Sena 1981 - 281

1981, 01:00:16

Sculptures are the eyes of the walls and have wartime battle scars. A reflection on changing times with a collage of archival street scenes.

Second of four "musical arabesks".

That day, Charlerine goes out, driven by a sudden urge to kill, kill, kill... The four films (Printemps, Ete, Automne and Hiver/Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter) have the same plot but are told in different ways: each season has its own rhythm.

Jaime Davidovichn searches in vain for the meaning of "avant-garde".

Featuring cameos from several international artists including actress Elizabeth Shepherd and CBS Records’ group The Industrials along with many other American performers! An amusing and surreal comment on the ‘film-within-a-film’ sub genre as expounded in the 1960’s by Fellini, Truffaut et al. —LUX

Film by Ana Mendieta, 1981

WMEN evokes 1965, as indicated by the music cues. So, in the period before the Stonewall demonstrations by queer activists, including drag and trans activists, against the oppression of police raids. WMEN feels very much in conversation with Godard’s Breathless, with the collage of cutout magazine figures, its tongue-in-cheek nature, its sexiness, the fashion, and the playfulness.

A short film for school kids about the importance of sharing.

The Luggage comprises an array of intertwined scenes featuring activities with such props as a TV set, high-heeled shoes, mirror, torch. The film emanates physical tension, accentuated through dynamic editing and the aesthetics of compulsive repetition, characteristic of Sosnowski’s practice. It presents murky explorations, shaky scenes of convulsion, magic rituals with an undertone of eroticism.

The film wants to highlight a dream visions through a special film technique composing the colour images (like a colour photocopier at work) through red, green and blu excepts. Some sequences have colours that only add up two primary colours. in other sequences I use masks.

Mobiles works with regulated frame movements becoming increasingly more unpredictable : a controllable, closed space, in which more random and unrestrained movement are distributed. This device allows forms to be deployed by the movement, but is still untapped by narrative film: contracting and leaking spaces, crushed signs, decomposition of movements by other movements, dripping and corpuscular choreography. Mobiles is the result of a continuous tension between abstraction and reality. The same goes for the relationship between sound and image, which echo one another.

A homage to the 80s experimental cinema. A poetic play manifesto about this form of expression that at the moment had a huge development.

The theme of "David and Goliath" is varied through colors, structures and shades in a kind of workshop film. Collage-like graphic elements, materials and different fabrics are used to allow form, color and structure to be experienced in their correspondence to each other and to movement and music.

Stiff Little Fingers and U2 perform at a concert recorded in 1981 at Queen's University, Belfast, in front of the fans who had supported them from their early punk days.