All Films

Rainbow Goblins Story / Live at Budokan

1981 • 53 min

A historic 1981 performance in Budokan of Takanaka's entire Rainbow Goblins album. Based upon THE RAINBOW GOBLINS by Ul de Rico.

The Trough

1981 • 2 min • Poland

We can see a trough and dirty pigs around it. Another pig (clean and polite) approaches the trough. Other pigs react with aggression and do not want it at the trough. The animal decides to get dirty. Then, the pig is greeted with a smile and accepted at the trough.

Colour Work

1981 • 15 min • United Kingdom

Colour Work attempts to present a subjective journey and to produce a translation of the perceptual experience of the look. Built around a cyclic and repetitive structure the film has a musical effect through its pace and rhythm.

Journey for Survival

1981 • 15 min • United States of America

Drought, desert, famine. Half the world's population must daily take a thirsty journey in search of water for survival, a search made even more difficult because the water they do find will almost certainly be contaminated.

A Certification Trademark

1981 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A cartoon about high-quality glass, or how faith in omens can change a life!

Silverfish

1981 • 3 min

Dana Plays leverages inversion techniques and optically printed compositing to recast footage of children playing into an ominous siren song of impending doom. A characteristically prominent soundtrack of reversed chatter and focused tableaus of metal keys and chains creates an incantatory air and pushes SILVERFISH into psychedelic territory. - Jackson Scarlett

Meow!

1981 • 8 min • Brazil

A stray cat runs out of milk and suffers effects after being persuaded to take a certain soft drink, making it an unlikely victim of globalization.

R... Doesn't Answer Anymore

1981 • 52 min

For three months, the Dardenne brothers investigated independent local radio stations in Belgium, France, Italy and Switzerland. The result is a fascinating picture of the arrival of independent radio in Europe as a subversive alternative to the official media (public broadcasters and commercial mass media). To do this, the filmmakers spoke with pioneers. They also took an interest in the installations, such as hidden transmitters. One of them is a radio which broadcasts in the Alsatian dialect in order to protect a minority language. R… ne répond plus is a virtuoso work in which the Dardennes experiment with sound, only logical since the subject concerns radio stations. The film ends in an almost deafening cacophony of voices, static and other sounds that fill the airwaves.

Lykantropia

1981 • 6 min • Poland

Wolves reveal they are really humans in wolf costumes and proceed to eat each other.

Vadi-Samvadi

1981 • 7 min • Argentina

Aspiraciones is the beginning of a series in which Vadi-Samvadi is the second film. The grammar of Indian music suggests a micro-interval in a cinematic space-time.

Winged Master

1981 • 8 min • Soviet Union

Puppet cartoon about a wonderful master and an evil ruler. The ruler wished that the master would work only for her, and imprisoned him. But it turned out that her power was powerless!

Mr. Daff Is Shooting a Film

1981 • 3 min • East Germany

The camera is ready for the perfect shot! The bus driver pays special attention when he notices the camera. But the cameraman is actually waiting for the bus to depart, so he can film the wonderful scenery behind the bus.

The Wolf and the Lamb

1981 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A lamb is chased by a wolf.

Postcards I; Potter's Bull

1981 • 16 min • East Germany

Potter's Bull is the first part of the "Over-Paintings" Trilogy (Uebermalungen) by painter and director STRAWALDE (Juergen Boettcher). Paulus Potter's simple postcard scene entitled "The Young Bull" ("den jungen Stier") is artistically alienated in an imposing fashion. By using assorted means of "painting over" and/or front projections, the figure of the bull in the center of the card is placed in a state of constant flux. A viewer may also choose to follow the shifting background behind the bull, which continues to recontextualize the bull in shifting worlds. Accompanied by a sound collage.

Synapses

1981 • 5 min • France

Réne Manzor's debut short, a surreal story about a tramp trying to build a road through the desert.

Circle the Earth

1981 • 22 min • United States of America

Anna Halprin Dancer's Workshop Event

Point final à la ligne

1981 • 60 min

Jean-François loves Constance with a tender and passionate love. It is enough to see the behavior of this lunar clown to realize that every moment passed away from his beloved is a real torture. Shared between endless trips in the corridors of the metro and evenings between friends, it is not good in his skin. In search of complete happiness, he tries to satisfy his vocation: to become acrobatic with Constance, but, as a result of mediocre performances, even null, this aspiration leads to a dead end.

Body and Soul

1981 • 6 min • France

L'éventail

1981 • 3 min • France

Sous la neige

1981 • 4 min • France

The First Foot

1981 • 14 min • Soviet Union

Voices from the past echo through the deserted, snow-covered stone houses in a village in the Caucasus Mountains.

Hiroshima - Ahead of Us?

1981 • 4 min

This work produced by Swedish television, where Swedish kids reads texts written by Japanese kids about their experiencing of and surviving the bombings. In the film we see images/drawings painted by these children. Nestlers inspiration comes from the book Children of the A Bomb "Five years after the atom bomb fell on Hiroshima, a Professor of Education at Hiroshima University organized a project to preserve for the record the stories of those who had been on the receiving side of that catastrophic explosion. (Martin Grennberger)

Musikalische Arabesken: Humoreske

1981 • 4 min • East Germany, Germany

This short animation film, which is part of the series Musikalische Arabesken (Musical Arabesks), is a colorful and expressionistic interpretation of Antonin Dvorák’s Humoresque played in a modern version by the Jo Kurzweg Orchestra.

Long Day

1981 • 18 min • Soviet Union

A film about rural blacksmiths.