All Films

Mr. Vene's World

1981 • 29 min • Soviet Union

Filmmaker Mark Soosaar talks to a remarkable gentleman Leonhard Vene (1902 - 1994), a self-educated antiquity collector thirsty for knowledge. For his whole life Leonhard has lived in a manor where he has all his life collected. Beautiful old pieces of furniture fill the hall of the manor - the old man himself puts up with puritan conditions and lives in a small kitchen. He is always smiling and looks like he comes from the previous century.

Telly Savalas Looks at Aberdeen

1981 • 25 min • United Kingdom

The star of TV's Kojak takes a look at the history and attractions of the city of Aberdeen, Scotland.

America Is Waiting

1981 • 4 min • United States of America

Stock footage edited with music to comment on American culture.

Perry Como's French-Canadian Christmas

1981 • 60 min

This televised Christmas special, filmed in Quebec, features the music of Perry Como and a number of guests.

Postcards II; Venus after Giorgione

1981 • 21 min • East Germany

Venus after Giorgione is the the second part of the "Over Paintings" (Uebermalungen) trilogy by painter and director STRAWALDE (Juergen Boettcher). Using various methods of "painting over" or projecting on top of Giorgione's "Sleeping Venus," Boettcher alienates the work artistically. Venus' beauty is seen within a new context and is thereby newly interpreted through the eyes of STRAWALDE. The assorted landscapes behind Venus range from idyllic pastorales to morbid backgrounds. STRAWALDE's art knows no boundaries and makes a strong impression on the viewer with bizarre sound collages.

Syn človeka

1981 • 57 min • Czechoslovakia

If I Were Older

1981 • 7 min • Bulgaria

The Devil's Workshop

1981 • 26 min • France

In a small fishing village in the West Indies, the children believe they see, in a strange cabin located on the way to the school, a devil.

The Old Man and the Enemy

1981 • 28 min • Albania

World War II. Italian fascists have interned in the South a lot of people who fought them on the 7th of April 1939 when they came to Albania. Among them, there's an old man whom they call "Daja" (uncle), who fought along with the youth.

Them

1981 • 4 min

A surreal look at humanity, from the first life on Earth, through to the extinction of dinosaurs and the inventions of mankind.

A Gift of Harvest

1981 • 22 min

Ylê Xoroquê

1981 • 34 min

The process of formation of the person and its identity from an African conception of the world. The orixás (gods), linked to the forces of nature, are equal to people, and are not transcendent. of the person with their orixá, within the family and the culture. Filmed in a Candomblé terreiro of Bantu origin.

Life and Death in A Pond

1981 • 15 min • Canada

An educational film about the life cycles of various types of pond life.

W trawie nie tylko piszczy...

1981 • 9 min • Poland

A horror movie takes place in the microcosm of grass. When magnified, the world of plants, insects and wild animals appears to be full of cruelty and unimaginable shapes. A change of scale would be enough to make a man tremble with fear for his life.

Fothergill

1981 • 60 min

John Fothergill, aesthete and scholar, becomes the proprietor of the Spread Eagle, in Thame, Oxfordshire, with the intent of turning it into the most celebrated Inn in England, catering to the brightest lights in London's literati.

A Esperança é um Animal Nômade

1981 • 9 min • Brazil

Torro. Torro. Torro!

1981 • 7 min

A lawnmower goes on a rampage.

Grand Mal

1981 • 23 min

"Oursler’s thematic concerns betray classic Freudian anxieties about sex and death. In Grand Mal, the hero takes a convoluted odyssey through a landscape of disturbing experiences. The video’s free association includes, "digressions about the difference between salt and sugar and a version of the creation myth that is both banal and terrifying." — Christine Tamblyn, “Art Notes,” Scan (November/December 1981)

8 and 3/4

1981 • 7 min • Poland

An anthology of 8 and ¾ macabre and absurd jokes. Witty souls of the dead, genocidal animals, lethal sport performances, medical appointments. Each life ends with death, though in different ways.

Jasper Carrott: Beat The Carrott

1981 • 60 min

Jasper Carrott has long been one of this country’s most well-loved comedians and this ITV special from 1981 shows him on top form. Recorded live at the London Palladium, the “Guv’nor of Conversational Stand-Up” showcases some of his classic routines from his 70s and 80s stage shows. In this live set he lampoons the BBC, Crossroads, his early gigging days in flea-pit theatres and even his audience!

Ted Bakes One

1981 • 1 min • United States of America

A chicken runs around screaming, trying to lay an egg.

Max Roach: Live at Blues Alley

1981 • 58 min • United States of America

This 1981 live show at Washington DC's famous Blues Alley features drummer Max Roach and his band.

胸さわぎの放課後

1981 • 55 min • Japan

Dame Janet Baker Sings

1981 • 45 min

Mary Marquis introduces a concert recorded in the Queen's Hall, Edinburgh in 1981 with Dame Janet Baker. She performs Mendelssohn's concert aria Infelice and Handel's dramatic solo cantata Lucrezia with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.