All Films

Personal Cuts

1982 • 4 min • Yugoslavia

Video by Croatian artist Sanja Iveković, a performative stripping of personal identity by the interpolation of excerpts from public service TV shows.

Call It Sleep

1982 • 40 min • United States of America

A global, strategic evaluation of the social forces comprising the society of the spectacle. It is conceived from the view that, if individuals are to gain control over their lives, the world of hierarchical power must be destroyed.

Rough Cut and Ready Dubbed

1982 • 59 min • United Kingdom

Documents the post-punk period between 1978 and 1981, featuring the looks, the poses, the rucks, the riots and the slaggings of bands and their fans. Includes footage of the Wasted Festival and some of the original bands 25 years on. Also has performances from exponents of Punk, Mod, Oi and Ska - all filmed in the same DIY ethic that spawned punk itself.

The Inwardly Blind

1982 • 13 min

An anti-Mojahedin Khalq film.

The Circular Scene

1982 • 8 min • Argentina

The silhouettes of a couple in the window were filmed with few directions for the protagonists. They suggested the synthesis of cinematic space and the universality of their figures. The camera draws attention to moments, gestures, and actions, all inserted into the parentheses of a fade-in/fade-out. Cinema rediscovered as an effective memory machine.

Self Portrait

1982 • 4 min • Indonesia

In this experimental, stop-motion short, the filmmaker’s self-portrait is continually created, and re-created.

Money

1982 • 5 min • Germany

1982 German super 8 short work for the band Malaria

The Sound Collector

1982 • 12 min • Canada

This animated short features Leonard, a 6-year-old boy with the unusual hobby of collecting sounds. Transforming household noises around him into exciting fantasies, he creates an adventure story for his older brother in which knights chase away monsters and perform other daring deeds.

Finger-fan

1982 • 9 min

1982 short experimental film by Linda Christanell

New Left Note

1982 • 27 min • United States of America

As editor of "New Left Notes", the newspaper of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Saul Levine was at the center of multiple radical political movements. Filming from 1968-1982, he employs a rapid fire editing style to create a frenetic, kaleidoscopic portrait of the antiwar movement, women's liberation and the Black Panthers.

Arabic Numeral Series 15

1982 • 8 min

“With some exceptions, the Arabics take the idea of the void as their ground. That is, the light we do see almost always seems to be set against darkness, or occasionally against white, these momentary flickers that materialize tenuously out of emptiness. But the darkness is not ‘night,’ or even simply some more abstract absence of light, but a more profound vacuum: it represents a world stripped of all the coordinates of the known, an unmeasurable absence. […] These lushly sensual, pleasurable-to-view films are also terrifying: their unpredictability, continually enacting new dramas of surprise, alternatively swamps the viewer in light and leaves him adrift in darkness.”

Arabic Numeral Series 18

1982 • 9 min

“With some exceptions, the Arabics take the idea of the void as their ground. That is, the light we do see almost always seems to be set against darkness, or occasionally against white, these momentary flickers that materialize tenuously out of emptiness. But the darkness is not ‘night,’ or even simply some more abstract absence of light, but a more profound vacuum: it represents a world stripped of all the coordinates of the known, an unmeasurable absence. […] These lushly sensual, pleasurable-to-view films are also terrifying: their unpredictability, continually enacting new dramas of surprise, alternatively swamps the viewer in light and leaves him adrift in darkness.”

Arabic Numeral Series 17

1982 • 8 min

“With some exceptions, the Arabics take the idea of the void as their ground. That is, the light we do see almost always seems to be set against darkness, or occasionally against white, these momentary flickers that materialize tenuously out of emptiness. But the darkness is not ‘night,’ or even simply some more abstract absence of light, but a more profound vacuum: it represents a world stripped of all the coordinates of the known, an unmeasurable absence. […] These lushly sensual, pleasurable-to-view films are also terrifying: their unpredictability, continually enacting new dramas of surprise, alternatively swamps the viewer in light and leaves him adrift in darkness.”

The Mole in Town

1982 • 28 min • Czechoslovakia

Khoja Nasreddin I

1982 • 10 min • Soviet Union

ULTRA III: Peter Kurten, Sadist & Mass Slayer

1982 • 25 min • United Kingdom

A video magazine put out by the Come Organization label. An in-depth documentary of the life & works of Peter Kurten, the monster of Dusseldorf, including previously unpublished pictures and information. With music by WHITEHOUSE, J.S.BACH & BEETHOVEN

Ultra I

1982 • 25 min • United Kingdom

A video magazine put out by the Come Organization label. Noise, smut, medical procedures and an unwholesome fascination with infamous murderers. SUTCLIFFE JUGEND interview and music PETER KURTEN preview WHITEHOUSE LP TRACKS 1 birthdeath experience side A PHILIP BEST talks to MARY DOWD WHITEHOUSE studio action 1 KINGS CROSS PROSTITUTION 1982

The Great Sky

1982 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Two friends serve as pilots in a military unit near a peaceful and blossoming city. When an accident happens during a flight, they have to decide whether to eject or sacrifice themselves and save thousands of lives. Based on a poem by Robert Rozhdestvensky.

Urban Fire

1982 • 15 min • Canada

A child is given birth in the womb of its dead mother. Child’s eyes perceive the death of a city. The last birth combined with the fire and destruction.

Ultra Iv

1982 • 25 min • United Kingdom

A video magazine put out by the Come Organization label. Noise, smut, medical procedures and an unwholesome fascination with infamous murderers. PETER SUTCLIFFE preview WHITEHOUSE LP TRACKS 3 total sex side A SUTCLIFFE JUGEND interview & music WHITEHOUSE studio action 2 HERMANN NITSCH a study AUSCWITZ / BIRKENAU 1941-82

Recuerdos de Flores Muertas

1982 • 7 min

A poetic study of the Concordia Cemetery.

Home-made Melodrama

1982 • 55 min • United Kingdom

In Home-made Melodrama, Jacqui Duckworth candidly articulates the complexities of an open relationship.

Too Young

1982 • 3 min

Taking off where Brooke Shields left us in her Calvins, this film takes a hard, humorous look at the pressures and frustrations girls feel as they rush out to explore their sexuality with all the taboos and fears that entails.

Balanço do Tempo na Cena de Angola

1982 • 45 min • Angola

A documentary in which Angolan laborers describe their working conditions under colonial rule.