1981 Movies

Leon Brown, a young psychologist, find pamphlets, handbills and other critical materials concerning Marcus Garvey and his period in a trash can in Phi...

Architecture critic Patrick Nuttgens narrates a documentary on the 20th century architect Edwin Lutyns, exploring the plans and buildings of the man w...

Memorabilia is about my grandmother's family with an unabashed emphasis on one member's interests and friends, mine.... Like all films, this movie is...

A year passes and another year begins.

The Calling is a documentary relating the earliest Christian ascetics of African origin, the Desert Fathers, with a contemporary Black Benedictine ord...

Flesh, Metal, Wood is an experimental film combining visual and musical elements to create a unique exploration into the spiritual nature of creative...

A bunraku puppet drama of the courtesan Ohatsu and her lover, Tokubei, a soy-sauce merchant whose fortunes have gone awry through the perfidy of a tru...

An anthology of 8 and ¾ macabre and absurd jokes. Witty souls of the dead, genocidal animals, lethal sport performances, medical appointments. Each li...

Mary Marquis introduces a concert recorded in the Queen's Hall, Edinburgh in 1981 with Dame Janet Baker. She performs Mendelssohn's concert aria Infel...

Marian Wallace solves a Rubik's Cube.

Like Saturday's Warrior, StarChild begins in the pre-existence, where Larry learns he is to be born a non-member in a foreign land. His best friend, C...

The artist becomes two, or four, or still more - the videotechnique makes a group formation of just one person.

"A free wheeling quasi-documentary on the glory of Christmas in New York City. 'Only 27 more shopping days till...' New Yorkers frolic in that commerc...

Elam records several men moving boxes and furniture as they track across her backyard.

"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...

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