Cinematic Era: 1983 Vintage

Short film on the dance phenomenon of "Electric Boogie", and about 4 boys, 2 black and 2 Puerto Rican, who dance it together in the streets of the South Bronx.

A documentary short about a town floating on a river in Iquitos, Peru.

Opening animation for AZICON.

Mexican feature film

A commander of the youth working action brigade wants his team to win the award, but the problem arises when a series of graffiti regarding his subordinates' dissatisfaction begins to appear on the facilities across the camp.

If Frankenstein's Monster is to the dark side of science, King Kong is to the Great Depression, Alien Invaders (like The Blob and The Thing) is to the Communist Threat, Godzilla is to the bomb, and The Milpitas Monster and Hedorah the Smog Monster are to pollution. Now, this robotic dinosaur made of various technological devices from Japan is to Japanese consumerism and possibly globalization!

The film follows Ferdi, a popular singer in the Turkish music scene, who has achieved both career success and a comfortable family life. As his fame grows, he performs in casinos and goes on tours. An important plotline is his past connection with Davut, who had been in prison. Davut was someone who helps Ferdi rise to fame earlier in his career. Before one of his upcoming tours, Ferdi hears that Davut has been released from prison. This creates dramatic tension, as Davut’s return forces Ferdi to confront both his past and some of the consequences of fame.

In 1983, Jose W. Diokno, lawyer and two-term Senator, narrated this 50-minute documentary on the Marcos dictatorship. The program was produced and aired by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), and provided a critical look of the regime at a time when media and opposition in the Philippines were violently silenced.

Harry is a television journalist crossing Canada by train to a family event in Newfoundland. While travelling, the journalist is making a documentary about Canada and reassessing his life in response to a friend’s suicide. - http://tiff.net/CANADIANFILMENCYCLOPEDIA/content/bios/william-d-macgillivray

Recorded in 1983 during a ten-day gathering in Vanuatu, a newly independent island nation in the south Pacific that had recently declared itself a nuclear-free zone, this program takes a look at the Pacific-wide movement towards independence and de-nuclearization. 
Testimony is presented by Pacific islanders and Pacific Rim representatives who experience various aspects of the nuclear cycle, from uranium mining in Australia and Canada to nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands and Tahiti. Health, social, economic, military and political effects of the nuclear presence in the Pacific are the subject of the conference and the focus of a march through downtown Port Vila to the French consulate on Bastille Day.

A production of the State Academic Maly Theatre of the USSR.

An exploration on Paz's poetry by Paz himself, his childhood, his ideas about love and the nature of art

Dean Martin live in London 1983

Engaged nightclub singer Rose Indrasari (Nena Rosier) is brutally gang raped and then abandoned by her fiance, prompting her to attempt suicide. The man who saves her life then forces her to become a sex slave and she contracts an unpleasant v.d. called Vietnam Rose. Having finally had enough by that point, she decides to get revenge on the men who ruined her life.

'Enemy' is elegaic science-fiction: a fable about the young men trained as Guardians of the Stars and their failure to ward off an unknon 'enemy' who manifests himself as white light.

Filled with useful tips and valuable instruction on how to get the best results out of your home video cam-era, this comprehensive guide leads you through the basic skills that are necessary for excellence in videography. In five easy to follow segments, this important learning tool explores the adventures of an ordinary man named Arthur, who has just purchased a video camera.

The story of a former movie actor who has lost his fame and fallen into depression, and the bar hostess he is in love with.

After the fall of the Ming Dynasty, Yushin's descendants organized an underground party called Cheonjidang to found a new Ming Dynasty and collected and hid tens of thousands of gold to be used as military funds in the future. And this hiding place was tattooed on the bodies of the young man and woman (Haewol and Gahwa). As time goes by, the right-winger plots a plan to kill all the Cheonji Party members, and while assassinating them one by one, he hears the secret story of the tattoo from a dying Cheonji Party member. On the other hand, Sunamgeom's assistant inspector captures Woopaja and hangs him on the execution ground along with Gahwa and then tells Haewol about this. Haewol appears at the execution site and fights to the death before saving her father and his fiancée.

1983 short by Tessa Hughes-Freeland

This is a film about old fashioned Bulgarian customs and moral rules. A pre-arranged marriage of two children is no obstacle to true love.

1983 Peter Rose short film. A parody of art/critspeak, educational instruction, gothic narrative and pornographic diction, it has been performed as a live work at major media centers and new music festivals in the US and Europe.

Photographer Ouyang loves the Three Gorges and wins the love of Li Lan, a teacher from college of fine arts. After marriage, they have divergence on how the life should be. Ouyang shows that a wonderful life comes from dedication to career.

A murderous demon lurks inside an antique piano in a picturesque coastal town.

A peasant freed a bird that had been caught in a trap, and a kind forest wizard rewarded him with magical gifts. However, the greedy owners of the tavern tried to steal them.

This video is a collage of images that takes the viewer down a path between their own virtue and cosmic morality. A quiet anxiety emerges as the strip explores the non-mathematical possibilities of the violent destruction of matter, as well as the habits into which people seem to push their fellows.

Romance and fairy tale come alive in this astounding interpretation of a childhood classic, Sleeping Beauty. In the hands of the celebrated Kirov Ballet, featuring choreography by Marius Petipa, Sleeping Beauty is no less than magical, recounting the story of a scorned witch who, upon being snubbed by the king and queen when they don't invite her to their baby's christening, casts an evil spell. Featured dancers include Irina Kolpakova.

Danny, who dreams of being a star in Hollywood, makes his living as an escort. During the day, he wanders around in extraordinary clothing. At night, he plays at bars and discos. His beauty attracts cravings for him from a wealthy married woman to an award-winning producer. His gay friend shows affection to him as well. Everyone yearns for having him, but he loves nobody until he meets an adorable girl Trissy one night. Love and sex drive the two into ecstasy. However, the burden of intimacy also raises the question: could the lascivious nature be tamed with devotion?

A fictionalized musical film about the rock band Maanam – one of the most popular music groups in Poland in the 1980s.

Freeze Frame is an example of a filmic significator from which the transparency and invisibility has been removed. Material which has been repeatedly re-filmed (a construction site, a rubbish incinerating plant, industrial graveyards, an antenna and line-drawing like frame that continually falls over) are exposed on top of each other. The result is that an unambiguous reading of the picture, to say nothing of their positioning in a fictive room cannot even be attempted. This type of calculated picture removal is carried to the point where the film strip is stopped in the projector (and hence the title) and burns.

Mayhem and tangled love knots in the Southwest U.S. desert are the scourge of a group of stranded German immigrants living in a few mobile homes at the crossroads of two desert highways. Joe loves Rosa, and kills someone she had slept with because he thought their union was consentual (a rape), and he gets five years for the murder. When he is released from jail, his first priority is to attend his mother's funeral -- a death that has upset his sister so much that she is on the verge of a breakdown. His sister is supposed to marry a Mennonite, but is stuck on Joe and so that plan is scotched. Meanwhile, Rosa has taken up with another trucker, who is jealous of Joe and tries to kill him. The next thing anyone knows, the trailers and nearby buildings are going up in flames -- will Joe and Rosa survive to continue their desert saga?

In the second part of the film, the optics of the story changes. The block, which emerged from the lake at sunrise, stops wandering, stopping in the water, and its inhabitants indulge in summer relaxation. In the evening - at sunset - they will return, walking on water, to their apartments, and the building will again be immersed in the lake. And all to the rhythm of Zygmunt Konieczny's music, in the first part - more marching, in the second - elegiac.

This documentary follows the lives of Minamata disease victims who still suffer a quarter of a century later.

Documentary chronicling the emergence of the religious New Right in the early Eighties, when, buoyed by the 1980 election of Ronald Reagan as President, conservative politicians and organizations launched nationwide attacks on communism, homosexuality, feminism, abortion, pornography and liberal politicians. By profiling such influential figures as religious broadcaster and Moral Majority founder Jerry Falwell, anti-Equal Rights Amendment activist Phyllis Schlafly, conservative Senator Jesse Helms, right-wing direct-mail fundraiser Richard Viguerie, and John LeBoutillier (R-NY), a representative of the new conservative breed of congressmen, the video offers a provocative portrait of the roots of a powerful force in contemporary American politics

In the film, Antonio Skármeta, who had to flee Chile in 1973 due to the military dictatorship, interviews various Chilean artists who are also living in exile in Europe. How are work opportunities changing for artists far away from their homeland? What problems do they face? What do they gain from their special situation?

"In this swirling and colorful hymn to Paris, a kind of new Symphony - but jazzed up - of a big city, we find the almost ethnological attention to others, the work of concrete sound. In just over an hour, condensing almost a year of filming in Paris, we get the impression of a single day of sunshine, a continuous kaleidoscope in the most diverse city in the world. The novelty is the attention to detail, which earned us, right in the middle of a series of sweeps, capsizes, Mathieu-style calligraphy, veritable little Gnoli-style paintings: a woman's shoe, a sweater button, or still lifes, in the cubist way, graphic elements: such and such of the thousand and prescriptions that populate the streets. This film thus takes its place at the forefront of all thosewho celebrate the capital today. Weaving together so many "energies", making the disparate elements communicate, it is the most complete, the most beautiful of Michel Nedjar's filmic works." - Dominique Nogues.

"Groper Train" pink film distributed by Okura Eiga.

The failure of the 1927 revolution in China affects the lives of Chinese Communist Party volunteer Zhu Zhiyan and his girlfriend.

Bert Haanstra was commissioned by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to make a short film about his own country. It had to be a piece of the work that mainly would be shown abroad, so that the rest of the world could make acquaintance with the beautiful countryside, with the modern side of the Dutch society and with historic building and old customs. After everything he had already made about these subjects, Haanstra was able to find a new angle, this time by observing the matter from the air. The result is a pretty mosaic of The Netherlands like it looked in the early eighties.

A story of two generations of artists creating clay figures, one at the time of Qianlong Emperor and one in the early 20th century.

A Marian devotion is born when a Venezuelan woman finds an image and people come to the protection of the Virgin during a plague.

An imaginary biography of Jean Genet, poet and high priest of evil. "Revolt is something I allow myself", said Jean Genet in 1975. Born in Paris in 1910, raised and humiliated in an approved school, a pederast and thief who has been to prison 14 times and expelled from five European countries. His novels are ballads of poisonous beauty, his plays are murky rituals of oppression where each person acts out the role imposed upon him by the others.

Judit is up to her neck in art studies and the elitist art community but chucks it all to pursue a successful career as a billiard professional -- not exactly a likely alternative in real life, but certainly more lucrative. Just as she is finally at the apex of her chosen second field, Judit encounters male jealously and/or aggression in the form of intentional snubs from this different class of snobs, or in the worse instances, rape. Director Kitty Kino portrays many of the male figures in this film as weak, or drunk, or simply offensive, and because of the emphasis on those traits, the film will raise objections from some viewers. On the other hand, many women might see this film and feel that at least it brings up the difficulties women can face in getting ahead in a male-dominated arena, instead of side-stepping or ignoring the role of male prejudice.

In this documentary, FRONTLINE tries to pierce the debate on the explosive issue of handgun control.

Impossible Invasion is the fifth film in the Lisboa Sociedade Anónima series. Set in the 1960s, it is a touching descent into the emotional misery of the petty bourgeoisie living in rented rooms, suffocating on precarious civil service salaries, with a cultural horizon of soccer and television, and against the backdrop of the colonial war and the glory of the bridge over the Tagus. Noteworthy are the fine performances of the actors (especially Maria do Céu Guerra), the creation of an oppressive and mediocre atmosphere, well underscored by songs from the period, and the concise and rigorous characterization.

The owners of a glass shop (Spyros Ioannou and Panagiotis Soupiadis) are unjustly accused of tax evasion. They end up being pursued by the police and by the smuggler, whose car they stole to escape—a car that is full of contraband gold.

A man who has lost his memory returns to his hometown and encounter several people from his past and present.

A profile of David Perrin, one of Britain's most talented aerobatic pilots.