drawing like frame that continually falls over) are exposed on top of each other. The result is that an unambiguous reading of the picture, to say nothing of their positioning in a fictive room cannot even be attempted. This type of calculated picture removal is carried to the point where the film strip is stopped in the projector (and hence the title) and burns.

Beirut, My City

1983 • 38 min • France, Lebanon

In July 1982, the Israeli army besieged Beirut. Four days earlier, Jocelyne Saab sees her house burn and 150 years of family existence go up in smoke. She then takes refuge in questioning: when did this all begin? How did the Beirut people live the siege? Each place will then become a story and each name a memory.

Here, There Now, Later

1983 • 3 min • United States of America

Two simple and progressive accumulations mingle with the confines of the Moffit Tunnel in the Rockies.

Disney's Wonderful World of Winter

1983 • 9 min • United States of America

Various previously-released Disney cartoons are combined to tell the story of winter and its three major holidays: Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Eve.

Trans

1983 • 22 min • Venezuela

Trans is a 1982 Venezuelan documentary short film that offers an intimate look into the lives of a group of trans women and drag performers in Caracas, exploring their experiences in a society marked by transphobia and homophobia. Through interviews and performances, the documentary highlights the resilience and dignity of these women in the face of widespread discrimination and violence. Premiering at the Venezuelan National Cinematheque in 1982, Trans is considered a pioneering work in the representation of the trans community in Latin American cinema.

UR Lucky

1983 • 7 min

"I placed a medallion on the sidewalk and filmed whoever happened along to pick it up. The film is about not being able to have control over the event, and the acceptance of this fact. This is the first film in my Performance Trilogy, a series of films which also include Snow Search and Making a Scene." (MD)

Snapshot

1983 • 15 min • Soviet Union

A fairy tale-parable on the theme "the artist and the civil war". The photographer and the boy, carried away by one work, the other by posing, are captured. First to the Reds, then to the anarchists.

AZICON Opening Animation

1983 • 10 min • Japan

Opening animation for AZICON.