Cinematic Era: 1982 Vintage

16mm experimental short film.

16mm experimental short film.

16mm experimental short film.

A short film about preventing shoplifting in the 1980s.

In a recording studio, a note is played on the piano, its sound wave spreads around the room, which is then immaculately reproduced by Thomson's devices and technology.

A young Algerian immigrant, working as a Kitchen Porter in a restaurant, dreams of becoming a Taxi driver in Paris.

The path of sheep from the pasture to the meat processing factory, during a time of starvation, as told by a shepherd.

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Waldemar is on the threshold of adulthood without any specific plans. Despite pressure from his family, he works with photography.

This was the second video made with reel to reel 1/2 “ tape. The work included punning titles and experimental sound work. “Floor of Records” preceded Christian Marclay’s related work. Key words: Marcel Duchamp, puns, language play, experimental sound

A documentation of Veeder's wonderful combination of gaming system and early image processing GUI.

Let's pretend that the friction between mono- and dicotyledonous forms (between, say, "lilies tulips the hyacinth" and "fruit blossoms the briar rose the passion flower" or, as here, English ivy) generates green. Partially computer generated. "What triangles do when no one is watching." - Andrzej Ehrenfeucht

The exploration of pattern-making is based on a comparison of dynamic forms found in nature – reflections, wrinkles, or ripples – filmed in detail with a handheld camera, and shots of the texture of woven carpets and fabrics. It culminates in the performative action of wearing, drying, and mounting the material, perhaps a canvas ready for further creation.

An erotic episode about farming in the world of robots. Cuttings do not want to undergo mechanical stimulation. A space inspector is the only one who can change their opinion.

"Carandiru Women's Prison. An opportunity to talk about the freedom, loneliness and hope of women who, although incarcerated, keep their dreams alive." Adopting the semi-open prison regime, a penitentiary in São Paulo allows inmates to work outside. According to the psychologists of the establishment - who during the film talk about the scientific level and the practical results of their work - this system is seen and developed as a fair achievement of the inmates and not as a privilege, gradually ensuring their social reintegration. In their testimonies, the inmates expose the problems they face on the outside in the face of a society that marginalizes them, even after they have served their full sentence. Stimulus Award from the São Paulo State Culture Secretariat, 1982.

A documentary short examining the Sinai Peninsula following the withdrawal of Israeli forces in the early 1980s.

A look back at the career of the director of numerous beloved classics.

A Film Producer goes into hiding after abducting his child.

The video works 'Traumasyl' and 'Jukai, the Sea of Trees' are characterized by a cinematic and associative style, in which atmosphere plays an important role. There is certainly no word of a plot or unambiguous content. Influenced by the Italian film maker Michelangelo Antonioni, he draws a picture here of mental and physical oppression. A monitor in an empty room alternately shows the faces of a woman and a man. Their lips are moving, but you cannot hear their voices. Their faces are 'blindfolded', and 'tied up' with a rope which is fastened around the monitor. Then there are images of the woman in the empty room in which she looks at herself on the screen and in a broken mirror. Locked up in this circuit and her own thoughts, she is unable to make contact.

Music: The Republicans, The Appliances, and The Suburbs "THE NIGHT BELONGS TO THE POLICE concerns a burned-out agoraphobe (Jerome Carolfi), his frustrated girlfriend (poet Tess Gallaher), a wonderfully kinetic proto-punk Tinkerbelle (Michelle Davis), and a malevolent network of chiropractors. A satire of fashionable nihilism, it manages to simultaneously mock and embrace the so-called posturing of the so-called New Wave. It is, most of all, funny."–Chris Ward, CityLights

People perform their favorite movie songs

Sri Lanka’s first LGBT film stars Joe Abeywickrema as Sunny a scion of a feudal family having an affair with a young man.

“Some had given me an iris—a little gadget which opens and closes—they were used a lot in silent movies to indicate the beginning or end of a scene. And that got me thinking about how we actually see, and how, though we barely notice it, every time we blink our own irises close down to black, and then open up again. Black and image. Black and image. I wanted to do something with time…with time as an iris closes and an iris opens. The name Traces refers to the traces we leave in time as, say, we walk across footpath, or traces on buildings, paint peeling off, or windows being dirty and being cleaned again…everything to do with time lagging. To show traces within traces within traces I put irises in many parts of the frame.” (Paul Winkler)

"Retrospectively, I could say that this work, realized collectively, was an essay of animation cinema, a clip with no other pretension than the pleasure of associating images to a song of the group Gang of Four. Our bias for the graphic framework was to take into account the rhythm and the sound atmosphere of the song, a few key words from the text and the images filmed during the concert."

Reel 5: Mourning (23 to 30 January 1982) follows in the wake of the death of Richard Robertson, the filmmaker’s father. [It] covers … seven days of the family going through their father’s papers, taking walks in the snow and huddling inside watching football. (Anjo-marí Gouws)

It tells a story of a romantic relationship between a girl who comes to Male' from an island and a boy who lives in the house she resides in Male'.

About some aspects of Bedouin life on the northern coast.

Documentary on Peru.

San Bernadino, CA 1982

We see how many factors can contribute to an accident. Lots of great 80s cars and fashions. Excellent china girl at end of film.

Disjet uses the movement of an anonymous figure in isolated environments to examine metaphysical journeys through the landscapes of the mind.

Drawing Houses consists of two parts. In each part performers make drawings of houses. The first part is filmed at a high angle looking down at a floor. The scene opens with a close-up of the back of a Hawaii-an shirt. The Hawaiian shirt wearer moves out and a performer enters and begins to draw on the floor. A drawing of a house is made on the floor. The drawing is made so that it appears to be on the plane of the projected image and not on the receding floor plane. In the second part of the film the camera is placed so that the scene is viewed straight on. This scene opens with a black line grid on the screen. A large facial profile appears when the perfomer removes some paper that covers it. He draws in the facial details. The performer then draws a line drawing of a house. This drawing looks similiar to the one from the earlier scene. Another house is drawn in the background. However parts of each house are drawn on different planes.