1981 Movies

“Both NEW YORK LOFT and DOLL HOUSE convey a strong sense of resourcefulness, this ‘making something’ out of interiors, specifically domestic spaces. A...

Presentation of the 1980 women's national volleyball team at the peak of their performance. Match against Japan, their toughest opponent.

A figure dances and interacts with spiral patterns as electronic music plays. The video fades to focus on a white circle, as shapes, patterns, and fig...

Karl Kels' first film is a playful short piece comprised of shots of haystacks in the countryside. Quick repetitions of frames and the dance-like rhyt...

Margaret Hixon's 1981 film documents a real-life wedding in the Old Believer settlements of Marion County, Oregon, in the years 1979 and 1980. The fil...

Set in the late 1970s in North Chicago, 3725 traces the obsessions of a Japanese foreign student with the traditional Japanese toy kendama, jazz, and...

An attempt to confuse the relationship between the film's material surface and the images recorded on it. As a man continues to walk in circle, where...

Art film part of the REWIND + PLAY, An Anthology of Early British Video Art box-set.

While withdrawing all of his money from the bank to pay for a life saving operation for his Mother, Roy Canteen is attacked and robbed. Taking the law...

An experimental short done by Valentin Constantin in 1981, with Kinema Ikon.

16mm/1981/11 minutes. Music played on a toy Atari machine by Richard Nelson.

Computer generated. "With all the grace and flair of an elegant proof." - Carol Mickett. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.

Another series of short stories about bottles.

The pictorial investigations carried out by Pablo Macera and Francisco Stastny on the works of the Cuzco School and those of Modern Peru.

The film is a reflection on the cultural and psychological space attributed to women in the collective consciousness, and above all in contemporary ic...