All Films

Drawing Lesson

1982 • 8 min • Bulgaria

Claustrophobia

1982 • 7 min • Bulgaria

People are enclosed in transparent cubes. One of them manages to get out. He meets a lonely girl. They fly into space. It turns out that the two are locked in the cube again. The hero breaks out again. He meets many men and women, but returns to the girl he loves. This time, in their shared cube, they are separated by a partition.

Spanish Lesson

1982 • 10 min

Color UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Documentary about upper-class white women in Beverly Hills who are taking Spanish lessons for the purpose of commanding Spanish-speaking maids.

Ruja

1982 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The popular rock band on their tenth jubilee summer tour in 1981. In addition to being a concert film, the popularity of Ruja and the relations between the youth and popular music are investigated. Includes interviews with Valter Ojakäär, Ott Arder and the musicians themselves.

Fry It Safe

1982 • 12 min • United States of America

This vintage film discusses the importance of paying full attention when cooking with vegetable oils and shortening to prevent kitchen fires. It demonstrates through controlled experiments that oil and shortening can smoke and catch fire if left unattended over high heat, and emphasizes the need to reduce heat immediately if smoke is detected. The film highlights the basic safety guidelines for safe home frying, such as using a medium heat source and never leaving heating oil or shortening unattended.

Hunt Saboteurs

1982 • 40 min

Cameras follow shock troops of anti-hunt demonstrators disrupting hunt.

The Cocaine Express

1982 • 30 min

This half-hour documentary follows the journey of two prize-winning journalists from the Chicago Sun-Times, writer, Rick Sol and photographer, Henry Gill, as they make their way through South America investigating the business of cocaine. Their journey took them from the jungles of Peru to Miami International Airport. Along the way, they also explored the high-stakes business of marijuana in Columbia. This documentary consists entirely of black and white still photographs, along with the reporter's narration, and was a precursor to the work of Ken Burns. It was nominated for a Chicago Emmy Award for "Best investigative Report".

Giving Flowers

1982 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A tale about a lonely woman, a sad artist in love with her, an eccentric astronomer and the inhabitants of the Planet of the Lost Hats.

The Adventures of Khryapov

1982 • 8 min • Soviet Union

On moral topics. The hero of the film is Khryapov, a man who disregards generally accepted norms of behavior.

Discovering Ireland

1982 • 29 min • Ireland

A showcase of what Ireland has to offer as a tourist destination.

Horse Gate

1982 • 18 min • Soviet Union

Breathing

1982 • 3 min

This is a small piece that I shot with a Fujica P300 equipped with an auto fader, repeating the fading in and out on the light and shadow in a room at a regular rhythm.

First Ascent

1982 • 13 min

The first all women climbing film. Lynn Hill and Beth Bennet make the first female free ascent of the Naked Edge, Eldorado Canyon, Colorado. A film by Robert Carmichael and Greg Lowe produced by Sports Imagery

Yesterdays

1982 • 25 min • United States of America

Yesterdays was co-produced by the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO) and the Oregon Historical Society (OHS) in 1982, by Jerry Baumgarner (MCSO) and Michelle Kribs (OHS). It is a little over 25 minutes long and is in both color and in black and white. It presents information from the 1930’s through the 1980’s about the history of some parts of MCSO operations. Segments include Poor Farm operations, the construction of Rocky Butte Jail in 1939-1944, Larch Mountain Road construction, the creation of the anti-protest Emergency Squad in 1963, the River Patrol, a 1966 plane crash search and rescue, and the motorcycle division and trick team.

El hacedor de milagros

1982 • 60 min • Venezuela

The journey of a Brazilian healer through Brazil, Panama, and Venezuela, and his various activities that blend fakirism, Christianity, and macumba, forming a noisy collective ceremony.

Aedniku sügis

1982 • 19 min • Soviet Union, Estonia

Spring has turned into autumn, and the beauty and yield of the garden have changed.

Hotel Cartograph

1982 • 12 min • United States of America

The movements across the 2-dimensional space, and in and out of elevators through 3-dimensional space, suggest a conceptual map of the visible environment, which is perhaps drawn by the camera itself. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.

Potya and Potiha

1982 • 19 min • Soviet Union

Potya and Potiha are newlyweds. Potya is a big eccentric, but his wife lovingly forgives him for all his stupid deeds.

Wolf Skin

1982 • 8 min • Soviet Union

About three friends who managed to scare the evil wolves.

Old Record

1982 • 15 min • Soviet Union

Aliens get acquainted with the music of earthlings by taking with them a box of Leonid Utyosov's records. This animated tribute to Utyosov was released on the first anniversary of his death.

Martha Rosler Reads "Vogue"

1982 • 26 min • United States of America

In this live performance for Paper Tiger Television's public-access cable program in New York, Rosler deconstructs the messages in Vogue and its advertising. Rosler looks at the institutional slants of the magazine industry and the fashion industry's reliance on sweatshops.

The First Film

1982 • 9 min • Poland

Experimental Polish short in which "Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory" from 1895 is reenacted and shown from different points of view.

European Crisis

1982 • 14 min • France

Professor Anatole Lacoste is having a meeting with one of the agents of doctor Brain at a Jackson Pollock exhibition at Centre Pompidou. Meanwhile, Deborah is about to take a bath when burglar Torlim Novak breaks into her house. Everything seems to be normal when the computer at the control station spots an anomaly in the way history functions. But how does one stop the film?

On a Shutter

1982 • 3 min • Japan