All Films

Close-Up on Planets

1982 • 20 min • United States of America

Computer animation and footage from NASA space missions explain how our solar system evolved and the place Earth has within the system.

Ramones - Live at US Festival

1982 • 22 min

The Ramones at the US Festival in San Bernadino, CA on September 3rd, 1982. Also included in Ramones - It's Alive

Blockheads

1982 • 60 min • United States of America

Mariette Hartley hosts performances by top ventriloquists.

The Son of the Stone

1982 • 19 min • Soviet Union

The story of the heroic struggle of the hero Sosruko with the evil Demon, bringing eternal disasters to his people. Based on Adygean folk tales of Narte people.

Chick Corea: A Very Special Concert

1982 • 56 min • United States of America

Legendary jazz pianist Chick Corea leads this incredible live performance, which reunites members of the Return to Forever lineup, including bassist Stanley Clarke, drummer Lenny White and Grammy-winning saxophonist Joe Henderson. A concert any jazz fan is sure to cherish, this set finds Corea and the band performing unforgettable renditions of tunes such as "L's Bop," "Why Wait," "500 Miles High" and "Guernica."

Screw

1982 • 3 min • Japan

Ito is one of the leading experimental filmmakers in Japan. He graduated from Art and Technology Department of Kyushu Institute of Design in 1983 during which he made a debut with the film SPACY in 1981 (Inagaki who created sound effects for the film was also a filmmaker and his classmate at the institute). He was rather a premature virtuoso.

Self Portrait 2

1982 • 2 min

Loops within loops, audio and video mutually affective and early computer-generated delay and window effects. -ETC

A Hard Passage

1982 • 8 min

"This hand-drawn animation is based on a short story by Hermann Hesse THE HARD PASSAGE. It was produced at Harvard's Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts 1980-81. The voice is my own and the sound score and recording is by Bob Stoloff. It won the award for best sound at the 5th World Festival of Animation in Zagreb, 1982." -D. Pies. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

Come Along with Me

1982 • 54 min • United States of America

Newly-widowed Mabel Lederer, who has psychic and mediumistic abilities, sells her house and belongings, changes her name, and moves to a new town. There she rents a room in a boarding house and holds a seance with the other tenants, with comical results.

Once Upon a Time, There Lived a Dog

1982 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Based on the Ukrainian folktale, the old dog of a village family is not as keen as he once was, and is sent away after he fails to guard their house during a robbery. In the woods, he meets the wolf he protected his masters against long ago, who decides to pay a favor to get his old enemy's rightful place back in the doghouse.

Dinosaurs: Fun, Fact and Fantasy

1982 • 54 min • United Kingdom

Everything you ever wanted to know about the world of dinosaurs - and quite a lot of amazing things you've never even dreamed about!

For Elise

1982 • 2 min • Germany

In his first 16mm film, Christoph Schlingensief plays the German national anthem on the trumpet! An expression of a deep life crisis after being rejected by the Munich Film Academy.

In a Summer Garden

1982 • 13 min • United States of America

Part of a trio of films that also includes ADAGIO and WINTER LIGHT, IN A SUMMER GARDEN "draws much of its power from the way it is constructed and the ways it deals with images... [T]he camera pans and pauses, almost passively looks at the fields of flowers, and then plunges through them, carrying us through space." - Robert Haller

One Coffee, One

1982 • 40 min

"Part of the series grands jours et jours ordinaires (big days and ordinary days), UN CAFE UN details a small coffee shop and bistro in Paris over the course of one long working day, carefully registering small moments (like one businessman’s very long gulp of his first beer, or a bored child soliciting the attention of the various old ladies who flock to the espresso counter on the regular.)" - Spectacle Theater

The Adventures of Curious George

1982 • 27 min

Join the adventures as the Man with the Yellow Hat meets George in the jungle and decides to take him to the city. George doesn't mean any harm, but his shipboard antics soon get him into trouble--big trouble--the first of many hilarious and hair-raising mishaps George (and his friends) encounter as he explores his new surroundings.

Lisa Patrikeevna

1982 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The fox takes advantage of the kindness of the animals. Cartoon in verse, voiced by Harry Bardin and Nikolai Karachentsov.

My Riches Have Caused My Privations

1982 • 27 min

Married, owner of a training gym, a house and two gleaming cars, André Guilbault lives well...and intends to keep it that way. To this end, he decides to return to competitive bodybuilding and sets his sights on the title of Mr. Montréal, with which he hopes to attract newcomers, and new glory, to his once-reputable gym.

Leave This World

1982 • 4 min

Three lunatics escape from an asylum only to be attacked by a gang of toughs. Oh yeah, they happen to be in a band too. Circus 2000 A.D. Music Video

Manga, the cartoon in contemporary Japanese Life

1982 • 24 min

One of the most popular forms of entertainment in contemporary japan is the "manga". The work is usually translated as "comics" in English, but mangas are not limited to the publishing industry alone. In fact, this art form has extended its popularity into almost every communication media such as movies, records, television, ect.

Electric Blue Special: Nude Wives The Best of British

1982 • 58 min

The Best British Nude Wives

Delivery Man

1982 • 6 min

This animated psychedelic short portrays the stream-of-consciousness adventures of a young woman, including an encounter with her dead father, her mother's struggle with cancer, and open-heart surgery at the hands of the doctor who birthed her (the "Delivery Man" of the title).

The Allman Brothers Band Live At University Of Florida Bandshell 1982

1982 • 59 min

The Allman Brothers Band’s January 16, 1982 performance on the campus of the University Of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. The 1982 lineup by founding member Gregg Allman as well as guitarist Dickey Betts, and drummer Butch Trucks. Also featuring guitarist Dan Toler, bassist David Goldflies, keyboardist Mike Lawler and drummer David “Frankie” Toler. The Allman Brothers Band roll through nine songs, starting with “Jessica” and ending with “Ramblin’ Man.” Included within are such classics as “You Don’t Love Me,” “Blue Sky,” “Southbound” and “Whipping Post.”

A Message From the Temple

1982 • 5 min • United Kingdom

A shadowy, sharply-dressed spokesman for the occult, chaos-magic fellowship and network The Temple of Psychic Youth reads a brief message.

Kaiketsu Nōtenki

1982 • 15 min • Japan

Private detective Ken Hayakawa wanders in search of the organization that murdered his best friend. When there is trouble, he transforms into the motorcycle-riding superhero Notenki.