All Films

Who Are You?

1981 • 24 min • Poland

The film doesn’t have any commentary. It presents pictures illustrating the history of Poland in chronological order: portraits of rulers and magnates, historical events, such as uprisings, but also balls, hunting, concerts, from the Middle Ages to the present day. In just twenty and a few minutes, the exhibition's message was captured - the heritage of the centuries and the image of the historically changing Polish identity.

A Letter to the Children

1981 • 52 min

TV documentary about architect Lado Aleksi-Meskhishvili, who was also a downhill skiing and boxing champion of Georgia, directed by his widow.

The Super-8 Show: Beyond Home Movies

1981 • 30 min

A short survey of the small-gauge narrative film, beginning with the Kuchars' Sylvia's Promise (1962). Primarily focused on East Coast artists, the work of Eric Mitchell, Manuel DeLanda and Ericka Beckman is highlighted.

A Plasticine Crow

1981 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Short animation of a Russian folk tale, made in 1981. A parody of the fable by Ivan Krylov "The Crow and the Fox".

Cat Kotofeyevitch

1981 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Adieu l'enfant

1981 • 12 min

A tribute to F1 pilot Patrick Depailler.

Cocktail Morlock

1981 • 22 min • France

Ikkyuu-san: It's Spring, Mischievous Princess!

1981 • 15 min • Japan

Ikkyuu must help the princess once again when she falls ill after seeing a beautiful man at a plum blossom-viewing party.

Beneath the Skin

1981 • 12 min • United States of America

"Relating a tale told by a girl on a swing, Beneath the Skin explores the contrast between the impersonal horror of a news story heard on television and the involvement of the storyteller in a nightmare, which gradually becomes more familiar and commonplace as the tale unfolds. The straightforward approach of the teller is humorously or frighteningly contrasted by a bombardment of visual images which mock or intensify the macabre flavor of the work."

Lily: Sold Out

1981 • 60 min • United States of America

After taking her successful Broadway show to Las Vegas, Lily Tomlin is faced with a tough decision: soften her act for mass appeal, or keep her material the way she originally intended?

Prinsessa joka nukkui 100 vuotta

1981 • 16 min

Poetic short film

The Fullmoon Tradition: Indra

1981 • 4 min • Japan

A pilot film for Mamoru Oshii's television series of the same name, which was cancelled while in production. The Fullmoon Tradition: Indra combines sci-fi ideas with Hindu mythology, creating an interesting hybrid about a group of adventurers led by Shudra, a descendant of the military goddess Indra. They journey to the "Moon Gate" in order to purify their home world of Purusha. The pilot shows a battle with a hydra, plus various conflicts and interactions.

Frost Ivanovich

1981 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Two sisters lives together with their grandma in a cottage in the woods. One of the sister is diligent, the other one is lazy. Frost Ivanovich notices this and decides to teach the lazy sister a lesson.

Oscar Micheaux, Film Pioneer

1981 • 29 min

Oscar Micheaux, Film Pioneer is one of seven films in the "Were You There" series produced by Carol Lawrence (the others include The Black West, The Cotton Club, The Facts of Life, Portrait of Two Artists, Sports Profile, and When the Animals Talked). This film's story revolves around Bee Freeman's (the Sepia Mae West) and Lorenzo Tucker's (the black Valentino) recollections of their relationships with Micheaux and their perceptions of his character. Danny Glover plays the role of Oscar Micheaux, Richard H arder is shown as the young Lorenzo Tucker, and Janice Morgan portrays the vamp that was Bee Freeman in Shuffle Along.

Aniceto do Império: Dia de Alforria

1981 • 11 min • Brazil

Zózimo Bulbul’s film is dedicated to Zumbi dos Palmares and to all Maroons dead and alive. It portrays the life of Aniceto, who was 72 years old at the time: a union leader, a stevedore at the Rio de Janeiro port and founder of Escola de Samba Império Serrano

Приключение на плоту

1981 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Some Exercises in Preparation for Independent Life

1981 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A sometimes harsh, sometimes goofy look at the routines that give our lives form.

Diana

1981 • 49 min • United States of America

Diana Ross' 1981 TV special featuring live concert footage from The Forum in Inglewood, California mixed with studio performances.

A Cidade do Salvador (Petróleo Jorrou na Bahia)

1981 • 9 min • Brazil

Documentary about power and class relations in the sociocultural context of Bahia, considering the history of oil extraction in the state.

Space City

1981 • 33 min

Scripted collaboratively with King and Brintzenhofe, the filmmakers created a cinedance that takes the viewer through the thresholds of dreaming, waking, and transcendental awareness, using real and painted images of the city, a 19th century attic and outer space. King’s voice recounts a dream of space without walls, a time of childhood and ecstacy. © 1981 Robyn Brentano, Andrew Horn, Kenneth King

Sigurd Fafnersbane

1981 • 40 min • Denmark

An animated retelling of the legendary hero Sigurd of Norse folklore.

Nafarrako ikazkinak

1981 • 25 min • Spain

A documentary exercise on the lives of the last basque representatives of this ancestral trade: charcoal burners.

The Monkey King and the Fruit of Immortality

1981 • 45 min • China

Sun Wukong and the group arrive at a monastery, where the Daoist lads offer Sangzang some ginseng fruits, shaped inexplicably like babies. Incensed he has not been offered one, Wukong steals three, and shares them with his brothers.

Lamaload

1981 • 30 min

Jane spent her childhood in a remote valley in the Peak District above Macclesfield. Ten years later she returns with her fiancé. Her dramatic rediscovery of Lamaload is the subject of this poignant story.