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The Monster's Christmas

The Monster's Christmas

1981 • 47 min • New Zealand
On Christmas Eve, a nameless little girl reads 'The Monster's Christmas' storybook to her teddy bear, as something sneaks around in the trees outside her window. She hears a noise in the other room, and thinking that it's Father Christmas, she goes to investigate. She finds one of the monsters, who has come seeking help to defeat an evil witch that has stolen all the monsters' voices.
Diary of a Generation

Diary of a Generation

1981 • 24 min • Yugoslavia
Titoism abused the school system, as well as all institutions of culture and media in order to create obedient subjects who do not have their own opinion about reality and who live in a fictitious world of ideological constructions. Children from eight-year schools are forced to quote by heart the values ​​of the so-called self-governing socialism as their own. This is the best way to create generations of conformists who the so-called elites can rule.
Comets: Time Capsules of the Solar System

Comets: Time Capsules of the Solar System

1981 • 11 min • United States of America
Educational short about the solar system.
Winter Quarters of Animals

Winter Quarters of Animals

1981 • 10 min • Soviet Union
Pets decide to survive the cold together, but wolves are close. Musical cartoon based on a folk tale.
Miiko Sawaki and Naomi Hagio: First Experience of Bondage for Female College Students

Miiko Sawaki and Naomi Hagio: First Experience of Bondage for Female College Students

1981 • 30 min • Japan
BDSM erotic-drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.
Tôkaidô Yotsuya Kaidan: The Anime

Tôkaidô Yotsuya Kaidan: The Anime

1981 • 46 min • Japan
An adaptation of Yotsuya Kaidan, a classic Japanese horror story about a ghost getting revenge.
Souls in the Sun

Souls in the Sun

1981 • 27 min
Souls in the Sun takes an honest look at some victims of the world's neglect - a few individuals among the teeming masses of poor people.
An All Round Maid

An All Round Maid

1981 • 9 min • France
A video derived from footage Godard kept from his 1981 visit to Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope Studios at the time he was making Passion.
Angel of the Night

Angel of the Night

1981 • 34 min • Denmark
Michael Strunge and other young Danish poets, accompanied by images of night-time Copenhagen.
Adventures of Vasia Kurolesov

Adventures of Vasia Kurolesov

1981 • 27 min • Soviet Union
A comic mystery about Vasia Kurolesov who is trying to become a detective.
Kinderen voor Kinderen 1

Kinderen voor Kinderen 1

1981 • 51 min • Netherlands
Registration of the first Kinderen voor Kinderen-concertshow. In this annual event, the Dutch children's choir 'Kinderen Voor Kinderen' performs 12 songs based on ideas sent in by children. The songs make up an album from which the proceeds go to a good cause, namely collecting toys for children in Third World Countries.
Twelve Random Developments and Other Stuff

Twelve Random Developments and Other Stuff

1981 • 1 min
By the end of 1980 I knew that I'd be entering the Ph.D program in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences at Northwestern University. In retrospect it's perhaps surprising that I'd satisfied all my course requirements in the Business School at Loyola University Chicago and that two free electives remained. Innumerable interactions with Loyola are to that University's credit: one is that they put no obstacles in my way for transferring elective credits in from courses at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). And so I signed up for Animation I with Byron Grush and Drawing for Animation I with Dennis Wille. I remember being exceedingly nervous when I showed up at SAIC to register and pay for those courses as I had no portfolio, only a (one hopes) coherent verbal explanation of my interest in the subject. The gentleman seated at the film department table signed off on my application. That was my first meeting with Fred Camper
Long Train Running: A History of the Oakland Blues

Long Train Running: A History of the Oakland Blues

1981 • 29 min • United States of America
Marlon Riggs and Peter Webster’s thesis project reflects on the heyday of Oakland blues in the late 1940s and ’50s, when an influx of African American shipyard workers mostly hailing from Louisiana and Texas arrived in the Bay Area. Combining vintage photographs, archival footage, interviews, and performances at venues like Eli’s Mile High Club, Riggs and Webster chronicle Oakland’s vibrant past while revealing an uncertain present.
Connection

Connection

1981 • 9 min • Japan
In Connection, a static shot of the sky with moving clouds is subdivided into regular geometrical regions, which are then individually (and rhythmically) manipulated.
Porosenok v koluchey shubke

Porosenok v koluchey shubke

1981 • 9 min • Soviet Union
Seeing Snowflake outside the window on a frosty day, the Hedgehog clung to the glass so that his nose looked like a piglet's. Snowflake mistook him for a pig in a spiky fur coat and invited him to play outside.
Einmart

Einmart

1981 • 14 min • East Germany
The very first images in the film set unprecedented standards in East German animated film: a Buñuelean eye that fills the entire screen, real-life sequences of fleeing animals and a sound collage running contrary to what is seen on the screen. This also extends to the protagonist of the film, a head on a foot without a body or arms who pads wearily through the depressing surroundings. Upon seeing various figures in the sky, he begins to copy their movements. To his surprise, he himself manages to grow wings and takes to the skies. But his attempt at flight ends in a sobering manner however, as it is revealed that flying creatures are just restricted in their range.
Moving Sculpture: Jean Tinguely

Moving Sculpture: Jean Tinguely

1981 • 14 min • Japan
Documentary about Jean Tinguely and his work.
Carolyn III

Carolyn III

1981 • 25 min • France
The last part of the Carolyn Carlson cycle. Last look. Oversight. Irreversible erasure. The song is immersed. Blinded.
Mother For Baby Mammoth

Mother For Baby Mammoth

1981 • 8 min • Soviet Union
Baby Mammoth is looking for his Mom.
John Denver with His Special Guest George Burns: Two of a Kind

John Denver with His Special Guest George Burns: Two of a Kind

1981 • 60 min
A variety special starring John Denver and special guest George Burns.
Cinema: Embaixador do Brasil

Cinema: Embaixador do Brasil

1981 • 20 min • Brazil
A Century of Struggle

A Century of Struggle

1981 • 40 min
A Century of Struggle chronicles the hundred-year history of the NZ Seamen’s Union from its formation in 1879. Using original film and archive footage, it examines the working lives of seamen and the battles fought by their union from the sailing ships of colonial days to the modern turbine-powered container vessels. Because the Seamen’s Union was frequently at the forefront of working-class struggle in New Zealand, its story involves most of the crucial issues and events in the history of the union movement generally, including the great maritime strikes of 1890 and 1913 and the waterfront dispute of 1951.
K-9 and Company: A Girl's Best Friend

K-9 and Company: A Girl's Best Friend

1981 • 50 min • United Kingdom
Sarah Jane Smith arrives at the home of her Aunt Lavinia in the cozy village of Moreton Harwood, only to find that Lavinia is nowhere to be found and that the Doctor has left her a parting gift in K·9 Mark III. With the help of K·9 and Lavinia's young ward Brendan Richards, Sarah Jane starts investigating her aunt's disappearance. In the process, they discover that Moreton Harwood is home to a coven worshipping the pagan god Hecate and preparing for a human sacrifice...
My Name is Abbie

My Name is Abbie

1981 • 31 min • United States of America
A countercultural icon, Hoffman is remembered as one of the greatest radicals of the civil rights and anti-war movements of the sixties. In this film, which documents the first interview he gave in 1980 when he decided to reveal his identity after spending seven years in hiding, he traces the evolution of political activism in America. "My name is Abbie... orphan of America."