All Films

Our Lady of Paris

1982 • 22 min • France

Magical Super-8 (shown on 16mm) single frame portrait of the Notre Dame cathedral featuring luminous light and a dense score incorporating players from the square. - Early Monthly Segments

Twice a Woman

1982 • 42 min • Costa Rica

The Costa Rican situation of women incorporated into the production in a double shift, jobs and housework.

Desert Island Discs

1982 • 47 min

Arena celebrates Roy Plomley's Desert Island Discs with the help of many celebrity castaways, including Frankie Howerd, Russell Harty, Trevor Brooking, the Lord Mayor of London, Professor JK Galbraith and Arthur Askey. The special guest for the 40th anniversary programme was Paul McCartney who was also a fan of the show: 'I love its homeliness. It conjures up the best in traditional British pleasure, like the great British breakfast. It's an honour to be asked'.

The Trout That Stole the Rainbow

1982 • 8 min

The vibrant images of this beautifully illustrated animation film will captivate all audiences, and will be particularly useful in the classroom to teachers of art and language arts. In this original fable the world loses its colours when a trout, obsessed by the beauty of the rainbow, steals it from the sky.

Crane

1982 • 9 min • Soviet Union

A little boy brings home a bird with a broken wing, which becomes a good friend. The boy himself becomes winged, happy from a beautiful act in which his soul is revealed.

Pošťácká pohádka

1982 • 29 min • Czechoslovakia

No Action

1982 • 5 min

This unusual short portrait film combines animation with live action in a way that makes the viewer wonder, at first, what is real and what has been manipulated. Natural settings are transformed through time-lapse animation, while ten discrete cyclic animations occur simultaneously in a bank of windows behind the motionless protagonist. NO ACTION contrasts sound and imagery to describe conflicting internal and external realities.

Sauro Bellini

1982 • 15 min • France

He tells me that his name is Sauro Bellini, a Bellini descendant, that he is twenty-two years old, that he studies maths, that he does not like to be photographed, much less to be filmed. He tells me that he has nothing to do with cinema, that he actually hates cinema - too violent for him. I invite him to a projection of my portrait film Isa en automne, which screens at "Studio 43" the next day, "... then we'll talk about it again ...". He comes to the screening, he likes the movie, he says OK. The next afternoon at the Jardin des Plantes for the shoot, he comes. He is here before the hour. Few words exchanged, almost everything goes through the eyes. He gives himself to my camera. He concentrates and he abandons himself. He becomes Sauro Bellini, angel of Venice .

Americas in Transition

1982 • 29 min

Americas in Transition provides a concise and fast-paced history of the volatile forces that rocked Chile, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua in the 1970s and 1980s. Drawing on interviews with the Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes, former CIA director Lyman Kirkpatrick, former U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador Murat Williams, and Maryknoll missioner Peggy Healy, the film examines the roots of dictatorship, attempts at democracy, communist influences, and the U.S. role in Latin American politics. Americas in Transition remains the best introduction to U.S. relations with Latin America, and the underlying causes of unrest there. 1981 Academy Award Nominee, Best Short Documentary.

Soft White Underbelly

1982 • 3 min

16mm experimental short film.

Musikalische Arabesken: Suite

1982 • 5 min • East Germany, Germany

This short film is an animated interpretation of the Suite No. 4 by the music ensemble Bayon, which was founded in East Germany in 1971. Bayon’s music is a unique combination of Khmer pentatonic music with elements of classical, jazz and rock.

Bottles Again

1982 • 6 min • Romania

A retelling of the fairy tale "Cinderella" with bottles.

The Colour Black

1982 • 14 min • United Kingdom

A documentary made for BBC West in 1982, written and presented by Hugh Cornwell and Jet Black of The Stranglers. It focuses on the colour black and includes the Meninblack phenomenon and some Stranglers of course.

To Alter the Image

1982 • 10 min • France

1981: at the moment the left won power, French television commissioned Godard to make a film on the theme of change. Like Lettre à Freddy Buache, this film is born of the impossibility of carrying out the commission. For the space where change appears is not the image but the gap between images.

André Hazes: Live In Concertgebouw Amsterdam

1982 • 50 min • Netherlands

On December 28, 1982, André Hazes enters the stage of the Royal Concertgebouw, a hall normally reserved for classical music. Hazes reached superstar status a year earlier with the album Simply André, which takes first place in the album chart and the hits 'A little love', 'Say nothing more', 'No streamers on the wall for me', 'It last round' and 'She believes in me'.

Cabbage Garden Secret

1982 • 9 min • Soviet Union

The cabbage field was guarded by the Dog, but he was very lazy. Having once seen that most of the cabbage heads had been chewed, he decided that the hares were playing a prank. Having caught one Little Hare, the Dog put him on a chain and forced him to guard the field.

Brick by Brick

1982 • 33 min • United States of America

A prescient portrait of late-1970s Washington, D.C., that chronicles the city's creeping gentrification, the systematic expulsion of poor Black residents, and the community response in the form of the Seaton Street Project, in which tenants banded together to purchase buildings.

No Title

1982 • 14 min • Soviet Union

Poetic and romantic amateur footage of a young couple in a garden, as well as their travels — several spliced films with different plots were stored on one reel. The film includes the author's audio commentary.

Encounters

1982 • 13 min • Soviet Union

A spy film, which resulted from shooting a friends’ meeting with a hidden camera. Having persuaded his acquaintances to play a trick on his friends he was supposed to meet at the railway station in Vilnius, the filmmaker hires a taxi to film his experiment from the car.

Bops

1982 • 11 min • Yugoslavia

The human desire to win, shown through the fights at the World Freestyle Wrestling Championships held in 1981 in Skopje, Macedonia.

Jitsuroku mantoru: Kyûsho ijiri

1982 • 60 min • Japan

Alone in a Fallow Field

1982 • 7 min • Poland

Kalina links traditional animation with a re-projection. To the rhythm of the popular folk song Ukochany kraj, umiłowany kraj (Beloved country, dear country) he creates an anti-ballade about the farmer’s hard life and difficult work. Monotonous and mechanical activities degrade a man.

Jacques Lacan Speaks

1982 • 60 min • Belgium

Typically controversial speech by psychoanalyst/philosopher Lacan is disrupted by a student, ridiculing such public intellectuals. Lacan refuses to allow security to haul off the student, lets him speak and incorporates such criticisms into his presentation. The packed performance took place at the Catholic University of Louvain on October 13, 1972, with Lacan interrelating death, language, love, alienation, paranoia and life. His talk is followed by a probing interview of Lacan on his concepts of psychoanalysis, conducted by the director, Belgian documentarian Francoise Wolff. One of only 2 known filmed appearances by Lacan, both by Wolff, who also made documentaries of Albert Einstein and Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

Hör zu

1982 • 5 min • East Germany, Germany

A little fire breaks out in a man’s apartment. He panically tries to call the other inhabitants in the house for help, but nobody lets him speak. Instead he is being happily pulled from one apartment into the next one, making him more and more nervous. Eventually, he runs into the streets and gets into a big group of heady-with-victory football fans.