All Films

Opening New Frontiers - The Orbital Flight Tests Of The Space Transportation System

1982 • 28 min

Documentary of the Space Shuttle tests from NASA footage.

Foire du trône

1982 • 45 min • France

Foire du trône was made in a big annual Paris fair, like Coney Island. I filmed the people and the games, and that forms the first part of the film. The second part is an elaborate working of the coloured lights. (T.H.)

El tubo de rayos catódicos

1982 • 6 min • Spain

A portrait of a young man in a process of self destruction by watching TV

Leather Poltergeist

1982 • 16 min

A young man has supernatural experiences of a phantom leatherman.

The Three Knights

1982 • 11 min

An early animated short from the creator of Peppa Pig about the adventures of three hapless knights.

Automaddix

1982 • 3 min • Netherlands

Short film about two men in a car

Lullaby

1982 • 59 min • Bulgaria

"Nani-na, sleep tight" is the song Bulgarian mothers sing to their little babies. It is obvious that the same song is sung to the little babies in the women's prison in Sliven where the great Bulgarian director Binka Zhelyazkova made two documentaries, the first one named "Nani-Na" /"Lullaby"/ with the incredible true stories of the prisoners in that facility. Immediately forbidden, this movie plus the other one - "Lice i opako" or "The Bright and Dark Side of Things" also made the same year were shown 8 years later when the socialist regime wrongly named as communist one fell apart in 1989. Sadly, Binka Zhelyazkova made no other movie after 1990 until her death in 2011. Deeply insulted by the Bulgarian authorities she decided to decline from cinematographic work, which is something very frustrating indeed, given that all her movies are now evergreen classics.

I Wish You

1982 • 22 min • Soviet Union

Boris Petrovich, a modest employee of the registry office, selflessly and creatively in love with his work. All his life he wishes his fellow countrymen health, happiness, good luck on days of celebrations, comforts them in days of sorrow, but remains a kind eccentric for everyone, giving many reasons for jokes and bullying. But three times in a row his evil wishes come true, accidentally dropped from his lips, and Boris Petrovich begins to be feared and respected.

João da Mata: Um documento

1982 • 10 min

Documentary about Brazilian silent film "João da Mata"

気狂いフィルム99

1982 • 50 min • Japan

Fourteen Rats & a Rat-Catcher

1982 • 10 min • United States of America

Find out what happens when a nice-or nasty-old woman calls on a rat-catcher to catch a nasty-or nice-family of rats living below her floor.

Robo Macabro

1982 • 10 min

Two grave robbers are ready to commit their misdeeds without expecting the little surprise that awaits them.

The Boys' Dream

1982 • 19 min • Japan

grey's

1982 • 6 min • Japan

レモン色の恋

1982 • 36 min • Japan

Rhea

1982 • 7 min • Canada

In Rhea (1982), Askevold elaborates on his interest in allusion and implication, using images that seem to be fragments of a larger narrative to suggest, rather than tell, a story. This piece consists of a series of close-up shots of numerous people, each stating a name or phrase. The shots gesture towards the type of staged reaction shot, often used in soap operas or made-for-TV movies, interrupting the linearity of the story.

Experiencias PLAT en Super 8

1982 • 9 min

In the 1970s, Val del Omar started to film frequently in Super 8. These reels, in the form of essays and notebooks, include the fabulous experiences with image and light that he investigated in his PLAT laboratory, and a series of private recordings (trips, holidays, portraits), that also include variations and experiments on his main themes (water, flowers, the Alhambra…). Transfiguring his most everyday reality, Val del Omar continued the revelations of its mecamystics: “The extraordinary is in the bowels of the everyday […] I feel as though I am submerged in a palpitating being. Logical chains enchain and imprison us.”

The Shining Hour

1982 • 7 min

A child playing in the playground, a silent street. Innocent scenes which take on another aspect when viewed as the last few minutes before the bomb fell.

Y Rhaeadr

1982 • 5 min • United Kingdom

Y Rhaeadr is a five minute film about the making of a landscape painting.

Daughters of the Nile

1982 • 48 min • Netherlands

This beautifully photographed, revealing film about Egypt's women captures their separate and subordinate life under the Islamic code. Men and women speak about their traditions, expectations, and patterns of life. We meet articulate women who have had little schooling and whose lives are centered on childbearing and hard physical work. They acknowledge that their choices in life are limited. The Koran dictates behavior at every stage of life. Their husbands are selected by their fathers. Often, at puberty they are taken out of school. They unquestioningly accept circumcision, arranged marriages, huge families and polygamous husbands. Women after marriage are secluded and some may never set eyes on another man. By participating in this film, the women question for the first time some of the assumptions of their lives.

Miracles of the Night

1982 • 8 min • Hungary

This reimagined poem by Sándor Weöres is the story of an ordinary, grey suburban night, which is transformed by love into an exciting series of visions, a sad and dreamy vision.

Preferred Piece

1982 • 1 min

16mm experimental short film.

Camminata Disney

1982 • 6 min

A procession of Disney characters are followed into a TV broadcasting Station located inside of a sequoia tree.

Video Portraits - Men: Maki Ishii

1982 • 10 min

The composer, famous for bridging Japanese traditional music with the European avant-garde, shows off his culinary skills while discussing his artistic practice. Kyoko Michishita: “The internationally acclaimed composer demonstrates how he makes soba dipping sauce, which he takes as seriously as he does music. That speed, that dynamic! It was delicious.”