1983 Movies

The second short by Zeinabu irene Davis

A work-in-progress about middle class African American parents discussing why they have ordered their daughter to get rid of her afro.

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...

In and around the pool, an array of creatures move about. A scene of the famous novel "Seven Days at the Silbersteins" by Etienne Leroux to the music...

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

In 1976 a number of Aboriginal people left missions and settlements to return to live on their tribal lands, between the Daly River and Port Keats, in...

Rabaul, New Britain is sitting on a time bomb. It’s hard for the Tolai inhabitants to cope with the constant threat of volcanic eruption as they wait...

In the 1970s, two exciting discoveries of human fossil remains, focused world attention on Australia. Evidence implied that two very different types o...

A story about first love of three twelve years old boys to an older girl.

Part of the 1983 Super 8 Gay Festival

An animated satire on television violence, set in a world where the skeletal Don Death runs a popular variety show called “Dance of Death”.

An experimental documentary that reflects on the different kinds of relationship between mother and daughters, and the position of women in the family...

Explores the influence of the African American civil rights movement, both in philosophy and strategy, on the fight for Catholic independence in North...

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

Film by Telscher.

In 1969, Ernesto de Sousa planned an experimental film in which Almada Negreiros would be protagonist. He raised funds, filmed Almada, interviewed him...

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

About how, despite the machinations of the witch and the evil spirit Davy, the old man managed to tell the children a fairy tale with a happy ending.