1981 Movies

Luc Moullet turns the camera on himself as he attempts to overcome his fear of large bodies of water and learn to swim.

A short film by John Henry Timmis IV

This edition of LWT’s pioneering 1980s TV series looks at gay experience 50 years earlier.

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...

Puppet cartoon based on the fairy tale of the same name by Danish writer Jens Sigsgaard about a boy who was left all alone.

Self-explanatory film. Animation and live action. Homemade and found fragments tortured on an optical printer. The dog barks are fake. The chicken cam...

A middle class leftist man of the Seventies decade, starting to show signs of aging and a loss of identity, runs away from his commitments.

...a "mordantly nostalgic" sojourn across America. A landscape of mute streets, empty rooms and serene fields; the remains of a civilization which has...

“Series summation; a regathering and extension in red, black, blue & white. This is a charged compression of both in-camera editing and bench-cutting…...

Bollywood 1981

"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...

Short film about Berlin Kreuzberg.

The First International Art Door Exhibition took place in the city of Recife from February 1 to 15, 1981—an event created by visual artists Paulo Brus...

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...

World War II. Italian fascists have interned in the South a lot of people who fought them on the 7th of April 1939 when they came to Albania. Among th...

""Southcote Road" was originally shot in super-8 with an intervalometer set to capture images at 1 fps. It was then blown up to 16mm and projected at...

Tiaga tells the story of a poor old woman, played by Isabel de Castro, to whom a good wizard offers the gift of youth to reward the help she provided...

An essay-film on language and theater, on human communication - intellectual in content, but purely poetic in terms of form: image, sound, language, c...

With films including the 'rubble woman' portrait Martha, the three-part experimental film cycle Potter's Stier, Venus nach Giorgione and Frau am Klavi...