All Films

The Christmas Tree Train

1983 • 30 min

Bear cub, Buttons, and his fox companion, Rusty, take a ride on a freight train bound for the city. Now they're lost and must get home before Christmas but first they gotta dodge people, cars, and other dangers.

When Uncle Klimente Was Walking Above the City

1983 • 55 min • Yugoslavia

Macedonian TV drama.

Edgar and the Raven

1983 • 13 min • Brazil

Experimental short made with the remains of an unfinished feature based on the work of Edgar Allan Poe

Kevin Rowland & Dexys Midnight Runners - "The Bridge" - The Live Performance

1983 • 55 min

Filmed live at the Shaftsbury Avenue theatre in 1982 over two shows in October 1982, The Bridge captures Dexy's Midnight Runners at a peak showing the intensity and passion of their live performance. Shot direct to film by Irish music promo director Steve Barron (who went on to direct "Electric Dreams" and "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" among others), the DVD captures Kevin Rowland's extreme showmanship and training that make Dexy's one of the truly individual groups of the 20th Century.

Cheburashka Goes to School

1983 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Fourth animation about Gena and Cheburashka. Gena finds out that Cheburashka is unable to read. Luckily, the next day is September 1, the first day of school, and Gena decides to take Cheburashka to school so he can learn. After failing to buy a school uniform, they go to the school anyway, only to find it is closed for repair. Shapoklyak uses Lariska the Rat to stimulate the workers to repair the school quickly. As the school also doesn't have enough teachers, Gena and Shapoklyak volunteer to be teachers.

Who Killed Colin Roach?

1983 • 35 min • United Kingdom

Who Killed Colin Roach? is Isaac Julien's first film, which reflects upon the death of Colin Roach, a 23 year old who was shot at the entrance of a police station in East London, in 1982. Even though the police claimed Roach had commited suicide, evidence showed otherwise. Isaac Julien says that this work is essentially a response to the riots, an answer to certain fixed ways of looking at black cultures, but also at those ways we might feel about ourselves.

A Ballad About Green Wood

1983 • 11 min • Czechoslovakia

Pieces of wood are captured by a crow and dance in celebration of spring in this animated short film.

BLACK FLAG Live in Berlin

1983 • 45 min • United States of America

Filmed for television at the legendary SO36 Club in Berlin, 1983.

The Worm Turns

1983 • 9 min • United States of America

A 1983 English language short film written and directed by Roger Avary, starring Andrew Blinn, Stephen A. Housden and Brian Leckner.

The Making of a 'Local Hero' (With a Little Help from His Friends)

1983 • 52 min • United Kingdom

Documentary for Scottish television about the making of Bill Forsyth's 1983 film "Local Hero."

The Big Wolf - The Grey Tail

1983 • 9 min • Soviet Union

A cunning fox tricks a wolf again and again.

Phantom Lake

1983 • 22 min

Meeting eye to eye with the ghost of Phantom Lake was not part of the planned weekend camping trip. The mystery that unfolded, however, teaches strong Christian principles to Sparky and his friends.

The fan of spiral shell

1983 • 12 min • Japan

Huie's Sermon

1983 • 42 min • Germany

Reverend Huie Rogers is a preacher at the Bible Way Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ in Brooklyn. He is the topic of this short film, during which launches into an epic call-and-response denunciation of human hubris, greed, corruption and failure. The use of lengthy shots present it less like a sermon and more a performance, and induce an almost trance-like state.

The Most Comfortable, Solid and Beautiful Home

1983 • 10 min • Soviet Union

When all the animals have finished building their houses, the little turtle is still making and making his own. He tries to build the most comfortable, solid and beautiful home.

回転a/回転b

1983 • 2 min • Japan

Short animation by Tokumitsu Kifune & Sonoko Kifune.

88 Seconds in Greensboro

1983 • 59 min • United States of America

"James Reston investigates the role of a police informant in the 1979 murder of five civil rights demonstrators by a group of Klan and Nazi Party members in Greensboro, North Carolina."

Drill

1983 • 6 min • Japan

"The filming of the entrance to the company dormitory in which the film-maker was living. Centering the film on one pillar, he warps the spaces to the left and right and creates an unstable space similar to painting that employs anamorphosis. Made as were SPACY and BOX with a large number of photographs, the film ends with a violent movement, but is poetic for this." - Takashi Nakajima

Millay at Steepletop

1983 • 25 min

A loving tribute to the great American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, filmed entirely at her 700-acre upstate New York farm.

Death and Transfiguration

1983 • 27 min • United Kingdom

A British man on his deathbed recalls moments from his life.

Bad News

1983 • 35 min • United Kingdom

A documentary crew films heavy metal band Bad News as they have trouble starting their van, pick up a schoolgirl groupie, and meet up with rock journalist Sally at a motorway service station where they argue about the cost of sausage and chips.

Electric Blue 001

1983 • 59 min • United States of America

Men's Video Magazine hosted by Marilyn Chambers features softcore erotic vignettes, nude disco dancing, topless car washes, a school for strippers, celebrity nude Koo Stark, profiles on Ugly George and the sex lives of the elderly and much more. This, the U.S. version that originally aired on the Playboy Channel in 1983, and the UK version of Electric Blue 001 (hosted by Fiona Richmond and released in 1980) are entirely different. This release shares footage with numerous earlier UK Electric Blue releases but features exclusive footage as well.

Le passage du témoin

1983 • 55 min

UK/DK: A Film About Punks and Skinheads

1983 • 54 min • United Kingdom

Featuring interviews, live concert footage, and a feature on how punk was transformed from a trend to a way of life, UK/DK is a comprehensive look at the skinhead/punk movement. Some of the most notorious bands on the scene are featured, including The Exploited, The Vice Squad, The Adicts and many more.