Year 1981 - 281

The Romany Trail Part Two is a penetrating, provocative tour of a fabled people’s existence. It reveals the prejudice they still face daily and which they combat with the lyrics and music they have carried and adapted on their long migrations. Featuring: The music of Django Reinhardt, the ballads of the Holocaust, Hungarian folk musicians and professional restaurant bands, pipers and the greatest names in Gypsy entertainment.

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.

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.

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

In the distant primitive world, where our ancestors lived - primitive people, amazing flowers bloomed, amazing animals walked and these events take place. Two little primitive people, two children, with all their curiosity explore the new world, observing the wild chickens that inhabit it, rhinoceroses with trees instead of horns and many other equally interesting and amazing creatures. One day, while playing hide and seek, they meet a cute puppy on their way, who will become their faithful friend and brave defender.

Animation short.

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.

This time the confrontation Teresa Tyszkiewicz with the matter proceeds in a close analysis, although the artist's strategy is still based on the spontaneous expression of subjective experiences and impressions. Tyszkiewicz creates situations in which surrender may conduct on their premises all kinds of "tests" in order to locate their conceptual center and create the archetypal image. Starts at the numerous references and meanings, which includes formal, visual and semantic game. The artist uses the most mundane matter, and its original power of symbolic interaction, to create aesthetically refined images with his characteristic abstract beauty. Among those addressed in the film political themes (presentation of the issue of the weekly "Solidarity"), and the fight that at the end she goes with a heavy, linen sackcloth. The film ends with colored feminist scene serfdom after a failed attempt to revolutionize the fossilized perception of gender and female sexuality.

The registered activity, the artist uses a wide range of physical and visual expression to refer to the issues of birth, physicality and sexuality, both in the semantic and iconic. It also refers to "shocking" the language of performance art operating with nudity, violence, or, as here, using dead animals. Despite the physical and sexual striking impression share, the artist remains all the time in the garment. At the end of disguises, but from the eyes of the audience hides her tight cocoon. Constructing a symbolic expression of a structured situation is accompanied by a strong emphasis on the visual dimension of the action. Sophisticated structure semantically-formal Tyszkiewicz present in the films are played in the material world and translated into performance art.

1981 German super 8 short work

The story of Glen Davis, a shale oil town built to supply oil for the Navy in World War II. After the war the township that grew with the works struggles for survival. It is the site of the longest stay-in strike in Australian Labor history. The town finally died in 1952. Each year its former inhabitants return to picnic in the ruins.

Official entry to the first Metro Manila Film Festival in 1981 directed by Eddie Rodriguez and starred Charito Solis, Dindo Fernando, Elizabeth Oropesa, Chanda Romero, and Gina Alajar.

Official entry to the first Metro Manila Film Festival in 1981 directed by Carlo J. Caparas and starred Dante Varona, Chiqui Hollmann, Lirio Vital, Romy Diaz, Subas Herrero, Rodolfo 'Boy' Garcia, Odette Khan, and Dave Brodett.

Warner Home Video

Art film part of the REWIND + PLAY, An Anthology of Early British Video Art box-set.

Norwegian Documentary History Series about the nazi era in Norway.

Kren on his way from Vermont to California. Kren says that his various cars are the thread which runs through the story. (Hans Scheugl)