All Films

The Tale about Kyiv

1982 • 57 min • Soviet Union

TV documentary for the 1500th anniversary of Kyiv.

Cast Iron Lace

1982 • 7 min • Soviet Union

The film focuses on the grilles, patterns of cast iron gates in the city of Saratov.

A New Face of Debbie Harry by H.R. Giger

1982 • 34 min • Switzerland

Debbie Harry first solo album with banned art by H.R. Giger is covered.

Dream Land Express

1982 • 14 min • United Kingdom

A young boy is taken by a train on a mysterious journey. BAFTA-winning 14 minute adaptation of H.R. Millar's 1927 book, Dreamland Express.

Bread and Dripping

1982 • 17 min • Australia

Women's unwritten history is passed down through memories. Shows women talking about their experiences of the Great Depression in Australia. Covers such areas as: aboriginal women; paid and unpaid work; mothering; marriage; women's participation in the political struggles of the 1920's and 30's.

For the Poet Nikos Kavvadias

1982 • 16 min

Stavros Tornes directs this documentary centered on the poet Nikos Kavvadias and his poetry.

Die Glatze

1982 • 2 min • Germany

A man sings about his baldhead.

The Clown of God

1982 • 10 min • United States of America

based on the book by Tomie dePaola

Test for Adults

1982 • 58 min • Soviet Union

This film is the second installment (of five) of Igor Shadkhan and Svetlana Voloshina’s project Test for Adults (the first 16-year television observation of children and their parents in the USSR, 1978-1994). There are six television short stories, each dedicated to one of the children who are 10 years old at the time of shooting: Artyom, Julia, Pavel, Alyosha, Sveta, and Alexey. The authors are interested in the psychological portrait of children. The intimate nature of the interview and the delicacy of the interviewer allows them to touch upon difficult topics – loneliness in the hospital, the child’s experiences of parental divorce, the existential fears of children, leadership, attitudes, etc.

Agrotechnika

1982 • 5 min • Poland

An erotic episode about farming in the world of robots. Cuttings do not want to undergo mechanical stimulation. A space inspector is the only one who can change their opinion.

Fade In

1982 • 20 min • Japan

Hyperactivity: The Facts

1982 • 13 min

Norman is on his way to a doctor's appointment, where he is diagnosed with hyperactivity disorder. This film examines how diet and exercise can impact the behavior and physiology of an individual, and describes how blood sugar fluctuations can lead to agitation, moodiness and attention deficiencies.

Acid Rain: Requiem or Recovery

1982 • 27 min • Canada

Uses graphics and maps to show the devastation caused by precipitation containing excessive amounts of nitrogen oxides and sulphur dioxide. Documents American and Canadian studies on acid rain's dire effects on wildlife, plants, buildings and other structures.

Our Hands

1982 • 9 min

Hands, and the things hands do handsomely edited to some hand-conducted orchestral music. A short film by Syrian film director Abdellatif Abdul Hamid, produced after his return to Syira from the Soviet Union.

And Their Sister Lybid

1982 • 9 min • Soviet Union

There were three brothers, Kyi, Shchek and Khoryv, who founded Kyiv. The city swelled, craftsmen worked, builders created day-to-day the beautiful and places on the slopes. And brothers had beautyful sister Lybyd to get together with the rest of the townspeople to celebrate Midsummer. But no one thought that the upcoming feast will be irrigated with blood. The animation was created for the 1500th anniversary of Kyiv.

Le Frère André

1982 • 56 min • Canada

A look at the life of André Bessette through expert interviews and interviews with people who knew him.

Idol

1982 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The man sought to perpetuate his image. Pride leads him to loneliness and even to crime. In an effort to create his own image of a stone Idol, he forgets about everything in the world and when he returns to his native home, he finds only ruins in its place.

Blood Ah Go Run

1982 • 20 min • United Kingdom

Short 'newsfilm' looking back at the events of 1981, beginning with the killing of 13 young blacks in New Cross, London. The film goes on to show the anger this aroused among black people, and their march in demonstration - `The Black People's Day of Action'. Also covers the Brixton riots.

Chuchelo-myauchelo

1982 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Chuchelo-myauchelo shows that song and cheerful mood always help in the workplace.

The Neuron Suite

1982 • 58 min • United States of America

James Burke roams the Hotel del Coronado, using its services as a metaphor for the neuro-chemical activity of the human brain.

Taming the Bicycle

1982 • 8 min • Soviet Union

Based on the short story of the same name by Mark Twain.

Paris

1982 • 28 min • United States of America

A filming of Meredith Monk and Ping Chong's 1973 experimental theatre piece.

Ben's Mill

1982 • 59 min

The film, set in Barnet, Vermont, details the workings of the Thresher Mill on the Stevens River, including how energy from the river is used to drive a multitude of leather belts and various machines. The film focuses on the steps one man, Ben, uses to make one of his white pine watering tanks, and then a horse-drawn sled for different members of the Barnet community.

Through the Ruins

1982 • 9 min • Argentina

To film without looking trough the viewfinder; to emulate a tactile, subconscious vision. This was the intention of "A traves de las ruinas", made during the Falklands War (April-May 1982). The camera is a vacillating gaze that moves about in the darkness or is blinded by flickering. At the beginning, it delves into the sea, later it represents aerial bombardments through urban lights. Silhouettes of human figures appear that never manage to connect with each other. Scarcely lit places, photographed on the "threshold or exposure"; wintry, generalized interaction of spaces, distances and dynamics. A continual present made up of intuitions and imprecise memories.