All Films

Love and War

1981 • 5 min • Sweden

Love and betrayal, set in a nightclub during 1980s.

Deadline

1981 • 5 min

A video by Max Almy

Les sorties de Charlerine Dupas I: L'été

1981 • 3 min • France

That day, Charlerine goes out, driven by a sudden urge to kill, kill, kill... The four films (Printemps, Ete, Automne and Hiver/Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter) have the same plot but are told in different ways: each season has its own rhythm.

En sak ångrar jag

1981 • 47 min

Aina Eriksson is eighty years old. She stays in a nursing home and is largely immobile. She looks back at her life in Stockholm and Paris, and the fact that the only thing she regrets is that she never learned how to tap dance.

Swedish Colors

1981 • 3 min • Sweden

Three Swedish children of different origins learn to play Twinkle Twinkle Little Star on violin.

The Snake Charmer

1981 • 7 min • Romania

Experimental film on 16mm by Emanuel Țeț as part of Kinema Ikon.

Dear Diary: A Film About Female Puberty

1981 • 26 min

Deals with the physical, sexual, and social changes that girls experience in early adolescence.

Face Value

1981 • 10 min • United States of America

A Christian educational film about viewing people at face value and attaching them to a stereotype.

La selva furtiva

1981 • 50 min • Mexico

Mexican feature film

A thousand years seem like just one day

1981 • 59 min • Germany

A sensitive study of one of the twenty great monasteries of Mount Athos, a thousand year old monastic republic in northern Greece- the famous ‘Holy Mountain’ of the Orthodox church. A detailed picture of life in the 900 year old monastery of Simonopetra.”

The Germany March

1981 • 38 min

Documentary about 41-year old Rüdiger Nehberg marching about 1000 kilometers from Hamburg in northern Germany to Oberstdorf in the south of Germany. Mainly living off his own body, he lost 25 pounds during his endeavor but gained on precious experiences.

Zenith

1981 • 10 min

3 Miniatures after Melanie Klein

1981 • 14 min • Germany

Combines three short films: Richard, The Blanket of Life, Elementary Editing Theory

First Aid Training: Control of Bleeding

1981 • 12 min

Shows how to recognize three types of bleeding, including arterial, venous and capillary, and discusses how to treat each type. Uses art work and animation to explain the human circulatory system. Points out the 23 pressure points in the body.

Shiva

1981 • 5 min • France

Joseph Morder transforms his face.

Nuits blanches

1981 • 35 min • France

A strange experimental thriller set in Nancy (France), with yellow tones, whose technical mastery sometimes gives us the illusion of watching the reverse side of a Hollywood film, and which was awarded a joint award in Clermont-Ferrand with the first film of Leos Carax. (CJC)

The People and The Lake

1981 • 12 min • Egypt

Aspects of life associated with Lake Manzala.

When the street becomes home

1981 • 21 min • Brazil

At Catumbi neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, the urban planning and constant transformation affect the daily life of the inhabitants.

Beat It

1981 • 4 min

Watch folks beat the bejesus out of mechanical moles. Will you be as frustrated as they are?

Florida's Disney Decade

1981 • 50 min

“Walt Disney World is a tribute to the philosophy and the life of Walter Elias Disney”, those are the words spoken by his brother, Roy Disney at the opening of the Walt Disney World Resort. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Walt Disney World and the impact it has had on Florida, the Florida Disney Decade television special was created. The special aired simultaneously on all three Orlando television stations on October 1, 1981. The special includes Disney executives and Florida businessmen and politicians are interviewed about their roles in bringing Walt Disney World to Florida. Narrated by Gene Burne.

Chaka Khan: Live At Roxy Theatre

1981 • 45 min

Recorded at the Roxy Theatre, 7 June 1981

Sei Still, Wisse Ich Bin

1981 • 40 min

A film inspired by The Bible and filmed in the Sinai Desert, which stages the music contained within Popol Vuh's album Sei Still, Wisse Ich Bin

Being Gay in the Thirties (Gay Life)

1981 • 35 min

This edition of LWT’s pioneering 1980s TV series looks at gay experience 50 years earlier.

Southcote Road (Frame Displacement)

1981 • 3 min

""Southcote Road" was originally shot in super-8 with an intervalometer set to capture images at 1 fps. It was then blown up to 16mm and projected at 18fps. The work was made on the last day of a seven week trip to London as a record of the street where I lived. It was also one of only two sunny days during the entire summer . . . ." - D. N. Rodowick