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Dont Shout

Dont Shout

1983 • 4 min
Shot at an old butchers in Lee Green, South East London with Heilco Van der Ploeug. Designed to run as a super 8 projection for the performances that we were making in and around London as BEING KARNAL. Music BEING KARNAL (Heilco Van der Ploeug and Andrew Kotting)
Pepos

Pepos

1983 • 56 min • Colombia
One night, a group of punks goes around the city in search for new adventures.
Lousy Little Sixpence

Lousy Little Sixpence

1983 • 52 min • Australia
Tells of Aborigines' removal from their families to be sent to work as servants for white people and the rise of the first Aboriginal organisations in the 1930's, in particular the Aborigines Progressive Association.
The Ploughman's Fatigue

The Ploughman's Fatigue

1983 • 50 min • Soviet Union
Expressively bold and critical documentary about the failure of the Socialist production system in the Soviet agriculture.
Blue Tit's Calendar

Blue Tit's Calendar

1983 • 32 min • Soviet Union
An animated film about forest dwellers based on the stories of Vitaliy Bianki.
Sacré-Coeur

Sacré-Coeur

1983 • 17 min • France
Teo Hernández's unmistakable camera movements portray the Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Paris.
Selbe: One Among Many

Selbe: One Among Many

1983 • 33 min • Senegal
This revealing documentary offers a rare view of daily life in West Africa. Shot in Senegal, Selbe focuses on the social role and economic responsibility of women in African society. Because men often leave their communities to earn money in the city, women are left with sole responsibility for their families. Through the character of Selbe we observe how one woman's personal struggle reflects the broader issues faced by many women in developing countries.
Change in Tuvalu

Change in Tuvalu

1983 • 41 min • Australia, Tuvalu
Funded by the Australian Development Assistance Bureau (ADAB), this was the first English-language film made in Tuvalu. The first visit of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth to the new Pacific nation of Tuvalu brings Taliu Eli, a twenty-one year-old primary teacher, from her island of Nui to Funafuti to take part in the celebrations.
The Breakaway

The Breakaway

1983 • 30 min • United Kingdom
The closeness of three girlfriends is shattered when Pat takes a sudden shine to a boy she knew, now back on leave from the army.
Fellini Racconta: Diary of a Film

Fellini Racconta: Diary of a Film

1983 • 51 min • Italy
A documentary made by Italian television with behind-the-scenes footage of the making of Federico Fellini's AND THE SHIP SAILS ON and extensive interview footage of Fellini.
Hell

Hell

1983 • 17 min • Soviet Union
Rein Raamat’s Hell adapts the engravings of Estonian graphic artist Eduard Wiiralt into a surreal, grotesque, and heavily sexual animated short. Wiiralt’s three source works, “The Preacher,” “Cabaret,” and “Hell,” date back to the early 1930s and portray a cacophony of bacchanalia, hysteria, and violence in the final years of Estonian independence amid the unrest of the Great Depression and European instability.
A Man, A Woman, An 8000

A Man, A Woman, An 8000

1983 • 26 min • France
Maurice Barrard and Liliane Bontemps met in 1973 in Peru. Four years later, they are married and start their life together in the Loire Valley. She is a physiotherapist, he is an educator. For them, although settled not far from Chartres, the mountains are never far away. Whenever the opportunity presents itself, they embark on high-altitude expeditions. First individually, then together. In 1982, they were at the top of Gasherbrum 2, an ascent filmed in this documentary prelude to other future ascents including the Nanga Parbat in 1984, after an aborted attempt a year earlier, which made Liliane Barrardi the first woman to climb this mountain. of Karakoram. The "tallest couple in the world" will not stop there. After the Makalu in 1985, in the spring of 1986 they will attempt the ascent of K2 and its 8,611 meters... Un Homme, Une Femme, Un 8000 was broadcast in the program Les Carnets de L'Aventure in 1983.
El día que muera Bombita

El día que muera Bombita

1983 • 18 min • Spain
Experimental short narrating the love story of the bullfighter Bombita and his tragic final.
Qulliq (Oil Lamp)

Qulliq (Oil Lamp)

1983 • 10 min • Canada
Women of the Arnait Video Collective reenact a traditional women's activity: the use of the qulliq. The qulliq is the seal oil lamp and stove of the old days, the only source of light and warmth. The women tell the story in words and songs as they install the qulliq in their igloo.
English for Today

English for Today

1983 • 2 min • Germany
Heiko Fipper's "Freitag Der 13"

Heiko Fipper's "Freitag Der 13"

1983 • 4 min
One of the earliest films from German splatter filmmaker Heiko Fipper (Das Komabrutale Duell, Ostermontag).
What’s Out Tonight Is Lost

What’s Out Tonight Is Lost

1983 • 8 min
Adopting its title from a poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay, What’s Out Tonight Is Lost is an elegiac film sifting through the unrecoverable. The film is a reflecting pool where vision breaks up. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.
Alone At Home

Alone At Home

1983 • 17 min
Instructional short for children about what to do when they're home alone.
Avant et après le dernier samedi d'avril

Avant et après le dernier samedi d'avril

1983 • 26 min • France
Film shot on the edge of a river whose soundtrack is a text in French and in English said and written by Teo Hernández.
Not Dead Yet

Not Dead Yet

1983 • 57 min • Canada
A fast-paced documentary about a second generation of punk rockers living in Toronto. It offers insight into this segment of culture by videotaping in the streets, bars, and homes of punks. Conversations are intercut with the music of the punk bands at the core of the scene.
Flying Fish

Flying Fish

1983 • 60 min • Singapore
A teenager who aspired to become one of the best swimmers, but was pressured by his father to abandon his interest and instead study hard for the examinations.
Open Mic Solitaire

Open Mic Solitaire

1983 • 18 min • France
Julius-Amédée Laou's Open Mic Solitaire is about a Black Parisian who hijacks a radio station after his brother is murdered by racists.
Venus to Penis

Venus to Penis

1983 • 14 min
A modern multi-media myth. To explore and expand the realm of eroticism. A mediation between Eros and Psyche: sexual politics, desire and consciousness. Love under will, to change power. Interrogation. Tenderness. Rage. Rapture. Questions. In search of the militant, androgynous-utopian hermaphrodite. A synthesis of live performance, film, edited images, singing, text, ritual and shadow magic.
A Bird

A Bird

1983 • 4 min • East Germany, Germany
A bird saves a little tree from withering.