All Films

Arbres de Noël à vendre

1981 • 52 min

Documentary focused on Christmas tree production in Rivière-du-Portage, New Brunswick.

Ana Mendieta: Selected Performance Works (1973-1981)

1981 • 53 min

1. Sweating Blood, November 1973 2. Blood Writing, February 1974 3. Body Tracks, March 1974 4. Burial Pyramid, Summer 1974 5. Untitled, Summer 1974 6. Flower Silueta No. 2, June 1975 7. Alma Silueta En Fuego No. 2, November 1975 8. Silueta de Arena, August 1978 9. Isla, 1981 10. Filmworks, August 1980 11. Esculturas Rupestres, June 1981 12. Anima, 1976 13. Fire Silueta 14. Untitled Silueta 15. Esculturas Rupestres, June 1981 (either mislabelled, or split into two parts or outtakes)

In Search of Marcus Garvey

1981 • 28 min

Leon Brown, a young psychologist, find pamphlets, handbills and other critical materials concerning Marcus Garvey and his period in a trash can in Philadelphia. Intensely motivated, he follows the leads to the still active Universal Negro Improvement Association.

A.r.t.

1981 • 3 min • Israel

The artist becomes two, or four, or still more - the videotechnique makes a group formation of just one person.

Koit ja Hämarik

1981 • 35 min • Soviet Union

An evening in Tallinn's variety shows.

Le sang du sagou

1981 • 55 min • France

Ritual ceremonies and daily life among the Yafar of the village of Hopwan Kbik, western Sepik in Papua New Guinea.

Fifty Miles from Times Square

1981 • 47 min • United States of America

A colorful portrait of life in Putnam County, New York, with its "old-time fiddlers, farmers, commuters, and hippies," where an earlier, more traditional, relaxed style of life continues. This now-classic documentary will generate discussion in a range of classes in American studies, cultural anthropology, sociology, and popular culture. It was produced by renowned filmmaker and musician John Cohen.

Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf

1981 • 5 min

In this retelling of the fairy tale, everyone is sexually charged. Little Red ventures through the woods to visit her grandmother, who seduces the wolf when he comes to her house. The wolf and Little Red, grandma and the woodsman, and Little Red's mom and the milkman are just a few of the pairings. The basket of goodies goes ignored.

Eat

1981 • 3 min

Made by Ralph Miller, a USC School Student on 16mm. Eat won first place in the 16mm category of the 1981 CINEMAGIC/SVA Short Film Search. Ralph Miller is now working on special effects for big budget movies!

Rally for the Return of Joy

1981 • 7 min • Brazil

Through the power of a good barber, The Tramp is reborn in the streets of Recife.

Allrad e.V.

1981 • 54 min • Germany

This film by Rosi S. M., which was made in close cooperation with the residents of a top-floor apartment in Berlin-Schöneberg, offers close-up insights into the life of a commune. The people who live here are looking for alternative ways to live together as a community and share everything – including their partners. The declared goal of the joint project was to use film as a medium for critical self-expression and to create publicity for their political activism.

Aigokeros

1981 • 18 min • Argentina

Many stars, only at night, illuminate the vast. Aigokeros is the Greek name for Capricorn, the sign of the zodiac, which is half goat and half fish and which, according to Jung, follows the age of Aquarius and will unite the opposites. (Text by Narcisa Hirsch)

Old Orchard Beach, P.Q.

1981 • 9 min

A hot day on the well-known beach frequented mostly be Québecers. Throngs of vacationers, beach towels, sand pails, suntan oil. In the midst of the crowd, a pretty blond drifts off into a world of fantasy that becomes increasingly strange.

Zielgerichtetes Handeln bei Menschenaffen

1981 • 14 min • Germany

Chimpanzees are kept in a large enclosure at the Arnhem Research Station. There, some experiments are carried out to test the intelligence of the chimpanzees.

Chicken

1981 • 6 min

Self-explanatory film. Animation and live action. Homemade and found fragments tortured on an optical printer. The dog barks are fake. The chicken came first.

White Music

1981 • 45 min

A LaserDisc-exclusive sound and image ski fantasy from 1981 by Japanese producers, soundtracked by the pop rock band Talizman.

Don't, Don't Cry

1981 • 6 min • Yugoslavia

A super 8mm film by Davorin Marc.

Seekers

1981 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Two archaeologists go to the hot desert to excavate...

A Line for All Seasons

1981 • 27 min • United Kingdom

The passing of the seasons on Scotland's picturesque West Highland Railway.

The Balance

1981 • 7 min • Bulgaria

The Song About Tulips

1981 • 8 min • Soviet Union

A poetic story about the tragic fate of the poor young man Bakhtiyar and the beautiful Lola, who turned into a tulip from separation from her beloved, leaving the immortal light of love on earth…

Alison

1981 • 40 min

A portrait of Alison French, a young woman with cerebral palsy, and her attempts to lead a normal life

Rocky Circus

1981 • 40 min

70s Glam Rock star Gary Glitter joins Gerry Cottle's Circus

The Flight of Daedalus... (from "Icarus, a Sky Opera")

1981 • 3 min

An aria from the opera "Icarus" (music by Paul Earls, text by Otto Piene). In 1981, scenes from the opera were performed for the first SKY ART Conference at M.I.T. Daedalus "flew" through a combination of live performance and superimposed video images.