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Adieu Philippines

Adieu Philippines

1981 • 15 min
Shot during Deocampo’s year as a scholar in France under Atelier du Formacion Au Cinema Direct. His first documentary provides a glimpse of three Filipino painters residing in Europe: Nena Saguil, Macario Vitalis, and Ofelia Gelvezon-Tequi. The featured artists commentate on their daily practices as artists and migrants, all uniting at the end for an intimate gathering.
Behind the Curtain: Evgenios Spatharis

Behind the Curtain: Evgenios Spatharis

1981 • 16 min
The leading figure of Shadow Theater in Greece, the renowned Karagiozis performer, shadow theater teacher, and painter, **Evgenios Spatharis**, was born 100 years ago, on **January 2, 1924**. Continuing the family tradition of shadow theater passed down from his father, the well-known Karagiozis performer **Sotiris Spatharis**, Evgenios Spatharis dedicated his entire life to this important form of folk art. He traveled around the world showcasing his work and was honored with various European awards for his artistic contributions. In **1995**, the **Municipality of Maroussi** founded the **Spatharis Shadow Theater Museum**, giving Karagiozis a permanent home. In **2007**, the **Ministry of Culture** honored the great artist and shadow theater teacher for his contribution to Greek folk art.
Stockholm – Nordens Venedig

Stockholm – Nordens Venedig

1981 • 17 min
The film provides a rhapsodic overview of Sweden's capital. In brief glimpses we get to see how the city is built – the water, the islands, the bridges and the mainland. Each inner city district is presented separately, where different buildings and places show each district's distinctive character. The most famous tourist attractions are included, as well as historical monuments and characteristic metropolitan phenomena. Housing, business, working life and communications are illustrated in short bursts of images. Finally, examples are given of problems and difficulties faced by city dwellers, but also the advantages of living in a big city – the wide range of culture and leisure on offer, for example.
Other Bottles

Other Bottles

1981 • 7 min • Romania
Another series of short stories about bottles.
Reality Check

Reality Check

1981 • 4 min
Cut-out animation.
June Woods • July Swamp

June Woods • July Swamp

1981 • 12 min
Experimental film by Hiroyuki Sekine.
Living Treasures of Japan

Living Treasures of Japan

1981 • 57 min
Profiles nine artisans and performing artists who are recognized by law as "holders of important intangible cultural properties" and are charged with publicly exhibiting their works and teaching their artistry to apprentices. Pays visits to a potter, a doll sculptor, a puppeteer, a papermaker, a koto musician, a swordmaker, a textile weaver and a dyer, a kabuki theater actor, and a bellmaker.
Central America: A Gamble on Terror

Central America: A Gamble on Terror

1981 • 28 min • Soviet Union
About the USA's international terrorism, targeted on Latin American countries: El Salvador, Cuba, Nicaragua.
Eat a lot of Cabbage

Eat a lot of Cabbage

1981 • 18 min
Experimental film by Hiroyuki Sekine.
Un día de muerte

Un día de muerte

1981 • 15 min • Venezuela
Super-8 film by Gianni Dal Maso.
First Memory

First Memory

1981 • 20 min
The interior of a house. Outside, the sun parches the landscape. A woman’s voice tells a story. Filmed from 35mm slide projection on 16mm reversal Fuji film with in camera fades and pans.
The Last to Know

The Last to Know

1981 • 55 min
Via New Day Films: "Nearly one half of the estimated ten million alcoholics in the country are women, yet their special problems are totally ignored. Concealed by families, protected by friends and physicians, these women are kept invisible. They themselves are often The Last to Know. This extraordinary film speaks directly to these women by sensitively focusing on four intimate stories and shows how the medical community, the media and the values of society at large actually perpetuate alcoholism and prescription drug abuse in women."
Come by Here

Come by Here

1981 • 26 min • Papua New Guinea, United States of America
Filmed with a 16mm spring-wound Bolex camera, this story-driven documentary captures a pivotal moment in the life of the Sepik Iwam people of Hauna Village, deep in the Papua New Guinea jungle. Bible translator Marilyn Laszlo had been living among them for years, joined now by her sister Shirley. As the mission grew, the film introduced light reenactments to convey the depth of transformation taking place. When a neighboring village arrived seeking medical help, what unfolded was both unexpected and profoundly moving.
The Tender Tale of Cinderella Penguin

The Tender Tale of Cinderella Penguin

1981 • 10 min • Canada
Cinderella has to stay home while her evil stepsisters go to the ball. You know the rest except everyone here is a penguin (even the mice that become the "horses") and the lost slipper is more like a swimming flipper.
The Man Who Could Not See Far Enough

The Man Who Could Not See Far Enough

1981 • 32 min • United States of America
A film that uses literary, structural, autobiographical, and performance metaphors to construct a series of tableaux that evoke the act of vision, the limits of perception, and the rapture of space.
Kino Da!

Kino Da!

1981 • 3 min
Kino Da! (1981) is a portrait of North Beach Communist cafe poet & gentle comrade, Jack Hirschman, editor of the “Artaud Anthology” (City Lights). Shot in sync with wind-up Bolex.
N!ai, The Story of a !Kung Woman

N!ai, The Story of a !Kung Woman

1981 • 59 min • United States of America, Botswana
This film provides a broad overview of Ju/'hoan life, both past and present, and an intimate portrait of N!ai, a Ju/'hoan woman who in 1978 was in her mid-thirties. N!ai tells her own story, and in so doing, the story of Ju/'hoan life over a thirty year period. "Before the white people came we did what we wanted," N!ai recalls, describing the life she remembers as a child: following her mother to pick berries, roots, and nuts as the season changed; the division of giraffe meat; the kinds of rain; her resistance to her marriage to /Gunda at the age of eight; and her changing feelings about her husband when he becomes a healer. As N!ai speaks, the film presents scenes from the 1950's that show her as a young girl and a young wife. The uniqueness of N!ai may lie in its tight integration of ethnography and history. While it portrays the changes in Ju/'hoan society over thirty years, it never loses sight of the individual, N!ai.
The Primal Scene

The Primal Scene

1981 • 6 min
Bedrooms filmed in a Freudian way.
Tarting Over

Tarting Over

1981 • 3 min
In a domestic setting, two men in suits with rather glassy and listless facial expressions sit at a table with two mocha cakes on it. A classic slapstick element in an experimental setting.
Time Spent

Time Spent

1981 • 12 min
Art film part of the REWIND + PLAY, An Anthology of Early British Video Art box-set.
Am Wannsee ist der Teufel los

Am Wannsee ist der Teufel los

1981 • 43 min • Germany
Young folks from different groups of early 80s subcultures (Punks, Rockers, Poppers) are heading for Wannsee, a local recreation area in West Berlin, where they are getting in conflict with middle-class-citizens. The movie is a collection of short sketches leading to a crazy pursuit and a lunatic struggle of nearly everybody against nearly everybody.
40/81 Breakfast im Grauen

40/81 Breakfast im Grauen

1981 • 2 min
Kren in New Hampshire, New England. Together with friends he lived from the demolition of wooden houses and sale of the wood. Kren was the "nail puller". (Hans Scheugl)
Crystal Vista

Crystal Vista

1981 • 30 min
A 30 minute video program by Iasos. "CRYSTAL VISTA" is Iasos' visualizations to four of his own musical compositions. These musical visions take you on an other-worldy journey filled with highly colorful special-effects and heavenly images, creating a captivating and uplifting half-hour experience that remains fascinating even with repeated viewing. "CRYSTAL VISTA" truly transports you on a journey through inter-dimensional spaces.
Shaman Psalm

Shaman Psalm

1981 • 7 min • United States of America
The love shaman calls for a sexual revolution of the body politic urging mankind into a new love age.