All Films

Pelota

1983 • 47 min • Denmark

A documentary view of the Basque ball-game in which a small hard leather ball is hit against a wall. The film gives an impression of the game itself and of those who play it, not only the star performers (and the myths that surround them), but also those who just play in the streets and alleyways. The film sees the game it its cultural context and conveys the emotions and stories that are peculiar to the Basque country.

Our Generation

1983 • 60 min • Japan

A famous beauty salon in Harajuku. Junpei and Toshiya, who work there, are a loving couple who live together, although they don't tell the office. One day, like a sudden breeze, a boy named Saburo comes and stays there. Anyway, Saburo, who is as free as the wind, has relationships with the men at the store one after another, and finally ends up with Toshiya. Junpei finds out about this... The start of director Ryūichi Hiroki's trilogy of gay pinku films for ENK Promotion.

The Maze

1983 • 53 min • United Kingdom

A couple move to a country estate that turns out to be haunted.

Doubting Thomas

1983 • 60 min

Musical exploring the events between the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ.

The Break

1983 • 54 min • Albania

A story about a little boy who lives in Tirana, the capital of Albania.

Toruko Document: ogon no kuchibiru

1983 • 60 min • Japan

Library Report

1983 • 25 min

Ron Underwood short film.

The Nightingale

1983 • 54 min • United States of America

A kitchen maid and a nightingale help save an emperor with the power of song and friendship.

The Tarot

1983 • 4 min

Filmed on the Lower East Side of New York City and featuring Kathy Steuer.

Subah Subah

1983 • 19 min • India

The film is about a young boy who has just finished graduation and is waiting for the result of a competitive examination. He is quite sure about getting through the examination, but his mother generally grumbles and assumes that her son is not capable of doing anything in this world. Discouraged and fed up with all this, he goes to his college and meets his girlfriend. He does not want to lose these moments. One fine morning he is awakened by the excited voice of his mother informing him that he has been selected in the competitive examination!

Hell W10

1983 • 50 min • United Kingdom

Black and white silent film starring The Clash. A gangster tale that follows Earl, a musician and small-time hood played by Paul Simonon, who falls foul of the local crime boss called Socrates, ‘The Lord of Ladbroke Grove’, played with some relish by Mick Jones.

Bachelorette Pad

1983 • 11 min

Barbie dolls come to life in an underground experimental film

Mariner Man

1983 • 1 min • United States of America

Animation of a poem from Edith Sitwell's "Façade".

Busted

1983 • 60 min • United Kingdom

A ringing phone after midnight can be a disturbing experience but until Simon, a successful barrister, hears from Macy, his friend from university days, he doesn't know just how disturbing.

Lady's Silk Futon

1983 • 30 min • Japan

A certain Takabei house. In the dark, mansion, a perverse show unfolds between a beautiful woman with a birthmark (Shima Izumi) and a girl in a sailor uniform (Yamaji Miki). The gazes of men stare at them...

Cocaine Blues

1983 • 52 min

A look at the problems associated with cocaine use, including the toll it takes, not only on the users themselves but on society in general.

Samek

1983 • 54 min • Yugoslavia

Dramatic story of the Sarajevo photographer Matthew Samek during World War II. Samek experiences historical events in his characteristic way. He does not like the king, but neither the German occupiers, for whom he coincidentally has to work for. His sense of justice even wins over friendship.

The New Seven Lines Between Things

1983 • 23 min

An anthology film by eight members of Parodious Unity.

Batten Robomaru: The Movie

1983 • 23 min • Japan

Robomaru causes chaos by bringing yokai to live in Karinto New Town.

La Métamorphose

1983 • 50 min • France

A young man wakes up one day transformed into a giant insect.

The Waiting

1983 • 18 min • Argentina

A hitman fleeing from his past decides to live in a boarding house to hide from his pursuers.

Beautiful Mystery

1983 • 60 min • Japan

Shinohara, a young bodybuilder, joins a para-military sect in northern Japan. His instructor, Takizawa, takes a liking to the new recruit. After an early “special” training session the two develop a lasting and loving relationship.

Diner

1983 • 30 min • United States of America

This pilot for a TV version of the critically acclaimed feature Diner (1982) focused on the complaints of the wives, Elyse and Beth, that their husbands were spending too much time hanging at the diner with their friends.

Patalliro: The Stardust Project

1983 • 48 min • Japan

The organization Tarantella is planning an attack by utilizing a space-bound device to create hail all over the planet, codenamed "Operation Stardust". Patalliro, Bancoran, and Maraich must put a stop to their scheme, and lie the mystery of Bancoran's supposedly-dead former lover Junior to rest.