1981 Movies

A film about the connection of workers and the bandoneon in the Ruhr region.

Daughter of Mobius shows the struggles of an independent women living in the early 80s - an era when it was much more difficult for women to be indepe...

Female punks have fun boozing, smoking and talking in this fascinating film by London lifestyle chronicler Captain Zip.

Super8, colour, silent.

The advantages and disadvantages of adolescence in a poor urban neighborhood are examined in a series of candid interviews on the daily lives of Black...

Becoming old - the autumn of man's life is the same the world over, wherever he lives. But the way one spends old age is different everywhere, and dis...

A film by Robert Cahen

A character study showing the dissolution of the characters sense of self. The structure is based loosely on a pantoum structure in poetry.

"A sixth meditation on aspects of filmmaking with repeated tracings of light traveling through glass (emblematic of cameras, viewers, meters, projecto...

"#5 from a series of 7... A dance leading to a dance. Super 8, silent, non-narritive."

"Totally under-exposed 35mm slides of African maps were drawn over by a 10 & 12 year old. The slides, with their emulsion-scratched images, were then...

"Bach implied; splice-free, light, airy, soft-focus reflections out the back window of a car returning from the beach on a perfect summer's day. Super...

A short mockumentary by art collective Die Tödliche Doris.

Ana Mendieta, 1981

Using historical footage, still photographs, and live interviews, the filmmaker tells the story of Jewish life in Poland between the two World Wars. I...

In 1981, anthropologist Linda Connor and filmmakers Tim and Patsy Asch returned to Bali with video cassette recordings of A Balinese Trance Seance. Th...

French post-apocalyptic thriller film.

While withdrawing all of his money from the bank to pay for a life saving operation for his Mother, Roy Canteen is attacked and robbed. Taking the law...