Cinematic Era: 1982 Vintage

Nugroho is a transgender from the lower class. He's the breadwinner of the family and his family accepts him unconditionally. While Daniel, a transgender from the upper class, is ashamed of himself. Daniel is pressured to let go of his effeminate nature.

François de Menil and Monique Alexandre's short portrait of artist Niki de Saint Phalle, shot in 16mm, 1982.

An Australian film

Auguste Rodin's masterpiece The Gates of Hell is an epic achievement: a massive portal to Hades inspired by Dante's Inferno, its towering doors covered with nearly 200 individual figures. Commissioned in 1880, the project was to be the main entrance to the museum of decorative arts in Paris, a museum that was never built. A century later, legendary New York businessman and philanthropist B. Gerald Cantor and his wife, Iris, convened a team of experts to attempt the first-ever bronze casting of The Gates of Hell using the painstaking "lost wax" method that Rodin himself had favored. The finished piece would stand 21 feet high and 12 feet wide, and weigh eight tons. This award-winning film chronicles Rodin's struggles and sacrifices in creating a monumental work of art -- and the extraordinary modern-day effort to give it the final form he envisioned.

A kind switchman saved a deer freezing on the rails.

One of my last films to be made indoors was La vie brève de la flamme. I used light in a very expressionist manner — still with the technique of a very active camera. (T.H.)

“With some exceptions, the Arabics take the idea of the void as their ground. That is, the light we do see almost always seems to be set against darkness, or occasionally against white, these momentary flickers that materialize tenuously out of emptiness. But the darkness is not ‘night,’ or even simply some more abstract absence of light, but a more profound vacuum: it represents a world stripped of all the coordinates of the known, an unmeasurable absence. […] These lushly sensual, pleasurable-to-view films are also terrifying: their unpredictability, continually enacting new dramas of surprise, alternatively swamps the viewer in light and leaves him adrift in darkness.”

An experimental movie where the viewpoint starts in a placid pond high inland, and follows the flow of water down to the sea. The movie experiments with viewing both the air, the water, and the surface of the water at the same time. The tempo changes from calm to frenzied later in the movie as the water is more disturbed.

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.

Anticipating having her in-laws over for dinner, a woman attempts to clean up her apartment and comes across her husband's creepy old ventriloquist dummy, which he refuses to let her throw out.

In 1982, Sue Gilbert interviewed her wealthy parents about their lifestyle and values. Set on their lush private island (Greenaway Island), the film covers diverse topics such as the historical relevance of servants, the hidden agenda behind US politics, spirituality and religion. The Gilberts argue for tradition, marriage, and faith in God. In probing these subjects, Greenaway transcends the personal realm to become universal and provocative.

Two friends serve as pilots in a military unit near a peaceful and blossoming city. When an accident happens during a flight, they have to decide whether to eject or sacrifice themselves and save thousands of lives. Based on a poem by Robert Rozhdestvensky.

A series of anecdotes and monologues by County Durham comedian Bobby Thompson. Well known throughout the North East of England his 'Little Waster' character tells tales of debt, dole and wife trouble, while 'The Old Soldier' gives a hilarious account of his Second World War relationships with King George and Field Marshall Montgomery, providing a wry look at the class divide. Also included is a documentary film shot during his final years.

A documentary that shows a paralyzed man who, despite massive physical limitations, is able to perform his work as a guardian of the village's flock of sheep.

Pink film by Kan Mukai.

IT IS SILENT-MOVIES ERA IN THIS COMEDY FILM WHERE LOCAL COMEDIANS APE HOLLYWOOD CINEMA ICONS OF THE PERIOD

A unionist is kidnapped on the streets of Oslo. The film uses its form to convey a paranoid mood and place South American conditions in a Norwegian context.

Looks at the increasing militancy of activists protesting at experiments on animals.

A gas station on the outermost windy cape in Skåne, becomes an allegory of Sweden in the 80s.

Based on the story of “Pangu Separates Heaven and Earth,” The Beginning of the Universe starts with the time when the universe was a chaotic mass of air. After the great divide, Pangu’s body becomes the sun, the moon, the stars, the mountains, rivers, trees and grass.

Shot in silent, Super 8, Oct. 30-31, 1982. (At the time, they'd only made three "Halloween" movies, so we thought we were being funny by making a fourth.)

This documentary film without commentary examines and describes the confrontation of (white) tourists with the still "undiscovered" North Camaroon. A combination of documentation, acting by lay people, interviews and self-portrayals are used. It is shown above all from the viewpoint of black Africans and narrated by four natives. The chief of an untouched village high in the Mandara mountains represents the "original" Africa; Christophe Colombe plays the guide in his native village, Rhumsiki; an African who has visited Europe and has got to know white people; and finally, the famous poet, René Philombé, recites poems.

Experimental, 16mm, Akihiko Morishita

Americans are alarmed... What they have witnessed - a group of journalists from Soviet television, having appeared on American soil in the summer of 1982, America has not yet seen. To whom it would seem in our time to surprise with mass processions, demonstrations of many thousands. They are constantly reported in newspapers, their shots are now and then flashed in television news releases, and nevertheless, the events of this summer are something completely new in the political life of the United States...

"Now the tide is coming: love, money and death" - What is love? What would you do with DM 1 million? What are you afraid of? Six punks and six policemen answers.

In order to save her marriage, Marija tries to erase from memory the trauma that she's been haunted by ever since youth. The shock she had suffered killed all the love she felt for Dinko. When she meets him again, now that he has become a hopeless drunkard, she feels lost even more.

François Cremer is a truck driver who gets out of prison after having served a sentence of several months for a traffic of which he has always proclaimed himself innocent. He soon realizes that he is being followed and threatened by former acquaintances. Alone against all, he has no other recourse than to ask for help to a radio hostess, who had orchestrated a campaign for his release. She becomes frightened and refuses to help him, but he forces her to follow him in his escape. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

Three young people, tired of the restrictions placed upon them by adult society, run away to a deserted island to live as they see fit. Gangsters are also using the island, however, and the utopia the three had created is soon under attack.

This stand-up special kicks off with Gallagher's "Suitcase Circus", and out of it he pulls a new and improved Sledge-O-Matic. If he's smashing things right off the bat, you know this special is bound to get crazy.

Bollywood 1982

This is the story of women. Women shattered by violence. Women left alone, the sole survivors of slaughtered families. Women sold into a vicious and brutal international crime syndicate. Women subjected to poverty, horror and brutal sex. Experience a secret glimpse into the erotic realm of the Asian underworld, where women are a high-priced commodity and anything is available… for a price. Pushed to the farthest limits of sanity and battered beyond ordinary human capacity, there is one woman who decides to fight against her destiny. She’s tougher than a rabid canine! Her task is to terminate the misery and sexual torture of her soul-sisters in slavery. She and her fighting female friends are out to topple the power pyramids of the Asian underworld! Fighting ferociously with fists and feet flying, these females are out for revenge!

Kalina links traditional animation with a re-projection. To the rhythm of the popular folk song Ukochany kraj, umiłowany kraj (Beloved country, dear country) he creates an anti-ballade about the farmer’s hard life and difficult work. Monotonous and mechanical activities degrade a man.

Rich in environmental mood and ethnic color, this human drama chronicles the lives and rituals of a nomadic Berber tribe in the southern Tunisian desert, especially focusing on a son about to inherit the full mantle of leadership. When he sees that their sheep are threatened with a possibly devastating illness, the precarious nature of the group's existence is brought home to him and he leaves to gain a livelihood and knowledge in the city. Once he gets back, bringing money and presents, it first appears that the group will be assured of a better future because of his enterprising outreach. Yet military and governmental officials arrive on the scene to take a census and the young man is conscripted, against his will.

A documentary essay that, through exclusively images, music and editing, aims to show a different image of the manipulated Andalusia that had been present on movie screens for many decades.

Super-8 documentary about the performance Petroglifos by Antonieta Colón y Pablo García at Universidad Simón Bolívar in Caracas, Venezuela.

About fleeting mood swings.

In 1942 the cover of a Communist Party of China agent in Japanese intelligence in Shanghai must be protected.

First part of the Jacques Toumoy trilogy.

Paul Celan’s poem echoes. A drive reveals a long-abandoned Gründerzeit villa in ruin. Inside, a woman in elegant WWI attire dances, then slumps in mourning. After the war she cleans, reappears in 1930s riding clothes amid radio discontent as a maid and housekeeper move through the halls. Mourning returns with WWII’s end. Post-war, she dances to American rhythms, breastfeeds under Soviet-occupation broadcasts. Beatles and Pink Floyd play as a woman in overalls emerges, memories of the century flooding her mind. She climbs into a Trabant Kübel, helmet beside her, determined to give the villa a new life.

The brave Megat Paji Alam owns a magical keris handed down over the generations. His eldest son, Iskandar Alam, is captured by his enemies but is saved by a couple in Desa Permai and brought him up as Hamzah. Meanwhile, Megat Panji Alam has a misunderstanding with his right man Megat Daka and fires him. Megat Daka is determined to find Iskandar Alam also knows as Hamzah who later becomes Megat Panji Alam’s enemy not knowing that the latter is actually his real father.

Features master painters Hughie Lee-Smith and Jacob Lawrence. In addition to visual sequences of the artist's work, the program includes an inside look at a class taught by Lee-Smith at New York's prestigious Art Students League; both artists working in their studios; a trip by ferry to an island in Puget Sound where Lawrence works on a commissioned mural; and an animation of the illustrations from Lawrence's children's book "Harriet and the Promised Land". From the collection of the Black Resource Center at the County of Los Angeles Public Library. https://archive.org/details/portraitoftwoartistscompton

He had died in 1955 after a long solitary life and was completely forgotten... Until in 1962 Bertrand Collin du Bocage and Georges Martin du Nord bought a collection of forty canvases signed with a stylized 'K' monogram at the Paris flea market. Thus a genius was rediscovered. Indeed after some research work the two men found out that 'K' stood for Kalmakoff.

A short dance performance.

A portrait of a church, showing how the Eucharist touches the members' lives.