All Films

The Privilege

1982 • 24 min • United Kingdom

A BAFTA award winning drama set in Orkney in the 19th century, depicting a wedding among the strong, hardworking, tenant farmers.

The Golden Grape

1982 • 7 min

A man stumbles into a nightclub where people are killing themselves.

If You Love This Planet

1982 • 26 min • Canada

Australian pediatrician Helen Caldicott delivers a lecture on the potential medical and societal consequences of a nuclear war, and advocates for nuclear disarmament. The film includes newsreel records of the beginnings of the arms race and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as well as film records showing the Japanese who were severely scarred and burned in the bombings.

George Burns and Other Sex Symbols

1982 • 60 min

George Burns celebrates his new-found status as a celebrity sex symbol with guests and collection of beautiful women of all ages. With singing, dancing and a discussion on sex symbols through the ages.

Long Before When We Were the Birds

1982 • 18 min • Soviet Union

Story based on an ancient Gypsy Proverbs, which talked about how the thirst for gold, wealth deprived "Gypsy birds" their true form and turned into a wandering people.

Stations

1982 • 56 min • France

Stations is an enigmatic, hauntingly vivid work, in which Wilson envisions the daydreams and fantasies of an eleven-year-old boy as a universe both magical and sinister. Resonating with Wilson's precise visual stylization, the tape's pivotal image is a young boy looking through a large window in the kitchen of his home, which becomes the portal for his dramatic, often startling inner fantasies. Fire, metal, wind, glass and water, among other elements, serve as points of departure for a series of elegant pictorial compositions and evocative metaphors. Unfolding without dialogue or spoken language, Wilson's indelible visions articulate the fear and mystery of the internal life of a child, and his relation to the outside world.

The Silence

1982 • 30 min

The Silence is a 1982 short film directed by Michael Toshiyuki Uno. During the Vietnam War, soldier Jason is injured and separated from his platoon. Mei, a mysterious young woman, finds him and takes him into her home. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

Street of the Blind

1982 • 19 min

A short film made by Park Kwang-su during his time at the Seoul Film Collective.

Upon Westminster Bridge

1982 • 52 min • United Kingdom

Considered one of the best ‘dub’ poets of his time, Mikey Smith is internationally renown for the socially engaged form and content of his work. Originally made for BBC2’s Arena, Upon Westminster Bridge profiles Smith’s poetry and politics through performance, exchanges with fellow poet Linton Kwesi Johnson, and conversations with historian and social theorist CLR James.

The Cellar Tapes

1982 • 50 min • United Kingdom

A TV version of the Cambridge Footlights Revue. Starring Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Emma Thompson, Tony Slattery, Paul Shearer, and Penny Dwyer.

All Summer in a Day

1982 • 25 min • United States of America

Based on the story by Ray Bradbury. Set on a planet where the sun shines for just a few minutes once every nine years, this is a classic tale of suffering and forgiveness. A classroom full of young children are excited to hear that today the rain will stop. However, they are also resentful of a new classmate from Earth who remembers what it's like to see the sun. "This gripping, unsettling production softens the original story’s abrupt conclusion without diminishing its punch. A masterful work." - Booklist. Winner of a CINE Golden Eagle, and honored by Instructor Magazine as one of the 25 Best Films of the Year.

Big Brown Eyes

1982 • 2 min

visual interpretation of a song by peter holsapple film by emily hubley music – the dB’s

Merlin ou le cours de l'or

1982 • 17 min

A little tale both cruel and nostalgic but determinedly comic, on the theme of triumphant jealousy.

Sex document: Kigu hanbai-jin

1982 • 49 min • Japan

Shaman Wars

1982 • 19 min • Philippines

Three powerful shamans fight it out in a series of bizarre encounters over an a-go-go dancer. Their final encounter ends disastrously for all three, while the a-go-go-girl ends up acquiring all their powers.

The Deer's Bell

1982 • 20 min • China

An old man and his grand daughter rescue an injured young deer, and they develop a close relationship with it.

Krishnanattam

1982 • 17 min • India

Krishnattam or Krishnanattam (Play of Krishna) is a temple ritualistic art performed at Guruvayur Temple (Guruvayur 680101, Trishshur District, Kerala) by a troupe owned by Guruvayur Devasvam. The performance of Krishnattam is based on Krishnagiti, a poetic text in Sanskrit containing verses and stanzas, written by the Zamorin King Manavedan in 1654. The story of Krishna, described in Bhagavata, Mahabharata and Harivamsha is presented in Krishnattam as songs, dance and acting in a sequence of eight plays (Avataram, Kaliyamardanam, Rasakrida, Kamsavadham, Svayamvaram, Banayuddham, Vividavadham and Svayamvaram) in eight days.

Morfar och jag på semester

1982 • 34 min • Sweden

An uptight man decides to take his grandfather with him on vacation.

Sean Connery’s Edinburgh

1982 • 29 min • United Kingdom

The screen legend conducts a personal tour of the great city that shaped him.

66 Scenes from America

1982 • 42 min • Denmark

As a visual narrative it is reminiscent of a pile of postcards from a journey, which indeed is what the film is. It consists of a series of lengthy shots of a tableau nature, each appearing to be a more or less random cross section of American reality, but which in total invoke a highly emblematic picture of the USA.

Las garras del tiempo

1982 • 7 min • Argentina

A man visits a deserted archaeological museum when all of a sudden he starts aging rapidly.

Rock: It's Your Decision

1982 • 52 min • United States of America

The parents of a young man force him to go without rock music for thirty days, and as a result, he discovers how rock music is a tool of Satan to control people.

Elia Kazan: An Outsider

1982 • 56 min

Hour long documentary on the legendary director.

Scratchman #2

1982 • 3 min

Scratched lines and shapes bloat around this footage of an unknown businessman, sometimes forming hats, clown noses, arrows, etc. He becomes a kind of pawn in my cruel little game. Sound is a musicbox which helps lift this once painfully boring footage to the level of high art. –H. M.