All Films

Psychedelic Furs: LIve on Rockpalast

1981 • 59 min • Germany

Psychedelic Furs performing live in Berlin, April 11, 1981, at the height of their creativity. Songs include: "Into You Like a Train," "Pretty In Pink," "Imitation of Christ" and more.

Panorama de Santiago

1981 • 7 min • Chile

Panorama de Santiago, is a video-performance classified as the first video art made in Chile (1981). In it, the artist runs for several minutes with his camera, making a tour from the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes to the stairs of the Biblioteca Nacional. The image oscillates and distorts as if the spectator were the one running frantically, an effect that -in the artist's words- seeks to speak of the Chilean dictatorial context at the beginning of the 1980s.

Rock & Roll Pet Store

1981 • 4 min • United States of America

Animated short about animals that have a rock & roll party after the pet store closes for the night

Mônica Passos

1981 • 23 min • France

Brazilian singer Mônica Passos on stage in Paris. In her small apartment she prepares a meal. In the studio she records the song "Itaipu". She speaks of her rebellion against the power plant, that harms nature. In a park, he sings "Itaipu". His powerful voice reproduces bird sounds. She throws stones into the water, creating a visual analogy with sound waves. With her guitarist husband she walks, playfully, away from the camera.

Paris mis à nu

1981 • 29 min • France

A walk in Paris in 1981 with one of the first thermographic cameras detecting different levels of heat. A whole different perception of the urban environment. In color and b&w.

A New Rout

1981 • 2 min • Soviet Union

Animated satirical sketch on the comfortability of urban public transport during rush hour.

Gridrose

1981 • 2 min

Computer generated. "With all the grace and flair of an elegant proof." - Carol Mickett. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.

Wir sind Sintikinder und keine Zigeuner

1981 • 20 min • Germany

The nine-year-old Sinti girl Brigitta shows us her world. She lives with her family in a caravan site on the outskirts of a small Bavarian town. Everybody still speaks Romani and continues to live by the customs handed down. That means that the children take part in adult life and that the very highly respected parents describe how it used to be. In this community, all age groups live together naturally. For these Sinti, `gypsy' is an insult. At school they are taught there are two cultures, two languages and two realities: that of the Sinti and that of the Germans. While German is spoken at school, the only pupils are Sinti children. Brigitta animatedly describes the material deprivations, which are mollified by the life as `one big family'. Brigitta knows all too well where she belongs.

終りなき夜

1981 • 17 min • Japan

An old man who used to be a projectionist, a cassette deck that comforts his solitary life, a nude photo of a woman who used to be a mobo (modern boy) and his girlfriend. These are the reality of Narita's performance. He brutally cuts them out and composes the film based on his own theme. It is the sincerity of the cold, detached, painstaking images of his wrinkled, toothless mouth that make him seem so present, even though he has lost his job. Without using any dialogue, the director Nagasaki poetically condenses what he encounters in the small room, which is interesting because it allows us to discover something that we had not noticed in our daily lives.

Omar Khorshid - Live in Australia

1981 • 9 min

Omar Khorshid And His Group .. live in Australia

Whale Watch (1)

1981 • 11 min • United States of America

Whale Watch (1) gathers personal sightings while on a public outing, in the company of the great mammals off Cape Cod. – Joseph Bernard

Alone in the Wind

1981 • 36 min

8mm film by Yukiyasu Shimada, 1981.

Breath No.5

1981 • 6 min

Two faces, in fact two silhouettes, are outlined against a monochromic background. They nod, interchange, underline their soundless talk with gestures of the hand. The gesticulating hands contribute to the communicative role ‘breath’ plays

Al-baha’s Hillocks

1981 • 60 min

(Rawabi Al-baha 1981) is the first documentary that spoke about cultural ‏heritage and traditions of Al-Baha southern of Saudi Arabia. it is produced by Mohammed Almadaifi Al-Zahrani, he also came up with the idea of the documentary to preserve Saudi’s legacy , not to mention Hussain Najar’s great voice and remarks in the background. Additionally, it was the saudi Arabia's submission for one of the foriegn film festival.

Pretend You'll Survive

1981 • 9 min • United Kingdom

Protect and survive? This activist cartoon from a Yorkshire women’s collective argues that the Government’s public information message on preparation for a nuclear attack is just a pretence. The only way to survive was to protest against such an outcome ever happening. The film also make a connection with the potential for an environmental catastrophe through the use of nuclear power.

Hot Pink

1981 • 3 min

Produced at the Experimental TV Center and post produced at WXXI, winner of the LA Erotic Film/Video Festival.

Déjà vu

1981 • 15 min

A project by Tomasz Sikorski

Hey!

1981 • 1 min

One frame experimental film by Dean Snider.

We See

1981 • 1 min

16mm experimental short film.

Yes-Ta-Day

1981 • 1 min

Hand painted 16mm experimental short film.

Along Brighton Beach Avenue

1981 • 30 min

The film is a half-hour series of brief close-ups of people on the street, shot from a high, but still intimate, angle. In a constant interplay of figure and ground, the film shows fragments of feet, heads, hands and elbows against the backdrop of an ancient sidewalk .... The film is fast on the eye, with many staccato camera moves. But, partially because the people are bundled up in winter clothes, one experiences it as a succession of cushioned jolts - the collision of soft, bulky forces that enter the frame from all directions. There is, however, too much raw human interest in the footage for the film to ever become completely abstract.

Shadow Hunting

1981 • 2 min

exploiting the painterly 'smear' quality of undercranked 6 fps projected S-8: Shadow hunts, I follow.

Paussus

1981 • 3 min

Resisting the binary essentialism of contemporary second-wave feminism, Bean's work points to a more complex celebration of being. Here, she draws on the ecstatic yet troubling inter relationship of a small beetle and its ant hosts, where the beetles secrete a substance that is greedily licked up by the ants to suppress their usual aggression, meaning they can be torn apart by the beetle whilst still submitting themselves to it.

Tá na Rua

1981 • 16 min • Brazil

Dances and Celebrations on the streets of João Pessoa. Interviews with important LGBTQ+ figures.