1983 Movies

From 1982 through 1984, Atari ran summer computer camps at several locations around the United States. That first year of the computer camps, in 1982,...

A documentary on the Romanies living on the outer fringes of Slovenia in the Prekmurje and Dolenjska region who, like the free and migratory birds, ar...

8mm film directed by Teruo Koike

Opening animation for AZICON.

A short, silent, oblique self-portrait from 1983. Filmed on 16mm Kodachrome 40 and some black-and-white stock (the superimpositions were made in-camer...

Ghost stories opens with a sequence of polemical shots: a mysterious shadow, an ambiguous advertisement which has deeper ambiguities unknown even to i...

A moving and graphic portrait of the people of wartorn Beirut in their day-to-day struggle to survive in the rubble and despair. Filmed shortly after...

The Moravians, an early Protestant group, founded missions on the Labrador coast in the 18th century. Serving as a buffer between the Indigenous peopl...

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...

An echoing, nocturnal, elliptical text. Female voices speak it. Fragments of music punctuate and suspend the images. The text says the transformation...

An early, single-channel version of Bender's video collages, one with found, created, and manipulated imagery, including a Folgers coffee commercial,...

An improvisatory 40-minute foray into a fervent, formative period in the lives of poets such as Dennis Cooper, Benjamin Weissman, Amy Gerstler, and Bo...

An amalgam of sex without guilt and sight without glasses. The importance of being able to see what you are doing. A film about confusing relationshop...

Intimate chronicle of Guajiro life, rites and myths.

A film by Haydée Caillot with Brigitte Bérenguier, Tamila Mezhba et al.

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 lov...

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

A documentary examining the life and career of comedian, Max Wall.