All Films

Plenty of Nothing

1982 • 57 min

Half a million wives work with their husbands in family-run businesses, but most have no legal title to any part of the operation. This documentary focuses on several farm wives who are seeking their fair share of the family farm. In frank and friendly discussions with their husbands and with financial advisers, the women learn about co-ownership. The importance of having a legal arrangement becomes clear when a former farm wife tells how she lost everything she thought she owned when she and her husband divorced. The film encourages women to recognize the economic value of their work and to seek the legal recognition of their status and of their right to an equitable financial share.

Far, Far Away in the South

1982 • 10 min • Soviet Union

About the trip of Bear and Frog in search of island with a wonderful flowering chestnut.

Cereals

1982 • 19 min • Soviet Union

Picture of the lives of folk in a remote mountain village in Tajikstan.

Swish

1982 • 2 min • United States of America

This film deals with the physical properties of the film medium, and pushing those distinctive features to their limit. The subject of the film is motion, and it is an attempt to get inside of it. It was made with a moving subject and a moving camera with an open shutter, the result being that each frame is unique, without the smooth continuity that is expected in film. The subject, a female body at close range, provides an intimacy and eroticism. At the same time it can be seen as a modern version of Futurist simultaneity.

Vistasound

1982 • 45 min

A film that raises questions about the associations between song lyrics and particular places.

The Essential Pavarotti

1982 • 57 min

Filmed during the Royal Gala Concert in London, this Luciano Pavarotti performance from 1982 finds the legendary tenor working his magic on some of his own favorite songs and arias.

The Story of the Great Black Swamp

1982 • 60 min

The Great Black Swamp was a wetland in northwest Ohio and extreme northeast Indiana that existed from the end of the Wisconsin glaciation period until the late 19th century. The Story of the Great Black Swamp is a folklife documentary that investigates the Black Swamp area from its creation during the glacial ages to its transformation into farmland.

All Major Credit Cards

1982 • 26 min

"R. B.'s new film is a magic dream, airy and clear. Everything you see is a fact, firm and distinct at the moment you are seeing it, a fact of daily life or of extraordinary dance, or of amateur acting, and you recognize each fact too, at a glance. Later, as the film continues, the factual seeing is still the same, but somehow it doesn't feel the same, it feels like a good dream you are dreaming, with a sly and witty tease to it, and nearly weightless." - Edwin Denby

Post Restant-Omonia

1982 • 14 min

The night life of Omonia. A combination of fiction and real life.

Homo Hominis

1982 • 13 min • Spain

Surrealist tale about ambitions and self-demand, in a world of triumphalism, humiliation, longing and frustration

Cinématon n°212 : Wim Wenders

1982 • 4 min • France

Son of Oil

1982 • 16 min

Son of Oil is a cautionary tale about the decline of Western civilization, as only Oursler could envision it. Oil is the central metaphor around which he constructs a burlesque critique of the cults of money and power that fuel economic and sexual systems, social pathology and cultural mythologies. Allusions to terrorists, the Son of Sam killer, the oil crisis and John Hinckley locate the dense narrative text in the media-saturated vertigo of early-1980s America. The grand dimensions of this subversive drama, in which Oursler employs actors in addition to his usual puppet-like props and objects, are played out in a deliberately claustrophobic, fantastically rendered theatrical space.

Spaceship Sagittarius

1982 • 6 min • Japan

This 1982 image was based on the Italian comic book "Altri Mondi" by Andrea Romoli. This is a six-minute pilot for the series "Spaceship Sagittarius".

Odloty

1982 • 9 min • Poland

A peasant harnesses his young wife to a plow. He disciplines her with a whip and fist. Meanwhile, fantastic creatures fly over the area – winged young men. Love will give her wings.

Arnold Matteus

1982 • 54 min • Soviet Union

When we say "Tartu", we mean "Matteus". Arnold Matteus (1897-1986) studied architecture in Germany and worked as Tartu's chief architect during several governments and the war. He was a gentleman, a diplomat, a creative personality and a master of compromises.

Dalla vita di Piero

1982 • 60 min

Piero is 26 years old, works in a butcher shop, lives with his mother and sister, and has been engaged to Tiziana for years. Something is wrong in his life, his mother senses it, and their relationship is strained. One day, however, Piero meets Mirco, and his ideas begin to clarify. Helped by Mirco, Piero recognizes his homosexuality and the right to live it openly. The reactions of his mother, sister, and girlfriend vary, but none is condemning.

Dr. Slump: The Legend of Penguin Village's Heroes

1982 • 46 min • Japan

Penguin Village has run out of toilet paper! Now it’s up to the village’s handsomest hero, Senbei Norimaki, to make the long journey to visit the legendary supermarket in the east. No one knows exactly where it is, so Senbei builds an airplane but it soon falls apart and he crashes. Fortunately, Arale and Gatchan join his quest and they continue traveling east together in search of the supermarket and copious amounts of TP...

Riportré

1982 • 11 min • Hungary

György Kovásznai co-directs his last film “Reportrait” with Elek Lisziák, a series of interviews about various sociological subjects based on the concept of “Anima Veritae”.

Awakening of the Earth Goddess, Rougham

1982 • 13 min • United Kingdom

Bruce Lacey doing a ritual performance

Dragon's Cave

1982 • 14 min • Soviet Union

A parable about an evil dragon who has captured the “magic light”, without which people are forced to live in darkness. Mother Earth gives birth to three sons-heroes, who one by one set out to bring light to people. But the insidious dragon exposes the heroes to temptations, from which they themselves turn into monsters...

Stardust

1982 • 58 min • Poland

An odd couple of old people lead their simple lives close to nature. The man is an amateur constructor and his goal now is to build a small river dam to produce electricity for his country house.

Pink Triangles

1982 • 34 min

Takes a look at the nature of discrimination against lesbians and gay men and challenges some of society's attitudes toward homosexuality. Also examines historical and contemporary patterns of racial, religious, political, and sexual persecution.

Hotel Villa Goerne

1982 • 53 min • Mexico

A Literature professor arrives at a provincial hotel, lonely and consumed. All of the sudden he becomes wrapped up in a game of superstitions that the two women and the young girl that serve him lay out.

Talking Tongues

1982 • 10 min

“Talking Tongues” (10 min.) finds Steele delivering a monologue as Beatrice Small, a woman who was abused by her husband. - True/False program