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Remember Me

Remember Me

1981 • 10 min • United States of America
An informational short reminding you that bland, passive-aggressive, businessmen deserve top-notch customer service at all times.
The Carousel

The Carousel

1981 • 10 min • France
An early stop motion animated short film from Jean-Pierre Jeunet. With puppets by Marc Caro.
My First Breaststroke

My First Breaststroke

1981 • 43 min • France
Film director Luc Moullet turns the camera on himself as he attempts to overcome his fear of large bodies of water and learn to swim.
This Is an End

This Is an End

1981 • 15 min • Germany
This experimental short film plays on genre conventions and expectations. Loosely connected elements from the Nouvelle Vague, thrillers and silent film raise questions: What do the three young men in the car have to do with the woman in the café? Who is she waiting for? Electronic sounds from the artist padeluun, reminiscent of radio noises, link the scenes and give the impression that aliens are the observers of these mysterious events.
In a Dim Kingdom, in a Gray State

In a Dim Kingdom, in a Gray State

1981 • 15 min • Soviet Union
How brothers Colored Pencils and sister Kind Brush defeated the enemies of the multicolored world.
Vanka Zhukov

Vanka Zhukov

1981 • 10 min • Soviet Union
Based on Chekhov's Christmas story "Vanka".
Find Me First

Find Me First

1981 • 30 min
A TV play from Taste of Honey writer Shelagh Delaney. A chance encounter late one night in central Manchester reunites two estranged sisters-but for how long?
Filya the Kitten and...

Filya the Kitten and...

1981 • 10 min • Soviet Union
One day, a kitten named Filya gets a new friend - a funny, good-natured wizard. Unfortunately, he had never seen mice, and when, at Fily's request, he tried to create them, things in the apartment came to life and caused a real mess. The brave kitten, not afraid of the rebellious things, pacifies them and rejoices in his victory together with his friend.
The Deliverance

The Deliverance

1981 • 45 min • India
When a poor and out-caste village tanner goes to village priest to get the date of his daughter's marriage fixed, the priest in turn asks for labor without pay in exchange.
The Monster's Christmas

The Monster's Christmas

1981 • 47 min • New Zealand
On Christmas Eve, a nameless little girl reads 'The Monster's Christmas' storybook to her teddy bear, as something sneaks around in the trees outside her window. She hears a noise in the other room, and thinking that it's Father Christmas, she goes to investigate. She finds one of the monsters, who has come seeking help to defeat an evil witch that has stolen all the monsters' voices.
Diary of a Generation

Diary of a Generation

1981 • 24 min • Yugoslavia
Titoism abused the school system, as well as all institutions of culture and media in order to create obedient subjects who do not have their own opinion about reality and who live in a fictitious world of ideological constructions. Children from eight-year schools are forced to quote by heart the values ​​of the so-called self-governing socialism as their own. This is the best way to create generations of conformists who the so-called elites can rule.
Comets: Time Capsules of the Solar System

Comets: Time Capsules of the Solar System

1981 • 11 min • United States of America
Educational short about the solar system.
Winter Quarters of Animals

Winter Quarters of Animals

1981 • 10 min • Soviet Union
Pets decide to survive the cold together, but wolves are close. Musical cartoon based on a folk tale.
Miiko Sawaki and Naomi Hagio: First Experience of Bondage for Female College Students

Miiko Sawaki and Naomi Hagio: First Experience of Bondage for Female College Students

1981 • 30 min • Japan
BDSM erotic-drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.
Tôkaidô Yotsuya Kaidan: The Anime

Tôkaidô Yotsuya Kaidan: The Anime

1981 • 46 min • Japan
An adaptation of Yotsuya Kaidan, a classic Japanese horror story about a ghost getting revenge.
Souls in the Sun

Souls in the Sun

1981 • 27 min
Souls in the Sun takes an honest look at some victims of the world's neglect - a few individuals among the teeming masses of poor people.
An All Round Maid

An All Round Maid

1981 • 9 min • France
A video derived from footage Godard kept from his 1981 visit to Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope Studios at the time he was making Passion.
Angel of the Night

Angel of the Night

1981 • 34 min • Denmark
Michael Strunge and other young Danish poets, accompanied by images of night-time Copenhagen.
Adventures of Vasia Kurolesov

Adventures of Vasia Kurolesov

1981 • 27 min • Soviet Union
A comic mystery about Vasia Kurolesov who is trying to become a detective.
Kinderen voor Kinderen 1

Kinderen voor Kinderen 1

1981 • 51 min • Netherlands
Registration of the first 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.
Twelve Random Developments and Other Stuff

Twelve Random Developments and Other Stuff

1981 • 1 min
By the end of 1980 I knew that I'd be entering the Ph.D program in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences at Northwestern University. In retrospect it's perhaps surprising that I'd satisfied all my course requirements in the Business School at Loyola University Chicago and that two free electives remained. Innumerable interactions with Loyola are to that University's credit: one is that they put no obstacles in my way for transferring elective credits in from courses at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). And so I signed up for Animation I with Byron Grush and Drawing for Animation I with Dennis Wille. I remember being exceedingly nervous when I showed up at SAIC to register and pay for those courses as I had no portfolio, only a (one hopes) coherent verbal explanation of my interest in the subject. The gentleman seated at the film department table signed off on my application. That was my first meeting with Fred Camper
Long Train Running: A History of the Oakland Blues

Long Train Running: A History of the Oakland Blues

1981 • 29 min • United States of America
Marlon Riggs and Peter Webster’s thesis project reflects on the heyday of Oakland blues in the late 1940s and ’50s, when an influx of African American shipyard workers mostly hailing from Louisiana and Texas arrived in the Bay Area. Combining vintage photographs, archival footage, interviews, and performances at venues like Eli’s Mile High Club, Riggs and Webster chronicle Oakland’s vibrant past while revealing an uncertain present.
Connection

Connection

1981 • 9 min • Japan
In Connection, a static shot of the sky with moving clouds is subdivided into regular geometrical regions, which are then individually (and rhythmically) manipulated.
Porosenok v koluchey shubke

Porosenok v koluchey shubke

1981 • 9 min • Soviet Union
Seeing Snowflake outside the window on a frosty day, the Hedgehog clung to the glass so that his nose looked like a piglet's. Snowflake mistook him for a pig in a spiky fur coat and invited him to play outside.