1981 Movies

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...

Konrad Steiner's first film

An animated short film.

“[...] 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...

An animated film by Cine Calligraphie.

Young Sizwe is stuck in an unhappy home where his abusive father, together with a mean-spirited friend, neglect the poor young boy, often refusing to...

San Frediano, protector of petty thieves, descends to earth to convince boys to do a good deed.

Two faces, in fact two silhouettes, are outlined against a monochromic background. They nod, interchange, underline their soundless talk with gestures...

8mm film by Yukiyasu Shimada, 1981.

This film portrays my friend Philip Whalen, a Zen Buddhist monk and poet, reading from his book The Art of Literature. There is a play of spotlight an...

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