All Films

Children's Parties

1981 • 40 min

An anthology of various children's parties

Cupid's Arrows

1981 • 4 min • Soviet Union

Reconstruction of silent films: a parody of the salon drama of the early twentieth century.

Saga - Live in Dortmund

1981 • 53 min

Saga playing live in Dortmund (1981)

Suburban Windows

1981 • 20 min

Impressions of the domestic prison and the suburban landscape through object animation, exploration of sound-image relationships and a variety of other techniques used to non-naturalistic, often humorous, effect. – National Film & Sound Archive

Crisis in Utopia

1981 • 25 min

A film that captures the underlying tension that pervades everyday life in the age of the atomic bomb and the telephone.

Are We Free?!

1981 • 22 min

To what extent are gay men 'free'? There are many countries in the world where they are oppressed and discriminated against both legally and illegally. Somos Libres!? (which is Spanish for 'Are we free?') tells the story of two young homosexuals who flee the repression of their native country to seek their freedom elsewhere. The main characters appear in various scenes that sound out their new-found freedom and are enacted in a humourous mixture of performance, theatre, music, and video techniques. Barcelona proves to be a big disappointment despite the fact that this harbour city has a traditional tolerance of homosexuals.

Possum O' Possum

1981 • 28 min

A film about possums and the most prestigious organization in the world today, the Possum Growers and Breeders Association.

The Sun

1981 • 2 min • Soviet Union

A study of flowers.

Still Life

1981 • 2 min • Soviet Union

A study of flowers.

Bumblebee

1981 • 2 min • Soviet Union

A picturesque study of flowers to the music of Scarlatti.

A Small Pigeon

1981 • 10 min

A young woman is haunted by the ghost of her husband, whom she killed. The soul of the husband takes the form of a dove.

The Baltic Wind

1981 • 20 min • Soviet Union

Film portrait of twice Hero of Socialist Labor, foreman of the Baltic Shipyard V.A.Smirnov.

Full Tide

1981 • 7 min • Japan

“Film images are projected when light is emitted from the projector lens and reaches the screen. The projector and the screen are connected by a beam of light. If you block this beam with a white board, images are projected onto it, and these images are a cross-section of the beam of light. The beam is like a Kintaro candy: you can intersect it at any point and the same images will appear. I wanted to make a film that was like staring at this cross-section of the beam of light - like staring at an image that, after being emitted from the projector, is in the process of floating toward the screen.” (Isao Kota)

Indicatif A2 et pendule de décrochage

1981 • 2 min

Water, Lightbulbs, Dying Bugs and Doorbells

1981 • 3 min

A doorbell rings, insects are electrocuted, light bulbs turn on and off; water spirals continuously

Good Morning, People!

1981 • 20 min • Soviet Union

The film is dedicated to the work of O. Berggolts during wartime and her role in the radio committee of besieged Leningrad.

The Microscope

1981 • 6 min • Czechoslovakia

An animated short from Viktor Kubal

Some Bottles

1981 • 7 min • Romania

A series of short stories with bottles.

The Relic

1981 • 6 min • Romania

Short film in the Delta Space Mission film series. The two members of the Delta spaceship crew discover a frozen ship with a time machine.

Beyond the Laxative, the Exploding Kindergarten

1981 • 42 min

Experimental film by Harumi Fujii.

Axe

1981 • 10 min • Iran

Story of an axe against nature

Cerveza Bud

1981 • 22 min

"This filmic slice of life coalesces into an ethnographic view of a possible future: the city as a constantly bubbling, delirious playground where yesterday’s monuments are symbols to be triumphed over, and tomorrow never arrives. Perhaps this is why the ultimate effect is one of wistfulness, due also to the unexpected intrusion of a memento mori in the guise of a nude traversing the Maine woods…" - Trevor Winkfield

Yap: How Did You Know We'd Like TV?

1981 • 52 min • Australia

Examining the change of culture in the small island after American television began being broadcast.

New Friends

1981 • 11 min

Animation short directed by Diane Kenna.