1981 Movies

Animation of photos and paper cut outs from a hike at Machu Pichu in Peru.

Experimental short by Sakae Henmi.

Aspects of life associated with Lake Manzala.

Filmed with a 16mm spring-wound Bolex camera, this story-driven documentary captures a pivotal moment in the life of the Sepik Iwam people of Hauna Vi...

A Jewish boy in Berlin today: David’s daily life is hardly any different from that of his classmates. When his friends Max and Felix discover his reli...

CONNECTICUT PAPOOSE is conceived a surrealist tract, with references to Lautremont, Tristan Tzara, Andre Breton and to surrealist images of sleeping a...

Whale Watch (1) gathers personal sightings while on a public outing, in the company of the great mammals off Cape Cod. – Joseph Bernard

Recently restored, Lisa Baumgardner's punchy Girl Pack rewrites Jean-Luc Godard's famous axiom, proving that all you need to make a film is six girls...

Hwang Ryong, a martial arts master, trains in the ten ways of the sword in order to defend his nation from the barbarians to the north and would-be in...

Kotobuki-cho is a section of Yokohama whose residents consist of about 4500 single men, 300 women and 180 children. The day laborers living there have...

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 t...

Animated short about an artist and an eye

Education of communist party members in former Yugoslavia.

Thomas Schmitt’s film offers unique insights into the alternative subculture of 1980s Cologne. Depending on the concert, the Blue-Shell attracted rock...

1981 documentary short from Mauritius

Documentary of the actions of the artistic group E.P.S. Huayco in the early 1980s. It presents the activities and opinions that accompanied the projec...

Pass Through the City documents a tripartite performance staged by Park Hyunki in Daegu on March 22, 1981. Park fabricated two enormous stones out of...