All Films

Circle the Earth

1981 • 22 min • United States of America

Anna Halprin Dancer's Workshop Event

Point final à la ligne

1981 • 60 min

Jean-François loves Constance with a tender and passionate love. It is enough to see the behavior of this lunar clown to realize that every moment passed away from his beloved is a real torture. Shared between endless trips in the corridors of the metro and evenings between friends, it is not good in his skin. In search of complete happiness, he tries to satisfy his vocation: to become acrobatic with Constance, but, as a result of mediocre performances, even null, this aspiration leads to a dead end.

Body and Soul

1981 • 6 min • France

L'éventail

1981 • 3 min • France

Sous la neige

1981 • 4 min • France

The First Foot

1981 • 14 min • Soviet Union

Voices from the past echo through the deserted, snow-covered stone houses in a village in the Caucasus Mountains.

Hiroshima - Ahead of Us?

1981 • 4 min

This work produced by Swedish television, where Swedish kids reads texts written by Japanese kids about their experiencing of and surviving the bombings. In the film we see images/drawings painted by these children. Nestlers inspiration comes from the book Children of the A Bomb "Five years after the atom bomb fell on Hiroshima, a Professor of Education at Hiroshima University organized a project to preserve for the record the stories of those who had been on the receiving side of that catastrophic explosion. (Martin Grennberger)

Musikalische Arabesken: Humoreske

1981 • 4 min • East Germany, Germany

This short animation film, which is part of the series Musikalische Arabesken (Musical Arabesks), is a colorful and expressionistic interpretation of Antonin Dvorák’s Humoresque played in a modern version by the Jo Kurzweg Orchestra.

Long Day

1981 • 18 min • Soviet Union

A film about rural blacksmiths.

Exile

1981 • 12 min • Yugoslavia

"Exile" is a religious parable on death and dying, contrasting the burning of an old ship with images of a woman dying in a dark interior, and a suggestion of redemption in the images of city covered by snow.

Retratos de Hideko

1981 • 10 min • Brazil

Four generations of the Japanese woman: the struggle for survival, the cult of traditions, adaptation to the city and cultural dilution.

Dear Mark

1981 • 15 min

A Comedy in which the artist's voice has been replaced by Gene Autry's. Lyon's homage to his friend, sculptor Mark di Suvero. From footage shot in 1965 and 1975.

Ko-omote

1981 • 8 min • Japan

Distant Islands

1981 • 6 min • Canada

This short animation uses appliqué and embroidered tapestries to recall a young girl's happy summers spent sailing with her family off the coast of British Columbia. Each tapestry, meticulously stitched by hand with brightly coloured yarns, evokes the memory of leisurely days at sea, drifting among the islands.

Luna, Luna, Luna

1981 • 13 min

A child sleepwalks into the forest. A black vastness inhabited by night creatures throbs and chirps, croaks and gurgles. As she wades deeper into the shimmering night, the real forest and the imaginary one dissolve into each other. Apparitions and phantoms begin their nocturnal dance. The atmosphere becomes charged and witches come shrieking to life. When the fear of the night reaches its peak, the moon rises and the final lunacy begins. An animated film about a child's reaction to the mysteries and magic of the night. Film without words.

Small Foveal Fields

1981 • 5 min

Small Foveal Fields, a continuation of my work with abstract filmic imagery, is primarily concerned with the mystery and elemental poetry of visual perception. Structurally, this film consists of ten separate-but- related episodes in which kinetic atmospheric light emerges from darkness, creates and activates color images and color space, then fades into black. Each of these ten mobile color fields interacts with a static grid system of white dots which provides a geometric reference and counterpoint to the film’s amorphic evolution

Kas tas ir - kolhozs?

1981 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A lightly-humoured animation film explaining the origins and the idea behind "kolhoz" in the Soviet system.

Back

1981 • 35 min • Japan

8mm work from the 5th Pia Film Festival.

愛の生活

1981 • 25 min

The Same Old Story

1981 • 3 min • Canada

A deceptively simple film, The Same Old Story is over almost before it has begun. A story within a story within a story, its effect is jarring, ambiguous and lingering. The film speaks of fear, which is as old as humanity and as new as today. An animated film in which reality and fantasy overlap dangerously.

Ana Mendieta: Selected Film Works

1981 • 34 min

Some of the films are presented in tandem in darkened interiors that resemble the caves where Mendieta sculpted some of her final works. One film depicts the artist lying naked in a creek, suggesting cleansing and rebirth. In another film, "Keane College Volcano" at Galerie Lelong, the wind is gently stirring a mound of ash that swirls up from a stone form's breast. The bluish powder twirls up and teasingly dissipates. This breathless little dance,this choreographed chance of the elements is the best. Ana Mendieta may have written her name on the earth in disappearing ink, but she did it so well that we can't erase it.

Rita Lee & Roberto de Carvalho: Saúde

1981 • 54 min • Brazil

Vocation

1981 • 7 min

A pastoral hymn to the God Pan; filmed at the Short Mountain Collective in Tennessee; adapted from a text by Aleister Crowley.

The disobedient carnation

1981 • 11 min • France, Germany, Uruguay

A carnation planted on the moon is banished for not to flourish. Once in exile, thanks to the care and affection of a child, the flowers bloom.