All Films

The Crown of Nature

1982 • 9 min • Soviet Union

A bureaucrat decides to flee the cacophonous hyperstimulation of modern city life to find peace in the countryside. Is the natural world, free of industrial machines and the relentless pace of urban life, as good as it seems to be?

Provincial Life

1982 • 13 min • Soviet Union

A bunch of friends adapts to the rural lifestyle.

A Letter to the Future

1982 • 26 min • Soviet Union

The saga of Pushkin and the Decembrists, based on a letter by Matvey Muravyov-Apostol, found in Yalutorovsk during the Soviet era.

In His Father's Footsteps

1982 • 29 min • United States of America

An American family visits a concentration camp in Germany. At the museum, the father makes the acquaintance of an older man who questions his prejudices.

The Gammadovs. Balkhar

1982 • 26 min

Short documental movie on Lak Balkhar culture presented by Dagestani television.

Landscape

1982 • 2 min • Soviet Union

About a silly bear who didn't like the painted landscape.

One Evening

1982 • 2 min • Soviet Union

A satirical cartoon about electricity wasters.

Of People and Atoms

1982 • 50 min • Soviet Union

A film about the history of the development and problems of nuclear physics.

A Number Out of Light

1982 • 13 min • Yugoslavia

Short documentary film about the Church of the Holy Cross in Nin, Croatia, whose form, according to art historian Mladen Pejaković, is designed to follow the position of the sun.

Echo

1982 • 3 min • Soviet Union

A magical old man of the forest helps a girl find her way home.

Mood

1982 • 2 min • Soviet Union

About fleeting mood swings.

KLOAKA, la película

1982 • 10 min • Peru

A film by Emilio Bustamante, recorded in the 80s, in which the story of Kloaka is revived by some of the members of the group. Kloaka was a Peruvian poetry group/movement formed in 1982. Its members were: Roger Santiváñez, Mariela Dreyfus, Guillermo Gutiérrez, Edián Novoa, Carlos Enrique Polanco, José Alberto Velarde, Domingo de Ramos, Mary Soto, and Julio Heredia.

Vocation is a Teacher

1982 • 17 min • Soviet Union

Teachers and students are in different parts of the country. The First of September is celebrated by first—graders in Ulyanovsk, history and literature lessons in an Azerbaijani village, music in the Lithuanian city of Siauliai, biology in Leningrad.

The Deer Cub and the Switchman

1982 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A kind switchman saved a deer freezing on the rails.

Meaning

1982 • 4 min • Soviet Union

The cult character of Vilnius, Artūras Barysas-Baras (1954-2005), even before he became the vocalist of the group "Ir vis tai ka yra gražu yražu", was a well-known author of short experimental films. His work was favorably evaluated by Lithuanian and foreign film critics and connoisseurs of avant-garde art. For the soundtracks of the films, Barr used music from records released in the West, which has made public showings of his films impossible these days.

The Blasters: Let's Rock Again - Live in Chicago

1982 • 57 min • United States of America

The Blasters are at the top of the Los Angeles Rockabilly world when they hit Stages Music Hall in Chicago. Assisted by the legendary Carl Perkins, Willie Dixon and Lee Allen, the crowd is left awestruck and sweaty. Selections include: Border Radio, Shakin', Blue Suede Shoes, Marie Marie and others.

Schwangerschaft und Geburt

1982 • 15 min

This educational film shows human reproduction as fertilization, growth and birth of the child with rules of conduct for the expectant mother. In a combination of live-action film, animated graphics and microfilmography/photography, “an everyday, ever-changing miracle” is accompanied until the birth.

Der Märchenmantel

1982 • 21 min • East Germany

A princess laments for her treasure. The knights Dick and Schick rush off to fetch it. A little bird joins them and they take it with them and defend it.

Colour

1982 • 16 min

A little girl, not allowed to play by older children, begins to "conjure". In her imagination, the grey town begins to be saturated with colours.

Arabesque For Marie Menken

1982 • 13 min

A film about a building, the newly restored Hoboken Railroad Terminal. As the title implies, it is an homage to Marie Menken and a take-off on her sketch of the Alhambra. It uses some of her fast-frame techniques, setting the building into motion, playing with the contrast of the stained glass windows against other decorative elements. The sound track is mostly informational, speaking of Menken's contribution to the Experimental film. It precedes the image. –M. G.

Moving On: The Hunger for Land in Zimbabwe

1982 • 51 min • United States of America

Documents the history of the independence movement in Zimbabwe through art prints, vintage documents and photographs, posters, and archival film footage. Shows the continuing disparity between Black farmers, who barely make a living on their inferior land, and affluent whites, who employ modern agricultural techniques on their lush acres.

Montana

1982 • 4 min

Inspired by the mountains of the northern United States, 'Montana' depicts both natural and man-made landmarks through early computer graphics.

Easter

1982 • 27 min

Short interviews with buried ancestors.

Magic Bus

1982 • 11 min • Soviet Union

Nameless monologues against the backdrop of a bustling city and relatives seeing off to a medical-labor prophylactic center.