1983 Movies

Re-enactments of British pub hospitality through the ages.

After a kind of big bang, a character is constructed from elements scattered on the ground, then starts to walk and builds a city.

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 force...

Self Poured Traits is a tongue-in-cheek self-examination set to the poetry of Kenneth Rexroth.

In Reeling in TV Time, VanDerBeek experiments with imaging capabilities and early computer graphics.

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

Densely colorized images of a couple making love and a close-up of a child's face dissolve into a nuclear mushroom cloud at the beginning of Subatomic...

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 a...

In São Pedro (neighborhood of Vitória-ES-Brazil),thousands of people survived, in the 80's, living from the garbage. The scenes of women, children an...

Documentary on three Asian families in Britain.

The video So Much I Want to Say consists of a series of still images, changing every eight seconds, which show the artist's face in close-up with a pa...

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 ins...

"Coming of Age in Belfast" focuses on young people in Ballymurphy, an area in Belfast, Northern Ireland, who have grown up during the Troubles.

Design 2084 is a piece of lost media that surfaced online on August 3, 2019. It was posted to YouTube by user Josh Hadley in an attempt to gather info...

From the Pacific sun to the Arctic ice-fields, adventure seeker John Burrud seeks out the world's deadliest creatures in an attempt to uncover unknown...