1981 Movies

An ex-convict in search of a new life is caught in the tangled web of love, hate, and intrigue.

Experimental short by MAJYOLICA

Filmed with a 16mm spring-wound Bolex camera, this story-driven documentary captures a pivotal moment in the life of the Sepik Iwam people of Hauna Vi...

A look into the lives of workers at a Washington saw mill that produces shingles.

Informed by conventions of Hollywood film and television commercials, Judith Barry’s Casual Shopper (1980-81) presents a female protagonist wandering...

Memorabilia is about my grandmother's family with an unabashed emphasis on one member's interests and friends, mine.... Like all films, this movie is...

"There's a paradox at the center of Couzin's work, in that for all of the wariness of form and order her films express, they remain tightly organized,...

Consequences of the collapse of a new realty.

I tell my side of the mother-daughter story which has changed dramatically since my father's death. The emotion is raw, embarrassing and honest. The m...

Mobiles works with regulated frame movements becoming increasingly more unpredictable : a controllable, closed space, in which more random and unrestr...

The last in Phil Munnoch aka Captain Zip's series of 8mm portraits of the London punk scene captures the movement in decline - and Chelsea's last gasp...

Warner Home Video

Philipino War Movie Trash frin the 80s

1981 documentary short from Mauritius

Tetraplan is a dizzying cinematic ritual of images, rhythm and multiplication, in which a single film imagery gradually expands into four, then sixtee...

The pictorial investigations carried out by Pablo Macera and Francisco Stastny on the works of the Cuzco School and those of Modern Peru.

The customs and popular religiosity of Tarma during the festival of devotion to the Christ of Muruhuay.

An Israeli student film about anti-Zionist propaganda.

A video short by Andrew Huestis featuring Dale Hoyt