1983 Movies

Second Grade Dreams, filmed at P. S. 255 in Brooklyn, New York, is a series of brief vignettes of second-grade schoolchildren who recount their dreams...

Las Vegas: Last Oasis in America is an irreverent exploration of this uniquely American city, which thrives on transience and celebrates wealth and in...

A film by Ahmed Zir

A film by Ahmed Zir

Currey's Red in Blue Letters weaves images recorded by the filmmaker from contrasting settings into a delightful and mysterious conundrum of rhyming f...

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

"We Shall Meet Again" - About two Vietnamese girls, the 13-year-old Hung, who lives in Hanoi, and the 12-year-old Hoa, who lives in a village near the...

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

This documentary explores the lives of three adult sisters living in a remote holler in southern West Virginia. Sharon, a school teacher, has returned...

Part Two of Peggy Ahwesh's Pittsburgh Trilogy

A film by Melanie Berry

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

Examines the aims and accomplishments of the New Jewel Movement and the reasons for the Fall 1983 U.S. military invasion. The film puts these events i...

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

Two video art pieces reflect the artist's concern with the relationships between "electronic imaging, vision and hearing, language/text/music/sound, a...

"A unique kind of lyricism comes through and hovers over the images on the screen like the light that projects and contains them." –Ernie Gehr on Jim...

"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...

'Underpass' is a registration of a project organised by David Garcia, Annie Wright, Lous America and Henk Wijnen in an abandoned underway passage at o...