All Films

The Sand Island Story

1981 • 28 min • United States of America

This short documentary chronicles a four-month period between 1979 and 1980 when residents of Hawaii's Sand Island "squatter" community attempted to resist eviction from the Honolulu shoreline - resulting in displacement, arrests, and the destruction of a community.

Reflection

1981 • 7 min • Soviet Union

Three parody stories: “The Leaning Tower of Pisa,” “The Tower of Babel,” and “Nike of Samothrace.”

Talking Heads: Rock Pop in Concert

1981 • 50 min • Germany

Adrian Belew augments the band on this 50-minute performance from the Westfalenhalle, in Dortmund, Germany, on December 20th, 1980, for the Rockpop TV show. Set List: Psycho Killer Cities I Zimbra Once In A Lifetime Animals Crosseyed And Painless Life During Wartime The Great Curve

The Jungle Book: A Lesson in Accepting Change

1981 • 9 min • United States of America

How change, in friends and environment, can be faced.

Japan Inc: Lessons for North America?

1981 • 28 min • Canada

Discipline and productivity are more regimented in Japan than in many other parts of the world. For the Japanese, survival means doing things together rather than asserting North-American-style individualism. Japan's industry has automated and computerized at an unparalleled rate. Open-concept offices and collaborative work styles offer a model of the changing style of modern work that could inspire the West to modify their processes as well.

Three Monks

1981 • 20 min • China

Adaptation of the Chinese folk tale that gave rise to the proverb “One monk will shoulder two buckets of water, two monks will share the load, but add a third and no one will want to fetch water”.

Wmen

1981 • 7 min

WMEN evokes 1965, as indicated by the music cues. So, in the period before the Stonewall demonstrations by queer activists, including drag and trans activists, against the oppression of police raids. WMEN feels very much in conversation with Godard’s Breathless, with the collage of cutout magazine figures, its tongue-in-cheek nature, its sexiness, the fashion, and the playfulness.

Morte e Vida Severina

1981 • 60 min • Brazil

The saga of Severino, a poor guy living in the back country of Northeast Brazil, leaving for the big city of Recife, in search of a better life.

Stations of the Elevated

1981 • 45 min • United States of America

Stations of the Elevated exposes viewers to an underground art scene- that is, one found exclusively on the sides of subways and train cars. A moving portrait of late-70's NYC, the film boasts a soundtrack by jazz legends Charles Mingus & Aretha Franklin.

The Tenant

1981 • 5 min • Yugoslavia

A man moves to a new house and through the window notices two naked lovers in the house next door.

Bungle Abbey

1981 • 28 min • United States of America

Comedy pilot about wacky monks in a monastery.

Partisan Snow Maiden

1981 • 9 min • Soviet Union

During World War II, even children had to perform feats. Such an occasion, which occurred on the eve of New Year holidays, will be discussed in this story. A little girl goes to the way from her wooden snowbound house. She will have to pass a very important message to guerrillas despite the threats around her...

The Frog King

1981 • 15 min

An upper-class, late 19th-century dining room where a wealthy industrialist presides as "king" sets the stage for this version of "The Frog King," the classic tale about a princess's promise to a frog.

Benji at Marineland

1981 • 30 min

Asami Ogawa: Female SEX Counselor, Wet Technique

1981 • 30 min • Japan

Erotic-drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

The Breakthrough

1981 • 44 min • Finland

Theater students rehearse their own play, "Freedom," and become entangled in the depths of the play's themes in their personal lives.

Kinderen voor Kinderen 2

1981 • 59 min • Netherlands

Registration of the second Kinderen voor Kinderen-concertshow. In this annual event, the Dutch children's choir 'Kinderen Voor Kinderen' performs 12 songs based on ideas sent in by children. The songs make up an album from which the proceeds go to a good cause, namely collecting toys for children in Third World Countries.

Bibigon

1981 • 18 min • Soviet Union

A poem about the adventures of fantastic little man Bibigon.

Laziness

1981 • 16 min • Soviet Union

Once upon a time there were two bears - Ivashka and Mishuk. Mishuk remained hard-working and diligent, and Ivashka made friends with an evil sorceress named Laziness.

Television: The Enchanted Mirror

1981 • 28 min

Details the impact of television on people and social institutions.

Noel por Noel

1981 • 10 min • Brazil

Homage to the great Brazilian samba songwriter Noel Rosa (1910-1937).

'e'

1981 • 7 min • Canada

A giant statue of the letter "E" arrives in the park. One man sees it as "B"; they are preparing to cart him off to the looney bin when a doctor arrives and determines the man needs glasses. Then the king arrives...

Bacardi and Coke Bonanza ‘81

1981 • 7 min

A seven-minute look at what does on at the Davie Rodeo Arena.

Top Priority

1981 • 9 min • Canada

Set in an unspecified Third World country, this animated film, based on a short story by Enver Carim, suggests that "top priority" means different things to governments and to the governed. A drought-stricken family maintains a long and desperate vigil for a cloud of dust on the horizon signalling the arrival of irrigation pipes and pump. They are rewarded with a military convoy instead. Its top priority is a border war with a neighboring state, not pipes for the life-saving water the family must have.