1983 Movies

In 1983, a group of friends who worked at Disney made a movie. It took nine long months to complete and consumed their lives as they constructed space...

A spiritual journey, symbolized by the spiral, through images and sounds selected from the physical world over several years as the filmmaker moved be...

Stephen C. Ning's "Freckled Rice" also has a roving teen-ager at its center, in this case a 13-year-old Chinese-American boy. Joe (J. P. Wing) and his...

The second short by Zeinabu irene Davis

A work-in-progress about middle class African American parents discussing why they have ordered their daughter to get rid of her afro.

"From there to here...from then to now. The soundtrack feature 33 frogs, 22 birds, lion growls, bomb whistles, a heartbeat and the chromatic scale."

An urban poem, in which a chauffeur drives his Madam about in downtown Johannesburg; visits to friends, townships, wastelands. The trip ends with a nu...

In and around the pool, an array of creatures move about. A scene of the famous novel "Seven Days at the Silbersteins" by Etienne Leroux to the music...

Profiles the career of Roy DeCarava, the first African-American photographer to receive a Guggenheim fellowship.

In 1976 a number of Aboriginal people left missions and settlements to return to live on their tribal lands, between the Daly River and Port Keats, in...

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...

In the 1970s, two exciting discoveries of human fossil remains, focused world attention on Australia. Evidence implied that two very different types o...

The only doco to record the early years of Australian jazz. This lovingly compiled celluloid history of the Melbourne jazz scene is a fascinating stud...

A story about first love of three twelve years old boys to an older girl.

The film starts with voice over by Julie (Jill Delaney) which sets the minimalist plot running as she rides on her Ducati 750 into Melbourne.

Part of the 1983 Super 8 Gay Festival

An animated satire on television violence, set in a world where the skeletal Don Death runs a popular variety show called “Dance of Death”.

An experimental documentary that reflects on the different kinds of relationship between mother and daughters, and the position of women in the family...

Explores the influence of the African American civil rights movement, both in philosophy and strategy, on the fight for Catholic independence in North...