All Films

Waterloo

1981 • 46 min • Australia

The film outlines the history of the redevelopment of the Sydney suburb of Waterloo. Residents are interviewed and archival footage is used to outline the history of change in the area. The documentary emphasises the need for consultation and shows the results of more recent residents’ action groups.

Riots and Rumours of Riots

1981 • 34 min • United Kingdom

Radical resistance in the postwar British Caribbean community, from the 1948 Nationality Act to the 1958 Brixton riots.

Belmonte

1981 • 11 min

The film retraces the trajectory of Belmonte, considered one of the most important caricaturists in the country in the 1920s. It was in 1925, at Folha da Noite, that he created Juca Pato, a character that consecrated him. Belmonte did not spare the politicians and their ills, which made him persecuted by the Estado Novo.

Motel L

1981 • 3 min

From Morning till Evening

1981 • 20 min

Based in Stockholm Abelli Elander has been working as an artist since the 1970's. Her early works focus on contemporary gender issues, through a surreal visual language inspired by comics and pop culture in general. Apart from this little offbeat gem (directed by the Charlie Nykvist, son of the famous cinematographer) she has also brought her style to several movies as a costume and set designer. Among these are several films directed by Marie-Louise Ekman (most notably Mamma, pappa, barn and Barnförbjudet) and Håkan Alexandersson and Carl-Johan de Geer (Tvätten, Res aldrig på enkel biljett, Resa till havet).

Floterian – Hand Printings From a Film History

1981 • 12 min

Sequences from the filmmakers' 16mm, Super 8 and Stand 8 mm work, dating from 1960 onwards, are contact-printed onto 35mm film, then reduced to 16mm for projection. The relationship of the frame sizes of the smaller gauges to that of the 35mm causes a fluttering on the screen which relates to the ephemerality of the memory and the effect on it of the passing of times. Floterian is an old English word meaning fluttering.

Vernazza-Études

1981 • 7 min • France

Geography

1981 • 7 min • Japan

16mm to digital, 7'00

Bajado - Um Artista de Olinda

1981 • 12 min • Brazil

Life and work of the popular painter Bajado, interviews with Gilberto Freyre and João Câmara, scenes of daily life in the city that always inspired him.

Jeux de masques

1981 • 6 min • France

A film by Haydée Caillot.

Performance for Heidelberg

1981 • 4 min • Japan

A Film by Keiji Uematsu.

Metsade taga

1981 • 16 min • Soviet Union

The small town of Iisaku in the middle of the large forests behind Alutaguse has long been known for its lively spirit and cultural-minded sense of life. The people of Iisaku talk about its past and present.

Premature

1981 • 55 min

Filmmaker David Parry records on film for one and one-half years the personal crises in his marriage which began with the premature cesarean birth of his first child, who was given a one percent chance of surviving without physical or mental defects.

Progeny

1981 • 18 min

Progeny is a collaboration with sculptor Bradford Smith. Smith's organic and sensual sculptural forms are transformed by the merging of one of Steina's Machine Vision devices — a rotating, mirrored sphere with pre-programmed camera movements and optical transpositions — with Woody's digital processing.

Fractive Clusters

1981 • 15 min • United States of America

Contemplative images of rivers, snow, waterfall, mountain and bodies.

J'ai droit à la parole

1981 • 30 min • France

In the blocs of low-cost housing in Colombes, the tenants’ association takes part in renovating the buildings.

Mechanics As A Science

1981 • 16 min

Short educational film by Vladimir Kobrin.

A Variegated Butterfly

1981 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A Georgian animation rarity that recounts the transition in the life of a musician who has decided to change his violin for a musical box, where a multicolored butterfly is witness to all the moments in the ephemeral life of this character.

The Interview

1981 • 8 min

Rosemary Wilson leaves home one morning for a very important interview, but finds her car has a flat tyre. Luckily ‘a friend’ of her husband spots her dilemma and offers her a lift. After a series of setbacks they reach the Town Hall, 15 minutes late. Here, Rosemary discovers that the fact that the job has already been appointed isn’t the only shock that awaits her.

Blotcher Film

1981 • 1 min

16mm experimental short film.

Bored Members

1981 • 2 min

16mm experimental short film.

Light Journals

1981 • 35 min

"A series of catalogs of light, "light journals" if you will, dealing with everyday, ordinary realities in such a way that the surrounding light becomes tactile and intimately expressive." -WV

Choto Bakulpurer Jatri

1981 • 46 min • India

Dibakar, a humble factory worker sets out with his wife for his marital home in Choto Bokulpur as his wife was disturbed after hearing the news of unrest and violence there. She wants to assure that her parents are safe amidst the revolution of the peasants which the police and army were trying hard to suppress. As they reach the outskirts of the village they are stopped by few men who start questioning them. They are thoroughly searched and their luggage is thrown open to check if they are revolutionaries. They get no evidence against them in their luggage. But, when Dibakar is searched they find a paan wrapped in a piece of paper bearing an advertisement lauding the brave efforts of the revolutionaries and condemning the tortures of the suppressors. Despite Dibakar’s repeated assurance that he isn’t a revolutionary they kill him mercilessly and thus ends an innocent life.

Snip, Snip

1981 • 30 min

Mary Brown, the head of Ontario's Censor Board, spends an afternoon with the gals cut, cut, cutting.