All Films

Raspberry Jam

1983 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Based on the tales of the English writer Donald Bisset.

Into Another Dimension

1983 • 30 min

Sarah Erulkar revisits the world of stamp collecting, in this short narrated by Tom Baker.

Zero Times Zero

1983 • 22 min • Japan

You

1983 • 5 min • Romania

An experimental art animation.

Julien

1983 • 46 min • France

An intimate exploration of Raymonde Carasco’s father.

A Puppy and Seven Goslings

1983 • 10 min • Soviet Union

How friends punished a bully cat.

Joan Micklin Silver: Encounters with the New York Director

1983 • 46 min

This 1983 German documentary by Katja Raganelli features director Joan Micklin Silver; her husband, Ray Silver; and a handful of key collaborators discussing her film work, from her debut feature HESTER STREET through her romantic comedy HEAD OVER HEELS.

Ballad of an Unsung Hero

1983 • 30 min • United States of America

Using rare historical footage, vintage musical recordings, and interviews with 88-year-old Pedro J. Gonzalez and his wife, this film chronicles Gonzalez’s long and colorful life, from his early days with Pancho Villa during the Mexican Revolution, to his career as a popular radio personality in Los Angeles in the 1930s, to the controversial court case that sent him to San Prison, a victim of the repressive forces operating against the Chicano/Mexicano community during that period.

Pneuma

1983 • 28 min • United States of America

The images in this film come from an extensive collection of out-dated raw stock that has been processed without being exposed, and sometimes rephotographed in closer format. Each pattern of grain takes on its own emotional life, an evocation of different aspects of our own being.

NEW AKINA Étranger Akina Nakamori in Europe

1983 • 57 min • Japan

NEW AKINA Étranger Akina Nakamori in Europe is the first video release released by Nakamori Akina. It was released on October 12, 1983.

The Dream

1983 • 20 min • Soviet Union

A homeless New York man (looking very much like Charlie Chaplin) dreams about getting himself a warm room and food, and tries various things to fulfill his dream - yet something always goes wrong.

To the Camp and Back

1983 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Christine, grieving for her fiancé who was shot down by the German Luftwaffe during the war, is persuaded by her cousin to meet a German prisoner-of-war—a Luftwaffe pilot.

The Navigators: Pathfinders of the Pacific

1983 • 59 min

In hand-built, double-hulled canoes sixty feet long, the ancestors of today's Polynesians sailed vast distances using only the waves, the stars, and the flights of birds to navigate. Anthropologist Sanford Low visits the Caroline Islands of Micronesia to meet Mau Piailug, the last navigator initiated on his island and one of few men still practicing this once-essential art. He demonstrates his skill by sailing a replica canoe 2500 miles from Hawaii to Tahiti with no modern navigational instruments.

Walt Disney Cartoon Classics, Volume 3: Scary Tales

1983 • 43 min

You're in for a ghoulishly good time with these funny and collectible scary tales, featuring Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Pluto. Mickey discovers a houseful of haunts when he happens upon an old mansion. Then Donald is suddenly surrounded by sinister characters when he starts to read a mystery novel. And Pluto's greatest nightmare comes true when he chases one cat too many. This Cartoon Classic collection also features "The Skeleton Dance" - Walt Disney's first "Silly Symphony."

Mantrap

1983 • 55 min • United Kingdom

A longform video that showcases the British pop group ABC, using songs from their album "The Lexicon of Love" to tell a spy-caper story of how the unsuspecting lead singer, Martin Fry, is duped into fronting the band because of his striking resemblance to another man associated with espionage. Will he stumble onto the deception before it is too late for him?

Cy

1983 • 13 min • Taiwan

Chattering school boys first learn of the secret of palm reading. They stare at the overly short lifeline, all of a sudden, the fear of death seeps into their youth. The black and white images exude repression and melancholia, mixed with the angst for mortality and the memory of deceased loved ones. Time flies by like the train speeding past town. With the desire to live, the boys run forward, attempting to break free from destiny.

A Thanksgiving Tale

1983 • 27 min • United States of America

A group of cats have a warm safe place to stay but no food. When Tom the Turkey comes to town to begin his acting career the cats intervene so they can have turkey for Thanksgiving. A pack of neighborhood dogs who guard a local restaurant have all the food they want but are freezing. Learning about the cats' plot to turn Tom into dinner they try to stop the cats. Soon they realize if they work together everyone would have enough to eat and a safe place to stay.

David Hockney: Joiner Photographs

1983 • 49 min

David Hockney is unquestionably one of the most passionate and versatile experimental artists on the contemporary scene. In the late 1970s the British artist developed a pioneering concept which also changed his perspective on painting – his “joiners”. In this film, the artist himself talks about this photographic approach, a kind of Cubism-inspired photocollage which explores the space-time continuum. Hockney allows the viewer to share in the creative “joiner” process and leads us step by step into the universe of his artistic creativity.

Punks de São Paulo

1983 • 35 min

Documentary about punks of the city of São Paulo and its difficulties, struggles and ideals, the importance of music in the universe of its ideology, interviews and images of shows of some musical groups like Ratos de Porão, Inocentes and Fogo Cruzado.

Crossroads - A Decision

1983 • 23 min • Hong Kong

Crossroads - A Decision is a Hong Kong TV-Short starring Andy Lau

Have You Ever Been Ashamed Of Your Parents?

1983 • 45 min • United States of America

Two teenage girls, one rich and one middle-class, become best friends over the summer.

Souvenir of Lebanon

1983 • 6 min

Writes Schneemann: "Souvenir of Lebanon follows a long video pan through destroyed Palestinian and Lebanese villages. In 1982-83, Israeli ceaseless bombardments destroyed bridges, farms, roads, hospitals, schools, libraries, apartments, and historic sites and towns dating back 2000 years. The live color footage was received unexpectedly from an anonymous news photographer. It is intercut with black and white disaster stills I re-shot from daily newspapers, edited in juxtaposition with color slides of bucolic Lebanon given to me on the day the Lebanese tourist bureau in New York city closed." "Souvenir of Lebanon is the video component for the kinetic sculpture War Mop; a flailing motorized mop rises on plexiglass cams and is dropped, slapping the video monitor every eight seconds. The sound on the video recorded layers of reverberation as the mop hit the monitor."

Oliver

1983 • 45 min • Philippines

A documentary about a gay nightclub performer with an especially lurid "Spider-man" act. Oliver is a female impersonator who supports his family by performing in Manila's gay bars.

Dallas

1983 • 5 min • Germany