.Yl 1982 - 288

Animated film made at Cal Arts in 1982.

About the careful attitude to water.

Film noir meets punk rock in this “pocket detective novel” by former Cinema Guild member Kellman. Music by Mike Richards.

A naive villager goes to town to sell wool. On the way, he meets a cunning trader who buys all his goods by paying just a mirror. But who would imagine it is magical?

Low budget amateur horror film, made in 1982, produced and directed by Gordon Louch.

A film documenting the life of the martyr Majed Abu Sharar, who was assassinated in Rome in 1981. The film discusses his childhood, upbringing, and his work leading up to joining the Palestinian Revolution and leading its Unified Media Office. The film contains interviews with Majed Abu Sharar, and testimonies of his friends and commrades.

A portrait of the Islamic Museum in Berlin, now the Museum of Islamic Art in the Pergamon Museum. One of its most famous exhibits is the Jordanian desert castle Mshatta. With footage from Islamic countries, maps and exhibits from the museum, the film traces the history and the various forms of art of this world religion.

For twenty years, male members of a fraternity at a major state university and their female guests have been celebrating the end of the school year by capturing and eating live salamanders. Is the "salamander-eating contest" staged by these students a fad or a tradition? A rite of passage for college men and women? Or an inhumane and senseless act? The film documents the ritual in cinema verité fashion and permits viewers to decide for themselves. Provided without narration - this short film primarily features obnoxious, loud and brawling youngsters, and develops into a competition among coeds that has strong sexual overtones.

Baron Von Raschke v. Sgt. Jacques Goulet We’re joined with Goulet, who has apparently joined the French Foreign Legion between the 81 show and this one, holding a lengthy chinlock on the Baron, and dropping an elbow for two. Curt Hennig is working as a referee at this point, for whatever reason. Goulet turns the lengthy chinlock into a lengthier choke on the mat, and then TWISTS THE EARS and that just makes the Baron upset. Baron runs him into the turnbuckles to make the comeback, but Goulet takes him down and stomps him blatantly low to cut that off before going to a bearhug. Trongaard notes that we’re nearing 7 minutes, and my timer says 6:00 at this point, so Goulet literally went to a chinlock ONE MINUTE into the match. I’m not shocked. Goulet goes to the dreaded SCORPION HOLD, which is a claw to the back of the neck and I’m not even making that up.

AN EPIC POEM explores the contradictions in man's conception of love through the myths and representations, which support it, and argues that man has constructed love in his own image, reflecting his profound anxieties about prohibited desires. Deftly using poetry, archive material, allusions and re-enactment, it teases out the threads of past and present love and war to investigate those tensions usually hidden from our view. Central to the film is the 'Rokeby Venus', slashed by militant suffragette Mary Richardson. It becomes an entry to the 'historic' past but also to myth and the unconscious, its imagery developed and shifted in a series of tableau-like encounters between Aphrodite and Ares.

An on-target parody of an all-too-familiar television commercial.

Experimental short film

A short feature film based on the interpretation of the song "Ta nasza młodość" ("Our Youth"). The camera focuses on the performers—old women and men. All of them are decorated with numerous communist-era medals...

4 video-tapes VHS from the eponymous performance, sound.

With talk of Soviet Cosmonauts just then in space, Kenzhe, the youngest son of the family, does not want to be part of the ‘train’ of children playing at going on the long journey to Moscow and instead tells his mother he is going to be a cosmonaut.

THE WACKIEST GANG OF SOLDERS ENGAGE IN AN SUCCESSFULLY DESTINED TO END ALL MILITARY ENCOUNTERS IN THIS ACTION-COMEDY FILM.

The camera rides a turbulent wave across the inches and miles of an ancient lake that is Death Valley. By contrasting this vast valley's natural beauty with the monotonous sounds of shower water, the film makes a political statement - badwater next right.