Rok 1982 - 293

An impressionistic piece of work, composed out of several movement experiences. A landscape glides by behind a rainscattered train compartment window. In fact the journey goes nowhere, although a map suggests the contrary. As useless as the automatic panning controls camera in a large clothing store only reflects clothes horses. Also shots from a car on the highway, pictures of combat planes on a military airport or shots in the Amsterdam subway are not focused on telling a specific story. Sometimes they are transformed into abstractions, literally and emotionally. They are daydreams backed up by rhythm and sounds from Heyink’s synthesiser.

Visual memos by Auto Awac, the group name used by Kees de Groot, Frank Morsinkhof, Ron Sluik and Emile Toorop. Small personal events and ordinary technology alternate. Subjects like a digital clock, a laundromat, a recorder and a filmclip promoting an electronics factory are experienced just as subjectively as walking through a cornfield or living in a dormitory. On one page of this visual diary is a musical improvisation - one of the artists plays the trumpet for the first time; on another, pieces of a TV show. This romanticism of the technological society is borne not only by impulsively chosen and reworked pictures, but especially by its own electronic music. The initial title of (a part of) the work has been 'In the Interest of Science and Technology'.

Nostalgic old postcards in a not so nostalgic bawdy collage birthday present for the star of MOTHERLOVE.

Varble spent the last five years of his life working on an epic, unfinished performance-turned-video titled Journey to the Sun (1978-1983). Only partially complete and under constant revision, this complex work combined Varble’s history of making costumes for performances, with his fantastic stories involving metamorphosis and martyrdom. In 1982, Varble decided to make a “prelude” to Journey to the Sun, combining existing footage with new video taken in Riverside Park in New York City. This self-contained video differs greatly from the bulk of Journey to the Sun, in that it is not constructed around the main narrative, but rather is composed of prefatory remarks and extended footage of outdoor scenes, and contains no dialogue. The main aim of this prelude was to provide a key to some of the main sources for Varble’s thought — actress Greta Garbo, spiritual leader George Gurdjieff, and founder of the Subud movement Muhammad "Pak" Subuh.

An Australian film

People perform their favorite movie songs

Sri Lanka’s first LGBT film stars Joe Abeywickrema as Sunny a scion of a feudal family having an affair with a young man.

An experimental documentary that takes world-building to an entirely new level, Rites of Spring showcases fragments of Iran’s history before, during, and after the Revolution of 1979. It begins with scenes of daily life, working-class people, and extensive shots of farms and nature. When the Revolution hits the country, the new focus becomes demonstrations, leaders’ preachings, and scenes of strife, revealing the constant fear and chaos that hover over the country. The birds that break out of their eggs toward the end signal an undeniably effective promise of a new beginning for a country that oscillates between revolution and war.

A film by Jim Crutchfield, Entropy Productions, Santa Cruz (1982). Original 16mm transferred to U-matic video and then to digital video.

Against the odds, same sex couples in Oxford get the right to register for council housing, but for how long?

"Retrospectively, I could say that this work, realized collectively, was an essay of animation cinema, a clip with no other pretension than the pleasure of associating images to a song of the group Gang of Four. Our bias for the graphic framework was to take into account the rhythm and the sound atmosphere of the song, a few key words from the text and the images filmed during the concert."

A sequel to HEALING PROCESS: "Four years after my father died, I found the sympathy cards, the certificates for trees in Israel, and the letters of condolence that I stashed away in haste when my mother demanded, 'Get rid of these.' Due to my morbid curiosity, I opened the envelopes." – (from the beginning of the soundtrack)

Guillermo, a rock music critic, decides to write a book in which he sets out to tell the truth about John Lennon's death.

Experimental film projected over a sculpture

16mm experimental film shown at 4 frames per second

Using one half of a convex mirror mounted within a glass cylinder, Steina trains the video camera eye dead center as she records the space immediately around her. “Steina playfully does gymnastics with her camera and its mirrored lens attachment as a means of producing a 360-degree image of a torso wrapped around the camera lens . . . an exercise in an immersive space” for both maker and viewer. —Yvonne Spielmann