1981 Movies

After finishing serving in the military, Tadeusz starts working in a tailor shop. The man does not stop dreaming about gliding.

On July 30, 1980 the New Hebrides gained independence from Britain and France after 70 years of condominium rule and took a new name - Vanuatu. The fi...

The townspeople of Meinung inherited their Hakka ancestors' stamina, diligence and optimism. They continue treasured traditional practices, notably th...

A man moves to a new house and through the window notices two naked lovers in the house next door.

Paweł looks for the perpetrator of the theft in a student labor cooperative.

Experimental documentary about the baroque school of music that flourished in Minas Gerais, hinterland of Brazil in the eighteenth century, formed mos...

A portrait of Arthur Erickson, a Vancouver-based architect internationally known for his unique style. Seated in his Vancouver home, Arthur Erickson t...

Experimental animation techniques give an impressionistic view of a day's weather in Atlantic Canada.

A deceptively simple film, The Same Old Story is over almost before it has begun. A story within a story within a story, its effect is jarring, ambigu...

In a small fishing village in the West Indies, the children believe they see, in a strange cabin located on the way to the school, a devil.

This documentary, directed by Jacques Renard in 1981, retraces seventy years of life in the mines through the testimonies of miners from the Nord-Pas-...

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

Walden combines delicate and brilliant images filmed on location around Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts with readings by poet, John D. Ogden, br...

An animated story about a farm girl whose father will not allow her to keep a stray puppy until an event occurs that makes him reverse his decision.

"Dearest Dziodzio" was filmed using quotes from letters Rosa Luxemburg wrote to her lover, the revolutionary labor leader Leo Jogiches, during her sta...

Protect and survive? This activist cartoon from a Yorkshire women’s collective argues that the Government’s public information message on preparation...

“[...] a film on raw duration, which refers to the first works of the artist, close to performance. This is very simply the real time of a metro journ...