All Films

Old Masters

1983 • 49 min • Soviet Union

A film about outstanding actors of the Soviet stage: Angelina Stepanova, Mark Prudkin, Igor Ilyinsky, Faina Ranevskaya, Veriko Andzhaparidze and others.

No More Hibakusha!

1983 • 56 min • Canada

Survivors of the 1945 bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki travel to New York for a UN conference on disarming nuclear weapons.

The Michael Schenker Group – Live Rockpop In Concert

1983 • 21 min

Recorded as part of the "Built To Destroy" tour, live at Westfalenhalle, Dortmund, Germany - December 18th, 1983. Setlist: Into the Arena, Courvoisier Concerto, Rock Will Never Die, Doctor Doctor

Domingo em Família

1983 • 60 min • Brazil

An elderly couple, Dona Lu and Seu Souza, live in the district of Paty do Alferes, in a simple little house where they raised their children. When the tenant dies, the landlord's heirs evicted the couple, and it is up to the four children to decide their future.

Marija, Where Are You?

1983 • 50 min • Yugoslavia

A TV adaptation of Veljko Petrovic novel.

The Backstage Wall

1983 • 26 min • France

Behind the scenes of the filming of a film on climbing a cliff by Patrick Berhault and Georges Unia on the parishes of the route "La Tête de Chien" in Monaco. Director Laurent Chevallier explains the difficulties of filming at height, the kind of shots that are suitable and the specifications of equipment suitable for filming on a cliff.

I Don't Want To See Sorrowful Faces

1983 • 29 min • Sweden

Still photography combined with moving imagery in this portrait of civic life in Chile. Made for Swedish public television almost a decade after the 1973 coup d'etat.

The Last Leaf

1983 • 24 min

An Easter Parable: As lingering pneumonia takes her will to live, a young girl decides that she will die when the last leaf drops from a dying vine outside her window. Her neighbor, an elderly artist frustrated by his inability to paint what is in his heart, follows the example of the Savior and makes the ultimate sacrifice to save her life. In doing so, he creates the masterpiece he has been struggling to paint.

No Rest for Billy Brakko

1983 • 5 min • France

On a winter evening Billy Brakko buys a paper and reads: "The famous Billy Brakko is dead!" An early short film from Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro.

Shoplifters: The Criminal Hordes

1983 • 15 min

This invaluable awareness film dramatizes common shoplifting techniques and demonstrates how clerks and store owners can detect and apprehend the thieves. Everyone pays when shoplifting isn’t aggressively prosecuted. Shoplifting has accounted for 30 percent of all business failures in the United States. As this program illustrates, the best defense against thieves is an informed and attentive staff.

Garfield on the Town

1983 • 24 min • United States of America

Garfield escapes from the car on a trip to the vet and finds the place where he grew up.

The Princess and the Moon

1983 • 25 min • Japan

Sachiko is unhappy and doesn't have a lot of energy. One day, a white rabbit appears and takes her to the "Land of the Moon." There, she meets her "true self," a happy and healthy girl, and Sachiko realizes she can be just like her.

Fala Mangueira!

1983 • 49 min

A documentary on the influence that carnival has on the daily life of the Mangueira hill in Rio de Janeiro. It follows the manufacture of the carnivals of 1981 and 1982, interviewing several residents who tell the story of more than half a century of the favela's existence and emphasizing its community importance and cultural, to the sound of the most beautiful sambas composed on Mangueira.

Jeff Keen Films

1983 • 36 min • United Kingdom

An engaging and enlightening documentary about Jeff Keen shown on Channel 4 in 1983. Features Keen performing in front of his film projections as well as talking about and showing his work in different media.

House of UnAmerican Activities

1983 • 17 min

"You are not fit to be a citizen of the United States," said a U.S. Representative to Werner Marx, German-Jewish refugee, distinguished sailor in the U.S. Navy during WWII, American Communist -- as he tried to have him de-naturalized in a hearing of the House Committee of UnAmerican Activities. House of UnAmerican Activities draws on a wealth of family archives (stills, home movies, documents, and a video interview with the filmmaker's mother), as the filmmaker searches for the father he never really knew and for the meaning of a troubled era.

City of Angels

1983 • 20 min • Thailand

Combining video, performance art, documentary, and tableau vivant, this short piece set in what appears to be part of the Ayutthaya Ruins in Bangkok, Thailand, begins with a panoramic shot of various Thai folks dressed in traditional garb and sleeping in the grass as a woman narrates. The rest of the piece is broken into six unbroken shots of these individuals in still poses depicting both some aspect of Thai life as well as suggesting its disquieting alienation from modernity, as the same woman narrator now sings. The final shot is again of the ensemble sleeping, suggesting that the previous montage was, indeed, a collective dream.

Rocking '83 - Bear's Jam

1983 • 33 min • United States of America

An incredible historic document showcasing the roots of Old School Hip Hop movement with all its disciplines involved: Djing, Mcing, Breakdancing, and Graffiti. Featured in the "NYC: Urban Image" show at MoMA PS1 1983.

A Postcard from Victoria

1983 • 14 min • Canada

Petites notes à propos du film 'Je vous salue, Marie'

1983 • 25 min • France

Notes on the inception and making of Hail Mary.

Courtship

1983 • 44 min • Soviet Union

A comic play revealing people's empty ambitions and meaningless principles.

Home Feeling: Struggle for a Community

1983 • 56 min • Canada

This feature documentary takes us to the heart of the Jane-Finch "Corridor" in the early 1980s. Covering six square blocks in Toronto's North York, the area readily evokes images of vandalism, high-density subsidized housing, racial tension, despair and crime. By focusing on the lives of several of the residents, many of them black or members of other visible minorities, the film provides a powerful view of a community that, contrary to its popular image, is working towards a more positive future.

Mr. Gloom

1983 • 3 min • United States of America

Think your life is terrible? Wait until it ends. God has a sense of humor after all--but you won't like it, when He finally gets tired of putting up with your nonsense. Bill Kopp's award winning short animation from Calarts, 1983

Esparazor

1983 • 53 min • Japan

A man, who gets superpowers after a scientific accident, has to face off against an old colleague who wants to control the earth.

It Is of Eden I Was Dreaming

1983 • 25 min

This film is an evocation of the life of the 19th century French poet Arthur Rimbaud, based on a series of paintings by Sidney Nolan. Rimbaud was always one of Nolan’s heroes. Over the years he painted many pictures of the poet. The famous artist responded enthusiastically to a suggestion by an Australian scriptwriter for a film about Rimbaud and he produced 31 large new paintings for this film together with many small crayon drawings. These works, interwoven with a wealth of drawings paintings, photographs and documents from the Louvre, the French National Library and the Rimbaud Museum at Charleville, have been combined in a filmic evocation of one of France’s most extraordinary writers.