1981 Movies

A chronicle of the day to day activities of a Utah family whose religious ties are an integral part of their lives. The filmmakers moved in with the M...

Rhys Chatham: A Four Year Retrospective documents a series of performances by Chatham and his ensemble at The Kitchen in 1981. Performing with musicia...

With warmth and humour, Gay Hawley proposes ways in which feminist media might look at the realities of being a lesbian mother in an anti-lesbian soci...

This "Working River" documentary traces a journey down the length of the Ohio River, primarily on two long haul towboats, with crew members you meet a...

Layered electronic constructions acquire symbolic meaning in Millennia. -EAI

“Walt Disney World is a tribute to the philosophy and the life of Walter Elias Disney”, those are the words spoken by his brother, Roy Disney at the o...

On February 28, 1980, the Andalusian people were called to the polls in the Autonomous Referendum. Through the testimony of the citizens themselves.

Satirical docudrama based on the racist practice of virginity testing that was carried out by the Home Office on Asian girls arriving in the UK from I...

Chimpanzees are kept in a large enclosure at the Arnhem Research Station. There, some experiments are carried out to test the intelligence of the chim...

An old man who used to be a projectionist, a cassette deck that comforts his solitary life, a nude photo of a woman who used to be a mobo (modern boy)...

A film by Abbott Meader and Walter Easton 16mm, 43:43 minutes, color, sound, 1981

Documentary, using only contemporary footage, of the Italian - Ethiopian War 1935-1936.

Experimental short movie featuring a score by The Cure. Lost film.

Documentary about a dance school.

A highly controversial work that prompted Nagisa Ōshima to criticize its creator’s mentality, stating, “I think that the film is completely vulgar. It...

"A series of catalogs of light, "light journals" if you will, dealing with everyday, ordinary realities in such a way that the surrounding light becom...

Filmmaker David Parry records on film for one and one-half years the personal crises in his marriage which began with the premature cesarean birth of...

A film about French Acadiana

Cartoon illustrating a poem. Produced for the International Year of Disabled People, the film relates the story of a musical note that has not been dr...