All Films

Recluse

1981 • 27 min

A reconstruction of the possible events that might have led up to the real-life tragic case of the Luxton family who lived at West Chapple Farm, Winkleigh, Devon. Brothers and sister Robert, Alan and Frances Luxton had lived in the farm for many years. On 23 September 1975 their bodies were found with shotgun wounds outside their farmhouse.

The Door Into Summer

1981 • 59 min • Japan

A club of young men who live by logic find themselves in love, and their lives fall apart as they try to cope with the emotions their romance strikes on them.

Djävla Robert

1981 • 28 min • Sweden

Maria doesn't like her mother's new boyfriend Robert. He has his own daughter, Lisa.

Grain Elevator

1981 • 16 min • Canada

This documentary short is a visual portrait of “Prairie Sentinels,” the vertical grain elevators that once dotted the Canadian Prairies. Surveying an old diesel elevator’s day-to-day operations, this film is a simple, honest vignette on the distinctive wooden structures that would eventually become a symbol of the Prairie provinces.

Shima Izumi no suwappingu (hi) sekkusu kōza

1981 • 30 min • Japan

A sexually mature wife was overwhelmed by her desires. The person she chose to swap with was a lesbian friend from her high school days. She was impatient to wait for her husband, and began playing while remembering the past. Mixing in the pleasure techniques she had experienced since graduating, the lesbian play in all sorts of ways was exciting, and the two of them ascended to heaven at the same time...

Moon Man

1981 • 9 min • United States of America

In this classic story by one of the world's best-loved and acclaimed storytellers for children, the man in the moon looks down on the happy, dancing people on Earth every night, wishing he could join them. He hitches a ride on a passing comet, but quickly finds himself thrown into jail by people who see him as an invader, rather than a friendly visitor. The Moon Man, however, has a most unusual - but perfectly logical - means of escape, and sets out to make his way back home.

Edith Head

1981 • 28 min • Germany, United States of America

A light-hearted, toe-tapping portrait of the well-known 8 Oscar winning Hollywood costume designer filmed in her opulent house and garden. Edith Head presents some of her famous designs using glamorous models to impersonate Mae West, Barbara Stanwyck, Dorothy Lamour, Ginger Rogers, Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor and Grace Kelly. They move to the music of the films for which she was the designer as Head recalls the times and places that served as inspiration for the famed looks.

Made Manifest

1981 • 12 min • United States of America

"Every man's work shall be made manifest, for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is." -1 Corinthians 111-13

Shuffle

1981 • 34 min • Japan

Hiroshi Kobayashi is on the run from police who would arrest him for the murder of his girlfriend Naomi. At the same time, he wants revenge on the yakuza member Kimura who got her stuck in drugs. The entire film consists of a long hunting-scene.

Ojamanga Yamada-kun

1981 • 27 min • Japan

The Yamada family lives in Tokyo's Higashi Edogawa Ward. Noboru, the second son and high school student, dreams of becoming a professional baseball player. One day, he hears about a scout from a pro team! However, it turns out that it's not a pro baseball player, but a scout to become a professional wrestler! Ine, the housewife of the Yamada family and landlady of the Yamada-so apartment building they run, has recently gained weight. To lose weight, she joins a nearby tennis club, but there she runs into her son, Noboru, who is trying to join the club in search of girls!

The Knight of the Rose

1981 • 17 min • Hungary

Short student film made by Ildiko Enyedi at the Hungarian University of Theatre and Fine Arts.

Skyward Christmas

1981 • 60 min • United States of America

In this sequel to "Skyward" and pilot to a prospective series, Julie attempts a secret flight to bring her grandfather home for a Christmas reunion.

Boomerang

1981 • 29 min • Soviet Union

Black public figure Jim Taylor is pursued by the police. He dies from a bullet in the head. In a private clinic, he is transplanted with the brain of Sheriff Maclain, who died in a car accident. While remaining black, he begins to think like a racist Maclain.

The Race

1981 • 9 min • Sweden

The elusive dream that brings many people to the horse-racecourse.

Dilemma

1981 • 11 min • United Kingdom

A fully digitized computer-animated film which shows the question whether man will use his inventive abilities for destruction or as the key to progressive creation.

Colin-maillard

1981 • 15 min • France

A documentary about director Patricia Mazuy's family.

Max Dominó

1981 • 60 min • Mexico

Mexican feature film

Stiletto

1981 • 48 min • United States of America

A woman, Nadja, searches for her sister's murderer. This search goes through differing moments of reality, or unreality, that overlap within facets of a broken-up time sense. In this emulation of film noir, the investigative structure does not create suspense; the dialectic murderer/victim does not exist. The crime is fabricated bit by bit, like the staging of a spectacle, and it is in the traditional tools of seduction (the spiked heels) that the weapons will be hidden. Ultimately, the crime Nadja achieves makes her neither a triumphant heroine nor a victim.

The Box

1981 • 23 min

Several individuals have been packed in a box; they disagree regarding what should be done.

Réserve

1981 • 17 min • France

Animated scouting whose primary goal is to reactivate the poetry of myths in urban areas.

Sredni Vashtar

1981 • 27 min • United Kingdom

Sredni Vashtar is a 1981 short film, written, produced and directed by Andrew Birkin, based on the short story of the same name written by Hector Hugh Munro. The story concerns a slowly dying ten-year-old boy named Conradin, who lives with his strict cousin and guardian, Mrs. De Ropp. Conradin rebels against her and invents a new religion for himself, which centres on idolising a polecat-ferret he calls Sredni Vashtar; a vengeful, merciless god. The film won the BAFTA award for Best Short Film, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film.

Daniel Boone

1981 • 49 min • Australia, United States of America

An animated special that presents highlights of the life of Daniel Boone, the famous American trailblazer -- from his early childhood years in North Carolina, his love affair with Rebecca Bryan, their courtship, marriage and family life, his work in settling the Kentucky region, and his exploits.

Poko

1981 • 22 min

Koudougou and Poko, a young couple, await the birth of their first child. Unfortunately, the pregnancy does not go well for Poko. First, the village midwife examines her, but to no avail. The village council meet and decide Poko should go into town for treatment.

Joggers

1981 • 30 min

When five girls start jogging in Liverpool's Sefton Park they soon encounter predictable male opposition. The result is a comedy that ends with a relay race of Wagnerian proportions. A BBC co-production with the Liverpool Everyman