1983 Movies

An Australian movie

In 1983, a crew of young, DIY documentarians visited Long Island's Roosevelt Field Mall to study mall culture. This is Mall City.

Experimental, 8mm, Akihiko Morishita

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...

Experimental short film by Dean Snider.

As a guitar screeches, the image comes into focus. Experimental short film preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

I was looking through boys’ comics and books at the images of ‘honour’, ‘heroism’ and violence. Then there was the Falklands War, and the newspapers,...

Commissioned by Projects UK in Newcastle upon Tyne, England and featured on the Pieces compilation VHS.. "Mundane images and words enclosed by the sto...

FIlm By Herbert Capelle.

Early 1980s hard-core punk gods Negative Approach tore up their home city of Detroit like a hurricane. This video retrospective features fast-and-furi...

A young man who is devastated after his brother suffers from a rare eye disorder takes him to the city to provide him with better treatment.