All Films

The Prom

1982 • 50 min • Austria

Ulrich Seidl applies his characteristically gentle eye to the wonderful people of his hometown of Horn, documented making fools of themselves during an annual student ball.

Groper Bus: Good Wife, Bad Wife, Normal Wife

1982 • 60 min • Japan

Yoshiro, who lives in a housing complex, is overwhelmed by his wife Yumi's lewdness and cannot keep his head up. However, the two share a common hobby: molesting women on crowded buses. Takuma and Michiyo, who live in the same housing complex, also attack women on the bus...

Audience

1982 • 32 min • United States of America

Barbara Hammer’s Audience is a fascinating deep cut from the director’s prodigious filmography. Relatively raw in its design, this 16mm diary of audience reactions at retrospectives of Hammer’s work in San Francisco, London, Toronto, and Montreal in the early 1980s bears none of the distinctive visual flourishes and essayistic form one usually finds in her filmmaking. Today, Audience serves as an invaluable historical archive, providing quick but complex portraits of lesbian scenes in different cities and countries: the San Francisco women are bold and raucous, treating Hammer like a celebrity; the London crowd more reserved and tentative; the Canadians politely critical after initial hesitation. It also functions as a testament to the power of Hammer herself as a figure of lesbian culture, showing how fully she engages audiences to incite new forms of discourse about representation.

The Visitor

1982 • 33 min • United States of America

In this adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's "Where Love Is, God Is," a cobbler named Martin has a crisis of faith after experiencing a personal tragedy and is told by a friend that an important visitor is coming to see him.

Precious Blood

1982 • 60 min

A one act play where a woman and a man share their life stories, till they inter stitch and conflict with each other.

Bartholemew

1982 • 6 min

First-person perspective of a child as their mother brings home a strangler as her date.

Barnet

1982 • 54 min • Sweden

Two women and a mentally ill daughter live in an isolated cabin for a couple of summer days.

A Charlie Brown Celebration

1982 • 48 min • United States of America

Several new different Peanuts sketches are featured in this TV special, adapted from the comic strip, including Peppermint Patty's stint at dog training school and Charlie Brown spending time in the hospital.

Rose Constellation

1982 • 58 min • Japan

Summer in Hiroshima, 1945. Hiroshi, who had volunteered to become a child soldier and was wearing a military uniform, hugged Junichi as the atom bomb goes off. Years later, Hiroshi spent every day drowning in Seiichiro Irie's caress, but sees a man who looks like Junichi...

A Generation

1982 • 10 min • France

A handheld video camera explores image-surfaces as a visual collective unconscious: a TV screen, Polaroids, photos. A conceptually and formally compelling film about the idea of change, the loss of a revolution, the defying memory of the 70s decade.

Attack on a Bakery

1982 • 16 min • Japan

Two young men are hungry, so they decide to rob a bakery. Adaptation of a short story by Haruki Murakami.

Rolling Home

1982 • 60 min

Mr Wyman is an elderly man whose increasingly unreliable memory has landed him in a geriatric ward. Here he is visited by his daughters Val and Molly, and Molly's husband Harold, and looked after by the ward's two male nurses, Vic and Donald, who are in competition for a promotion. Donald needs the money as he and his girlfriend are trying to buy a house but are having difficulty arranging a mortgage. From the window at which he sits, Mr Wyman can see a wall. He repeatedly pesters Donald with questions about what is on the other side. Donald constructs a fantasy of the future he dreams of with his girlfriend: a house and garden inhabited by a married couple.

Shimaidzumi no suwappingu (hi) reipu kōza

1982 • 30 min • Japan

A beautiful wife, Misa, is looking forward to her husband's return on their wedding anniversary. (Izumi Shima). The phone rings, and a muffled voice provokes Misa with a naughty voice that seems to be staring at her from somewhere. She hurriedly hangs up, but she can't help but feel the voice on the phone, and she is toying with her flushed body. Misa waits anxiously for her husband to return, but when Misa's thug breaks in and forcibly tackles Misa, Misa is unable to resist...

The Rape

1982 • 60 min • Japan

Saeko works at a bar, and she is waitng for her lover Huyuhiko who was jailed. One day, Huyuhiko comes back. He starts working, but soon he quit the job and grow desperate. Saeko supports Huyuhiko, but because of the debt, she was raped...

Sewing Woman

1982 • 14 min • United States of America

Sewing Woman chronicles the bittersweet journey of one woman's determination to survive: from an arranged marriage in old China to working class comforts in modern America.

Document porno: Yatai baishun

1982 • 58 min • Japan

Kattresan

1982 • 8 min • Sweden

Based on the classic swedish children's book from 1909. Kattresan is the story of a little girl that sets out on a great adventure with a strange cat.

Standing Alone

1982 • 57 min • Canada

Pete Standing Alone is a Blood Indian who, as a young man, was more at home in the White man's culture than his own. Confronted with the realization that his children knew very little about their origins, he became determined to pass down to them the customs and traditions of his ancestors. This film is the powerful biographical study of a 25-year span in Pete's life, from his early days as an oil-rig roughneck, rodeo rider and cowboy, to the present as an Indian concerned with preserving his tribe's spiritual heritage in the face of an energy-oriented industrial age.

After That

1982 • 59 min • Japan

Film director Shunichi Nagasaki reflects on a near-fatal motorcycle accident that occurred while shooting his commercial feature debut The Lonely Hearts Club Band in September.

Illusions

1982 • 34 min • United States of America

A woman in a Hollywood dubbing studio struggles with race and preconceptions. The short film depicts the life of an African American woman passing as a white woman working in the film industry during the 1940s. It calls attention to the lack of African Americans in the film industry during that era.

Cricket

1982 • 10 min • Soviet Union

1997: A village cricket team (complete with computerised Wisden Almanac with the voice of Brian Johnson) is suspected of moonlighting as a private guerilla arm, fighting the Forestry Commission.

listen...

1982 • 8 min • United States of America

A demonstration of sound in Dolby Stereo.

Kôban nikki: Chikan vs. hentai

1982 • 60 min • Japan

A man operates a stand at the entrance to the park. When a couple enters the park, he hurriedly closes his stand and follows them, peeping and groping them...

Stilleben

1982 • 28 min • East Germany, Germany

A little everyday story about a man, his wife, her father, an old friend, and a few scenes from the unspectacular lives of ordinary people. Shot in a Berlin apartment with its authentic interior, the cinematic chamber play comically tells the story of the end of a marriage.