1983 Movies

Film by Michael Rudnick

Film by Michael Rudnick

With Israel as an example, the reality of how military force is deemed necessary to maintain national sovereignty and the price involved is examined.

Experiemental video using Datamax graphics software. This piece is a very early example of the use of computer animation in video art. ZGrass refers t...

Young employees of a famous restaurant operate a new branch at a tourist attraction and make it a better one.

What do you remember about a film when you haven’t seen it for ten years? James McCourt’s memory is prodigious. In an office in the Rockefeller Center...

Short animation by Tokumitsu Kifune & Sonoko Kifune.

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

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...