Cinematic Era: 1983 Vintage

A naked man jumps off the deep end from a diving board into a surrealist watery world of fish and cellar stairs.

Barbara, a fifty-year-old lesbian whose lifespan has taken her through correction homes, mental hospitals, prisons and bouts of prostitution, approached Bruno Moll suggesting that she made a film of her life. Moll agrees and hires an actress, Serena Way. To interpret episodes in Barbara’s past. Barbara has in mind a Hollywood-style bio starring an actress on the order of Susan Hayward dramatically telling her story of a life ruined by bourgeois standards. The result is a semi-documentary mixing black and white segments of Barbara and Serena discussing the project with color scenes depicting little stories from the 1950’s, the heyday of bourgeois existence.

An intimate portrait of the director's sister: German model and former Playboy Playmate Hilde Kulbach.

How a penguin from the South Pole and a bear cub from the North became friends.

Perhaps no artist and fellow media theorist worked so fastidiously in the vein of McLuhan as Douglas Davis, albeit directly contrary to what he described as McLuhan’s “apocalyptic” message when he proclaimed, “The medium is not the message. You and I, in all our obstinate, unpredictable glory and complexity, are the message. The ultimate power lies on this, the other side of the TV screen, in the eye and mind of the viewer who can increasingly become the actor.” This performative broadcast – which also functions somewhat as a mini-retrospective of other classic Davis pieces – features Davis’s self-described “investigation into a kind of denial of the physical reality of the medium…[putting] the control over the medium…back into the hands of the human imagination.” Likewise, it directly contradicts VIDEODROME’s association of television and sexuality with pain and control. Whether it does so effectively is up to the viewer…

The little mole enters the forest for the first time. Everything here is new and interesting for him. Trying to help the inhabitants of the forest, he does everything at the wrong time - drains a puddle so that a frog does not drown in it, transfers chicks from the nest so that they are not flooded by rain.

János Kitka Jr, first seen in Schiffer's documentary 'Black Train' a decade earlier, is now 17 and is just released from a youth detention centre. He returns to his village and is put in the care of a probation officer. However, his family doesn't seem to help his situation, but rather makes him run away from home.

Directed by Mustapha Diop.

After an assassination attempt, a mannequin ends up by chance with a castle owner who, due to an allergy, is confined to a room in the tower, where she collects commercials from around the world via video. Mysterious murders and eerie figures make it difficult for the young woman to distinguish between reality and dreams.

A film by Ahmed Zir

The extermination of the last indigenous from the reserve of Mangueirinha, at the southeastern of Paraná, with the connivance from those who should protect them. With a biting irony, those questions develop with a structure of a multiple choice test.

This film is one of the summer camp productions. In contrast to Kinjiki, it portrays a common, simple romance in a fresh and breezy way. The director struggled with editing, being inexperienced with romance films, and the project nearly ended up shelved. It was eventually completed thanks to the skillful editing of a third party who had no involvement in the shooting once again, Hiroaki Mōri.

Experimental Video Arte

About the dangers of smoking.

arTVing, 7 min, educative experimental, 1983

Documentary material and reenacted scenes reveal the previously undisclosed extent of government surveillance.

Frontline investigates the power of the Pentagon as a business and economic force in the domestic economy. Politicians find themselves chasing Pentagon dollars for the jobs those dollars create in their districts; scientists and universities find themselves dependent on the military if they want to do research in many high-tech areas.

The wharf in Landskrona launches its final boat as the workers get ready for unemployment.

Recorded live at Kezar Pavilion in San Francisco on the evening of May 29th, 1981. "Throbbing Gristle have ceased to exist. They are now pursuing solo projects."

It shows the participation of Salvadoran women in the revolutionary struggle, through different functions they perform, from armed combatants to leaders.

1983 DCI World Championships held in Miami, FL on August 20, 1983 1. Garfield Cadets (1st Place 94.40 ) 2. Blue Devils (2nd Place 93.80) 3. Santa Clara Vanguard (3rd Place 92.75) 4. Phantom Regiment (4th Place 91.45) 5. Madison Scouts (5th Place 86.45) 6. Suncoast Sound (6th Place 86.05) 7. Spirit of Atlanta (7th Place 83.60) 8. Freelancers (8th Place 81.65) 9. Cavaliers (9th Place 80.55) 10. 27th Lancers (10th Place 79.65) 11. Bridgemen (11th Place 77.70) 12. Sky Ryders (12th Place 73.75)

According to Gloria Camiruaga, the Tricolor video was created from the realization of the scarce presence of female artists in the collective work, so that the absence of women constituted the subject of the video.

A film joke in the tradition of turpism. Tempted by Satan, Adam and Eve prefer... raw snake meat to the apple.

In a miserable, freezing two-room apartment on the first floor of a building, the Ruòppolo family lives in complete poverty. Giovanni, a clerk, struggles against a thousand difficulties to make ends meet, while his wife, Cristina, takes care of the housework.

8mm film directed by Teruo Koike

Filmed with a Super 8, this independent production portrays discrimination among homosexuals themselves and stereotypes often attached to gay men. At a Carnival camp, two boys meet and get involved. One of them catches the other dressed as a woman. A disagreement ensues.

The sky seized, squared, taken possession of by surveillance cameras. The sky seized, discerned, embraced by a man and a woman.

This short animation is the author's cynical reaction to the contemporary international political situation.

The son of a famous freedom fighter returns home from overseas to discover the streets of Seoul are being terrorized by gangsters from Japan. He and a beautiful kisaeng, the Korean version of a geisha, plot to drive the outlaws off.

Harizi lives in the town of Ksamil. His cousin Seferi goes to live there too, but after a while, shows signs of laziness and tries to falsify his reports. Hariz must find the force to expose his cousin's behavior.

The saxophonist arrives at the recording studio and enters hesitantly – the light is off, the chairs and tripods are in disarray.

In 1940, Jean Ray began writing the "Polichinelle d'acier"; he would never finish the short story. A narrator will disassemble the text, explore the writer's past, call witnesses to the stand, and thus penetrate the workings of a formidable spy network.

A man and a woman attempt to start a conversation with a third person. A spinoff of Spanghew Decorum.

Peter Littlefield, an instructor in natural philosophy, comes to Williamsburg, Va. in 1775 to give a series of lectures on astronomy, electricity and pneumatics.

Nokkukuthi is a 1983 Indian Malayalam film, directed by Mankada Ravi Varma and produced by P. P. Kunjahammad. The film stars Ajitha Gopalakrishnan, K. V. Haridas, Sameera and Sethu in lead roles

Presents a drama about Alabaster, a boy who is living a dull life in a dreary town. He wants to leave and seek his fortune, but his girlfriend is afraid to leave home

A short directed by Robert Sigl.

A thief climbed onto the roof of someone else's house, but the roof collapsed beneath him, and he was injured and captured by the guards. At the Sultan's court, he began to make accusations...

Short film.

In a small-town neighborhood, a group of ordinary men pool their savings to buy a single elegant white suit, passing it from one to another as each pursues a fleeting dream of transformation.

Animated short by Elena Prorokova, considered lost.

An intimate view of a young autistic savant named Richard Wawro from Scotland who is also an internationally acclaimed artist. Describes the joy and self-confidence that have accompanied his developing skills. Intended to help those working with the profoundly handicapped to recognize the creative potential that may lie hidden within these individuals

Musical skits about human qualities and passions.

Shot at an old butchers in Lee Green, South East London with Heilco Van der Ploeug. Designed to run as a super 8 projection for the performances that we were making in and around London as BEING KARNAL. Music BEING KARNAL (Heilco Van der Ploeug and Andrew Kotting)

Two-part TV film made for Air Force Political Department Drama Troupe.

A documentary short on Toronto's cultural institution, Coach House Books.

A documentary following a group of holiday-makers from Manchester on holiday in Benidorm.

The content of the film is a set of reflections of the author reflected in unusual combinations of trick shots based on the principles of geometric division of the frame. People and the city walls around them, their everyday life presented in an unusual way, create conditions for personal perception of the film by each viewer individually.