All Films

À quoi rêve l'araignée ?

1982 • 55 min • France

An autobiographical film that orchestrates the fragments of Michel Nedjar's life, to compose an architecture. The family films shot by his father, pieces of Michel's first films shot in the Balearic Islands and in Athens, contemporary images with Teo Hernandez, to stolen dialogues between his mother and and his aunt, recorded without their knowledge. The author is the spider, at the center of a device that allows him to survive: he has woven the threads of his own web and is now in control of his personal situation.

Como Um Olhar Sem Rosto (As Presidiárias)

1982 • 34 min

"Carandiru Women's Prison. An opportunity to talk about the freedom, loneliness and hope of women who, although incarcerated, keep their dreams alive." Adopting the semi-open prison regime, a penitentiary in São Paulo allows inmates to work outside. According to the psychologists of the establishment - who during the film talk about the scientific level and the practical results of their work - this system is seen and developed as a fair achievement of the inmates and not as a privilege, gradually ensuring their social reintegration. In their testimonies, the inmates expose the problems they face on the outside in the face of a society that marginalizes them, even after they have served their full sentence. Stimulus Award from the São Paulo State Culture Secretariat, 1982.

Passion - Disco 41

1982 • 4 min • East Germany, Germany

The Berlin rock group Passion presents their "Apple Song" and interprets it in a humorous way.

The Smile of the Garden

1982 • 19 min • Poland

A documentary film dedicated to Stefan Zeromski, shot in his villa in Konstancin, with the participation of his daughter Monika, wife Anna, and friends of the family - Elzbieta Osterwianka and professor Stanislaw Lorentz. A story about the private life of this great writer.

Stop Buying Grapes

1982 • 7 min • Canada

Experimental short film by Josephine Massarella

Magician

1982 • 1 min

A magician breaks down a classic M.C. Escher tessellation and a Rubin vase illusion. Created for Sesame Street.

Electric Blue Special: A Night at Paul Raymond’s Revuebar

1982 • 56 min

1 hour special filmed inside the world-famous SOHO striptease show palace

Kuuvikerkaar

1982 • 29 min • Estonia

The people of Suislepa. A humanist and warm poetic film about a generation, which will not show tiredness or old age in conducting their work. People who find wonder in the everyday, who take care in deepening their relationships with other people or the nature, who see the world as it is and to love it.

Sonho Destrela

1982 • 23 min • Brazil

In Cajazeiras, in the hinterlands of Paraíba, singer Núbia Galvão (her stage name, after singer Núbia Lafayette) talks about the difficulties she faced when she tried her professional career. In 1973, she went to the Chacrinha show, in Rio de Janeiro, but got frustrated for not being successful. She travels around her town selling perfumes, giving guitar lessons, and still sings serenades.

First Time

1982 • 35 min

Lessons from a University on the Fly

1982 • 55 min

After the implementation of the state of siege in Poland and the banning of the independent trade union Solidarnosc in 1981, the Dardenne brothers visited five Polish immigrants from different generations. Five Poles who left the country, fleeing the Nazis, pogroms or communism.

Morality for Youth

1982 • 22 min • United States of America

An accident on a youth rafting trip is used to illustrate the dangers of flirting with immorality. States the Lord's standard for morality and provides parents, leaders, and teachers with a starting place for discussions with youth to help them stay morally clean.

Smarkus And Company

1982 • 50 min • United States of America

Two school friends discover a character called Smarkus in their computer who takes them on several adventures.

Living Clay

1982 • 9 min • Soviet Union

How Murad, who was jealous of his neighbor-potter, was punished.

Chronographies

1982 • 17 min • France

Experimental, 16mm

The Mysterious Message

1982 • 12 min

Examining the consequences of illegible handwriting.

Fueye

1982 • 7 min • Argentina

The citizen music performed on the bandoneon serves as a poetic framework to talk about a Buenos Aires that little by little is disappearing.

Carmen Carrascal

1982 • 27 min • Colombia

CARMEN CARRASCAL presents a vivid and moving picture of life high in the mountains of Colombia.

Yell Once a Week

1982 • 17 min • East Germany, Germany

The film’s title is taken from a song, used here as a leitmotif, written by Günter Jordan and the East German rock group Pankow. This sensitive report about rebellious teenagers in Berlin’s “wild East” was banned before its first screening.

Cantico

1982 • 39 min • United States of America

James Herbert's experimental homage to St. Francis of Assisi.

Das schlesische Tor

1982 • 22 min • Switzerland

Images of Berlin, the Silesian Gate – last underground station before the wall, the suburb of Asakusa, Tokyo, and of Hong Kong, from the tram in Kowloon are mixed together with studies of the director’s room in Berlin, accompanied by westernized Chinese music.

Leaving the 20th Century

1982 • 10 min

"Leaving the 20th Century is a compelling science fiction narrative of televisual time-travel via the electronic circuit and computer chip. Almy dramatizes a three-part transition—countdown, departure, arrival—to a technological future, foreclosed and dehumanized. The stylized visuals and ironic humor ("She left because there was nothing good on television...") belie the poignancy of Almy's vision. Applying computer graphics and digital effects to critique the manipulative, mediating effects of technology, Almy simulates the hyper-reality of a futuristic "landscape with no detail or points of reference," a space without perspective or point of view. No longer seduced by television or spectacle, the subjects depart and are transported as objects, arriving at a place where human relations and communication fail, transmission is terminated, the message is not received." - eai.org

Satanikus: O Anjo das Trevas

1982 • 8 min • Brazil

Worshipers of a satanic cult perform a ritual that frees a murderous demon.

The Phone Call

1982 • 4 min • Netherlands

A young woman picks up the phone and is ordered to kill.