After Beardsley

After Beardsley 1982

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Aubrey Beardsley, the influential 1890s illustrator who died at the age of 25, returns to life in the late 20th century.

1982

Chess

Chess 1982

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Sherman underscores the oppositional component of the board game with split screen techniques and evocative black and white graphics.

1982

Depart to Arrive

Depart to Arrive 1982

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When her lesbian affair with Regine hits the rocks, Anna needs to escape her job as a photographer, her home, her friends and everything that reminds her of the past and so she aims a borrowed Volkswagen van for the south of France and steps on the gas pedal. As she travels, her daydreams take on the force of reality as she fantazises about the past with Regine, yet the change in color tonalities of her imaginings and other camera tricks contrast her make-believe world with the scenic countryside and picturesque villages she passes on her way. As the road unspools before her like a role of film, images from her mind's storehouse of reels flash by - and the parallels between traveling away and mentally going back become clearer, for as the title suggests, she has to "depart to arrive."

1982

Concerto pour Aloual

Concerto pour Aloual 1982

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Aloual, the black pearl leads an initiatory journey which is a quest for the part of mystery and the wild side that lays deep inside each of us.

1982

The Big Green House on the Corner

The Big Green House on the Corner 1982

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No-budget, silent, Super 8 horror-comedy filmed some time in the early '80s about a suburban cannibal who lives in the titular Big Green House on the Corner.

1982

What Mary Jo Wanted

What Mary Jo Wanted 1982

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Mary Jo wants a puppy more than anything in the world. At first her parents, seemingly made of stone, flatly refuse their youngest daughter's heartfelt pleas and Mary Jo is openly mocked by her older siblings. Finally, when the little girl seems to be devoting every waking moment to dreaming about dogs, the parents relent. Some difficulties ensue, but Mary Jo and her dog Teddy meet them head on.

1982

Five Year Diary, Reel 23: A Breakdown (and) After the Mental Hospital (September 1–December 13, 1982)

Five Year Diary, Reel 23: A Breakdown (and) After the Mental Hospital (September 1–December 13, 1982) 1982

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Introduction; paranoia about root vegetables; esoteric sign language; searching for hidden significances; crush on Tom Baker ("Doctor Who" from BBC Television); my cats Amy and Buddy; vegetarian cooking; the compost heap; my mother and her house; driving into Boston; unemployment; television hypervigilance; hiding inside; exorcism with tea and mirror and lamps; too much wine; my friend the painter Susan Brown; the movie The Turning Point; experiences in a mental hospital; psychiatric session recording; autumn street and garden scenes; the mental day-hospital; domestic still-lives; bingeing; self Gestalt-therapy; school; groceries; winter; my garden; a series of self-portraits. (ACR)

1982

Red Sea

Red Sea 1982

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Spring tides at Ynys Llanddwyn at the full and new moon are compared to the filmmaker’s own ‘body tides’ from dark to light and back again. Like other films by Judith Noble (formerly Higginbottom), The Red Sea is concerned with the menstrual cycle, and its relationship to lunar cycle. Higginbottom and other feminist artists such as Catherine Elwes, Carolee Schneemann and Judy Clark were trying to reclaim menstruation from its negative image and assert it as a source of creative energy. The Red Sea is made of 16mm film and 35mm still images, re-worked and over-printed.

1982

Eclipse Predictions

Eclipse Predictions 1982

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Diana Wilson’s mysteriously beautiful animated tableaux fluidly unfold before our eyes, a generous receptacle for the mournful, harrowing soundtrack, in which the filmmaker recounts a tragedy from her youth. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.

1982

Holon

Holon 1982

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"Christian Lebrat said he thought of Monet, who painted with the series Water Lilies colors ‘at the edge of the visible;’ those of Holon indeed display colors so intense, so enraged with energy that they release in a pure way the performative, exclamative character, the character of act which, in a more or less underground way, informs every image." Nicole Brenez

1982

Too Young

Too Young 1982

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Taking off where Brooke Shields left us in her Calvins, this film takes a hard, humorous look at the pressures and frustrations girls feel as they rush out to explore their sexuality with all the taboos and fears that entails.

1982

Mysteries

Mysteries 1982

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Mysteries is a photomontage film, shot at Penmon, Anglesey and Whiteknights Farm, Hampshire. Beginning with a quotation from a dream, it becomes the filmmaker's interpretation of the harvest and the old mystic theme of the Mysteries: “The women are celebrating the Mysteries on the beach at Penmon... No-one is watching... The sound of the general waves crashing against the bank of pebbles; the sound of the barley waving... Someone holds out her hand, holds it open against the sea. Perhaps it is my hand, the hand holds three ears of barley...”.

1982

Portraits of Two Artists

Portraits of Two Artists 1982

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Features master painters Hughie Lee-Smith and Jacob Lawrence. In addition to visual sequences of the artist's work, the program includes an inside look at a class taught by Lee-Smith at New York's prestigious Art Students League; both artists working in their studios; a trip by ferry to an island in Puget Sound where Lawrence works on a commissioned mural; and an animation of the illustrations from Lawrence's children's book "Harriet and the Promised Land". From the collection of the Black Resource Center at the County of Los Angeles Public Library. https://archive.org/details/portraitoftwoartistscompton

1982

Sto pervyy

Sto pervyy 1982

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Senator Fromm called to deal unjustly like it became known how much he was involved in the Bobbi Beykera, the Secretary of the Democratic majority in the Senate. He is accused of stealing money from the fund of the party of bribing senators, of blackmail, of evasion through tax and other fraud. Disassemble the case of Senator Fromm leads the FBI.

1982