All Films

Hands of Justice

1981 • 6 min

While withdrawing all of his money from the bank to pay for a life saving operation for his Mother, Roy Canteen is attacked and robbed. Taking the law into his own hands Canteen thinks of many different violent ways to take his revenge. After spotting the assailant he proceeds to play out his fantasy.

The Technology of Souls

1981 • 11 min • United Kingdom

A model poses in bright primary colours alongside a number of oblique words. Images of a woman rotating wearing long flowing dresses are overlain and played at different speeds.

He Said Without Moving

1981 • 3 min • United States of America

A character study showing the dissolution of the characters sense of self. The structure is based loosely on a pantoum structure in poetry.

One Pea, Two Peas...

1981 • 7 min • Soviet Union

The adventures of a hamster and a gopher.

Arabic Numeral Series 5

1981 • 5 min

“With some exceptions, the Arabics take the idea of the void as their ground. That is, the light we do see almost always seems to be set against darkness, or occasionally against white, these momentary flickers that materialize tenuously out of emptiness. But the darkness is not ‘night,’ or even simply some more abstract absence of light, but a more profound vacuum: it represents a world stripped of all the coordinates of the known, an unmeasurable absence. […] These lushly sensual, pleasurable-to-view films are also terrifying: their unpredictability, continually enacting new dramas of surprise, alternatively swamps the viewer in light and leaves him adrift in darkness.”

Arabic Numeral Series 4

1981 • 10 min

“With some exceptions, the Arabics take the idea of the void as their ground. That is, the light we do see almost always seems to be set against darkness, or occasionally against white, these momentary flickers that materialize tenuously out of emptiness. But the darkness is not ‘night,’ or even simply some more abstract absence of light, but a more profound vacuum: it represents a world stripped of all the coordinates of the known, an unmeasurable absence. […] These lushly sensual, pleasurable-to-view films are also terrifying: their unpredictability, continually enacting new dramas of surprise, alternatively swamps the viewer in light and leaves him adrift in darkness.”

Arabic Numeral Series 7

1981 • 11 min • United States of America

“With some exceptions, the Arabics take the idea of the void as their ground. That is, the light we do see almost always seems to be set against darkness, or occasionally against white, these momentary flickers that materialize tenuously out of emptiness. But the darkness is not ‘night,’ or even simply some more abstract absence of light, but a more profound vacuum: it represents a world stripped of all the coordinates of the known, an unmeasurable absence. […] These lushly sensual, pleasurable-to-view films are also terrifying: their unpredictability, continually enacting new dramas of surprise, alternatively swamps the viewer in light and leaves him adrift in darkness.”

Arabic Numeral Series 8

1981 • 7 min

“With some exceptions, the Arabics take the idea of the void as their ground. That is, the light we do see almost always seems to be set against darkness, or occasionally against white, these momentary flickers that materialize tenuously out of emptiness. But the darkness is not ‘night,’ or even simply some more abstract absence of light, but a more profound vacuum: it represents a world stripped of all the coordinates of the known, an unmeasurable absence. […] These lushly sensual, pleasurable-to-view films are also terrifying: their unpredictability, continually enacting new dramas of surprise, alternatively swamps the viewer in light and leaves him adrift in darkness.”

The Pipe

1981 • 8 min • Soviet Union

Remembering Thelma

1981 • 15 min

Kathe Sandler’s 1981 portrait of dancer Thelma Hill, a founding member of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.

Once Upon a Time There Were Matryoshka Dolls

1981 • 9 min • Soviet Union

The characters of the film are folk wooden and clay toys.

Sphinx Awake

1981 • 3 min

1981 Czech experimental short by Petr Skala

Tilburg Teacher Trilogy

1981 • 7 min

1981 short film by Paul de Nooijer and Jerry King Musser

Esculturas Rupestres

1981 • 9 min

"Esculturas Rupestres" (Rupestrian Sculptures) was made in Jaruco Park outside of Havana. The low relief sculptures that resembled petroglyphs, were influenced by Ana Mendieta’s interest in the indigenous Taíno people of Cuba.

Pascal

1981 • 41 min • France

From the series "Portraits" : Pascal Martin

Klaabu in Space

1981 • 15 min • Soviet Union

Fantastic film about the space trip of Klaabu, Ninni and Pessik, to their help to the habitats of other planet in a release from the yoke of ominous Mushroom and transformation of motherland in a flowering garden.

Economic Cooperation: Noel's Lemonade Stand

1981 • 9 min

Noel enlists the help of neighbors in his city apartment building to supply homemade food to make his sidewalk lemonade stand a success.

Thomas Bernhard – Eine Herausforderung. Monologe auf Mallorca

1981 • 50 min • Austria

Thomas Bernhard rarely engaged in on-camera interviews and conversations. However, he was extremely taken with the television films created by Krista Fleischmann and recognized – both confidently and with foresight – their lasting value for posterity: “I feel this portrait is an entirely successful document whose usefulness will grow.”

295.5

1981 • 11 min

Experimental movie that seeks the relation between art and madness.

Untitled: 'Silueta' of Sand

1981 • 3 min

United States / Cuba 1981, Super 8 transferred to digital, black and white, silent, 2 min

Souvenirs/Barcelone

1981 • 32 min • France, Spain

A Saga da Asa Branca

1981 • 7 min • Brazil

Another Bloody Sunday

1981 • 53 min • United Kingdom

A stony-faced Tom Morton, General Manager of Doncaster Rugby League team, has just received a copy of the Guinness Book of Records. His team now has an entry for most games without a win. What follows in Barry Cockcroft’s wonderful portrait of the club’s last four fixtures of the 1981 season is a mixture of the bleak, the poignant and the hilarious. The scattered devoted few at the aptly named Tattersfield watch as Doncaster and Hull legend Tony Banham finally comes up trumps.

Den magiska dansaren

1981 • 50 min • Sweden

"The Magic Dancer" - A poetic, almost surreal text, that somewhat breathes Lorca. A unique lyrical universe.