1981 Movies

Love of Tseng Wen River

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

When the culture of a kingdom dictates that in finding the most suitable man for the beautiful princess of the kingdom, the man must emerge champion o...

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

With humor and wonder and to images that grow from morning to night, a seven-year-old girl talks about the world of adults.

Wolke in Hosen

A young woman is haunted by the ghost of her husband, whom she killed. The soul of the husband takes the form of a dove.

Female punks have fun boozing, smoking and talking in this fascinating film by London lifestyle chronicler Captain Zip.

On February 28, 1980, the Andalusian people were called to the polls in the Autonomous Referendum. Through the testimony of the citizens themselves.

Shot at Liberty State Park in New Jersey and in lower Manhattan, "New York 1981" exemplifies the sensitivity and artfulness that small-gauge filmmaker...

Depicts a female form crafted from mud, whose centre (her womb) erupts into smoke which eventually leaves behind a scarred mark in the earth body.

In Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 16 year-old Vera, who lives with her parents and her six brothers and sisters in a favela, has had to leave school and ge...

Karl Kels' first film is a playful short piece comprised of shots of haystacks in the countryside. Quick repetitions of frames and the dance-like rhyt...

Bollywood 1981

Documentation of a 3-projector super-8 film performance. (one projector is hand-held by the filmmaker and moves during performance) Government Propert...

Highlights from Le Mans 1981, capturing all the thrills, spills, and excitement of the event.

Official entry to the first Metro Manila Film Festival in 1981 directed by Carlo J. Caparas and starred Dante Varona, Chiqui Hollmann, Lirio Vital, Ro...

Film by M.S. Mani

A film that captures the underlying tension that pervades everyday life in the age of the atomic bomb and the telephone.

This is Volume 6 of Target Video's compilation video series Underground Forces. Here is a list of the videos and performances on Volume 6: 01 Iggy P...