کال 1981 - 272

Facelifts 1981. ETC experimental Tv Center wobbulator David Jones colorizer

The private sphere brought into the political spotlight.

Some Women of Marrakech is an ethnographic documentary that explores the everyday lives, social roles, and personal experiences of Muslim women living in Marrakech, Morocco. It was made by an all-female film crew, which was unusual for its time, allowing access to women’s private, domestic, and social spaces not typically filmed by male crews.

A man is stalked by a flying cape in this short film with multiple endings.

In 1981, the city wanted to tear down the house at Billrothstrasse 55 - the bulldozers were already ready. The house was occupied for a short time, the police appeared and cleared. Afterwards interviews with Walter Seeler (SPD), the then legendary renovation commissioner in Altona, the press spokesman of the SAGA, the construction senator, etc. The house, built in 1857, when Altona was still Danish, was rescued, renovated, yellow facade, blue window frames, a residential project. The filmmakers now live there themselves.

A house squatting at the Green Hunter in the Schanzenviertel on May 29, 1981. The following night the house was cleared by the police.

The great Brokdorf demonstration 28.02.1981. “The media do not miss an opportunity to set the waves of mind in motion: The battle for Brokdorf! Despite the ban on demonstrations: 100,000 people in Brokdorf. All criminals? Our film is an examination of television reporting and its consequences. We, a group of nuclear power plant opponents, made this film because we got angry. The anger when looking at the television screen, where the coverage turns the world upside down; the anti-nuclear power plant movement is defamed and criminalized; - Dissidents are dismissed as utopians, Stone Agers, enemies of the state and perpetrators of violence. What drives the responsible editors, the “makers” to this kind of reporting?

The intermittently heard voice-over talks about a woman's self-awareness - being unable to know if she has really changed or not. The images are esoteric and hard to interpret: young women in black in various urban settings, something moving rhythmically. A personal, yet intriguing film.

The film begins as a portrait of a man classified as "mentally ill." During filming, the dynamics shift, and the film becomes the story of a relationship.

Documentary on the Atlanta Boy Choir's tour of Italy during the summer of 1981.

A group of young people perform old traditional folk songs.

A visit to Hans-Joachim Gubisch in Dresden, the father of 600 garden gnomes.

Documentary on the building of the Panama Canal with archival and contemporary photographs, film, and more.

in Blue for You I experimented with Dov Eylath on various video techniques including chroma-key, also known as blue screen, to illustrate the psychological tension between two people. Chroma-key utilises two cameras – the one camera omits one colour from its spectre, the other then fills it in. Blue is the best colour-key. “Anne Bean covers up her face with a blue paint. Because the one camera doesn’t pick up blue, her features disappear bit by bit as she applies the colour. ‘Through’ her we see Eylath’s face appear, becoming ever more dominant. The dialogue is a complete agreement with this struggle between two identities.”

Meat evokes happiness hormones, but behind the gentle words “pork belly” or “neck” lies a meat factory where meat is divided, quartered, and cut up. With sharp candour, this critical morality play draws attention to the ecological, economic, and ethical implications of factory pig farming, and the striking contrast between the Czech culture of overeating, and starvation in Africa.

A man reading a copy of Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula’ begins to hallucinate; at one point he crawls across the floor, with the camera angle suggesting the count scuttling down the walls of his castle, and another scene has the book itself flying in mid-air, its covers flapping like bat wings”.

Short film with footage of the Vietnam and USA war