All Films

Cien puntos para Julián Pintos

1982 • 11 min • Spain

Julián, a car salesman, must reach the sales objective (the hundred points of the main title) to fill the whims of his loving wife.

La vie brève de la flamme

1982 • 40 min • France

One of my last films to be made indoors was La vie brève de la flamme. I used light in a very expressionist manner — still with the technique of a very active camera. (T.H.)

Ghost Sonata

1982 • 43 min • United States of America

Video project dubbed "an Opera without Words" made by the experimental, avant-garde band Tuxedomoon.

Patinko

1982 • 28 min • Japan

8mm work from the 6th Pia Film Festival.

The Glory of the Garden

1982 • 51 min

This documentary is a cinematic celebration of how Lionel de Rothschild spent a fortune in creating one of the most spectacular gardens in the world.

Gaia’s Dream

1982 • 3 min

Gaia’s Dream is a vivid animated film made by drawing and painting directly on 16mm clear film. Emerging from images which suggest primordial beginnings, a running horse becomes the focus of this rhythmic and abstract animation. At its climax, the horse is transformed and takes flight before disappearing into the sun from which it came. The musicians of Gwinyai performed a soundtrack of traditional music from Zimbabwe expressly for the film.

Heavenly Bodies

1982 • 18 min • United Kingdom

"My interests, like everyone else I know, come from all kinds of sources, some of which I daren't even talk about" Jim Whiting

A Case of an Individual

1982 • 5 min

A film made by the Tokyo Metropolitan Art High School Animation Club.

Base

1982 • 5 min • United States of America

Premier of Lhasa Club, a small club in L.A. California. It was famous for providing an eclectic program. Jean-Pierre Boccara opened the club in 1982 and started to book punk/new wave band combined with performance artists, cabaret acts, comedians, poets and art-exhibition.

Dot

1982 • 24 min

Three people living in a burned out building after an undetermined holocaust has taken place take in an odd creature from outer space, who is apparently on the run from government sources.

おまけのいちにち

1982 • 23 min • Japan

Initiation

1982 • 18 min • Japan

Kung Fu Madness

1982 • 30 min • Japan

Changing the Needle

1982 • 53 min

A quarter of a million drug addicts —one of the most serious consequences of the Vietnam War. These addicts were the citizens of the South, and of Ho Chi Minh City, the former Saigon. Shot in 1981 by three Australian women, Changing the Needle was the first in-depth film to be made about Vietnam’s unique approach to drug rehabilitation at a time when few foreign film crews had access to Vietnam at all.

When Heidi Poaches

1982 • 8 min • Japan

Living Colours

1982 • 6 min • Canada

Charcoal drawings depict the bleak world of the worker. Pastel drawings illustrate his dreams. Oftentimes, they are dreams created by the media. Are they tailored to his real needs? Or his pocketbook? This film comments indirectly on the impact of publicity and its power to develop appetites that cannot be satisfied.

So Shall You Reap

1982 • 7 min • Soviet Union

A comedy cartoon that shows in a funny manner that rudeness is a vice that needs to be combated immediately...

La vie est dure

1982 • 13 min • France, Kenya

This is the portrait of a man of modest circumstances. Every morning, he gets up and goes to work in an office. Life is boring and monotonous, so he kills time with easy distractions after work to give a bit more meaning to his life.

Halloween 4: Dawn of the Dreary

1982 • 2 min • United States of America

Shot in silent, Super 8, Oct. 30-31, 1982. (At the time, they'd only made three "Halloween" movies, so we thought we were being funny by making a fourth.)

Before Mickey Mouse: A History of American Animation

1982 • 58 min • United States of America

A showcase of classic cartoons predating Mickey Mouse accompanied by the history of American animation leading up to his creation.

Slab City ... A Very Special Place

1982 • 30 min • United States of America

A documentary portrait of Slab City, a California location that serves as a winter home for seniors who travel there and live in their trailers and motor homes.

Video Portraits - Men: Shuntaro Tanikawa

1982 • 9 min

In his darkened apartment the poet, translator, and lyricist discusses his work and his "art of being alone". In the words of Tanikawa: "If there is love, there is nothing more to say...".

Waterfall

1982 • 2 min • Switzerland

8mm film by Swiss artist Roman Signer.

Sand Pillar 1979-82

1982 • 2 min • Switzerland

8mm film by Swiss artist Roman Signer.