1981 Movies

This colourful stop-motion animation utilises Essendon Airport drummer Paul Fletcher's collection of dolls and nick-nacks.

The film follows a young boy and a soldier during the Iran-Iraq War.

Documentary about rising popularity in Klan activity.

8mm work from the 5th Pia Film Festival.

Criticism of the irrational behavior of some parents who do not allow their children to play in the street or meet with other children.

Film by Franca Donda and Josefina Jordán for the feminist collective Grupo Miércoles.

"This is the opening to a series of seven "Intrigues", inspired by Delmore Schwartz's observations on the word. These seven titles of mine center on a...

A Chinese woman searches for her brother in New York. Her quest spans universities, Chinatown, mahjong parlors, and parties, where she encounters old...

A collage film, made as much from splicing tape as it is from celluloid.

The artist becomes two, or four, or still more - the videotechnique makes a group formation of just one person.

This animated short film portrays a man's commute into the city. Director Michael Patterson employs a combination of pencils and rotoscoping, similar...

"Piano Dance shows the viewer a shadowy piano accompanied by the sound of piano music. The piano is then seen to be a toy, the headdress of a woman wi...

A computer-animated juggler.

I tell my side of the mother-daughter story which has changed dramatically since my father's death. The emotion is raw, embarrassing and honest. The m...

On 12 July 1981, six small airplanes, flying in perfect formation over Santiago, Chile, dropped 400,000 flyers discussing the relationship between art...

Produced by Carol Munday Lawrence as part of the seven-part "Were You There" series

Nakamura’s trademark repetition technique and variety of moving-image materials convey hints of a mysterious and transgressive narrative. The textures...

Memorabilia is about my grandmother's family with an unabashed emphasis on one member's interests and friends, mine.... Like all films, this movie is...

Into my hands fell a 20-minute exhortation to find the right job after high school. Struck by its fierce redundancy, I undertook a distillation, editi...