1981 Movies

In 1930s Albania, revolutionary student Kujtimi uses his camera to capture the poverty and oppression under King Zog’s regime. Moved by what he sees,...

"Dearest Dziodzio" was filmed using quotes from letters Rosa Luxemburg wrote to her lover, the revolutionary labor leader Leo Jogiches, during her sta...

Abstract video art created in 1981. Music by Vibeke Sorensen and Walter Michael. Abstract video art created in 1981 at EUE Video in NYC.

Nina's first collaboration with her sister Tinka Menkes, the film documents, in a strange and beautiful way, a serious illness suffered by Tinka, and...

A jar of Cheez Whiz careens wildly through a Treasure Island Foods at 3460 N. Broadway, Chicago, Illinois. Cheez Whiz was Norm Bruns' first film. It a...

Luc Moullet turns the camera on himself as he attempts to overcome his fear of large bodies of water and learn to swim.

A strange experimental thriller set in Nancy (France),with yellow tones, whose technical mastery sometimes gives us the illusion of watching the reve...

Among the socially maladjusted are those whose personalities prevent them from fitting in normally with their surroundings. Their fate is uncertain. T...

Shot in Super 8 by a group of NDU members in the course of a day, the film documents the second Six Cities Joint Disaster Prevention Drill, organized...

One hundred years ago American management faced many of the problems it confronts today - poor productivity, rapid technological change, and heightene...

The short film Jamal (1981) by Ibrahim Shaddad is a report from the life of a camel, most of which plays out in a dreary, small room – a sesame mill.

Chiang Ching, who began her career as a movie star in Hong Kong, is now a choreographer with her own dance company in New York City. A Dance Journey d...

“A man, an accordion, a ladder, and a video camera. It’s as simple as that.” - Andrew Lampert