1981 Movies

The Inauguration of a Mechanical Bird in 2895, in New York City. The 4-minute burlesque motion picture with silent picture-style intertitles mocks the...

Graduate of Moscow State University, Yevgeny Ogarychev, arrives at the Rīga seaside with his grandmother. There, he meets Katya Batistova, a carefree...

A silent, Super 8 film in color by Joseph Morder.

"With some exceptions, the Arabics take the idea of the void as their ground. That is, the light we do see almost always seems to be set against darkn...

The mice received a treasure map in the mail. In the place indicated on the map, a chest really turned out to be buried, but it also turned out to be...

Short film about a Bosnian miner.

A young woman enacts an imaginative revenge on her boyfriend for playing away. Director Chris Petit made this three-minute short to test a new super 1...

In this nonnarrated presentation, set to the music of Beethoven, two cyclists are shown racing through the countryside in the spring. When one cyclist...

Short story about small lovers.

A short film by Wendy Hershey

9-song XEX concert from 1981, recorded live at Hurrah in New York by Merrill Aldighieri.

This work is the single-channel version of a multi-channel installation of the same name. The picture plane is divided into a left and a right half....

Short student film made by Ildiko Enyedi at the Hungarian University of Theatre and Fine Arts.

At the Nureyev Festival at the London Coliseum in July 1983, Rudolf Nureyev danced the faun as part of a Homage to Diaghilev in a mixed bill of ballet...

Documentary film about the suffering of Turkish girls and women due to patriarchal family structures.

For one year, Tehching Hsieh punched a worker’s time clock located in his studio, on the hour, every hour. Marking the occasion by taking a self-portr...