Cinematic Era: 1983 Vintage

Video by Dov "Doobie" Eylath.

This visually spectacular and instructive film traces the evolution of a star from its birth in the depths of a black nebula to its final extinction. Animated drawings, recreating the beauty and immensity of the universe, are amplified by a dense narrative describing the differing evolutionary processes followed by stars of different masses. The film touches on the creation of elements in the core of stars, red giants, bursters, space-time relationships, and black holes. This animation film will be of particular interest to students of physics, chemistry, astronomy, and animation buffs.

A dispute about water causes dramatic consequences, and the whole story grows into a tragic metaphor for the fate of a man doomed to fight for a bare existence.

A love letter to the city from Chicago native and filmmaker Warren E. Thompson. It is a continuing effort to record some of the events, characteristics, problems and glories of Chicago. Footage includes architecture, sculpture, housing, Lake Michigan, Chinatown, parades, Maxwell Street Market, and the people of Chicago. Thompson captures life and culture from the most affluent to the poverty stricken.

The last remains of the deathstrip.

“Os Velhos não são Trapos” portrays the daily life of a nursing home with the mission to treat people with respect and affection. Maria José Silva plays the zealous director of Lar do Futuro and she takes care of its inhabitants and employees kindheartedly and with a great sense of morals, because everyone deserves to be loved and respected.

Seaman constructs this evocative visual and verbal poem through a collage of image, music and spoken text. Originally shot in Super-8 film, S.He is a lyrical rumination on the dualities of male and female, sound and image, motion and stasis. Seaman shot an industrial landscape from the window of a moving train, isolating the architecture's sculptural elements and subtly altering the images with slowed and staggered motion. Seaman's hypnotic, chanted text is a litany of associative and metaphorical phrases that, through linguistic and symbolic associations, defines the elusive, genderless identity of the title.

16mm. Won Bluedents International Film Festival Director Award

"Leggett's early experiment was with film, though his exploration of video started in the '70s with CCTV and performance ... and re-contextualising the video image as film, to questioning the electronic technology and its 'ambiguities'. Leggett has moved fluidly between shifting moving-image technologies, film, video and digital, and engages the audience directly with the associated and variable discourses." - J.Hatfield.

The search for the truth takes a man through the abyss of urban falsehoods where he encounters those who would follow him to the nearest social exit. (3/4 in. video; color)

An amateur home movie made by Betty Cook of a Christmas Day in 1983 with close family and relatives at home in Mandale Road, Middlesbrough. The group open presents around the Christmas tree, have dinner, and play Scrabble before falling asleep. Some parts of the film were re-staged the following July as certain family members were not available at the time. Betty Cook was the President of the Cleveland Cine Society and the North East Cine Society.

Experiemental video using Datamax graphics software. This piece is a very early example of the use of computer animation in video art. ZGrass refers to the programming language used to create the images.

A short, silent, oblique self-portrait from 1983. Filmed on 16mm Kodachrome 40 and some black-and-white stock (the superimpositions were made in-camera) and reworked on the optical printer at the LFMC.

The second part of a trilogy, Great Mother (YUMIKO) is a domestic melodrama that examines the cultural and familial role of Japanese women by tracing the psychology of a turbulent mother-daughter relationship. Yumiko, a rebellious young woman from an affluent family, encounters resistance from her mother, a successful career woman, when she becomes pregnant and marries. The mother is an icy, assured presence, seen only on a television screen as a superego who monitors Yumiko's behavior. The television becomes a powerful metaphorical device, underlining the disunity of the familial structure and acting as a psychological presence. As Yumiko's marriage deteriorates, her pain is juxtaposed with the banal rituals of her mother's life (instructing her subordinates at work, scrubbing the floor at home), an irony ultimately heightened by the viewer's awareness of the reflexivity of this drama-within-a-drama.

Intimate chronicle of Guajiro life, rites and myths.

A modern couple, dis-illusioned with life and existence together, attempt to find love via nature. But as fate would have it, the manifestation of love realizes itself via death. Set in the Canadian Rockies.

A certain combination of objects can warp a person for life. "This is my story." -R.A.

A group of children go on top of a cliff in Grímsey to collect some eggs.

Two sketches on the decomposition of the light spectrum, the relationship between light and the screen and its projection frame.

"Just what it says." –B. C.

"Likely Stories" was one Pay-TV's first original comedy programs. The one-hour shows were a mixed-bag of short films, videos, and animation that helped define the cutting-edge of today's no-holds- barred cable comedy programming. Each episode was chock-full of notable comedy stars eager to dabble in pay-cable's new found freedoms.

The restatement of events and divine interventions during the Iran-Iraq war; a tribute to the missing martyrs of whom there’s nothing left other than their names on the walls of the city . The restatement of the fact that the superpowers’ material weapons is dwarfed against the weapon of faith.

In 1983, a crew of young, DIY documentarians visited Long Island's Roosevelt Field Mall to study mall culture. This is Mall City.

After a big fire, the small factory director elected by the masses establishes a brand new enterprise on the ruins.

Film scholar Helmut Färber discusses Griffith' A CORNER IN WHEAT.

An examination of human nature and behavior.

A triangle story. First of all, there's Daisy, the stunning transvestite, looking for his own identity. Then, Hurry Up, the communication streaker on roller skates, moving just to keep moving, unable to sleep and rest, driven by the wish to incite discussions or feelings. And here is Mickey, the pub journalist who believes in social climbing and goes to pieces because of it. In order to make his life bearable, he runs away to the infantile world of Mickey Mouse...

A classic short documentary within medical anthropology.

An animation film that illustrates how closely eye and ear are linked, and how one acts on the other. The film is divided into three sections--game, conflict and flirtation--that repeat themselves without seeming to do so. This illusion is created by the sound track, which varies and colours the action. A film without words.

Stations throughout Connecticut and even New York City. Riding around with my father and back to the gas station.

ZEBRA Live At The Summit Houston, TX 1983 + Videos DVD Format: NTSC Source: Professional-Shot (Multi-Camera) Video Quality: Rating: 8.0 Menus: No LIVE AT THE SUMMIT, HOUSTON TX ‘83 As I Said Before One More Chance Take Your Fingers From My Hair Tell Me What You Want The La La Song Who's Behind The Door Don't Walk Away

Situated in the midst of the ideology of the Green Revolution, Les Coopérants presents seven young people who go out of their daily lives.

Revealing documentary compilation from historic footage shot by the National Institute of Cinema in Mozambique which looks at the rehabilitation of former colonial government collaborators by the government of Samora Machel (former president of Mozambique). During his reign Mozambique, which gained independence in 1975, was drawn into the struggle against white rule in Rhodesia and South Africa. In 1986 Machel died in an aircrash which is still shrouded in mystery.

In Micro Cosmos, a series of four short computer-animated works, the image of an orb is transformed into a pulsating, energetic evocaton of life forces.

In Sonia and Stan Paint a Portrait of Ronnie, VanDerBeek and artist Sonia Sheridan assemble a pastiche of images of Ronald Reagan, metamorphosed through digital computer graphics.

A blue collar African American mother talks about her pregnancy and raising her daughter with her lesbian lover.

In “Peace O’ Mind” (1983, 8.5 minutes) the characters try to stay safe at home, but become isolated and entrapped there. Images of a domestic space are connected with images of poverty “in the backyard” of this space to suggest knowing of and hiding from this deprivation has entrapped the characters, physically and mentally, in their private, isolated, and disturbed spaces.

Herewith the strange case of Reginald Pepper, the acclaimed English “primitive” painter who, some say, lives secluded with his mother and two cats in Swindon and who, say others, suffers a mental handicap which accounts for the pinheaded figures in his paintings. A Sunday Times article shocked the art community by shedding doubts as to the authenticity of this untrained genius, and these doubts were compounded when students from the now defunct Swindon College of Art discovered, in attempting to make a documentary film on the subject, that Reginald Pepper had mysteriously disappeared! Enter filmmakers Noel Burch (Correction Please, or How We Got Into Pictures) and Christopher Mason, who piece together the story, after their own fashion, of this elusive painter of oversized cats and thereby illuminate a whole field of skepticism regarding the dubious nature of the term “primitive” as applied to contemporary painting.

Praised by The New York Times as a "stunning paean to Monet," Ohio at Giverny is the title of Lucier's highly acclaimed two-channel, seven-monitor installation. Writes Lucier, "This work is an investigation of light in landscape and its function as an agent of memory, both personal and mythic. It deals with the convergence of disparate entities — geographies, epochs, sensibilities: with transitions from one state of being to another, and how within the frame of imagination and collective memory these 'dissolves' take place. "Nostalgic images from Lucier's native Ohio — the pastoral countryside and a Victorian home — are fluidly juxtaposed and correlated with the lush beauty of Impressionist painter Claude Monet's gardens in Giverny, France.

Mexican feature film

Mexican feature film

Mexican feature film

Mexican feature film