Cinematic Era: 1982 Vintage

It Starts at Home is a song-and-dance performance sitcom in which our hapless hero Mike encounters his fifteen minutes of fame.

The plot of the film deals with the eternal theme, the fight between good and evil. The negative character is a man in black who tries to hinder the Tailor's creative work.

An atmospheric depiction of the pace and the edgy jargon in the male-dominated environment of a construction site.

A group of artisans sell handmade wallets, belts, bags and sandals at Rua da Ladeira, but the production is disorganized. A young businessman decides to invest in the boys, divides them into work groups and decreases their resting hours. In return, he offers them a great place to live. Their “industry” starts to make a profit, but those who work continue to earn very little.

Report from the party congress of the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany (LDPD) from April 5 to 7, 1982 in Weimar.

A glimpse into the lives of Chicano gang members and their families in Oakland, California. Filmed in cinema verite style and focusing on four teenage brothers and their mother, this film attempts to provide an understanding of how these young males remain trapped in a cycle of violence.

4 video-tapes VHS from the eponymous performance, sound.

The camera rides a turbulent wave across the inches and miles of an ancient lake that is Death Valley. By contrasting this vast valley's natural beauty with the monotonous sounds of shower water, the film makes a political statement - badwater next right.

Animated stories of Santa Clause and Christmas based on a book by Mauri Kunnas by the same name.

"The 7 songs video was Made between 1981-1982 . Edited at The London collage of printing and St Martins school of art. Shot on 8mm and vhs and u matic tape and found footage. The colourisation was created using a wonderful hand made early colour synth that was installed into the edit suite at the L.C.P at the time. I started doing live projectons for 23 skidoos performances having already known Johnny and Alex Turnbul from being in the same skateboard team and hanging out at skate cty skateboard park with them. They released 7 songs and wanted to make pictures to go with the tracks. We were rehearsing In Throbbing Gristles recording studio in london fields in Hackney at the time and i filmed them there for the small bit of live footage of them in the video. I released the VHS of this with Doublevsion a coumpany from Shefield . It was a cut and paste piece of work, i was learning to edit as i went along and was a very ntuitive process." - Richard Heslop

TV Movie by Helma Sanders-Brahms.

Anita Mikkonen, a Finnish brigadista in Nicaragua's literacy campaign, returns to the highlands of San Andres, where she meets again the men, women and children who shared their homes, their food and their history with her.

In the dark forests of Småland there is a pond called Judagölen [The Jew Pond], named after the murder of a Jewish salesman by a farm-worker in the 1870's. Staffan Lamm retells the story through the people that still remembers. A story about memory, the power of evil and justice.

XTC performance from Hamburg, Germany 1982.

A closeup of a woman's hands ironing a piece of clothing.

A woman is telling the story of how she went to Mexico looking for an obscure archaeological site; how she met a man who promised to take her there; how they stayed together locked in cross-purposes and misunderstandings - how, but never why. The central event has been reconstructed through stills, narration, and enactment by two performers in a tableau limited by the boundaries of the front projection screen.

"Two visions of the world being viewed simultaneously." - Barry Gerson Poetic structure created through masking out of two separate images juxtaposing opposite motions, resulting in two visions of the world being viewed simultaneously. Our ideas about space and time, and about what and how we perceive are challenged.

A film about herder Niila and Sami environment in the time of change and plight. First partly Saami language fiction film in Finland.

A flock of storks was flying south, but one bird lagged behind and fell to the meadow without strength. A little girl found the stork and called the adults for help. There were rallies and actions to save the bird. Only a little girl thought to give water and fish to the tired stork, after which it flew away.

1982 German super 8 short work for the band Malaria

In this Peruvian look at the beginning of the 20th century in Lima, the life of a fictitious leftist labor organizer Vicente Orozco (Humberto Cavero) is traced back to 1900 to illustrate the conditions that led to his radicalization. This background and Vicente's efforts to unionize his fellow workers are thoroughly explored in the 140-minute running time.

Goofy explains how to avoid making common consumer errors and get the best value for one's money by setting priorities, comparing prices, and looking for sales.

In the border area of ​​the Goryeo Dynasty, Wangsancho was renting out the market and exploiting the rent. Horyong, the son of Wangsancho, returns as a master of the world, and is angry with his subordinates who did not meet him, and is humiliated after fighting with Seolgung at Gaekzan. Horyong meets her Geum Nyeo at her abandoned house, and her Geum Nyeo imprisons her father's enemy, Wang San Chou's son, in her coffin.

Shot in super-8 film, Cave Girls is a film by collaborating women artists chronicling the discovery of a prehistoric tribe of women in South Orange, New Jersey.

This is a story about Rajmahal and the people related to it. Durjan Singh murdered the king and proclaimed himself the king of Raj Mahal. The King has two sons. Durjan Singh tries to finish off the King's family but they manage to escape, and get separated from each other. The elder son Vikram is raised by the tribal people whose leader is Baadshah Khan. The younger son becomes a dacoit. Durjan singh made the people suffer a lot. One day these two brothers meet in a competition declared by Durjan Singh, in which they are opponents. Unaware about the fact that they are brothers, they fight with each other. A few days later they both go on a treasure hunt and happen to fight with each other. During the fight, Vikram's shirt gets torn and the Rajnishani on his hand is recognised by his mother the Rajmata. They both come to know that they are brothers and they plan to take revenge against Durjan Singh.

"The very first footage I shot in NYC, back in 1975. This version was put together in 1981 when I blew up the original super 8 to 16mmm. All the special effects (wipes of different types) are hand drawn with black ink directly on the super 8 original. The resulting A and B rolls were then superimposed."

English and French words flash individually over a black background.

When in 1776 the United States of America broke away from Britain, a country without a written constitution, with an established Church and an unelected House of Lords, Thomas Paine, an artisan from Thetford in Norfolk, England, made a call for freedom that is still reverberating around the world today.

This audacious comedy (or perhaps superhero film?) was shot on the day of the actual university entrance ceremony, partly as a way of promoting the Film Research Club. Within the club itself, reactions were sharply divided between those who loved it and those who were simply dumbfounded, making it one of the group’s more controversial productions.

Experimental film by Hiroyuki Sekine.

A 16-year-old girl living in Ustka meets a boy with whom she falls in love at first sight. When Paweł goes to his hometown of Poznań, the girl decides to be with her beloved at all costs.

Set to Vivaldi’s ‘Winter’ the film uses continuous animation of Leonardo’s sketch book drawings to catch and follow Leonardo’s deep and integrated exploration of both ‘art’ and ‘science’ His numerous inventions, from flying machines to rockets; his study of both aerial and linear perspective: his botanical and anatomical studies are all covered: welded together in one continual flowing action which symbolises the Master’s own single-minded sense of universal purpose.

Pink film by Satoru Kobayashi.

Pink film by Satoru Kobayshi.

Malcolm spends the winter in the mountains of southern New South Wales and Tasmania, cross-country skiing and developing survival techniques.

8mm film work from 1982 by the Film Studies Department of Bunkyō University.

The Nicaraguan revolutionaries, determined to overthrow the bloody dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza, enjoyed the semi-clandestine support of the Panamanian government and popular organizations from 1974 onward. Following the Sandinista Front's victory, which toppled a dynasty that had ruled for over 45 years, General Omar Torrijos visited that sister nation to strengthen ties between the two peoples.

In a glass bottle factory, the production process is interrupted by a blast furnace failure. In a fight against the fire, man emerges victorious and production continues normally.

Documentary about the reconstruction of Dresden's Semperoper opera house.

Documentary film about a group of cyclists who organized themselves in 1978 in the “BSG Turbine Potsdam.”

Brilliant and hilarious punk mockumentary, containing faked interviews with young "antisocial elements" from Berlin.

Ko Wyne, a reformed pickpocket and Khayay, a former prostitute find love and redemption as they struggle to build an honest life together in the harsh realities of urban life.

Three little pigs suddenly come into possession of money. One pig spends it on good food, the other on show, and only the third prudently invests it in a solid house. And the voracious wolf is already walking around...