1983 Movies

Many years ago there was a popular song suggesting that each time it rained it rained pennies from heaven. Today's reality is that when it rains, it r...

Gaston Aramayo and Victoria de Aramayo show their art and craft as puppeteers with the Kusi Kusi group.

When Piotr, as a mature man, browses through family photos, memories arise in him. He then returns to his childhood, which evoke both emotions and ref...

In Belem, brazilian Amazon, the brazil nuts women live in the Estrada Nova neighbourhood. They turn the brazilian fruit into a nasty commodity.

This video documents Cake Walk, an installation and performance piece by artist Houston Conwill, staged in November 1983 at Linda Goode Bryant's pione...

A film about the Municipal Water Supply in Reykjavík which was founded in 1909.

The Tunnel deals with the torture of political prisoners under the Bourguiba regime.

This film presents the principles of operation and the successive stages in the development of mechanical regulators, from the watermill and steam eng...

Based on the memoirs of Arthur "Freddy" Palmer, Terry Flaxton’s docu-fiction examines the potentials and the flaws of autobiography as a form of histo...

Combining video, performance art, documentary, and tableau vivant, this short piece set in what appears to be part of the Ayutthaya Ruins in Bangkok,...

An urban poem, in which a chauffeur drives his Madam about in downtown Johannesburg; visits to friends, townships, wastelands. The trip ends with a nu...

From the left-overs of the films Henri Plaat made during his many travels, he made this film as an improvisation on deterioration and decay. A world o...

Filmed in secret under the dictatorship of Jean-Claude Duvalier, this incisive documentary explores the effects of foreign exploitation and oppression...

Frontline correspondent Charles Cobb journeys to a Washington, DC that tourists rarely see. The nation's capital, seventy-five percent black, faces wi...

Taiwan's Martial Law provisions included laws clearly suppressing assembly, demonstrations, and forming of organizations. Nonetheless, one afternoon o...

A patriotic rendering of all the verses of God Save the Queen with some Victorian lantern slides.

Produced for the Children's Television Workshop.