All Films

Exile

1981 • 12 min • Yugoslavia

"Exile" is a religious parable on death and dying, contrasting the burning of an old ship with images of a woman dying in a dark interior, and a suggestion of redemption in the images of city covered by snow.

Retratos de Hideko

1981 • 10 min • Brazil

Four generations of the Japanese woman: the struggle for survival, the cult of traditions, adaptation to the city and cultural dilution.

Dear Mark

1981 • 15 min

A Comedy in which the artist's voice has been replaced by Gene Autry's. Lyon's homage to his friend, sculptor Mark di Suvero. From footage shot in 1965 and 1975.

Ko-omote

1981 • 8 min • Japan

Distant Islands

1981 • 6 min • Canada

This short animation uses appliqué and embroidered tapestries to recall a young girl's happy summers spent sailing with her family off the coast of British Columbia. Each tapestry, meticulously stitched by hand with brightly coloured yarns, evokes the memory of leisurely days at sea, drifting among the islands.

Luna, Luna, Luna

1981 • 13 min

A child sleepwalks into the forest. A black vastness inhabited by night creatures throbs and chirps, croaks and gurgles. As she wades deeper into the shimmering night, the real forest and the imaginary one dissolve into each other. Apparitions and phantoms begin their nocturnal dance. The atmosphere becomes charged and witches come shrieking to life. When the fear of the night reaches its peak, the moon rises and the final lunacy begins. An animated film about a child's reaction to the mysteries and magic of the night. Film without words.

Small Foveal Fields

1981 • 5 min

Small Foveal Fields, a continuation of my work with abstract filmic imagery, is primarily concerned with the mystery and elemental poetry of visual perception. Structurally, this film consists of ten separate-but- related episodes in which kinetic atmospheric light emerges from darkness, creates and activates color images and color space, then fades into black. Each of these ten mobile color fields interacts with a static grid system of white dots which provides a geometric reference and counterpoint to the film’s amorphic evolution

Kas tas ir - kolhozs?

1981 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A lightly-humoured animation film explaining the origins and the idea behind "kolhoz" in the Soviet system.

Back

1981 • 35 min • Japan

8mm work from the 5th Pia Film Festival.

愛の生活

1981 • 25 min

The Same Old Story

1981 • 3 min • Canada

A deceptively simple film, The Same Old Story is over almost before it has begun. A story within a story within a story, its effect is jarring, ambiguous and lingering. The film speaks of fear, which is as old as humanity and as new as today. An animated film in which reality and fantasy overlap dangerously.

Ana Mendieta: Selected Film Works

1981 • 34 min

Some of the films are presented in tandem in darkened interiors that resemble the caves where Mendieta sculpted some of her final works. One film depicts the artist lying naked in a creek, suggesting cleansing and rebirth. In another film, "Keane College Volcano" at Galerie Lelong, the wind is gently stirring a mound of ash that swirls up from a stone form's breast. The bluish powder twirls up and teasingly dissipates. This breathless little dance,this choreographed chance of the elements is the best. Ana Mendieta may have written her name on the earth in disappearing ink, but she did it so well that we can't erase it.

Rita Lee & Roberto de Carvalho: Saúde

1981 • 54 min • Brazil

Vocation

1981 • 7 min

A pastoral hymn to the God Pan; filmed at the Short Mountain Collective in Tennessee; adapted from a text by Aleister Crowley.

The disobedient carnation

1981 • 11 min • France, Germany, Uruguay

A carnation planted on the moon is banished for not to flourish. Once in exile, thanks to the care and affection of a child, the flowers bloom.

Epitaf

1981 • 25 min • Sweden

A 1981 short film.

The Afternoon of a Faun

1981 • 12 min

At the Nureyev Festival at the London Coliseum in July 1983, Rudolf Nureyev danced the faun as part of a Homage to Diaghilev in a mixed bill of ballets. Then, in the late 1980s, dance notation specialists Ann Hutchinson Guest and Claudia Jeschke reconstructed the ballet from Nijinsky's own notebooks, his dance notation, and the photographs of the dancers that Baron Adolph de Meyer produced shortly after the original performance of the ballet. This reconstructed version is often presented alongside Nijinsky's other works or repertoire from the Ballets Russes.

Reading: Who Needs It?

1981 • 18 min

After school special type short about illiterate high school students.

Aftermath

1981 • 8 min • United States of America

"after + math (((mowing, crop))) a second growth crop" ... this my strongest attack on pop culture, the movies, TV, etc. - what CAN be done with it? / The idealism of moving-visual-thought-process, the very raw meat of brain, trying to absorb and transform "the unthinkable": this, then, that second harvest of healthier gain ... retrieving patriotism, even, from blasphemous commerce. (Quote Webster's 7 Coll.)

Women in Arms

1981 • 59 min • Finland

Interviews with key military woman guerrilla leaders, and young girls and old women who took part baring arms or making artisanal bombs, against the regime of General Somoza.

Richard's Atari

1981 • 11 min

16mm/1981/11 minutes. Music played on a toy Atari machine by Richard Nelson.

Public Enemy Number One

1981 • 60 min • Australia

Australian journalist Wilfred Burchett reported the Vietnam War from the perspective of the North Vietnamese. For this he was reviled as a traitor and a communist in the Australian media. He had been the first journalist into Hiroshima after the atom bomb, and he covered wars in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. Filmmaker David Bradbury interviews Burchett in his later years and intercuts the interview with archival footage and still photographs. Burchett is seen in newsreel coverage and in footage taken by the North Vietnamese. Archival footage of the Vietnam War and newsreel footage of Hiroshima after the atom bomb enrich the documentary.

Writing: Plain & Fancy

1981 • 8 min • United States of America

A documentary about calligraphy.

Artmatic

1981 • 4 min • France