All Films

Wash It

1982 • 6 min

Low Riders get squeaky clean at the drive-through to the spicy salsa sounds of Los Agitadores featuring Steve Mitchell.

Troublemakers

1982 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Beats of the Heart: Tex-Mex Music of the Texas-Mexican borderlands

1982 • 60 min

Along a thousand miles of the Rio Grande, Mexican and American cultures have mingled to produce Tex-Mex music – the impassioned statement of the border people. Since the Mexican revolution, this music has been the mouthpiece and spirit of the Tex-Mex community. Today, like most border regions, the area is a cultural melting pot, marked by violence and drug running, illegal immigrants and shady business dealings.

Ultra Ii

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. CHARLES MANSON family interviews/LP tracks WHITEHOUSE LP TRACKS 2 birthdeath experience side B SUTCLIFFE JUGEND studio action 1 RAMLEH interview & music PETER SUTCLIFFE trial report KINGS CROSS PROSITIUTION 1982

A Live Toy

1982 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A mother rabbit and her three kits are playing in a field. A little girl comes across one of the kits and steals it, dressing it up and playing with it as if it were a living doll. While the girl is distracted, the three other rabbits come to the rescue.

Jaffa-Gate

1982 • 6 min • Canada

1930's found-footage, slowed down with original music.

Movie

1982 • 8 min • France

With a super 8 camera from Paris to Berlin, from Amsterdam to Rio, from Jerusalem to New York shooting only at night. Hungarian crooners, Indian tribal chants, opera arias, and an occasional samba make up the sound track of this “hand-held” diary.

Flash Passion

1982 • 2 min • Greece

Flash Passion is one of the very first films that the two artists made in Athens when they took up the super-8 camera and extended their theatre practice towards cinema. Here, Maria Klonaris looks at/films Katerina Thomadaki.

Five Year Diary, Reel 9: Happy Birthday ’33 (March 17⁠–27, 1982)

1982 • 27 min • United States of America

Pixilation. Sleeping, cooking, resolving to quit smoking. (Liz Coffey)

Red Sea

1982 • 6 min • United Kingdom

Spring tides at Ynys Llanddwyn at the full and new moon are compared to the filmmaker’s own ‘body tides’ from dark to light and back again. Like other films by Judith Noble (formerly Higginbottom), The Red Sea is concerned with the menstrual cycle, and its relationship to lunar cycle. Higginbottom and other feminist artists such as Catherine Elwes, Carolee Schneemann and Judy Clark were trying to reclaim menstruation from its negative image and assert it as a source of creative energy. The Red Sea is made of 16mm film and 35mm still images, re-worked and over-printed.

It Must Be So

1982 • 19 min • Soviet Union

On one of the dull ordinary days of people’s lives, the heroes of the film search for and find a way out of the situation. How does this happen?

What Mary Jo Wanted

1982 • 14 min

Mary Jo wants a puppy more than anything in the world. At first her parents, seemingly made of stone, flatly refuse their youngest daughter's heartfelt pleas and Mary Jo is openly mocked by her older siblings. Finally, when the little girl seems to be devoting every waking moment to dreaming about dogs, the parents relent. Some difficulties ensue, but Mary Jo and her dog Teddy meet them head on.

Throne of Tutankhamun

1982 • 43 min • Egypt

Salah, a boy, wanders about with his uncle through the Cairo museum, where he is fascinated by the statues and especially the restauration work in progress on Tutankhamun's throne. His uncle tells him the story of ancient Egypt and of the relation between Tutankhamun and Akhenaten.

Der Dämon in Berlin

1982 • 28 min

The classic Faustian tale transposed to the realm of the digital.

The Big Green House on the Corner

1982 • 3 min • United States of America

No-budget, silent, Super 8 horror-comedy filmed some time in the early '80s about a suburban cannibal who lives in the titular Big Green House on the Corner.

Canal

1982 • 22 min • Canada

The imagery of "Canal" captures the activity of freighters, ship's crews, dock workers and the historical masonry that the original Welland Canal was constructed from... The film is about going into my "own world of youth" and spontaneously documenting the canal environment as an adult.

cat-e-gory

1982 • 5 min • Japan

Passion Triptych

1982 • 3 min

"'Passion Triptych' makes use of three different sequences from the then popular television police series 'Hill Street Blues' recorded on VHS tape. Swann re-filmed the sequences frame by frame on Super-8, creating a three screen semi-abstracted, colour-saturated triptych. The images depict men and women in ambiguous situations of embrace or violence, creating a frieze of charged scenes whose effect is heightened by overlaying the original soundtracks with the wailing of police sirens and other sound effects." - Sotiris Kyriacou

Do it Yourself

1982 • 9 min • Switzerland

A short film on throw-away culture and TV

The Branks

1982 • 7 min

“Death – Begetting” : symbolic physical death, to enter the Silence; the negation of banality, of everyday language, of non-stop talking; certain “words” of power that guide us to the Silence… A brank, according to Aleister Crowley, is an old Scottish device, designed for holding closed the mouth of a woman – the woman (seen in Tarot, shutting a lion’s mouth) who signifies Strength. Thus it implies the Silence is more powerful than the (physical) Strength.

TBX (Noise Version)

1982 • 7 min • Japan

U.S. Sweat

1982 • 16 min

In U.S. Sweat, which Gorewitz terms a "cathartic reaction to social and personal upheavals," he transforms images of the familiar American landscape into a nightmarish, ghostly vision. Recording throughout the South and in New York, he amassed footage that reflects the American experience. Country roads, gravestones and small-town main streets seen from a car window gradually give way to an ominous vision — saturated by Gorewitz's signature image-processing techniques and lurid, fluorescent colors — of an America dominated by industry and the military. Called a "tour-de-force" by The New York Times, this is a propulsive, kinetic work of rich visual and aural textures. -EAI

The Chicken

1982 • 1 min • Bulgaria

A bird struggles against a strong headwind, but things are not as they seem.

Pulse

1982 • 8 min • Japan

Short film by Keiichi Minegishi