Cinematic Era: 1983 Vintage

Made-for-TV recording of Mozart's first opera, composed when he was 11 years old.

"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.

Film by Michael Rudnick

Short animation by Tokumitsu Kifune & Sonoko Kifune.

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.

Filmmaker Tony Buba charts the history and present of his hometown, Braddock, Pennsylvania

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

A short film screened at Il Cinema Ritrovato 2020

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.

An experimental work about the Australian forests by Arthur and Corinne Cantrill.

An examination of human nature and behavior.

A portrait of a homeless woman living on Pacaembu Avenue in São Paulo, surrounded by mansions. In the patch of land she chose to sleep on, she talks about various topics such as housing, foreign debt, her multiple marriages, the situation of the homeless, and more.

A classic short documentary within medical anthropology.

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

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.

Re-enactments of British pub hospitality through the ages.

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.

"The roll bar! The roll bar, yes! ... very enthusiastic about this film!" – Kurt Kren

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

Two video art pieces reflect the artist's concern with the relationships between "electronic imaging, vision and hearing, language/text/music/sound, abstract cognition and perception under the investigation of the maker/observer and observers." "Avant coureur" utilizes the video screen to project and display highly contrasted images that cut quickly from frame-to-frame, thereby creating a room-size flicker/environmental box. The music throughout is by Kraftwerk. "Raster relief," a work in two parts, provides a conceptual literalization of the terms raster (video) and relief (sculptural and difference from the ongoing). The look of this work is dedicated to the "isms" of modern painting and sculpture and the respective pioneers of abstraction.

Reporter Egon Ryś accidentally meets Scarecrow. He decides to give him a ride to the scarecrow convention, seeing it as a good topic for an article. The chairman of the meeting, Beelzebub, states that no one is afraid of them anymore, so they should start helping people instead of scaring them. Most of the ghosts are delighted with this idea, but the nobleman Boruta is opposed. He decides to sabotage his colleagues' activities.

A bear and a frog are drinking in a bar. They get into a disagreement over what is playing on the TV set--should they watch a bear-hunting show, or a cooking show where the main course is frog legs?

I was looking through boys’ comics and books at the images of ‘honour’, ‘heroism’ and violence. Then there was the Falklands War, and the newspapers, TV and other media were recycling the same emotive non-sense to paper over the cracks and the calculated, futile waste of lives. This is intended to be a serious film. So many people were deceived. –Vanda Carter

A partly dramatised documentary built around Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen’s photographs of the Newcastle terraced community, demolished to make way for the Byker Wall. Konttinen, a founder member of the Amber collective moved to Byker when the group came to NE England in 1969. She lived there until 1976, when her own flat was demolished. The film reconstructed some of the contexts, which had already gone, creating a celebration of traditional working class culture that has been widely shown to community and general audiences, as well as in planning and architecture forums. Together with Keeping Time, the film was one of Amber’s early photo films. Others created around Konttinen’s photographs include The Writing in the Sand (1991), Letters to Katja (1994), Today I’m With You (2010) and Song for Billy (2016).

An in depth and wide-ranging survey of the culture, tradition, rites and practices of voodoo in Haiti. Modern choreography influenced by voodoo tradition is also shown. Various ceremonies are filmed along with an extended look at the Festival Of The Dead or Fete Ghede. Along with the spirit of Baron Samedi.

From The Files of the Pyramid Cocktail Lounge is a series of video clips taken at the Pyramid Club, a seminal location for the East Village drag scene in the midst of the club's most influential years. While rummaging through a file cabinet full of event fliers from the Pyramid Club, an office worker in drag guides the viewer through video documentation of past performances at the club.

Made with young lesbians aged between 16 and 23 from Newcastle, Liverpool and London, this warm and engaging film explores the ups and downs of being lesbian in a predominately heterosexual and homophobic society geared to wedding bells and boys. The young women interviewed speak openly about their experiences of coming out to friends and parents and how in many cases they were told it was only a ‘phase’ they would grow out of. ‘If you can go out with boys at 14 and that’s OK, why can’t you go out with someone of your own sex without it being a crush’ asks one of the young women.

From the rushes of a black and white TV show, we can illustrate subjective feelings of the cineast. An obvious aesthetical concern is noticeable from the accuracy of chisellings. The use of acid and colored ink and felt-pen, offer effects of portrait and of stylized writing. Rhythms are punctuated by humoristic references from character’s portraits.

Two simple and progressive accumulations mingle with the confines of the Moffit Tunnel in the Rockies.

In the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea, the Enga people have developed the art of body decoration as a visual language. Using earth paints, tree oils, bird plumes, human hair, and a variety of plants, the Enga turn the body into a medium for an expressive and dramatic symbolism. This film shows the diverse forms of body art in both daily life and ritual in Enga village society.

In Belem, brazilian Amazon, the brazil nuts women live in the Estrada Nova neighbourhood. They turn the brazilian fruit into a nasty commodity.

From student films, with additional material shot in New Mexico.

The Rubber Stamp Film was hand stamped on over 5000 index cards. Color was added with water color and felt pen.

A giraffe plays hide and seek.