1983 Movies

Texts by Kerouac and Lamantia Preserved and digitized by the National Film and Business Archive

Bill Burrud explores the amazing animal world in this rare, intimate look at our fellow primates in their natural environment.

Otobe had long held an interest in marine life—having previously created a fish-themed work—but in this piece, she takes an underwater camera in hand...

A short documentary made during the AIDS crisis.

"A single shot, taken from Douglas Sirk's film ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS (1955),in which we see the camera pull out from Jane Wyman's tearful face as sh...

A man rehearses for an emergency—the dry swimmer, his technique is good, he must be very fast. Only the water still causes him difficulties, it confus...

L.A. Nickel envisions the urban landscape of Los Angeles as nightmare and dream. Recording from a window to suggest a vantage point of surveillance, M...

8mm film mountain documentary by Minoru Shinojima.

The history of art in Ethiopia. The film emphasizes the styles, materials, etc. ofpaintings on walls and roofs of ancient churche

The protagonist of the film is film director Krzysztof Nowak-Tyszowiecki. The film is a humbling story of the protagonist confessing to the camera abo...

Short film.

In 1983, a group of friends who worked at Disney made a movie. It took nine long months to complete and consumed their lives as they constructed space...

Three good friends give up everything, or almost everything, to open their restaurant. They're happy with the affair, but by spending all their time b...

Fifty years ago cricket was riven by an acrimonious feud. The cause of the furore was the determination of England's Captain, Douglas Jardine , to reg...

The film depicts the working conditions in the mines of Telamuyu, Potosí where mestizo and indigenous miners believe that "Tío" is a demon.

Are vampires real or only found in your nightmares...