All Films

Tehching Hsieh: One Year Performance, Outdoor Piece 1981 - 1982

1982 • 56 min • United States of America

In his third one-year performance piece, from 26 September 1981 through 26 September 1982, Hsieh spent one year outside, not entering buildings or shelter of any sort, including cars, trains, airplanes, boats, or tents. He moved around New York City with a packbag and a sleeping bag.

Lie Back & Enjoy It

1982 • 8 min

Lie Back & Enjoy It is a dialectical film about the politics of representation. Its image track consists of technologically manipulated images of women, and some printed titles. Its soundtrack consists of a dialogue between a Man (a filmmaker) and a Woman (of whom he's going to make a film).

Mysteries

1982 • 7 min • United Kingdom

Mysteries is a photomontage film, shot at Penmon, Anglesey and Whiteknights Farm, Hampshire. Beginning with a quotation from a dream, it becomes the filmmaker's interpretation of the harvest and the old mystic theme of the Mysteries: “The women are celebrating the Mysteries on the beach at Penmon... No-one is watching... The sound of the general waves crashing against the bank of pebbles; the sound of the barley waving... Someone holds out her hand, holds it open against the sea. Perhaps it is my hand, the hand holds three ears of barley...”.

Clotheslines

1982 • 32 min

A film that takes laundry seriously as a form of folk art, a fraught social signifier and lens for women to reflect on the joys, pains and ambivalences of household chores.

Rescueman

1982 • 14 min

A school bus driver explains to an interested elementary student the different ways to evacuate a school bus.

Holon

1982 • 13 min • France

"Christian Lebrat said he thought of Monet, who painted with the series Water Lilies colors ‘at the edge of the visible;’ those of Holon indeed display colors so intense, so enraged with energy that they release in a pure way the performative, exclamative character, the character of act which, in a more or less underground way, informs every image." Nicole Brenez

Le soleil, la mer, le cœur et les étoiles

1982 • 35 min • France

«The sun, the sea, the heart and the stars / Dawn Aurora Light Heat / The heart serves the body / The spirit dominates the star»

Eclipse Predictions

1982 • 4 min • United States of America

Diana Wilson’s mysteriously beautiful animated tableaux fluidly unfold before our eyes, a generous receptacle for the mournful, harrowing soundtrack, in which the filmmaker recounts a tragedy from her youth. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.

Chuck's Will's Widow

1982 • 13 min • United States of America

Chuck's Will's Widow is a eulogy for my father and mother whose ashes are spread in the Adirondack mountain woods where the film is shot. Visualized through a field of swirling shapes, the fragmented landscapes weave an emotional fabric containing inexplicable personifications and associations.

Grünspan

1982 • 12 min

"GRÜNSPAN is a film about female sexuality, but it does not develop a program, but tries to capture different, sometimes contradictory attitudes and feelings in their simultaneous existence. On the one hand through the objects in the picture - male statues, a woman approaching, on the other hand, through surface tension in the images, opposing textures, hardness ratios, convex and concave shapes, the color that keeps the film flowing, the objects related to each other, concentrates and loses, and the music is very important which comes from an old American musical and has a narrative dimension. " (Christine Noll Brinckmann)

Violation

1982 • 13 min • France

Dégringolade

1982 • 5 min • France

Dégringolade (TUMBLE) - was produced in the pixilation technique. This process allows alive characters and real objects to achieve absolutely unrealizable movements in reality. Everything becomes possible with the stop motion technique. This film shows an imaginary and frenetic world where it slides, runs, falls, flies, jumps, fidgets, leaps, rolls, bolts, and boozes; it is a wild weird world.

Concerto pour Aloual

1982 • 18 min • France

Aloual, the black pearl leads an initiatory journey which is a quest for the part of mystery and the wild side that lays deep inside each of us.

Paris-Plage

1982 • 19 min • France

At her poolside, a woman is sunbathing while watching polaroids of her and the man with whom she has just lived a love-passion of three days and three nights. A phone call interrupts her reveries.

Pas à Lille

1982 • 6 min • France

After The Indian Spielberg, Joëlle and Catherine meet up at the top of « L’Aiguille du Midi ». They take a series of photos. Six months later, in Lille, one of these pictures is thrown at the ground and shot randomly as Joëlle is walking by. These pictures, shot again frame by frame, generate the film : with a repetitive music background, we can see glimpses of storytelling, a story that is setting up, with constant feedback of « L’Aiguille du Midi ».

Million Dollar Gamblers

1982 • 52 min

Made by Roger Whittaker Films - 1982. NFSA title no. 262876 This documentary delves into the social, cultural, and economic lives of the residents of the remote opal mining town of Coober Pedy, South Australia. Produced shortly after the Coober Pedy Act of 1981, the film captures social and economic changes underway, hastened by the introduction of satellite television in 1980. The historically maverick town must adapt to the formality of local government if it is to continue supporting its residents.

Hard Times at Ríos Rosas

1982 • 20 min • Spain

Short film that narrates the love affairs of young people in the Madrid street of Ríos Rosas ...

A Question of Choice

1982 • 18 min

Workers’ rights were at the heart of the ’68 protests, but where was the conversation about working mothers? This film explores the lack of job prospects for Sheffield women with families to support. The women speak for themselves.

Intento de vuelo fallido

1982 • 1 min • Venezuela

Its production seems like a game: throwing a Super 8 camera, turned on and recording, from what was, at that time, the tallest building in Caracas. The film films the shots of its own accelerated fall, a succession of chromatic shots that cannot be identified either in terms of what is “recorded” in each one (windows, columns, walls, sky or floor) or in its own formal configuration as an image (color, composition, shapes or figures). What is perceived and apprehended is the impotence of vision – of perception – to distinguish this extreme and exhausting mobility, this vertigo of “free fall.”

Novo Dextro: Purity and Danger

1982 • 33 min

Documentary by Bill Stamets about the American Nazi Party's 1982 rally held in Chicago's Lincoln Park in response to the city's annual Gay and Lesbian Pride Parade.

Love of Line, of Light and Shadow: The Brooklyn Bridge

1982 • 10 min

In this centennial tribute to the Brooklyn Bridge, the artist combines computer and analog processed visuals with an interconnected meld of the sounds of the bridge with clarinet and synthesized music. Elements of light and heavy materials contrast in both the visual and sonic tracks, greatly enhancing the grace of this piece.

Hey Mack

1982 • 15 min

New York trucks, both menacing and toy-like, over feminist performance group Disband in songs of political and environmental declamation. ‘The film works on a juxtaposition between what we think is very macho and these women who, through their songs and the way they sing them, getting louder and louder, manage to dominate the image’ - Tina Keane.

Not Much Time

1982 • 7 min • United States of America

A bank robbery repeats several times, each time within a different context and from a different point of view. Is there a double-cross? Why are the passersby so calm? The audience must reconstruct the event and assume the role of detective in this mystery of narrative space.

Aporia Series: Aporia II

1982 • 8 min

"This is the one that is perfectly balanced ... this is the one which is the masterpiece." - Stan Brakhage