1981 Movies

About Māris Grīva, the coach of Dainis Kūla, the Olympic champion in javelin throwing, who trains young javelin throwers in Ventspils.

Disco-Film 38: In a cheerful interpretation of the song "Tanzt keiner Boogie", the group Silly and their singer Tamara Danz target the dance behavior...

Disco-Film 39: The film, which is based on the song "Drachenflug" by the group Kleeblatt, tells of interpersonal relationships.

Made by Oomera (Coral) Edwards on Super 8mm film as a training exercise at the (then) Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies in Canberra. The fil...

A Pushkin scholar Valentin Berestov analyzes the works of Aleksandr Pushkin. In particular, he proves that the “folk” songs in them were written by th...

In this work performed in 1976 (edited to a video work in 1981),Imai flashes a strobe light directly at the audience seated inside the auditorium in...

Davidovich searches in vain for the meaning of "avant garde." The artist travels to Iowa City, where he conducts a series of "man on the street" inter...

The year before, I had made a film about the poet Tsutomu Shotsu, and I wanted to make a film about Hiromi Ito, a young female poet on the rise. As I...

A walk in Paris in 1981 with one of the first thermographic cameras detecting different levels of heat. A whole different perception of the urban envi...

This documentary seeks to capture the evolving character of Houston. The film pays special attention to the city’s rapid expansion—investigating not o...

Humorous cartoon about unification and power.

A 16mm film dual projection film by → ↑ → assembled and edited from 16mm reels of advertisements produced for Australian television in the early 70s....

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 mini film from Hatoma showing a 76-year-old woman weaving a basket for the fishing. During the task, which takes from morning till late afternoon, s...

A documentary on daily life on a small depopulated island using a combination of diary narration and English subtitles. The film uses an ebb-and-flow...

A girl marries the one she loves without her father's permission.

Based on interviews with married women, aged 20 to 40, from different social classes, the film portrays with a certain irony the hardships and the pet...