1981 Movies

GENTLY DOWN THE STREAM is constructed from fourteen dreams taken from eight years' worth of my journals. The text is scratched directly on to the film...

Mary Brown, the head of Ontario's Censor Board, spends an afternoon with the gals cut, cut, cutting.

This short film, made with my friends and filmmaking partners, Michel Negroponte and Alex Anthony, was commissioned by PBS's innovative TV Lab in 1980...

Hardworking ants re-educate the lazy cockchafer.

A 65-year-old cleaning woman for a professional dancers' exercise studio performs her job while telling us in voiceover about her life, hopes, goals,...

"This is a landscape study of an Orkney croft, with the figure of the crofter, Mary Graham Sinclair, very much in the picture. The croft is West Aith,...

Freddie the Freeloader prepares to scrape together money and enjoy a Christmas dinner with his equally poverty-stricken friend Professor Humperdo at o...

United States / Cuba 1981, Super 8 transferred to digital, black and white, silent, 2 min

Through fiction, alcohol addiction and its physical and emotional consequences are recreated.

A short animated sketch about the love lives of robots.

A film about light and aggression, heat and religion; she ascends from the piano.

The achievements of BREL - British Rail Engineering Limited - are celebrated in this promotional film looking at two of the company's 13 workshops, at...

Recorded during World War II, this rare color film traces an RAF Bomber Command night attack on Berlin -- from strategic planning and preparation to t...

A surrealist story about a block of flats that one day went on a journey. The unexpected journey of the monumental building is watched by astonished p...