All Films

New York Portrait, Chapter II

1981 • 16 min

Chapter Two represents a continuation of daily observations from the environment of Manhattan compiled over a period from 1980-1981. This is the second part of an extended life's portrait of New York.

Review 35th Year No. 4

1981 • 9 min • United Kingdom

"It's still men who win coal": a look at the past, present and future of the coal industry.

Tree of Knowledge

1981 • 58 min • United States of America

It started with filming the tree. Something was released in that manner of filming seemingly farthest removed from the procedure of the early films. I first thought a simple ordering of this rich material might be enough, something related to BARN RUSHES [...] But the film only came into its form-life with the idea of linking this deep-rooted and far-outreaching tree material with that film on paranoia that had fascinated me for many years. –L. G.

Telly Savalas Looks at Portsmouth

1981 • 26 min • United Kingdom

Telly Savalas tours the coastal city of Portsmouth, with a look at the intriguing history and magnificent attractions.

Funny People

1981 • 30 min

Scene spent a week in a school in Bristol finding out about those people who make their classmates laugh. Why does every class have its clown? What do the comedians gain from being funny? Once you've got it, can you get rid of the role of the joker?

Little Bear, Baby and Others

1981 • 50 min • Soviet Union

Two short stories tell about a little bear named Pyatnashka, who learns about the world around him.

Egle

1981 • 51 min • Soviet Union

A young woman Egle is forced to marry the king of serpents, her brothers seek to avenge their sister.

White Butterfly

1981 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Based on the fairy tale of the same name by Evgeny Permyak.

Poets Against the Bomb

1981 • 25 min • United Kingdom

An event organised by CND pits the bomb against poetry. Hear artists who hoped that words and rhymes could put an end to destructive times.

Fire Film

1981 • 12 min

Filmed at the start of Greenham Common. Women sit in the dark round the fire, occasionally someone throws more wood on the fire and we see them talking about the peace movement, the action taken by women, the Pentagon action and the importance of creating an international network.

Review 34th Year No. 7

1981 • 10 min • United Kingdom

A West Yorkshire story of rewilding wetlands in a landscape once dominated by deep coal mining.

Nodes

1981 • 3 min • United States of America

"nodus knot, node - more at NET) ... 4a: a point at which subsidiary parts originate or center ... 5: a point, line, or surface of a vibrating body that is free or relatively free from vibratory motion." In the tradition of SKEIN this hand-painted film is the equivalent of cathexis concepts given me by Sigmund Freud (in his "Interpretation of Dreams"), 30 years ago, finally realizing itself as vision. (Quote: Web. 7th). Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2006.

Mouth Music

1981 • 25 min • United States of America

Mouth Music demonstrates the distinctive modes of the human voice, the most influential of all musical instruments, takes on in southern folk music and folk culture. These modes can span traditional a cappella performance styles as well as unique expressive vocal forms that have evolved as part of daily life, work, and play: hollerin’, jump-rope rhymes, “eephing,” nonsense songs, auctioneering, drill sergeant’s patter and others.

Exoego

1981 • 13 min

The brittleness of sensuality is caught in silk cloths and walls of tin-foil. Erotic visions guide the spectator along moments of love and orgasm up to the dramatic climax of birthgiving.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

1981 • 21 min

A young girl named Alice falls down a rabbit-hole and finds herself in Wonderland, a fantasy land of strange characters and ideas.

The Tiller

1981 • 7 min • Poland

At sunrise, a peasant begins plowing. This iconographic motif becomes a caricature in the animation. The problem is that the peasant gropes, he plows through the legs of a resting peasant woman, railway tracks, a dining carriage, double bedrooms, office corridors, palace interiors, and meetings of diplomats. His march through the country is shown on TV. The peasant is really surprised to see a TV set in the rump of a horse. He crosses a crowded beach and disappears in the depths of the water together with the setting sun.

Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Delights

1981 • 34 min • France

Filmed by Jean Eustache for the television program, Les Enthousiastes, Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Delights presents a series of unstructured observations, free associations, and interpretations on the third panel of Bosch's well-known oil on wood triptych.

Chervona Ruta. Ten Years Later

1981 • 29 min • Soviet Union

In 1971, at the Ukrtelefilm studio, director Roman Oleksiv made the musical film Chervona Ruta in the town of Yaremche (Carpathians). 10 years later, a follow-up film was released with the same performers.

Moving

1981 • 5 min

Elam records several men moving boxes and furniture as they track across her backyard.

Vincent Gallo as Flying Christ

1981 • 1 min • United States of America

Hopper's Silence

1981 • 46 min

Documentary about painter Edward Hopper and his wife.

Wales Stone Circles

1981 • 15 min

Part of a pair of Super 8 landscape studies with an ancient British style, the camera explores the countryside under striking cloudscapes.

Golden Chick

1981 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A fairy tale based on the novel by V. Orlov. This is the story of how a couple of swindlers - Fox and Wolf - stole Chicken Ryaba so that she would lay them golden eggs. But the wolverine Wolf lost his prey, and he had to ... hatch the egg himself.

Stonebridge Park

1981 • 21 min • United Kingdom

A film in two parts. In the first part, the narrator describes the events that led to his impulsive decision to rob his former employer. The camera meanwhile walks about above the nearby road junction, surveying the distracted environment. In the second part, he recounts the anatomy of his panic following the crime, while the walking camera reconstructs his escape route. A final caption reports what happened after that.