All Films

Gulfstream

1982 • 28 min • Canada

Traces the 2,000-mile, 15-day voyage of the Freya, a small three-hulled sailing ship, from the Bahamas to the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, following the path of the Gulf Stream. Uses animation, infrared satellite transmissions, and time-lapse photography to explain the origin, nature, and importance of the current, as well as its oceanographic, meteorologic, and ecological aspects.

Snig

1982 • 5 min • United Kingdom

A young woman shakes eels out from between the sheets of a bed. She sews the eels on to a sheet, then cuts them away and they fall to the ground. A dilemma. Jayne Parker discovered film as a medium when she was a sculpture student at Canterbury College of Art (1977-80). In early works, objects, performance and gesture were combined by the camera to explore space, duration and the physical body. The images in these early films were both literal and metaphoric, depicting exact events but also creating physical and personal associations for the viewer. Ideas are evoked in images rather than words; ordinary actions are also enigmas.

The Quest for Fire Adventure

1982 • 23 min • United States of America

Orson Welles explains the creation process of a unique motion picture, a first of its kind, with contributions from the diverse range of worldwide talents who made it possible.

Lettre d'Alain Cavalier

1982 • 14 min

A movie director attemps to film the way he writes a screenplay.

Bandstrasse - Diese spontane Arbeitsniederlegung war nicht geplant

1982 • 43 min

Documentary about one of the most significant migrant battles in the Federal Republic of Germany, a wildcat strike mainly sustained by migrant workers (euphemistically called “guest workers”) at the Ford plant in Cologne-Niehl in August 1973.

Só no Carnaval...

1982 • 13 min • Brazil

During Carnival in Rio de Janeiro a group of men follows the tradition of dressing up as a woman. Only some of them started timidly, a few members of a circle, but the custom has been expanding year by year to become legion. Their wives help them to get the costume, but husbands usually prefer to go to the parade without them.

A Scholar Cat

1982 • 6 min • Soviet Union

A stray kitten was brought from the street to the castle where noble gentlemen lived, and began to get familiar to social manners. A few years later he's already acting like a human being. But is it possible to change the essence of an animal?

Blacksmith

1982 • 28 min • Soviet Union

There was a good blacksmith in the village. Someone decides to promote the blacksmith and appoints a secretary for him. Later the blacksmith gets his substitute and a cashier. There emerges a bunch of the loiterers around the blacksmith.

The Independent Peasant

1982 • 14 min • Poland

A film portrait of Władysław Szypuła, a farmer from the village of Sołonka in the Rzeszów region, who is a man with a specific philosophy of life. Here he is, at the end of the 20th century, cultivating the land solely with his own muscles, with self-made tools, “independent” of the general economic and market climate. Although his life passes in toil and hardship, he is full of inner peace and kindness to others.

Es geht um mehr als nur ums Überleben

1982 • 14 min • Germany

Film about the possible consequences of an atomic war.

La dernière énigme

1982 • 13 min • France

In-between essay and fiction, La dernière énigme established Ossang's formal territory: a contemporary mythology. Inspired by the book On Terrorism and the State by Gianfranco Sanguinetti, it evokes visual echoes of political events, where a generation forfeits all revolutionary aspirations due to state terrorism. Shot using two cans of Kodak XX 16mm film. - IFFR

Distance to Nearby

1982 • 40 min

A very impressive film is Barbara Meter's 'Distance to Nearby.' The film is a dramatic reconstruction of memory. The memory of the alienation and solitude of a (half) Jewish child -the filmmaker- while in hiding, dramatized in restrained but touching imagery. For instance the looking through corridors and rooms, which should have given the feeling of protection. D. Ouwendijk, Trouw, 1982

Film of Love

1982 • 8 min • Austria

Liebesfilm is an ironic attack on one of the durables of the Hollywood clichés - the film kiss. A short take of mouths approaching each other is shown 522 times. But the kiss never takes place, merely the speed of the movement is continually increased. This excessive repetition of the theme destroys the "happy clarity" that inhabits "the film kiss" myth.

Jumping '82

1982 • 2 min • Germany

1982 German Super 8 short work

Deadlock

1982 • 4 min • Hungary

1983 Cannes Film Festival

Svichka's Wedding

1982 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The story is based on a play by Ivan Kocherha about love against the backdrop of the craftsmen's uprising in Kyiv in the 16th century. The drama and the animation take place simultaneously in Podil, the center of bourgeois and craftsman life, and on mount Vzdykhalnytsia, where the Lithuanian castle is located. The director Tadeush Pavlenko takes the last three acts of Kocherha's play as a basis, placing the female character Melanka, the beloved of Ivan Svichka, at the center of the plot.

Cinématon n°261 : Werner Nekes

1982 • 3 min • France

Friends of the Family

1982 • 9 min • Canada

This animated film carries a positive message about the importance of helping others. Friends of the Family centres around a sister and brother who awaken each morning to a secure and comfortable environment where all their needs are taken care of. When plans to collect for UNICEF are discussed over breakfast, the boy questions the reasons for doing so. A sweep of the animator's brush sends the children into a world they have never before seen, a world without even the necessities of life. Through the experience, they realize the purpose of raising funds for foreign aid and at the same time learn how children can make a worthwhile contribution to their brothers and sisters around the world.

The Trip to Panama

1982 • 7 min • United States of America

Simple folk tunes heighten the adventure of this film, as Little Bear and Little Tiger abandon their happy home to search for Panama - "the land of their dreams."

Inshimai: Ijôna shibire

1982 • 60 min • Japan

Return from the Stars

1982 • 4 min • Soviet Union

About the careful attitude to water.

Art Pepper: Notes from a Jazz Survivor

1982 • 48 min

Saxophonist Art Pepper (1925-1982) lived the kind of jazz life only found in Hollywood movies. His prodigious talent led him to top gigs as a teenager, but drugs and attendant criminal activity knocked him out of commission for virtually all of the 1960s and early 1970s. This documentary, shot shortly after his searing memoir, {-Straight Life}, was published in 1979, shows Pepper in the full flower of a remarkable comeback. His third wife, Laurie, is featured prominently; they met in the drug treatment facility Synanon in 1969 and were married in 1974. She took over his business affairs and helped him write {-Straight Life}. Pepper tells his own story here, but the emphasis is on an evening's performance at a club in Malibu, with the musician in fine form, backed by a terrific trio. (Tom Wiener, Rovi)

Trial Balloons

1982 • 6 min

An experiment in associative spontaneity.

Carole King: One To One

1982 • 60 min

'One to One' is a VHS-only companion release to the 1982 album of the same name. The video contains on-camera comments by Carole King as well as live performances from the 'One to One' studio album, and some of her best known songs from previous LP's.