All Films

The Rocking Horse Winner

1982 • 33 min • United Kingdom

In Paul's family, there is always talk about needing more money. The tension in the household over lack of funds weighs heavily on Paul's young mind. After Paul's uncle cracks a joke about "filthy lucker", he becomes obsessed with finding luck, so that his family will have the money they need. His luck at the race track begins to improve, but the cost may be higher than anyone knows. Nominated for a BAFTA award in 1983.

A Hunger Artist

1982 • 22 min • United States of America

Based on Kafka's 1922 short story about a hunger artist.

A Chip of Glass Ruby

1982 • 56 min • Lesotho, South Africa

In this drama, the Banjee family resides in an area of Johannesburg where Indians are no longer permitted to live. Mr. Bamjee is a vegetable seller and his wife, unlike him, becomes politically involved fighting against the injustices of apartheid. When his wife is arrested and imprisoned, Mr. Bamjee slowly realizes that his wife's concern for others is not a rejection of him.

Who Am I This Time?

1982 • 53 min • United States of America

Harry is a shy hardware store employee. But whenever he takes a part in a local amateur theater production, he becomes the part completely--while on stage. Helene is new in town, a lonely itinerant telephone company employee. On a whim, she auditions for and gets the part of Stella to Harry's Stanley when the theater group performs A Streetcar Named Desire. Before anyone realizes the growing affection between Helene and Stanley, she falls deeply in love with the sexy brute, not knowing what the real man is like.

A Missa do Galo

1982 • 25 min • Brazil

It's Christmas Eve and an aunt and her nephew have to deal with their platonic relationship.

En rachâchant

1982 • 7 min • France

The child Ernesto doesn't want to go to school any more because, as he says, all he is taught there is things he doesn't know.

Computers Are People, Too!

1982 • 47 min • United States of America

This movie explores the possibilities of interaction between man and computer, with some historical background. It demonstrates techniques introduced in the Disney movie Tron (1982), combining computer-synthesized animation and real-life object photography.

Tristezas de la pieza de hotel

1982 • 14 min • Argentina

A melancholic pension where a solitary adult meets a woman.

Ancient of Days

1982 • 12 min • United States of America

Ancient of Days is a remarkable series of "canons and fugues for video" that comprises Viola's most sophisticated structural and metaphorical explorations of time. Mathematical notations of precise time-code editing were applied to construct illustrations of temporal symmetry, duality and transposition — time-based equivalents of musical compositional principles such as counterpoint and serialism. Astonishing temporal interventions — a 180-degree pan gazing downward on a New York City street that progresses from day to night, an image of Mount Rainier in which the foreground and background unfold in different time planes — unfold as symbolic transformations of natural and urban landscapes.

The Last Night

1982 • 52 min • United Kingdom

As a small local theatre and its players prepare for the final performance of a mystery thriller play, they find themselves held hostage by two escaped convicts who have chosen the theatre as a hideout.

The Legend of the Poor Hunchback

1982 • 7 min • France

On her throne, a princess welcomes her suitors under the watchful eye of her family and the kingdom. Down below, amongst the crowd, struggles a poor hunchback.

Roses, the Sea and the Sun

1982 • 59 min • Japan

On a beach, Masao remembers the summer romance between him and Tatsuya. Part of the "Rose Tribe" trilogy that launched gay pink film in 1982.

Warten bis Lili kommt - Denkste!?

1982 • 50 min

The modern fairy tale shows children's addictive behavior and provides clues to possible causes.

Rattlesnake in a Cooler

1982 • 58 min • United States of America

A one act play about a young doctor who ditches his safe middle-class existence to become a cowboy out West. His cowboy fantasy eventually breaks down.

The Discipline of D.E.

1982 • 9 min • United States of America

"The Discipline of D.E." is a short 16mm film directed by Gus Van Sant. It’s based on a story in “Exterminator!” by William Burroughs that at times reads like Buddhist noir: "DE is a way of doing. DE simply means doing whatever you do in the easiest most relaxed way you can manage which is also the quickest and most efficient way, as you will find as you advance in DE.You can start right now tidying up your flat, moving furniture or books, washing dishes, making tea, sorting papers. Don't fumble, jerk, grab an object. Drop cool possessive fingers onto it like a gentle old cop making a soft arrest.”

To Turn a Blind Eye

1982 • 30 min • United Kingdom

Written by Farrukh Dhondy. Blind Mr. Homersham lives alone with no one to care for him, but then he meets young Jamshyd. Being blind Mr. Homesham does not know or care that Jamshyd is Asian, until his son introduces prejudice into the relationship. 

Historia de un roble solo

1982 • 60 min • Chile

Olguita and Osvaldo are planning to get married, but she imposes only one condition for this to happen: she must own at least one property from his,regardless of its worth.

Disney's Halloween Treat

1982 • 47 min

Contains memorable scenes from "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," "Fantasia," "Lady and the Tramp," "Peter Pan," "One Hundred and One Dalmatians," and "The Sword in the Stone."

Romance para el otro Santiago

1982 • 27 min • Chile

Portrait of the new face that the center of Santiago acquired during the 80s. The Ahumada walk along with the social and survival demonstrations that converge there. The coexistence of street vendors, preachers, executives, unemployed people from the show who set up an "office" to engage in new jobs, alternates with flippers, topless and cafes that forever changed the heart of the city.

Dead Kennedys: Live in Vienna

1982 • 16 min • United States of America

Dead Kennedys filmed live at Arena Wien in Vienna, Austria, 1982.

Box

1982 • 8 min • Japan

"I stuck landscape photographs on the faces of a cube and shot them frame-by-frame. It looks like the box is forever revolving, but in truth it only revolves 90 degrees. The trick to this sensation is fundamentally the same as the one used in SPACY. I was aiming at disturbing our awareness of space in the movement from the three-dimensional to a plane and back again." Takashi Ito

The Fish Carriage

1982 • 18 min • Soviet Union

Soviet stop-motion animated film consisting of three stories based on the fairy tales of the peoples of the North.

Raphaël par le dessin

1982 • 8 min • France

A short film made by Eric Rohmer dealing with the drawings of Raphael.

Beyond Witch Mountain

1982 • 48 min • United States of America

After news of the boy's amazing abilities surfaces, Tony and Tia are sent to go find him knowing that the boy must be from their world. They are joined by an old friend Jason O'Day and a black cat named Winky. Together, they race to find the prodigy before their old nemesis Aristotle Bolt does.