1983 Movies

Two sketches on the decomposition of the light spectrum, the relationship between light and the screen and its projection frame.

An Australian movie

In 1983, a crew of young, DIY documentarians visited Long Island's Roosevelt Field Mall to study mall culture. This is Mall City.

Peter Littlefield, an instructor in natural philosophy, comes to Williamsburg, Va. in 1775 to give a series of lectures on astronomy, electricity and...

Pregnancy care is key to preventing accidents surrounding the birth of a baby.

In the Sky's Wild Noise is based around an interview with Walter Rodney, the renowned Guyanese historian, author and political activist, who was assas...

Experimental, 8mm, Akihiko Morishita

"The roll bar! The roll bar, yes! ... very enthusiastic about this film!" – Kurt Kren

In “Peace O’ Mind” (1983, 8.5 minutes) the characters try to stay safe at home, but become isolated and entrapped there. Images of a domestic space a...

Mexican feature film

Mexican feature film

The young Greek filmmaker Menelaos Carayannis made some films for the Film Works before returning to Athens and establishing himself as a documentary...

Shows the effect of the harassment women live with every day, ranging from ‘street humour’ and media stereotyping to actual physical violence. The fil...

Experimental film on 16mm by Marcela Muntean as part of Kinema Ikon.

"I travelled to Australia in 1979 as artist-in-residence to a Brisbane art gallery screening Canadian experimental film. I was handed a bunch of 16mm...

I was looking through boys’ comics and books at the images of ‘honour’, ‘heroism’ and violence. Then there was the Falklands War, and the newspapers,...