All Films

OMD - Live at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane

1982 • 52 min • United Kingdom

Filmed at The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London in 1981, this video shows the band singing some of their most famous hits of that time, live on stage. Includes songs such as Joan of Arc, Maid of Orleans, Messages and Enola Gay and many more. Originally released as a VHS video, this was also distributed on a Collector's Edition DVD/CD combo in 2007.

Animus

1982 • 6 min

This animated film borrows from the pre-cinematic imagery of Eadweard Muybridge in a self-referential mode. It takes the viewer to the early Edison days when moving images of a man walking or sneezing were a novelty. Schwartz combines those historical sequences with contemporary animation to comment on the progress of movie-making in the twentieth century. This "how-to animation" with its "tongue-in-cheek" mix of live action, animation and xerography serves as an introduction to the concept of structuralism.

Permissible Dreams

1982 • 31 min • Egypt

A documentary portrait of a traditional peasant woman, Om Said.

Harmful or Fatal if Swallowed

1982 • 13 min

"The very first footage I shot in NYC, back in 1975. This version was put together in 1981 when I blew up the original super 8 to 16mmm. All the special effects (wipes of different types) are hand drawn with black ink directly on the super 8 original. The resulting A and B rolls were then superimposed."

Window Painting

1982 • 3 min

Two men in a shop window paint each other.

41/82 Getting Warm

1982 • 3 min

The third of the "bad home movies". Kren moved, along with his Thunderbird from New England in winter to the warmth of Texas. Part of the film was shot in Austin. (Hans Scheugl)

Post-Industrial Fiddle

1982 • 23 min

Explores the importance of music-making in the life of a pulp mill worker in rural Maine.

Condensation Trail

1982 • 8 min

Flashes of changing color (a result of the celluloid being slightly exposed during the changing of reels), mark the first movements of a plane's steady climb into the blue sky, leaving a condensation trail behind. This 22-second long shot is combined with black and white film, in which diagonal lines and parts of the image are cut out. Though these effects may be highly controlled by the director, at the heart of Condensation Trail is an event which is unique and unstaged, and which is unlikely to ever repeat itself. The plane crosses the screen from the lower left to the upper right corner. Halfway on its journey, a bird flies into the frame and crosses the plane's condensation trail exactly at its very end, making a perfectly sharp diagonal as it slowly reaches for its lower right corner.

Yellow Fever

1982 • 3 min

1982 German super 8 short work

I Saw Jesus in a Tortilla

1982 • 4 min

Entirely comprised both from dissolving still photographs and a simple narrative story line taken verbatim from a newspaper article in the The Arizona Daily Star is I SAW JESUS IN A TORTILLA. It recounts the story of Ramona Barraras, a New Mexican woman, who saw the face of Jesus while rolling her husband's burrito. In an attempt to manipulate the media to her advantage in publicizing this miraculous event, the media ultimately exploited one of the most significant events of Mrs. Barraras' life.

Sax

1982 • 6 min • Germany

1983 German super 8 short work

Berlin Kitchen Music

1982 • 6 min • Germany

1982 German super 8 short work

Terminal City

1982 • 9 min • Canada

Terminal City records the demolition of the Devonshire Hotel in Vancouver; through extreme show motion (200 frames per second) and symmetrical diagonal framing, Gallagher underscores the passage from order to chaos within the event. The sparseness of this centering and he patience required of the viewer heightens the literally explosive climaxes of the film, and transforms the everyday violence of the events into moments of convulsive beauty. – Jim Shedden, Michael Zryd, The Independent Eye

Contemporary

1982 • 7 min • Yugoslavia

An interesting, seemingly plotless fast-paced animation, consisting of a line of objects transforming and melting one into another to a punchy jazz soundtrack.

Waterworx (A Clear Day and No Memories)

1982 • 6 min

The waterworks in the beaches area of Toronto is the source of an image, perhaps eidetic, from my early childhood. It always had an enigmatic quality, and even after returning years later to shoot this film. I was still not satisfied that it was merely a filtration plant - its architecture functioned more metaphorically. Wallace Steven's ironic and equally enigmatic poem 'A Clear Day and No Memories' was brought into the film later to address these issues, and to provide an interruptive graphic function for the same reasons the style of editing is interruptive, that is, to both underscore the alluring nature of the image, and to force an intellectual distancing. Just as the supposedly clear air is used as the protagonist in Steven's poem, the Precisionist clarity of the imagery is foreground in Waterworx, while the soundtrack develops the air's subtext.

The Tale of the Magic Pomegranate

1982 • 9 min • Soviet Union

One day, trouble came to the palace — the beautiful princess fell seriously ill. The doctor said that only the juice of a magic pomegranate can cure her. And only a person with a kind heart and pure, sincere thoughts can get it.

You Have to Pay For Mistakes

1982 • 8 min • Soviet Union

A film about a small, clumsy donkey, that "didn't mean to do that," to whom for the excuse, and everyone responded, "for not meaning to they’re mighty mean to you," except for the kind girl...

The Fairy Tale on Wheels Continues Its Journey

1982 • 15 min • Soviet Union

A grandfather and granddaughter with their fairy-tale theater travel to an enchanted city to make its inhabitants laugh and free them from witchcraft. Baba Yaga and her assistants try in every possible way to prevent this, but having failed, they join the fairy-tale theater.

Everything For the Stork

1982 • 10 min • Bulgaria, Soviet Union

A flock of storks was flying south, but one bird lagged behind and fell to the meadow without strength. A little girl found the stork and called the adults for help. There were rallies and actions to save the bird. Only a little girl thought to give water and fish to the tired stork, after which it flew away.

In Need of Space

1982 • 5 min

Inspired by Steve Reich’s music, a cube rotates with the same dimensions as the film frame.

Old Jug

1982 • 16 min • Soviet Union

Based on an oriental parable about two neighbors - a good one and an envious one.

In/Side/Out I

1982 • 2 min

Various geometric lines are put out of their figurative context into a set of multiple oppositions, all articulated with respect to the edge of the frame. It was built as a self-contained, intentionally short-lived whole.

Episodes from the Secret Life

1982 • 30 min

"Two visions of the world being viewed simultaneously." - Barry Gerson Poetic structure created through masking out of two separate images juxtaposing opposite motions, resulting in two visions of the world being viewed simultaneously. Our ideas about space and time, and about what and how we perceive are challenged.

Portraits of Two Artists

1982 • 28 min

Features master painters Hughie Lee-Smith and Jacob Lawrence. In addition to visual sequences of the artist's work, the program includes an inside look at a class taught by Lee-Smith at New York's prestigious Art Students League; both artists working in their studios; a trip by ferry to an island in Puget Sound where Lawrence works on a commissioned mural; and an animation of the illustrations from Lawrence's children's book "Harriet and the Promised Land". From the collection of the Black Resource Center at the County of Los Angeles Public Library. https://archive.org/details/portraitoftwoartistscompton