All Films

The Terror of the Goonie Monster

1982 • 2 min • United States of America

A hump-backed freak terrorizes a small Vermont town.

Citizen Bull

1982 • 52 min

Documentary about celebrated racing tipster Phil Bull, with dramatised parts illustrating his career.

Video Portraits - Men: Ryoichi Enomoto

1982 • 7 min • Japan

A playful portrait of designer Ryoichi Enomato, a former collaborator of the Shuji Terayama and the Tenjō Sajiki theater troupe. Kyoko Michishita: “…when I asked Enomoto, the king of parody, to let me film him at the Japan Graphic Exhibition, an event that has become the gateway to success for commercial artists, he gracefully took his clothes off for me. But he asked to wear sunglasses to hide his embarrassment.”

Hopiit

1982 • 14 min • United States of America

In this lyrical work, Masayesva observes Hopi cultural activities through the cycle of the seasons. Work and play, ceremonial rituals and the rituals of everyday life throughout the year are woven together in a seamless vision that conveys the oral traditions of storytelling, the natural landscape of Arizona, and the richness of Hopi culture.

Linnaloom

1982 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Animals belong to an urban environment and they will always be here since people need a piece of living nature close to them. House plants are not enough - one needs a living creature. What will become of these animals after purchase? How do pets live next to people?

Video Portraits - Men: Issey Miyake

1982 • 22 min

An intimate and loving interview with the late fashion designer Miyake in his Tokyo apartment, alongside glimpses of his groundbreaking creations. In his own words, "When I work, I don't think I'm a man or a Japanese."

Captured by an Unprecedented Task

1982 • 52 min • Soviet Union

A film by the legendary cinema studio KyivNaukFilm, which popularized complex science concepts, and the explanation of what cybernetics is, not just as a “science, but also as a certain position, attitude to the world.

Balloon on Track

1982 • 2 min • Switzerland

8mm film by Swiss artist Roman Signer.

DC '82 Home

1982 • 5 min

At home, outdoors. Street shots.

East Coast

1982 • 12 min

East Coast responds to the textures, forms and elemental light play observed along a stretch of coastline in Happisburgh, Norfolk. It was first screened on BBC 2 television in the UK, where it was likened to the work of visionary film maker Pat O'Neil and his innovative multilayering of images using optical printing. This film creates similar effects by exposing each roll of film up to five times, using a Bolex 16mm camera. The film opens at Wells Next the Sea, and observes beach life in the gaps between the long row of beach huts. A fast film stock adds an intense painterly grain to the scene. The movement of waves drying on sun bleached sand are overlapped and rendered as kinetic abstractions. Each sequence is accompanied by a montage of natural sounds, which seek to suggest a musical equivalence of treatment, alongside the visuals.

As Cegas

1982 • 10 min

A film about three blind women struggling to survive in Paraíba.

The Loves of Azra Livac

1982 • 29 min • Yugoslavia

Azra is a smelter by occupation and surname (Livac – smelter), one of the few in the male-dominated profession. But she does not aspire to identify with her male counterparts, and despite the burden of hard work, Azra is open to the new love challenges.

True Romance, Etc.

1982 • 33 min • United Kingdom

Hackney teenagers - black, white, gay and straight - talk sex, love and marriage in this compelling drama-documentary.

Caracol

1982 • 2 min • Argentina

A boy climbs a wall to take a closer look at a snail that slowly moves along its edge and encounters an alien world. Among sheets and white clothes drying in the sun, there are two young girls playing with a bag that floats above them as if by magic.

Cidade dos Homens

1982 • 28 min • Brazil

With statements by actor and director Ednaldo do Egito, the film reflects on the male presence in the city of João Pessoa.

Johnny Mathis - Live in Chicago

1982 • 57 min

Johnny Mathis, byname of John Royce Mathis, (born September 30, 1935, Gilmer, Texas, U.S.), American pop singer who achieved wide and enduring popularity as an angelic-voiced crooner of romantic ballads. He was perhaps best known for his affecting rendition of the Erroll Garner composition “Misty” (1959). Mathis grew up in a large working-class family in San Francisco. He developed an appreciation of music from his father, a former vaudeville performer, and, as a child, he sang regularly in church and at school events. From age 13 he also took vocal lessons, which provided him with a classical foundation for his burgeoning talent.

Thumbelina

1982 • 20 min • Japan

A stop-motion puppet animation adaptation of Hans Christian Anderson's Thumbelina.

Vã-Pirações

1982 • 4 min • Brazil

A vampire is frightened by the reality of urban violence.

Mr. & Mrs. Fish Present The Treasure in the Eel's Cave

1982 • 25 min • United States of America

"A fun-filled story for young children explaining how the shape of fish help them to survive and adapt to their surroundings in the ocean. Children will laugh as they learn, watching the zany duo of "Mr. & Mrs. Fish" fool a hungry, bumbling, big fish. They are successful thanks to the help of a jolly pirate, a wizard, a balloon man, and an Italian chef. Live footage of sea creatures, a lot of bad jokes, and wonderful musical score by recording artists "Schooner Fare" add to the merriment."

Mergulho

1982 • 3 min • Brazil

A man jumps into the abyss holding the key to love.

Cosmonaut's Nomad Encampment

1982 • 16 min • Soviet Union

With talk of Soviet Cosmonauts just then in space, Kenzhe, the youngest son of the family, does not want to be part of the ‘train’ of children playing at going on the long journey to Moscow and instead tells his mother he is going to be a cosmonaut.

Superficiale

1982 • 10 min • Italy

A film by Valentina Berardinone

Cosmotropics

1982 • 7 min • Germany

Animation for an unrealized visual album by Supersempfft, previously unreleased.

I-ii-iii

1982 • 8 min

Three short formal films: image planes are projected on top of each other. The staggered and flickering images have been shot on Super8 film.