1981 Movies

FUNDI: THE STORY OF ELLA BAKER reveals the instrumental role that Ella Baker, a friend and advisor to Martin Luther King, played in shaping the Americ...

Featuring the incredible tube riding of Peter Mccabe, Tommy Carroll, Larry Blair and others in a dazzling array of exotic wave frontiers including Jav...

A unique sliver of the era of backyard films shot on eight-millimeter film — a true space western with family and friends, featuring shootouts, an ato...

One day at a holiday home for the disabled in Hammerdal, Jämtland, depicted in clay animation and with authentic sound from the home that the film tel...

Images of Deborah Cole's face (and various disguises) are superimposed atop one another.

The industrial site, the dam under construction and the colony of workers’ housing attached to them are among the favourite spaces of the Sahia docume...

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...

The celestial monuments of Greece. A few blades of grass growing on the Parthenon pediment against a background of blue sky.

Consequences of the collapse of a new realty.

An edited film composed of excerpts from television recordings that, for various reasons, did not make it on the air.

Tuning In – A Film about Karlheinz Stockhausen was produced for the BBC in 1981. Directed by Robin Maconie, who authored The Works of Karlheinz Stockh...

A French military training film depicting a battle against mutants created by a meteorite.

In Painting Room Lights a performer paints four fluorescent lamps and makes a drawing of a landscape with a rectangular solid in the foreground. He al...

This "Working River" documentary traces a journey down the length of the Ohio River, primarily on two long haul towboats, with crew members you meet a...

Games and precautions in winter from the perspective of a child.

This documentary goes back to the origins of the conflict in Western Sahara. The reasons for the Moroccan occupation of this vast territory are econom...

Visual artist Oscar de Wit interviews Flemish writer Daniël Robberechts in the backroom of his house in Everbeek, Belgium.