All Films

The Question of Instrument

1983 • 57 min • Canada

Part I of the series "Glenn Gould Plays Bach" is devoted to Bach's "Art of Fugue." Gould's performance is followed by a lively repartee with Monsaingeon, in which the pianist provides dazzling insights illustrated by music examples. He explains, for example, why he plays some pieces extremely slowly, and bemoans the "musicological overkill" of scholars who insist that Bach's keyboard music should only be played on a harpsichord.

Asia Strikes Back

1983 • 30 min • Japan

At an isolated location training camp for soldiers with supernatural powers makes a man revolt, causing a war to break out among the soldiers.

The Wings

1983 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Uncle Kyrylo receives wings as a New Year's gift and becomes so proud of them, that he starts to teach birds how to fly, but then realizes that he knows very little about it himself.

The Greatest Story Never Told

1983 • 45 min

Jeff Williams is a young man with a busy life. Work, school, church, sports. But when a missionary family stationed Africa comes home to the United States for a visit, Jeff learns that sharing his faith doesn't necessarily require leaving home. Jeff comes to realize that his ideas about what a mission field really is have kept him from being a witness to those around him, including his boss, his friends and even the kid next door.

Пилюля

1983 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The Pill

Visions Cinema: Cinema in China - An Account by Tony Rayns

1983 • 57 min • United Kingdom

History of filmmaking in China from its beginnings in the 1920s to 1982, featuring Shanghai cinema of 1930s; the progressive filmmakers; the organisation of filmmaking under the post-war communist government; the impact of the Cultural Revolution; the work of Xie Jin.

Four American Composers: Philip Glass

1983 • 51 min • United Kingdom

A television documentary produced for British Television directed by Peter Greenaway about Phillip Glass that is a recording of a performance of the Phillip Glass Ensemble in 1983 with interviews that go in depth of his style and music theory of his signature minimal sound.

The Skilfull Master's Present

1983 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The continuation of the animation of The Skilfull Master

Reisen til planeten Nazar

1983 • 18 min • Denmark, Norway

The story of the young student Nils Klim and his journey to the strange planet Nazar and meeting the people who live there.

Chapeleiros

1983 • 24 min • Brazil

An attentive and time-consuming observation of the daily life of workers in a hat factory - entering the factory, the rhythm of the machines, the rhythm of manual work, the steam, the brief and precious break for lunch, the mechanical gesture of the worker repeated over and over again countless times, the silhouettes of bodies. The only foray into direction by the prolific photographer and art director of Brazilian cinema, Adrian Cooper.

The Man In The Case

1983 • 18 min • Soviet Union

The story about one teacher of the Greek language in the gymnasium - Byelikov. He was so distrustful that he turned his whole life into a "case existence".

The Bowls

1983 • 11 min • Burkina Faso

In a Mossi village (in Burkina Faso), two elderly men make traditional wooden bowls used for everyday purposes. The work is difficult and meticulous, and has been abandoned by young people who seem to have left the village.

Punk em São Paulo: Garotos do Subúrbio

1983 • 43 min • Brazil

In 1983, director Fernando Meirelles read an article in the newspaper about the punks circulating in downtown São Paulo. Half suspicious, he went to see what it was all about. The result is Boys From The Suburbs, his first "most worked"Film.

Four American Composers: Robert Ashley

1983 • 54 min • United Kingdom

A television documentary produced for British Television directed by Peter Greenaway.

Rich

1983 • 21 min • United States of America

A young man living in the inner city, runs into conflicts with his mother when he decides to pursue a college education instead of accepting an offer for a full-time job.

The Battle of Waterloo

1983 • 50 min • United Kingdom

For the infantrymen, old hands and raw recruits, 36 hours of forced march and a night in pouring rain are followed by a day in a muddy cornfield, facing cannon, cavalry, and infantry. If they're still standing as the day ends, they've won.

Four American Composers: Meredith Monk

1983 • 52 min • United Kingdom

A television documentary produced for British Television directed by Peter Greenaway

Hit Women of the Swedish Mafia

1983 • 5 min

Top Swedish model Inga Swenson is also a secret agent on a mission to eliminate the foreign dignitatires The Godmother tells her to.

Dangerous Trifles

1983 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A short film commissioned by the traffic police.

Disciples of the Crow

1983 • 19 min • United States of America

A couple passing through a small Oklahoma town discover that it has been taken over by a homicidal cult that worships a crow god--and that all the cult members are children.

News from Durham

1983 • 12 min • United Kingdom

Combines footage of the 100th Durham Miner's Gala held in 1983, with extracts from a miners' weekend school held two months later, to raise the central issues that were of concern to the mineworkers' union during the lead up to the national strike of 1984.

Euskadi, Summer 1982

1983 • 55 min • France

Part of a series in which foreign filmmakers portray a region or town in France. Otar Iosselani looks at the Basque region and its inhabitants.

Act Iii

1983 • 6 min

Abstract video art set to the music of Philip Glass.

Is This Goodbye, Charlie Brown?

1983 • 24 min • United States of America

Linus has to break devastating news, his father has a new job and has to relocate his family. Charlie Brown and the gang make their goodbyes and prepare for Linus and Lucy's departure.