Rok 1981 - 280

Mexican feature film

Mexican feature film

Mexican feature film

Twelve minute film noir short from 1981. The director, Elliot Lavine, is Director of Repertory Programming for the Roxie Theater in San Francisco.

A short film by Ahmed Zir

I tell my side of the mother-daughter story which has changed dramatically since my father's death. The emotion is raw, embarrassing and honest. The movie ends but, "I think it will go on."

Experimental film on 16mm by Ioan Pleș as part of Kinema Ikon.

Experimental film on 16mm by Emanuel Țeț as part of Kinema Ikon.

A video by Dale Hoyt

A video by Dale Hoyt

Symptomatic Syntax is a recreation of an ecological environment in which natural forms — leaves, flower petals, butterfly wings — form an ever-changing, visually compelling series of compositions. Juxtaposed with these organic forms is a series of texts that examine time, logic, and the dichotomy between the mental and the physical. This complex fusion of the sensual and the cerebral questions the understanding of time and natural progression.

1981, 01:00:16

A story about a version that Madonna of the Gate of Dawn is an artistic expression of the drama that Barbora Radvilaitė experienced.

A film about rural blacksmiths.

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

A series of variations of abstract forms taken by "cuts" from objects in my daily universe, is an attempt to abolish the subject in favor of cinematographic language.

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

Into my hands fell a 20-minute exhortation to find the right job after high school. Struck by its fierce redundancy, I undertook a distillation, editing the optical track, aiming for conversational cadence, choosing image only when silent. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

A house of trick cards, the woman as house. "A marvelous smorgasbord of images." – Edgar Daniels "Architectural structures become the structures of relationships, establishing the windows of communication (between parents and children, between lovers) while preserving a sense of enclosure, isolation." – Dave Kehr

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.