1983 Movies

Experimental short film preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

A bird saves a little tree from withering.

Film by Michael Rudnick

Filmed on the Lower East Side of New York City and featuring Kathy Steuer.

Design 2084 is a piece of lost media that surfaced online on August 3, 2019. It was posted to YouTube by user Josh Hadley in an attempt to gather info...

Densely colorized images of a couple making love and a close-up of a child's face dissolve into a nuclear mushroom cloud at the beginning of Subatomic...

Ronald Reagan had been elected US president in 1981, and began the long unwinding of post-war progressive economic and social policy awaited by the Am...

Profiles the career of Roy DeCarava, the first African-American photographer to receive a Guggenheim fellowship.

A propaganda film dealing with the training and purpose of the Sandinista police force. Dramatized cases of crimes and their solutions serve to illust...

TREPANATIONS is a short film made up of various kinds of correspondence: pictorial, written and audio letters.

Hsu Tu Shan is a cruel and merciless White Haired Fox with a great passion for powerful spells. 20 years ago, he poisoned his Master and stole a book...

arTVing, 7 min, educative experimental, 1983

"Levine's images resemble the Warhol's or Rauschenberg silkscreens of 20 years ago (but even less slick) or maybe a color TV with a bad concussion. Ev...

Praised by The New York Times as a "stunning paean to Monet," Ohio at Giverny is the title of Lucier's highly acclaimed two-channel, seven-monitor ins...

Unlike many spirit mediums, Jero Tapakan practices as a masseuse once every three days, when possession is not auspicious. This film focuses on Jero's...

In These Are the Rules, Doug Hall enacted an authoritarian pose to deflate the power vested in political symbols.

A group of women following the worker-union-sponsored “150 hours” course to complete their secondary school education are mentored by feminist, activi...