Cinematic Era: 1983 Vintage

Since retiring as a master wood carver, Carlo Fusetti has carved a gift, an inheritance for his granddaughter. But now his health keeps him from his work. A moving lyrical film about an artist facing mortality.

Part of HBO’s America Undercover, Hooker examines prostitution. It talks to call-girls, nude models, and streetwalkers who discuss the difficulties of the sex trade. It interviews prostitutes in the dominance, the owners of a nude massage parlor, and a pimp working on the streets.

A series of shots depicting "America" are laid over a classic Gregorian Chant recreated through the distortion of a woman's screams.

Videos, charts, quotations, paintings and learning activities to assist in studying the Doctrine and Covenants and Church history. Includes the movies: Joseph Smith: The Prophet of the Restoration, Mountain of the Lord, Legacy and Only a Stonecutter.

From March to June 1983, the Dutch comedian Freek de Jonge performed his fifth solo performance: De mythe ('The myth'). In the programme booklet he included the following quote from Polish-British anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski: 'Myth as it exists in a savage community, that is in its living primitive form, is not merely a story told but a reality lived.'

The actions of the so-called White Brigade, a special police unit dedicated to combating the sale and consumption of drugs, continue. Their enemies hide throughout the city and are groups of "evil" dealers and hippie-looking young people who are hallucinating from the consumption of marijuana and other herbs.

Half-hour special documentary featuring three Seattle-based writers: Charles Johnson and Colleen McElroy, African-Americans, and Frank Chin, Chinese American. Broadcast, November 1983. Partial funding by Seattle Arts Commission.

A remarkable documentary about the remnants of a once-thriving Jewish neighborhood in the South Bronx that survives despite the surrounding decline. Amidst all the decay, the Blacks, Puerto Ricans, and Jews of Intervale are able to provide for and support each other.

Satire on labor discipline violators.

Salto, 13 min. experimental, l982

A boy wants to learn how to sew buttons, and following his mother's advice, he sews a hundred buttons, transforming his apartment in the process.

This 1983 documentary re-examines the sinking of the famous ocean liner RMS Titanic in April 1912 and asks whether the tragedy was simply an accident or the result of human decisions and negligence. Combining historical analysis with rare survivor testimony, the film investigates the circumstances that led to one of the deadliest maritime disasters in history.

A young man leaves his village and goes to live in the urban outskirts. While changing one job after another, it turns out he's good for nothing and fails to keep it. On top of that, his girlfriend gets pregnant, and he decides to go back living on the farm again.

A TV adaptation of the eponymous play by Miodrag Zalica. The protagonists go through the world of theater, where everything is possible, enter into ludic turns from the grotesque to the tragic, from the tragic to the comic.

Journalist and director Felicia Lowe’s search for the roots of her father’s family results in a warm, insightful portrait of Mainland China in 1979. Her journey takes us through the streets of Beijing where street dialogues reveal the curiosity of local people about the lives of the Chinese in America to a conversation with an English-speaking woman who, like Lowe, is a working mother, but it is the landscapes in the faces of her aunts, uncles, cousins and 85-year-old grandmother that are the greatest rewards of the voyage.

Produced for a fraction of the cost of an Elton John epic, CLIP flashes through scenes of everyday teendom. A scratchy trip through everyday life punctuated by vivid colours, manic music and a rather excessive trip to the barbers, is eventually thwarted as the whole thing goes up in smoke.

The computer revolution will wipe out old jobs and create new professions.

The industry frees hands and increases the need for brains : the industrial sector gives way to the contractors.

How will services for the elderly be in Milan in 2000. The welfarist attitude will be overcome.

As a small West German family traveling through East Germany, without official permits or prospects. Home not as a geographical report, but as a word for the "all-German" circumstances from which we come: a journey through time.

The live video to Ultravox's "Monument" album, recorded at the London Hammersmith Odeon during the band's 1982 "Monument" tour.

Graduate short film.

Documentary about human life

An 18-year-old farmer's son, dissatisfied with the life he leads on his parents' small farm, begins to reflect on himself. Although he studies the history of his family and their property through old photos, he dares to break out by returning to school against his parents' will. But this attempt to change fails. In a class test, he misses the point because the teacher, drawing on his own life experience, does not accept the existing life experience of his new classmate.

The people before the camera expose themself to the question: What do I have to tell the audience.

Labor protection film warning against the usage of improper footwear, commissioned by the Ministry of Light Industries, the Department of Cotton Industries.

Inspired by the life of Toluca-born boxer Ernesto Barrera, who became the national flyweight champion in 1960. It portrays the meteoric career, rapid rise, and tragic downfall of the fighter, from his impoverished childhood and early days in boxing to his death in 1983, brought about by alcoholism.

Recorded Live in Dortmund Germany December 18, 1983. Setlist: "Long Stick Goes Boom", "American Woman", "Bedside Radio", "Heat Strokes"

Recorded Live in Dortmund, Germany December 18, 1983, as part of the Metal Health tour. Setlist: : "Let’s Get Crazy", "Metal Health", "Slick Black Cadillac", "Cum On Feel The Noize"

When Angel Wilson and her family move into a spooky old house, their new neighbour Billy informs her the place is haunted by an old miser -- who is rumored to have disappeared with a million dollars in cash. Learning of a secret room in the mansion's basement, the two sleuths make an astonishing discovery -- only to be trapped by a near-fatal cave-in. Now, they'll have to solve the mansion's baffling mystery, or end up missing...just like the miser and his legendary loot!

An ethnographic documentary.

Experimental film by Yosuke Okawado.

Fouad, who works as an officer in the Anti-Narcotics division,discovers while he's chasing a man coming from abroad,that he's his brother-in-law. When his brother-in-law is killed in an ambush, he tries to uncover the gang that killed him.

The daughter of Algerian immigrants, Amaria grew up and went to school in France, and she must now return to her parents’ homeland to marry a man she barely knows and doesn’t love. As she leaves this country where she grew up and studied, she also leaves her parents and friends from high school, one of which she is in love with. The school year comes to an end. Her future is somewhere else. Although the film was inspired by a real situation, it unfolds like a fiction film in that it takes us to a third land, the land of dreams and hopes, where everyhting finally works out for everyone. Reality, however, is stubborn, and Amaria will be forced to leave and do her duty to the end.

A kid, a lamb and a baby camel make friends and bravely set out on a journey to catch up with their herds.

It's Christmas in the Hundred Acre Wood much to Roo and Pooh's delight, and Eeyore wants to do something special but can't think. But when a pile of snow traps Pooh and his friends in their houses, it's up to Eeyore and Owl to save Christmas! Notes

Images of cars more or less broken: broken windows replaced by sheets or plastic flying in the wind, held together by construction bricks, broken headlights. These shots are interlaced with others of damaged plastic tarps on construction sites.

A look at my daughter's first three years of life.

The hero of the story is the house. He tells how he got built, the family that lived inside him, their loves, and adventures together.

An artistic interpretation of the capability of the human hand.

Quarup is a ritual honoring the dead. The Sete Quedas (Seven Falls) were the largest waterfalls in the world by water volume. In 1982, the violent flooding of the falls and the lands of traditional communities in the region was completed to create the reservoir of the Itaipu Hydroelectric Plant. In this short film, filmmaker Frederico Füllgraf captures the final days of this natural wonder of Paraná, accompanied by verses from Carlos Drummond de Andrade (written in reference to the waterfalls’ destruction) and the Avá-Guarani Quarup ritual.

The Time-Slice camera was first devised in 1980 by Tim Macmillan at Bath Academy of Art during his BA. Fine Arts degree course. Originally a painter, Macmillan was interested in combining Cubist theory with contemporary technology. Initially using hand-made photographic emulsions and photo grams, he went on to create a series of cameras creating multiple viewpoints of a space which were then collaged together. The multiple camera concept then made a lateral leap to being applied to cine film. The first camera involved a length of 16mm film negative, clear Perspex spacers providing a focal length and a strip of opaque 16mm cine magnetic tape with a pinhole drilled into each frame. A simple shutter over the magnetic tape then provided the means of exposure. The result was a tracking shot through a space. The profound revelation was that while the viewer experienced a move through space, time was frozen. A paradox!

The Bitterfeld lignite combine includes a large number of lignite plants, open-cast mines, power stations and briquette factories. The film presents several mining professions, shows miners' jobs, mostly in connection with modern mining technology, and points out the great prospects that mining offers in a wide variety of professions.

Li Caifeng, a village girl proud of her beauty, measures potential husbands by the size of their bride price, earning her the nickname “the high-price girl.” At first, she falls in love with Dunzi, a young man from her village, and accepts his bride price. But she soon dumps him, looking down on him as a plain, rough-mannered farmer. Heartbroken, Dunzi turns to alcohol. Caifeng’s sister, Caijuan, encourages him to pull himself together, and he eventually returns to farm work with renewed purpose. In time, Dunzi and Caijuan, united by shared values, marry and build a happy life together. Later, Caifeng begins a relationship with Cheng Lin, a contract worker at the county agricultural machinery factory. But when his contract ends and he must return to farming, she rejects him as well. With the warm support of Liyun, the daughter of Aunt Ba, Cheng Lin studies hard, gains admission to an agricultural college, and finds sincere love with Liyun.

Filmed at great personal risk, this documentary exposes the plight of "the last tribe of Israel", the Falashas of Ethiopia. They are persecuted by the Ethiopians for being Jewish and subject also to Israeli discrimination. The impoverished Falashas live in tiny, mountainous villages where the film crew found them practicing their religion in isolation, as they have done for the past 2,000 years. These Ethiopian Jews long to go to Zion, but the government will not allow them to emigrate and deals harshly with those who endeavor to escape.

A TV documentary about the Finnish band Hassisen Kone and its frontman Ismo Alanko.

The artist Edith Simon in conversation and at work creating intricate 'scalpel paintings' from paper. The work featured in this film is 'The Descent', the sitter is Andrea Targett-Adams.

nicos cconcert in amsterdam in 1983

A German Film Award winning short animation.

Images from "the day after" contrasted with the sound from yesterday's party.

Film featuring male stripper performances.

Loosely based on a one-act drama by Tennessee Williams about a prostitute dying in a fleabag bordello, Hello from Bertha is played out in a Boston bedroom with spotty Southern accents and loose wigs. One of Morrisroe’s three surviving films (a fourth, centered on the murder of his cat, was censored immediately after it was shown, and has been lost) that all engage with the experimental cinematic language of their time, incorporating elements of horror cinema, a punk ethos, and the outrageousness of artists like Jack Smith, Kenneth Anger, and John Waters.

Godzilla faces off against Ultra Q monster: Pagos!