1981 Movies

Contemplative images of rivers, snow, waterfall, mountain and bodies.

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

The story, which was motivated by the Spanish flu epidemy in 1918, goes about total helplessness. In a non-identifiable country at the beginning of th...

"What is the policy of burying particularly distinguished people?" – asks the manager of the municipal cemetery. "First of all, you have to be guided...

"A masterpiece of compilation film" (Berlin Kinemathek),Dream Documentary uses footage from other films to create a surreal and foreboding societal l...

1981 Action western film

Said to draw inspiration from the writings of Sigmund Freud and European mythology, My Brother Became A Sheep was an 8mm animation produced at the tim...

Shot in Tuxtlas, Veracruz, this documentary exposes the ideological conceptions of witches, healers and patients, with respect to traditional medicine...

A girl walks into a bra shop and finds herself in a wondrous world of discoveries about a changing body and patriarchal beauty standards.

An exploration of the relationship between the film industry and classic tales of mythology. Special effects master Ray Harryhausen discusses some of...

A Korean taekwondo instructor goes to Hong Kong to make an action movie, but becomes involved in stopping an international gang of smugglers.

A reconstruction of the capture of Polish serial killer Zdzisław Marchwicki – the Vampire from Zagłębie.

This film is the achievement of a process initiated by a fascination with the split movement images Eadweard Muybridge made in the 1870's and 80's. It...

Souls in the Sun takes an honest look at some victims of the world's neglect - a few individuals among the teeming masses of poor people.

The painter André Derain and his work.

Film by Ana Mendieta, 1981

David and Judith MacDougall are exploring the marriage rituals and roles of Turkana women in this ethnographic documentary. The film's biggest part is...

"Every man's work shall be made manifest, for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire and the fire shall try every man's work o...