سال 1981 - 281

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

An early "walking" performance shot on super-8 in 1981.

...a "mordantly nostalgic" sojourn across America. A landscape of mute streets, empty rooms and serene fields; the remains of a civilization which has momentarily disappeared.

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

Two brothers do laundry at a laundry mat. The older brother goes out to smoke and a policeman searches him and handcuffs him for finding a swithcblade. When the boy fights back the officer takes out his gun to shoot him. The younger brother pulls a gun for the officer’s partner’s belt and shoots the cop before he can shoot his brother. The younger brother is then put in the squad car. The film has little dialogue and has an African drum beat for a track.

A frightening vignette about violence and hatred in American society.

Blekbala explores the lives and aspirations of Aboriginal people living in the Northern Territory - on small outstations, remote desert locations and in regional town - from Arnhem Land to Central Australia. It looks at a selection of Aboriginal-run businesses and enterprises: cattle stations; children’s education; community projects; sports and music.

One tree per frame, each from a different place on the surface of a doughnut-shaped parametric space, cooperate to rotate continuously, slowingly from the one- to the two-dimensional. After a pause accelerating counter rotations attain an approximation of a form of infinite dimension.

The film is a superimposition of 6 to 8 takes. In each take, a horizontal piece of white paper was moved around in front of the camera by hand.

Short film about Berlin Kreuzberg.

1981 Czech experimental short by Petr Skala

Frankie Beverly takes seminal soul band Maze through its paces in this compilation culled from 12 shows the group performed at New Orleans's famous Saenger Theatre. The guys have the folks from the Big Easy on their feet as they funk their way through classics like "Back in Stride," "We Are One," "Never Let You Down," "Joy and Pain," "Happy Feelin's," "Southern Girl" and more.

Seventy seconds of furiously energetic filmmaking in which all of the possible pauses in visual and aural activity have been removed. What is left when all of the fat has been trimmed? Monkeys with diamond studded collars, killer fish, and a parade of incongruous images, statements, questions, and answers guided to an exciting climax by a storefront dummy who takes over the interviewing chores midway through the film.

How the boy Vasya and the owl Dusya went to look for the missing sun.

Kathe Sandler’s 1981 portrait of dancer Thelma Hill, a founding member of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.

Animation short.

"From a series of 7 "Intrigues", (as referenced by Delmore Schwartz), this fourth one pries the curious poetry of light and darkness within filmmaking. Super 8, silent, non-narrative,"

A short mockumentary by art collective Die Tödliche Doris.

While withdrawing all of his money from the bank to pay for a life saving operation for his Mother, Roy Canteen is attacked and robbed. Taking the law into his own hands Canteen thinks of many different violent ways to take his revenge. After spotting the assailant he proceeds to play out his fantasy.