All Films

Taunt

1983 • 17 min

Mystery and menace abound in this debut film from Alison Maclean (Crush, The Rehearsal). Made when Maclean was an Elam art student, the experimental short plays with gender and racial stereotypes by constantly thwarting narrative expectations. What there is of a plot consists of a woman emerging from the sea and a 'centrepiece' pursuit leading to a confrontation between two characters: a man and a woman.

The Little Witch

1983 • 25 min • East Germany

The little witch is not interested in the basics of magic. She does not want to study at all! But everything changes when she meets the handsome Prince and falls in love with him. She helps the Prince with her magical powers, protecting him from dangerous obstacles and marriage to a woman he does not love.

Sex Without Glasses

1983 • 13 min

An amalgam of sex without guilt and sight without glasses. The importance of being able to see what you are doing. A film about confusing relationshops, telephones and wetness; and starring a preverbal somnambulist floating between word and object. –R. M.

Vaughan Williams: A Symphonic Portrait

1983 • 56 min • United Kingdom

South Bank Show documentary concerning the life and music of Ralph Vaughn Williams.

Making Samuel Beckett's 'Rockaby'

1983 • 58 min • United States of America

The filmmakers accompany Alan Schneider, director of the American premieres of most of Beckett's plays, and producer Daniel Labeille to the home of Billie Whitelaw, whom Schneider, ironically, had never met previously, and takes us through the rehearsal process of Beckett's newest play, including the recording of the dialogue, as almost all of it is voiceover. The final fifteen minutes of the film are the premiere performance in its entirety.

Ibland tänker jag på Ingvar

1983 • 30 min • Sweden

Ingvar lives a normal life until one day an old friend needs a ride home.

Tamanawis Illahee

1983 • 59 min

A film of the Pacific Northwest, the native people, poetry, history and the forces of change. This was an homage to the Indian heritage of the Pacific Northwest and a study in the contrast of how native people used the land, as opposed to European settlers who gradually took it over. It is experimental in style, combining time-lapse photography, archive footage, classic photographs by documentarist Edward Curtis, museum artifacts and other image sources.

Running

1983 • 2 min

This is the first animation I made for a university class when I was around 21 years old. I cut up pieces of black paper and pasted them one by one on a white wall, then filmed them. I traced a photo book by Eadweard Muybridge to create the material. It was made on 8mm film. The background music uses some of the soundtrack from the film "Ragtime." I created it with the sole focus of matching the music to the movement of the pictures and the scene changes. It is a memorable work for me.

Trapped at Boarding School

1983 • 24 min • Denmark

A boy is being bullied at a Boarding School. Things get out of hand and he will need his revenge.

Stations

1983 • 23 min • Australia

Set in working class Brisbane in 1953, Stations is an evocative short drama featuring Noni Hazelhurst as a young woman coning to terms with her romantic illusions. “A sensual piting of black-and-white social realism against memory-hazed fantasy sequences . . . It is a film of immediate and engaging feel for human weakness and strength”

Sizmara

1983 • 15 min • Soviet Union

The king, tormented by nightmares, seeks for the best dream to be able to sleep peacefully.

Rich Little's Robin Hood

1983 • 50 min

Rich Little plays all the major characters in the retelling of the Robin Hood story. Little plays each character through a classic Hollywood personality. Groucho Marx is Robin, Carol Channing is Maid Marion, Humphrey Bogart is Prince John, John Wayne is Little John, and Laurel & Hardy are the Sheriffs of Nottingham.

The Ransom of Red Chief

1983 • 56 min • Soviet Union

Based on the novel of the same name by O. Henry.

Memories of War

1983 • 16 min • Canada

This haunting animation film, rich with symbolism, is the filmmaker's plea for a peaceful world in which to raise his newborn son. Using the menacing imagery of the howling wind, the artist provokes viewers to reflect on the insanity of war. While the film is symbolic, its message is unmistakably clear: unless there is an end to conflict, we will continue to see our children swept away like leaves in the wind.

About the Mouse Who Wanted to Become Strong

1983 • 8 min • Soviet Union

Based on the Moldovan folk tale about the Little Mouse, who dreamed of becoming the strongest, so as not to be afraid of anyone in the world.

Jazz Is My Native Language: A Portrait of Toshiko Akiyoshi

1983 • 58 min • United States of America

Jazz is my Native Language: A Portrait of Toshiko Akiyoshi is a 1983 documentary film by Renee Cho about the jazz pianist, composer, arranger and big band leader Toshiko Akiyoshi.

Mrs. Silly

1983 • 60 min • United Kingdom, United States of America

Mrs. Silly, a woman who has lost her husband to another, is now about to lose her son to an expensive boarding school, compliments of her ex's money. Confronted with these losses, Mrs. Silly realizes she must regain her identity. Desperately trying to keep up appearances, to be cheerful, busy, and dignified, she only succeeds in living up to the derisive nickname she invented for herself.

Fish Story

1983 • 3 min • United States of America

A naked man jumps off the deep end from a diving board into a surrealist watery world of fish and cellar stairs.

Classic Striptease and Glamour Films 03

1983 • 59 min

Opens with SALLY RAND’s immortal Bubble Dance and a Burlesque masterpiece, ‘Hubba Hubba Girl’ with the legendary EVELYN WEST and original soundtrack. A dozen more gems from as early as the 30’s show the lush variety of classic stripping. Vol. 3 concludes with the glorious original stage striptease of the 50’s saudest stripper CANDY BARR, and the sophisticated glamour of the great LILY ST. CYR.

Chico Antônio, o Herói com Caráter

1983 • 40 min • Brazil

The rescue of a real character from the work of Mario de Andrade. Chico Antônio is a singer and poacher of the interior of Rio Grande do Norte. As he climbed the stems to reach the fruits, he sang and enchanted those who passed by. And Mário de Andrade was one of those spectators, because he loved the warm climate of the equatorial lands

Indelible, Inedible

1983 • 8 min

Images to accompany the lines of a poem by John Ashbery. "Rudy Burckhardt's film is a brilliant extension of my poem, perhaps the film I might have made myself if I were a filmmaker." – John Ashbery

Aivazovsky and Armenia

1983 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Aivazovsky's paintings on historical Armenian themes. His works were not only on marine subjects. In this short we can also see the church of St. Sarkis, where the artist was baptized. He was married within the walls of this ancient temple, and his funeral service was held there in 1900. Modern photos of Armenia and Western Armenia, where Aivazovsky's ancestors were from, harmoniously complement the film. And at last, the picturesque views of Feodosia, the city where the artist lived and worked for many years.

A Clay Tale

1983 • 9 min • Soviet Union

About a dragon who does not want to be evil as the folk tale says he should be, but only wants some friends.

Krapps letzter Film

1983 • 13 min • Germany