All Films

Feet Foremost

1983 • 53 min • United Kingdom

The new owners of a Manor House discover a legend that whoever is carried across the threshold shall unleash unknown forces...

Wide Games

1983 • 30 min • United Kingdom

After a 14 day survival exercise, Jet decides to leave home.

Kinleith '80

1983 • 37 min • New Zealand

Covers the 12-week-long strike at Kinleith Pulp and Paper Mill, owned by New Zealand Forest Products in January 1980.

Natural History

1983 • 13 min

"From there to here...from then to now. The soundtrack feature 33 frogs, 22 birds, lion growls, bomb whistles, a heartbeat and the chromatic scale."

Bamboo Xerox

1983 • 9 min

"Behind my desire to 'activate' the audience is a distaste for sutured, hegemonic cinema. By this, I mean a cinema dominated by both narrative and documentary traditions, cinema that hypnotizes its audience through invisible editing, illusionist sound, and 3D) perspective. With Bamboo Xerox, I found another strategy to move my audience and break illusions. I photographed bamboo (my favorite grass) from my backyard and then xeroxed both sections of living bamboo and the photographic stills of the bamboo. After editing the film, I had the entire six-minute film blueprinted as a black and white scroll. I stretched the scroll horizontally around the theater space so that the audience could see the film frame by frame before they saw the projection. Perhaps the audience could break the illusionist ritual-or at the very least experience a different way of seeing a film." — Barbara Hammer

Binding the Tattooed Woman: Snake and Peony

1983 • 60 min • Japan

A tragic tattooed woman is forced to break up with her boyfriend and perform in a perverted show...

Choro Q Dougram

1983 • 8 min • Japan

A comical short film that was screened at the same time as "Document: Fang of the Sun Dougram" and "Xabungle Graffiti".

Krag, the Kootenay Ram

1983 • 47 min • Canada

A bighorn ram struggles to survive in the wilderness of the Rocky Mountains. Prepared for the American television show, but did not air. First aired in Canada on November 27, 1983. Later shown on The Disney Channel.

Good By Summer Rabbit: Another Aiko 16 The Movie

1983 • 60 min • Japan

Aiko Juuroku Sai making-of documentary.

Hellfire

1983 • 30 min • United States of America

Following his performance, a televangelist returns to his dressing room to a visit from God; and she is a beautiful and very angry woman!

Kate Asabuki: Blue Experience PART-2 BODY Special NIGHT

1983 • 45 min • Japan

Yuko arrives at Amami Airport. She sees her sister-in-law and a local young man...

Office Romances

1983 • 46 min

Angela is insecure and gawky, overawed by her new job at an advertising agency. Her boss, Pam, is poised and sophisticated - the epitome of a successful career woman. Together both women share an emotional vulnerability. For while Angela falls prey to the office Romeo, Pam continues an unsatisfying affair with a married colleague. Office Romances is an engaging look at the many secrets of love and relationships that lead to tormented love. It's an honest, sensitive view of romance and human nature!

Precious Metal Variations

1983 • 4 min • United States of America

An abstract animation film in which a series of shapes rotate and evolve into other forms producing an illusion of depth. Colour, texture and superimposed images undergo structural variations. - MIFF

The Cage

1983 • 30 min • United Kingdom

Written by Ray Jenkins. Paula is the only girl in the assessment centre who doesn't know the date she can leave. Paula worries about what will happen to her

Shôjo nawa ningyô

1983 • 60 min • Japan

Pink film from 1983

The Sex and Violence Family Hour

1983 • 60 min • Canada

A jumble of sexual skits such as The Big Salami, The Brady Bang, And Leather And Chains.

A Girl, She Is 100%

1983 • 11 min • Japan

A man ran into a woman on a street. She was not attractive, but was a perfect girl for him. After missing the chance to talk to her, he contemplates on how he should have approached her.

The International Style

1983 • 32 min • Canada

An amusing melange of '60s spy thrillers and other classics. Super secret agent Nick attempts to liberate a top secret microchip from the clutches of multimillionaire Quinton Frost. Paizs pokes fun at the jet set, the Cold War and Jean-Paul Sartre.

Skywhales

1983 • 11 min • United Kingdom

A race of aliens living on a floating island prepares to hunt the giant Skywhales whose origins are slowly unveiled.

Woodentop

1983 • 50 min • United Kingdom

It's the first day on the job at Sun Hill police station for probationary P.C. Jim Carver, but by no means an uneventful one…

Groper Sucking Train

1983 • 60 min • Japan

Natsuko is awakened on the "Groper Train" and soon learns from a perverse, pickpocket couple...

Athens, Return to the Acropolis

1983 • 43 min • Greece, Italy

A poetic visit to the city of Athens, based on paintings, poems and philosophical texts.

Izumi Jun midareru!

1983 • 30 min • Japan

Keiko Tsukada (Jun Izumi) works as a secretary at a management consulting company. Keiko is taught the pleasures of lewd sex by her company president, Hiroaki Sakakibara. She depicts the world of lewd pleasure between a beautiful secretary and the company president, and their irresistible sexual journey with rich sensual depictions.

Rain Boy

1983 • 24 min • Japan

A lonely kid who lives in the countryside meets a strange boy who has a ragged umbrella over his head and there is always rain pouring over him. The rain boy is dazzled by the other kid's boots and offers three wishes in exchange for them.