Year 1983 - 299

Live show from ASF

A short film about a prisoner who daydreams of freedom, but keeps winding up in an endless stretch of sand where he cannot find a way out.

I was hoping to strike it rich on our honeymoon in Reno. In a way I did, seeing that the camera was filled with very rich imagery in recording this visual journal of our brief visit. The soundtrack is a creation of Katie Steinorth who translated the Buddhist chant of “Om Ma Ni Pad Me Hum” into the words “Oh, Money Bring Me A Home.” —Canyon Cinema

Mark Lowry in his very first comedy video. Program: 1. Homesick In England 2. Tumors And Trust 3. Feelings Or Faith 4. Alarm Clock 5. The Church Brat 6. Psychiatric Help 7. Wrestling In The Kitchen 8. Mama Had “Enough” 9. Miss Barth 10. Summa Cum Laude 11. Bedtime Stories 12. The Greatest Story Ever Told 13. What A Savior He Is

Part of BFI collection "On Yer Bike."

Part of BFI collection "London on the Move."

A coarse but intimate documentary of birth. The eight year old sibling is heard but not seen as she watches and reacts to her brother being born.

When the Araki gang harass Bok-Sun, Chil-Bok kills Araki by heading. Bak Jang-Sohn hides Bok-Sun and Chil-Bok in danger. Japanese policemen arrest and send Chil-Bok to prison and Park Jang-Sun run away. Released from the prison owing to the liberation of the country, Chil-Bok punishes the scoundrels with heading. And because of it, he meets Bok-Sun again but she runs away from him. Song Dal-Su dominates the underworld of Seoul and goes to Pyeong-Yang Myeon-Ok and beats off Park Jang-Sohn for he's been afraid of him who knows about his past. Chil-Bok meets Bok-Sun through a pickpocket's arrangement and hears from her about Song Dal-Su. Chil-Bok makes Song Dal-Su give in who is the foe of his father and lover.

As tutoring becomes illegal, college students Dong-hyuk, Mun-cheol, and Hak-gyu look for other works. Dong-hyuk gets a job as a night watchman for the iron scrap store owned by Song In-kab. He and the orphan Duk-sun live in the iron scrap store night guard's room. Mun-cheol and Hak-gyu ask and get permission from In-kab to move into the night guard room too. Their girlfriends, Sin-ja, In-suk, and Young-ok, help get the boys jobs. Dong-hyuk gets another job in a bar. Mun-cheol gives massages at a public bath. Hak-gyu gives massages at a hair salon. However, the guys are socially inexperienced so they are soon fired. At In-kab's advice, they live honest lives by selling bean sprouts and bean curd as well as deliver milk and newspapers. Dong-hyub passes the first round of the bar exam.

The son of a famous freedom fighter returns home from overseas to discover the streets of Seoul are being terrorized by gangsters from Japan. He and a beautiful kisaeng, the Korean version of a geisha, plot to drive the outlaws off.

In the beginning of the world, there are heroes of half-man and half-beast of 12 Earth's Branches such as Rat, Ox, Tiger, Hare, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Sheep, Monkey, Cock, Dog, and Boar. But the whale commanding the sea and the malignant spirits from the zodiac conquer the earth in league, and thus bring disaster to the world and the peoble. The spirit of pleasure living in the cave of Hwanwung orders the 12 Earth's Branches lead by the dragon of the eastern sea to beat off the big whale and the zodiacs. Thence, the world regains peace and the dragon of the eastern sea becomes the defense god who is protecting Korea.

Wong-ho is sent by Tobaran to Hong Kong under the pretense of competing in a martial arts match. However, Tobaran actually needs Wong-ho to defeat 6 fighters who are trying to find the location of a million dollars in gold. Tobaran is killed and the 6 villains come to believe that Wong-ho and his girlfriend, Linda, are in possession of the 7 necklaces which reveal the treasure's location.

Yeong Bin is the son of Son Chang Gyu, a professor of medicine. Yeong Bin meets Chung Jo, a med student. Having grown up in an unhappy family environment, Chung Jo is hot-tempered. One day, Chung Jo's father hits a college marathon runner with his delivery truck. Through this incident, Chung Jo meets the marathoner Yeom Tae Hwan, who is an orphan. The three get entangled in a love triangle

Ron Tandberg is Australia's best known political cartoonist. This film follows through Tandberg's work on the front page of the Melbourne 'Age' on one particular night's edition. This document is significant for its depiction of the production of a broadsheet newspaper (including it printing) in 1983 and the dramatic change in production since computerisation was introduced shortly afterwards.

"In 1983 I was working in San Francisco as a housepainter and much of the time we worked in Burlingame, south of the city. This tape is a meditation on that suburban world, with the actor, me, moodily, incoherently expressing his alienation from the society he inhabits." – Mike Dunford

Directed by Lotfi Essid.

Directed by Abdellah Mesbahi.

The raw material for this tape originated in a performance where I acted as both animator and controller of 100 surrogate performers who were locked in a kind of Blitzkreig on a large table in a small room. The cut-out images were drawn from past and present historical moments, famous politicians, heroes and heroines.