30 Second Portraits: New York Artists

30 Second Portraits: New York Artists 1982

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Inverting the form, style and time frame of commercial television advertising, Logue has produced a unique series of dynamic video portraits of avant-garde artists, writers, musicians and performers. In 30 Second Spots: New York, which Logue terms "commercials for artists," each of the succinct vignettes conveys the artistic essence of her subject with clarity, wit, and an elegant economy of means.

1982

Pension Hara

Pension Hara 1982

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8mm film made in 1982 by the Bunkyo University Film Research Club.

1982

Kuuvikerkaar

Kuuvikerkaar 1982

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The people of Suislepa. A humanist and warm poetic film about a generation, which will not show tiredness or old age in conducting their work. People who find wonder in the everyday, who take care in deepening their relationships with other people or the nature, who see the world as it is and to love it.

1982

West Side Evan

West Side Evan 1982

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Shot in film in downtown Manhattan, the Staten Island Ferry and the Upper West Side, West Side Evan tells the story of a city kid’s High School life, filmed while Evan was 15 years old and attending Brooklyn’s Saint Ann’s School.

1982

Books Are Bread and Human Beings Need Them

Books Are Bread and Human Beings Need Them 1982

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A quote by literary figure Johannes R. Becher, first Minister of Culture of the GDR, supplies the title of this film about the 1982 International Book Art Exhibition. Sensitively composed images embed the IBA in the hustle and bustle of Leipzig. Old and new shots of the city, in black and white and in colour, take us to some of the 82 national booths of this book art contest, accompanied by atmospheric piano music.

1982

Butterfly

Butterfly 1982

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Super-8 film by Marieta Pérez.

1982

Coacervate

Coacervate 1982

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Experimental short by Harumi Fujii.

1982

Magic Bus

Magic Bus 1982

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Nameless monologues against the backdrop of a bustling city and relatives seeing off to a medical-labor prophylactic center.

1982

The Cop and the Anthem

The Cop and the Anthem 1982

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This O. Henry adaptation features Soapy, an affable bum in 19th-century New York City, who starts thinking about going to his "winter home" on Blackwell's Island. To set his plan into motion, all he has to do is break the law.

1982