1983 Movies

An experimental art animation.

When all the animals have finished building their houses, the little turtle is still making and making his own. He tries to build the most comfortable...

After a phone call, a woman suddenly decides to leave her husband as a child. She finds herself in an inn populated by strange individuals. A new life...

“Starting from the adage by Walter Benjamin ‘not to aestheticize politics, but rather to politicize aesthetics,’ the thrust of my explorations ask the...

The same situation repeats itself several times: A creature lays an egg, a new creature hatches from it, and so on.

This intriguing audio-visual piece was created by Mike Batt in 1982. It was the first thing Batt ever directed (co-directing with John Eastway). The d...

Another man sits down next to the passenger in the dining car. They strike up a conversation, talking about different people and things. It is difficu...

A film sponsored by CLUW (Coalition of Labor Union Women) showing the importance of unions to women and experiences of women in unions, including the...

An urban, techno spin on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice.

A portrait of the caricaturist Mihai Stănescu, the film is not a conventional documentary, as it resorts to small comic scenes that highlight the play...

Subtitled “Eros in Psyche” and set to a composition by Tomaso Albinoni, Lawrence Jordan’s rapturous live action short contemplates two nude figures in...

Wealthy industrialist Amrish Rai and his wife welcome their U.S. returned son, Vikram alias Vicky back to India. They would like him to get married to...

Documentary on 35mm (censored but not released) made for Films Division, India.

Second in this series of lost and in-completed amateur Super8 films is "Amazing Stories", a 1983 vignette piece of short sketches. Based on the early...

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

This formal study is based on a series of postcards of pre-war Tokyo. The artist fuses these images of the past with the same scenes that appear today...

Documentary about three artists from the Basque Country.