1983 Movies

Rabaul, New Britain is sitting on a time bomb. It’s hard for the Tolai inhabitants to cope with the constant threat of volcanic eruption as they wait...

Aired on CBS on August 13, 1983, the half-hour project was a live-action, loose adaptation of Doug Marlette’s popular syndicated comic strip Kudzu. It...

A young woman waits on the platform for the train to arrive. The first one doesn’t even stop. Another one carries luxury goods, another one is a train...

The second short by Zeinabu irene Davis

A portrait of the social and political landscape of Northern Ireland in the early 1980s, on the 15th anniversary of the start of the modern Troubles.

Animation of a poem from Edith Sitwell's "Façade".

Early work by Joanna Hogg.

A man does the family planning, preparing future love-making sessions with his partner, without worrying about whether the desire is mutually felt. Sh...

A young girl is torn between marrying the old man herr Sleeman for money or the young hunter out of love.

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 flo...

"As a reminder for the younger generations, in 1983 there were only 3 television channels in France. Special effects production with graphic palette w...

Eva is a widow bored with life, with her job as an architect, with her younger lover, and with her two teenage offspring. She is eventually assigned t...

A young man wakes up one day transformed into a giant insect.

Yumi Shima's animated short film is an experiment with geometric objects.

Based on the famous Gustav Holst musical suite, Ken Russell's musical delight takes viewers on a magnificent journey of the planets of the Solar Syste...

Second in the River series. Piano tuner Eiko visits a town on the banks of the Guadalquivir River in Andalusia, Spain. In the dazzling light, she inte...

An essay film or an ethnographic documentary, contemplating the finite lot of individuals as part of a continuum of human experience in the natural wo...

Background visuals from the hybrid laserdisc/CG arcade game "Star Rider." This is the source footage, without the telemetry, rear-view display or game...