سال 1981 - 277

A group of young architects have a chance to take part in an ambitious project. Will they have enough resilience to face the problems which await them?

Krysia, who is undergoing a nursing practice, tries to learn the school history material. Her friend and patient are helping.

Slide projections, film clips and film extracts form this showcase of the capital, its monuments, its history, its celebrities and its curiosities.

After finishing serving in the military, Tadeusz starts working in a tailor shop. The man does not stop dreaming about gliding.

Paweł looks for the perpetrator of the theft in a student labor cooperative.

Rhys Chatham: A Four Year Retrospective documents a series of performances by Chatham and his ensemble at The Kitchen in 1981. Performing with musicians that include Jules Baptiste and Ned Sublette, Chatham presents a series of compositions for guitars, electric bass and drums. This hour-long video document captures the propulsive energy and conceptual sophistication of Chatham's pioneering compositions.

Protect and survive? This activist cartoon from a Yorkshire women’s collective argues that the Government’s public information message on preparation for a nuclear attack is just a pretence. The only way to survive was to protest against such an outcome ever happening. The film also make a connection with the potential for an environmental catastrophe through the use of nuclear power.

“[...] a film on raw duration, which refers to the first works of the artist, close to performance. This is very simply the real time of a metro journey, between Bir-Hakeim and Passy stations. The filmmaker's objective being, among other things, to restore the equivalent of what an ordinary journey is perceived as it generally is: the fixed and somewhat empty gaze." Laurent Danet

San Frediano, protector of petty thieves, descends to earth to convince boys to do a good deed.

This film portrays my friend Philip Whalen, a Zen Buddhist monk and poet, reading from his book The Art of Literature. There is a play of spotlight and shadow in this work which emphasizes the elusiveness of truth in poetry.

An old man who used to be a projectionist, a cassette deck that comforts his solitary life, a nude photo of a woman who used to be a mobo (modern boy) and his girlfriend. These are the reality of Narita's performance. He brutally cuts them out and composes the film based on his own theme. It is the sincerity of the cold, detached, painstaking images of his wrinkled, toothless mouth that make him seem so present, even though he has lost his job. Without using any dialogue, the director Nagasaki poetically condenses what he encounters in the small room, which is interesting because it allows us to discover something that we had not noticed in our daily lives.

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

Martha's father falls into alcoholism. The girl is preparing for the secondary school-leaving examination.

Animated satirical sketch on the comfortability of urban public transport during rush hour.

Phil Morton’s “SAIC Memo” video art work from 1981 features Timothy Leary, Jane Veeder and Jamie Fenton. The Sandin Image Processor, a patch-programmable analog computer optimized for realtime audio video processing and synthesis developed from 1971 - 1973, and The Bally Arcade Video Game System, a programable home video game console developed in 1974, are used to compute and process the material of this playful, critical and self-reflexive psychedelic cybernetic communication system.

Humorous cartoon about unification and power.

Animated short about animals that have a rock & roll party after the pet store closes for the night

Two thousand fishermen, living in a 50-kilometer stretch of the coast of Rio de Janeiro, between Macaé and Cabo Frio, are threatened with paralyzing their activities. An anhydrous alcohol production plant, located on the banks of the São João River, is causing water pollution, with the indiscriminate release of "vinhoto", a by-product of sugar cane. It prevents the penetration of sunlight into rivers and compromises their oxygenation. Pollution, carried by the current, is already reaching the sea waters. Fishermen, scientists and technicians denounce the plant's procedure, which puts the health of the region's inhabitants and the traditional fishing economy at risk."