All Films

Omar Khorshid - Live in Australia

1981 • 9 min

Omar Khorshid And His Group .. live in Australia

Whale Watch (1)

1981 • 11 min • United States of America

Whale Watch (1) gathers personal sightings while on a public outing, in the company of the great mammals off Cape Cod. – Joseph Bernard

Alone in the Wind

1981 • 36 min

8mm film by Yukiyasu Shimada, 1981.

Breath No.5

1981 • 6 min

Two faces, in fact two silhouettes, are outlined against a monochromic background. They nod, interchange, underline their soundless talk with gestures of the hand. The gesticulating hands contribute to the communicative role ‘breath’ plays

Al-baha’s Hillocks

1981 • 60 min

(Rawabi Al-baha 1981) is the first documentary that spoke about cultural ‏heritage and traditions of Al-Baha southern of Saudi Arabia. it is produced by Mohammed Almadaifi Al-Zahrani, he also came up with the idea of the documentary to preserve Saudi’s legacy , not to mention Hussain Najar’s great voice and remarks in the background. Additionally, it was the saudi Arabia's submission for one of the foriegn film festival.

Pretend You'll Survive

1981 • 9 min • United Kingdom

Protect and survive? This activist cartoon from a Yorkshire women’s collective argues that the Government’s public information message on preparation for a nuclear attack is just a pretence. The only way to survive was to protest against such an outcome ever happening. The film also make a connection with the potential for an environmental catastrophe through the use of nuclear power.

Hot Pink

1981 • 3 min

Produced at the Experimental TV Center and post produced at WXXI, winner of the LA Erotic Film/Video Festival.

Déjà vu

1981 • 15 min

A project by Tomasz Sikorski

Hey!

1981 • 1 min

One frame experimental film by Dean Snider.

We See

1981 • 1 min

16mm experimental short film.

Yes-Ta-Day

1981 • 1 min

Hand painted 16mm experimental short film.

Along Brighton Beach Avenue

1981 • 30 min

The film is a half-hour series of brief close-ups of people on the street, shot from a high, but still intimate, angle. In a constant interplay of figure and ground, the film shows fragments of feet, heads, hands and elbows against the backdrop of an ancient sidewalk .... The film is fast on the eye, with many staccato camera moves. But, partially because the people are bundled up in winter clothes, one experiences it as a succession of cushioned jolts - the collision of soft, bulky forces that enter the frame from all directions. There is, however, too much raw human interest in the footage for the film to ever become completely abstract.

Shadow Hunting

1981 • 2 min

exploiting the painterly 'smear' quality of undercranked 6 fps projected S-8: Shadow hunts, I follow.

Paussus

1981 • 3 min

Resisting the binary essentialism of contemporary second-wave feminism, Bean's work points to a more complex celebration of being. Here, she draws on the ecstatic yet troubling inter relationship of a small beetle and its ant hosts, where the beetles secrete a substance that is greedily licked up by the ants to suppress their usual aggression, meaning they can be torn apart by the beetle whilst still submitting themselves to it.

Tá na Rua

1981 • 16 min • Brazil

Dances and Celebrations on the streets of João Pessoa. Interviews with important LGBTQ+ figures.

Perequeté

1981 • 21 min • Brazil

A profile of Francisco Marto, an actor and dancer from Paraíba, and his relationship with the artistic world. Colleagues from work and his aunt, with whom he lives, testify about his art, talking about provincial prejudices, the dream of stardom and the possible migration to a big city.

We Are Coming

1981 • 13 min

Short film by Jochen Gerz.

Who Will Wake Up the Axolotl?

1981 • 48 min • Soviet Union

Popular science film about different views on the theory of evolution and the infinity of human knowledge.

The Little Gluers

1981 • 47 min • Germany

The almost exclusively female hands that used to glue scenes together in the film laboratory according to the director’s instructions were not recognised in a film’s credits. In a series of interviews, eight former film laboratory employees and their friends remember this challenging and little-acknowledged work from the early days of the analogue film age.

Arthur the Kid

1981 • 24 min

Three inept crooks, endeavoring to become big-name Western outlaws, advertise for a gang leader. The newspaper squib only attracts the interest of a young boy who nevertheless manages to make them famous.

The Attack of the Saucer People

1981 • 13 min

Roger, a ciné enthusiast, enlists the support of fellow ciné-club members in the making of an amateur, sci-fi film. After inadvertently filming an actual alien spaceship, his group thinks he has upped his special effects budget and suspect nothing’s amiss. It won’t be long before Roger is paid another visit by the little green men, but will this be the end or will there be a sequel?

Snake Soup

1981 • 20 min

Nakamura’s trademark repetition technique and variety of moving-image materials convey hints of a mysterious and transgressive narrative. The textures of desire and death stirring within the tableau-like arrangements of figures embody the underlying tone that pervades Nakamura’s films.

Catabasi

1981 • 11 min

Catabasi is intimately interrelated with Anabasi, constituting the second phase of the search for the self. Etymologically, "catabasis" means the descent, the return (as opposed to "anabasis": the ascent). In this film, the Woman tries to return to herself, to the depths of physiological life, to rediscover her lost identity in her own body through dance. Dazzling images spring from his liberating dance, culminating in a rite of anthropological origin (some African peoples still living at an ethnological level practice a similar dance, based on jumps upwards). In the body, the Woman finds unsuspected energies buried, releasing a vitalism that contemporary capitalist society tends to exorcise as its insidious enemy.

Dance Twelve

1981 • 4 min • United States of America

Set to an Albinoni score, Chase hypnotically manipulates line and block patterns.