1981 Movies

"Piano Dance shows the viewer a shadowy piano accompanied by the sound of piano music. The piano is then seen to be a toy, the headdress of a woman wi...

This documentary seeks to capture the evolving character of Houston. The film pays special attention to the city’s rapid expansion—investigating not o...

Initially created as an editing exercise for his students at UCSD, Jenkins’ Inconsequential Doggereal mixes poetic narrative fragments of self-shot fo...

A college professor is plagued by a recurring dream

A young man is released from prison. Three other prisoners who where his cellmates explain his political and social life in three different ways: The...

A walk in Paris in 1981 with one of the first thermographic cameras detecting different levels of heat. A whole different perception of the urban envi...

Said to draw inspiration from the writings of Sigmund Freud and European mythology, My Brother Became A Sheep was an 8mm animation produced at the tim...

Mexican feature film

The documentary provides a factual look at the lost and found services of the Deutsche Reichsbahn (the GDR state railway).

A child sleepwalks into the forest. A black vastness inhabited by night creatures throbs and chirps, croaks and gurgles. As she wades deeper into the...

Great movement of body cinema in the 80s! My contribution to this movement! – F.D.

Short 8mm experimental film.

An aria from the opera "Icarus" (music by Paul Earls, text by Otto Piene). In 1981, scenes from the opera were performed for the first SKY ART Confere...

A thin outline of a slowly moving figure enters the frame, moving forward in a highly exaggerated and expressive manner. Disjointed and atonal electro...

A Comedy in which the artist's voice has been replaced by Gene Autry's. Lyon's homage to his friend, sculptor Mark di Suvero. From footage shot in 196...

A short film by John Henry Timmis IV

This classic ’80s after-school special begins with a pre-teen beer-heist and subsequent drinking party, but ends with young Tony’s dependency on alcoh...