1983 Movies

Images to accompany the lines of a poem by John Ashbery. "Rudy Burckhardt's film is a brilliant extension of my poem, perhaps the film I might have m...

Fragility, transience of the image here is between its appearing-disappearing.

Shot on Super-8, this short film depicts a post-apocalyptic cult worshiping a toilet bowl, in a cheeky, cautionary tale of nuclear holocaust.

Re-enactments of British pub hospitality through the ages.

After a kind of big bang, a character is constructed from elements scattered on the ground, then starts to walk and builds a city.

Made in collaboration with the Inuit Tungavingat Nunamini, this film focuses on those dissident members of the Inuit community who rejected the agreem...

In Micro Cosmos, a series of four short computer-animated works, the image of an orb is transformed into a pulsating, energetic evocaton of life force...

Self Poured Traits is a tongue-in-cheek self-examination set to the poetry of Kenneth Rexroth.

In Reeling in TV Time, VanDerBeek experiments with imaging capabilities and early computer graphics.

It is a special day in an orphanage today. Its boys and girls put on beautiful national costumes in order to take part in the ceremony of lottery winn...

"The roll bar! The roll bar, yes! ... very enthusiastic about this film!" – Kurt Kren

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...

In “Peace O’ Mind” (1983, 8.5 minutes) the characters try to stay safe at home, but become isolated and entrapped there. Images of a domestic space a...

In São Pedro (neighborhood of Vitória-ES-Brazil),thousands of people survived, in the 80's, living from the garbage. The scenes of women, children an...