All Films

A thousand years seem like just one day

1981 • 59 min • Germany

A sensitive study of one of the twenty great monasteries of Mount Athos, a thousand year old monastic republic in northern Greece- the famous ‘Holy Mountain’ of the Orthodox church. A detailed picture of life in the 900 year old monastery of Simonopetra.”

The Germany March

1981 • 38 min

Documentary about 41-year old Rüdiger Nehberg marching about 1000 kilometers from Hamburg in northern Germany to Oberstdorf in the south of Germany. Mainly living off his own body, he lost 25 pounds during his endeavor but gained on precious experiences.

Zenith

1981 • 10 min

3 Miniatures after Melanie Klein

1981 • 14 min • Germany

Combines three short films: Richard, The Blanket of Life, Elementary Editing Theory

First Aid Training: Control of Bleeding

1981 • 12 min

Shows how to recognize three types of bleeding, including arterial, venous and capillary, and discusses how to treat each type. Uses art work and animation to explain the human circulatory system. Points out the 23 pressure points in the body.

Shiva

1981 • 5 min • France

Joseph Morder transforms his face.

Nuits blanches

1981 • 35 min • France

A strange experimental thriller set in Nancy (France), with yellow tones, whose technical mastery sometimes gives us the illusion of watching the reverse side of a Hollywood film, and which was awarded a joint award in Clermont-Ferrand with the first film of Leos Carax. (CJC)

The People and The Lake

1981 • 12 min • Egypt

Aspects of life associated with Lake Manzala.

When the street becomes home

1981 • 21 min • Brazil

At Catumbi neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, the urban planning and constant transformation affect the daily life of the inhabitants.

Beat It

1981 • 4 min

Watch folks beat the bejesus out of mechanical moles. Will you be as frustrated as they are?

Florida's Disney Decade

1981 • 50 min

“Walt Disney World is a tribute to the philosophy and the life of Walter Elias Disney”, those are the words spoken by his brother, Roy Disney at the opening of the Walt Disney World Resort. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Walt Disney World and the impact it has had on Florida, the Florida Disney Decade television special was created. The special aired simultaneously on all three Orlando television stations on October 1, 1981. The special includes Disney executives and Florida businessmen and politicians are interviewed about their roles in bringing Walt Disney World to Florida. Narrated by Gene Burne.

Chaka Khan: Live At Roxy Theatre

1981 • 45 min

Recorded at the Roxy Theatre, 7 June 1981

Sei Still, Wisse Ich Bin

1981 • 40 min

A film inspired by The Bible and filmed in the Sinai Desert, which stages the music contained within Popol Vuh's album Sei Still, Wisse Ich Bin

Being Gay in the Thirties (Gay Life)

1981 • 35 min

This edition of LWT’s pioneering 1980s TV series looks at gay experience 50 years earlier.

Southcote Road (Frame Displacement)

1981 • 3 min

""Southcote Road" was originally shot in super-8 with an intervalometer set to capture images at 1 fps. It was then blown up to 16mm and projected at 18fps. The work was made on the last day of a seven week trip to London as a record of the street where I lived. It was also one of only two sunny days during the entire summer . . . ." - D. N. Rodowick

Filming Muybridge

1981 • 26 min • France

This film is the achievement of a process initiated by a fascination with the split movement images Eadweard Muybridge made in the 1870's and 80's. It has become a cinema fantasy on its own origins, an imaginary archeology in some ways.

In Motion

1981 • 13 min • United Kingdom

Three films interwoven into one. The first is a poem, displayed as a handwritten landscape observed from a train window. A matrix of phrases track three suns behind silhouettes of trees, allowing the eye to compose random fragments from the mass of shifting material. The second abstracts the surface the surface of a mountain stream through a series graphic, symmetrical camera traces. The final sequence is a breakneck volley of zooms down sunlit plantation avenues. ‘Lightning’ strikes, bird cries spread the alarm, as the image flashes and disintegrates into darkness.

Hamaca: The Quickie Version

1981 • 3 min • United States of America

The film grew out of the home movies made by my father and then by me. Led to one of the first optical printer films produced at The Florida Optical House, Miami, and shot by Albie Krieger. Combines Reg 8mm, 16mm and 35mm with most derived from 16mm. the sources and content are obvious, with the overall experience somewhat unresolved. tho the ending is explicit and direct. hence "the quickie version" title for a film that has been reworked in differing versions and number of projectors and screens. (Bruce Posner)

Juliette du côté des hommes

1981 • 60 min

A woman questions men. She tries to make them talk about themselves, some answer, others don't. In counterpoint: hunting, dancing, motorcycle riding. "I have always wanted to know more about men, to hear about their country, about "what it's like to be a man". Curiosity of a little girl, no doubt. But also a woman's desire, a desire to get closer and closer, until the impossible fusion. Juliette du côté des hommes is the film of this curiosity, of this desire. Men who please me tell me their story, tell me about their desires. And I, who listen to them and watch them, tell with these words and these images, my desire for them. Between a marathon and bikers, a hunting party and a card game, a waltz that sails and a tango that sways, there is masculinity that passes. There is - for me - the Other." (Claudine Bories)

Connecticut Papoose

1981 • 50 min

CONNECTICUT PAPOOSE is conceived a surrealist tract, with references to Lautremont, Tristan Tzara, Andre Breton and to surrealist images of sleeping and dreaming. Throughout the tape, unrelated images and ideas are juxtaposed as they might be in a surrealist painting by Magritte. The voice over operates as a kind of stream of consciousness guide through the underworld labyrinth of the human mind (with all its vicissitudes). Lines from poets are combined with skewed observations on contemporary culture. Performances of musical and artistic content coccur within abnormal contexts. Images and sounds themselves also distorted and manipulated by electronic processes to produce a distancing and alienation from reality.

Peak

1981 • 2 min • United States of America

A very early example of fractal-generated terrain.

Desiring Men

1981 • 3 min

16mm experimental film by Dean Snider.

Anna

1981 • 40 min • Austria

Anna is a portrait of Anna Rheinsberg, and an attempt by Christanell to see herself in her friend: What do women of a certain age have in common, whatconstitutes femininity? One answer would be the objects in one’s life, and what one does with them.

Anagram

1981 • 35 min

The film takes place entirely in one room and is based on a series of six repetitive shots. These shots establish a schema, a set of expectations which are then undermined. The film favours image rather than sound, in contrast to most narrative film, and the sound, where it occurs, serves only to confound or displace any meaning that is established. There are people, activities, a location and a hint of story. The film, however, cannot be mentally reassembled into anything like what it hints at in its depiction of bits of mundane domestic activity. On the contrary, it intends to confound any such attempt at a coherent reconstruction, preferring instead to leave the viewer with a lingering sense of doubt. – N.H.