All Films

Nami Matsukawa (Secret) Torture Hell

1983 • 30 min • Japan

BDSM erotic-drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

Okiana

1983 • 37 min

An imaginary journey on a ship. We turned the building of the Film Academy into a ship. Claire and Solange from a Jean Genet piece, a polish woman with her Madonna, screaming sailors are a few of the passengers on this artifical journey.

Adventure of an Ant

1983 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A 1983 short film directed by Eduard Nazarov about an ant who gets blown away with the wind from its home and the adventures it goes through in desperately trying to find its way back.

Micro Cosmos 1-4

1983 • 15 min

In Micro Cosmos, a series of four short computer-animated works, the image of an orb is transformed into a pulsating, energetic evocaton of life forces.

Passage du thermomètre

1983 • 15 min • France

Film made by passing - passing through - passing through - passing from an erotic desire to a filmic desire. The eye slipping from one object of desire to another. Some pass, others enjoy. Ejaculation film during the transition from winter to spring. Suites d'enfilades, suites d'enculades. Suites of variations on the theme of the passage. Passage from underground to overground. Switch from black and white to color. Passage from day to night - passengers in the shade. Passage of desire. Switching from one image to another. Passage - message. Passage from the near to the far, from the far to the near: setting in the abyss. New fleeting visions in a public passage that does not lead to the metro.

Andrea's Story: A Hitchhiking Tragedy

1983 • 30 min • United States of America

A teenage girl is traumatized after being assaulted by a stranger from whom she hitched a ride.

Isoppu Monogatari

1983 • 28 min • Japan

Three animated episodes taken from some of the most famous fairy tales created by the Greek philosopher and writer Aesop, whose main protagonists are none other than animals. Each fable has at the end a wit or a moral, suitable to educate children to the values ​​of life, to behave in the right direction and to avoid danger and bad deeds. In fairy tales various metaphors and transformations are used to represent everyday life in ancient Greece.

James Bond in India

1983 • 29 min • India

The making of the James Bond movie Octopussy (1983) in Udaipur, India during 1982.

Zwisch!

1983 • 2 min • Norway

A character animation which attempts to compress the life of a common working class man into 90 seconds.

The Flying Trunk

1983 • 30 min • East Germany

A young merchant's son spends his entire fortune to be able to throw lavish parties with his cronies. All he has left in the end is an old magic suitcase that can be used to fly.

Sexual Encounters of the Floral Kind

1983 • 50 min • United Kingdom, United States of America

This unusual look at plant reproduction investigates the diversity of plant adaptations for pollination with an emphasis on unusual co-evolved relationships with animal pollinators. Sexual encounters of the floral kind includes unusual bird and mammal pollinators, flowers that smell like rotting flesh, and orchids that lure male wasps with the promise of sex. Includes examples from Australia, the Arctic, Central America, and Great Britain.

All Fucked Up

1983 • 8 min

A caustic send-up of adolescent anxiety, as seen through a barrage of clips from sex ed and social hygiene films of the 1950s and '60s.

The Spectre of Marxism

1983 • 55 min • United Kingdom

The impact of Marx on the 20th century has been all-pervasive and world-wide. This program looks at the man, at the roots of his philosophy, at the causes and explanations of his philosophical development, and at its most direct outcome: the failed Soviet Union.

What Have We Learned, Charlie Brown?

1983 • 23 min • United States of America

As they begin their journey home from their student exchange term, Charlie Brown and the gang find themselves sidetracked. They have severe car trouble and more importantly, they pass by various monuments to World Wars I & II. With Linus guiding them through these memorials, they learn about the events of the wars and the sacrifices required of the troops who fought them.

Flying Gopher

1983 • 9 min • Soviet Union

How the little gopher got into the eagle's nest and became friends with the eaglet.

Fort Du Conquet Destruction of the Vautier Archives

1983 • 8 min • France

Resistance fighter under the occupation, committed to the FLN during the Algerian war, member of the Medvedkine group after May 1968 and defender of Breton autonomy, René Vautier was a committed filmmaker, author of an anti-colonialist work in which he denounces the repression, torture and racism. In 1983, René Vautier discovered, by the light of a flashlight, his films cut up and scattered at Fort du Conquet. Police also came to check the damage.

Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads

1983 • 60 min • United States of America

Zack Homer takes over managing the barbershop after Joe is killed for trying to rip off his "investor", Mr. Lovejoy. All Zack wants to do is run a traditional barbershop giving traditional haircuts, but modern styles have passed him by and business is slow. One evening, Mr. Lovejoy shows up to offer Zack the same deal he gave to Joe. It could turn his business around, but what will he have to give in return?

Camera Obscura 2

1983 • 3 min • Japan

Short film made using a pinhole camera

The Little Elephant and a Letter

1983 • 8 min • Soviet Union

YMO JAPAN TOUR at Nippon Budokan

1983 • 60 min • Japan

Yellow Magic Orchestra playing songs from the album Service in the Nippon Budokan, Tokyo, Japan in the 22 Dec. 1983

It's Got to Be Funny, Hasn't It...

1983 • 52 min • United Kingdom

A documentary examining the life and career of British comedy legend Max Wall.

Les Havres

1983 • 12 min • France

Document on the city of Le Havre. Luc Moullet sets out to show Le Havre not as a single city centered on its port, but as a multitude of neighborhoods and annexed communes, making Le Havre a city of rare diversity. Commentary by Luc Moullet, said by himself. First part of an aborted "Le Havre seen by ...".

Georgiy Millyar

1983 • 15 min • Soviet Union

Documentary on actor Georgiy Millyar.

Falasha: Agony of the Black Jews

1983 • 28 min

Filmed at great personal risk, this documentary exposes the plight of "the last tribe of Israel", the Falashas of Ethiopia. They are persecuted by the Ethiopians for being Jewish and subject also to Israeli discrimination. The impoverished Falashas live in tiny, mountainous villages where the film crew found them practicing their religion in isolation, as they have done for the past 2,000 years. These Ethiopian Jews long to go to Zion, but the government will not allow them to emigrate and deals harshly with those who endeavor to escape.