Cinematic Era: 1981 Vintage

Little Juno sets out in search of his sick mother who has left home to work overseas.

A musician from the vocal-instrumental ensemble "Focus" unexpectedly becomes the "fiancé" of the country's champion in sports ice dancing. However, a humorous prank becomes a reason and a serious reason for true love.

Psychedelic Furs performing live in Berlin, April 11, 1981, at the height of their creativity. Songs include: "Into You Like a Train," "Pretty In Pink," "Imitation of Christ" and more.

A film by Haydée Caillot.

Akhtar is a good humored working class man who is nicknamed The Joker, and tries to rise on the social ladder during the 1970s in Kabul.

Peter Nestler's short focusses the works of four Chilean artists: two painters [Nicolas de la Cruz and Jorge Kuhn], a graphic designer [Rolando Pérez], and a guitar player [Adrián Miranda]. Together they show, without words, how they see their beautiful country after the coup d'etat - suddenly the colorful pastoral scenes change to the sharp contrasts of black-and-white woodcuts presenting the distorted faces of the military dictators - and what they hope for the future.

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 shimmering night, the real forest and the imaginary one dissolve into each other. Apparitions and phantoms begin their nocturnal dance. The atmosphere becomes charged and witches come shrieking to life. When the fear of the night reaches its peak, the moon rises and the final lunacy begins. An animated film about a child's reaction to the mysteries and magic of the night. Film without words.

A fantasy on the childhood of a highly gifted pianist/composer who visited Italy & Germany on a concert tour when he was 10. The film serves as a homage to mothers who tirelessly support their talented childrens endeavors.

1980-81, 13:27 min, b&w, sound Videograms is an ongoing series of text/image constructs or syntaxes using the Rutt/Etra Scan Processor, a device that enables Hill to sculpt electronic forms on the screen. Each "videogram" relates literally or conceptually to Hill's accompanying spoken text, which is visually translated into abstract shapes. Hill writes, "The vocabulary and precision of this tool allowed me to expand the notion of an 'electronic linguistic' through textual narrative blocks created specifically for the electronic vocabulary inherent in the Rutt/Etra device."

Andrew's friends bully him into preparing a speech for Parents' Night at school.

Lapse is a research of a porous state of the cinematographic material which by "intra-photogrammic fragmentation" (Claudine Eizykman) and encrustation of grains unfolds in its crackling like a film in mesh.

This film is about a functional alcoholic, who works as a lathe operator in a factory and is mentoring a young man.

Experimental home movie documenting a visit by filmmakers Wayne and Eleanor Boyer and their nine-year-old son Brett to JoAnn Elam's home in Logan Square, Chicago, for a summer barbecue. Later in the film, Chuck Kleinhans and Julia Lesage, co-founders of the cinema journal Jump Cut join the group. Since Elam is on screen for much of the film, it was likely mostly filmed by Elam's husband Joe Hendrix, who also appears at the end of the film. During the visit, the friends relax on Elam's back porch and film her garden, both frequent locations in her work. A group of friends and colleagues that included Elam, Kleinhans, and Lesage adopted the name "The Rhinos" after walking to a screening at Kartemquin Films on a cold winter evening, and having a group of kids throw snowballs at them and tell them that they looked like a group of rhinos.

On the culture and politics of radical black theatre work in South Africa under apartheid, featuring Ingoapele Madingoane, Matsemela Manaka, Gibson Kente and the women of Crossroads

Vera and Erzika have worked at Trudbenik textile factory in Pancevo since they were 13. Now that they are almost retired they face numerous problems and misunderstandings. The film portrays emotional states of the heroines, their families, relationships with their colleagues, a spectrum of moods and thoughts of people who have come to the end of their working age.

This superbly animated science film traces the evolution of North America from the Earth's geophysical beginnings, through the genesis of the first living organisms, right up to the arrival of humans. Radiant colours and smooth-flowing animation evoke sizzling lava rivers, oceans bursting with life, and freezing ice ages. The film provides an excellent view of the time frame within which these remarkable events took place and highlights the fact that, relatively speaking, we are newcomers to Planet Earth.

Varela's reflections on home and place before embarking on one of his major life changes, moving from El Paso to San Francisco.

"Esculturas Rupestres" (Rupestrian Sculptures) was made in Jaruco Park outside of Havana. The low relief sculptures that resembled petroglyphs, were influenced by Ana Mendieta’s interest in the indigenous Taíno people of Cuba.

August, 1980. Evandro Carreira, a Brazilian senator leaves his party's office in Manaus to visit his constituents in the state of Amazonas. Interviews with farmhands, loggers, explorer Paulo Lucena, Brazilian and Peruvian Indians and a representative of the National Indian Foundation (Funai) were recorded from the city of Benjamin Constant to the village of Cavalo Cocho. A visit to the indigenous village of the Ticunas and the lands of the Maiuruna people culminate with an interview and the actions of José Francisco da Cruz, a member of the Order of the Holy Cross. Throughout the trip, the economic potential of the Amazon and its problems (corruption in the indigenous policies and the pollution produced by factories) are shown.

How friends saved a green meadow from drought.

The conductor of a mosquito orchestra gets into a fight with a tuba-playing bear. Based on the story by Dmitriy Mamin-Sibiryak.

In Bern, a confluence of events forces Max, a radio commentator, to face the personal sense of frustration he feels in politics, his job and his relationship. A veteran of the ’68 generation, he confronts the demise of that utopian dream, breaking the bonds of his dreary existence during one night.

Both Seol-Hwa and Su-Ran, who are sisters, support their living by selling white coloured rose. When the subordinates of Maeng Cheon-Kal, or the governor of Pyeongnam Province, attack them, Mu-Rang rescues them. Two sisters' father named Tak Won-Chang is blind. Maeng attacks Tak's house when he is surrounded by the enemy, but is hurt by Mu-Rang. At that time, Seol-Hwa infiltrates into Maeng's room to deprive him of a map that her father is looking for. Seol-Hwa is discovered by Cheon Kwan-Suk to fight each other fiercely, and barely escapes and returns to her father thanks to Mu-Rang's help. Tak makes up his mind to go to a snowy field of Mt. Talmasan. Being aware that Su-Ran, or younger sister, loves Mu-Rang, Seol-Hwa hide herself. At the moment when a snowy tomb is dug at Mt. Talmasan.............

Bollywood 1981

Four misguided youths into heavy metal music go on a self-ordained "moral crusade," the twisted brainchild of Steve, the group's "guru" of hate.

Experimental film by Hiroyuki Sekine.

A young 19-year old girl Anastasia (O.Bobyleva) comes to a big Siberian construction site. She dreams of being a welder, but at the moment there are no vacancies, and she has to begin her labor activity in a canteen. And after a local kinder garden is left without a mentor, nobody can fancy a better candidate that Nastya. She loves kids, and the main thing is that the feeling is mutual. Once during a storm an accident happens a motor-launch, carrying workers across a river, crashes. Three children become orphans. Nastya doesnt let the construction head send them to the orphanage and decides to adopt them.

Short documentary about mining in east germany.

A short film that tells the story of Fernando Daquilema and the indigenous uprising between 1870 and 1871 in the province of Chimborazo.

Potatoes are made to perform a variety of circus acts, including walking the tightrope and jumping through a flaming hoop.

Compilation film by Jim Terry "Will the merciless Vegan Empire destroy the planet Earth? Only one man can protect his adopted homeland from the Vegan's ruthless cunning, none other than Orion Quest and his starship GRANDIZER Narrowly escaping the Vegan's anihilation of the peaceful planet Antares, Quest guides his space robot GRANDIZER to Earth, where he is befriended by Professor Valconian, who hides his massive machine and helps Quest adopt a new identity as an earthling. Upon learning of the planned attack by the evil Vegans, Quest and his GRANDIZER ship come out of hiding to protect his new home from the vicious onslaughts. Electrifying interstellar excitement at its best. Never before has a feature-length cartoon produced such top action science-fiction entertainment." - Back of the VHS cover description

A child has soiled his official clothes for his birthday. They beat him. The child in his imagination runs away from Mom and Dad— to the reindeer of the North Pole, to the ostriches in Africa. The smell of the delicious chicken that Mom cooked brings him back.

An animated short from Viktor Kubal

Pink film distributed by Tokatsu.

A QUACK DOCTOR FIGHTS THE ZOMBIES MENACING HIS BARRIO.

In front of and behind the scenes with the Casino gang on their summer tour.

Narrates the workers' struggles at the beginning of the 20th century, the lengthy process of achieving the 8-hour workday, finally conquered on January 19, 1919, in which anarchist ideas played a fundamental role. Subsequently, during "el Oncenio de Leguía" (1919-1930), ideological and political currents of aprismo and socialism emerged, led by Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre and José Carlos Mariátegui, which left a mark on the country's life.

On July 30, 1980 the New Hebrides gained independence from Britain and France after 70 years of condominium rule and took a new name - Vanuatu. The film deals with events leading up to independence and shows the independence ceremonies.

First edition of an animated newsreel containing - in the manner of newsreels - the latest news from the country and the world: "Polish economy in the grip of krill", "Oil spill in Karlin", "U-25 mystery deciphered", "Sensational-secession photoplasticon liquidated", "Situation in space".

This documentary seeks to capture the evolving character of Houston. The film pays special attention to the city’s rapid expansion—investigating not only what attracts so many people to the Bayou City but also its ongoing drawbacks, from a struggling mass transit system to alarming statistics about the use of deadly force by Houston police officers. Of particular note is footage of the premiere of French fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld’s Chloé collection at Neiman Marcus and an open casting call for Urban Cowboy (1980).

"For those who came of age in the 1960s and 70s, glamour received its highest expression in fashion magazines like Vogue, where the representation of lives and those who lived them achieved perfection on every page. Prime Cuts is a work premised on the notion that the lives of magazine models are real (much like another Vancouver artist, Ken Lum, who as a child believed that the bedroom suites in the furniture store flyers that landed on his doorstep were real bedrooms). In exploring the lives of models (some of whom the Mainstreeters worked with through commercial projects), Prime Cuts does not so much imagine what these models get up to both before and after the lights, camera and action of the photo shoot casts them in amber, but extends the fantasy." – Allison Collins & Michael Turner, Mainstreeters: Taking Advantage, 1972-1982, Satellite Gallery, 2015

A man's struggle fighting the system he lives in.

From Worldcat: A young boy is lonely in his new neighborhood until he converts a shoebox into a magic diorama and sees his old friends trick-or-treating. Adapted from the story of the same title by Ezra Jack Keats. For elementary grades.

Cape May: End of the Season captures the individuality and idiosyncrasy of the beach community of Cape May, New Jersey. Cohen’s interviews along the seashore with retired vacationers who linger after Labor Day reveal a clichéd, postcard world crystallized in a whimsical reverie devoid of sorrow or youth. The good-natured relaxation of the elderly couples, interspersed with picturesque miniature golf courses and a shimmering empty beach, reveals the autumnal mood of the waning season and the twilight of old age.

The documentary deals with the squatter and punk scene of Freiburg in the 1980s from the perspective of its participants.

Aspects of life associated with Lake Manzala.

A paper dove swaying over a cradle with a baby angers an annoying cat, who starts chasing the dove around the garden.

Women at work in the kitchen serve as the starting point for a film that does not seek to depict events in a conventional manner, but rather assembles the scenes in an associative way and attempts to reveal connections by twisting and distorting the everyday gestures—which almost resemble rituals—to such an extent that the boundary between reality and dream becomes blurred.

Maria doesn't like her mother's new boyfriend Robert. He has his own daughter, Lisa.

Documentary on the life of the Basque shepherd and oral improviser (or 'bertsolari') Fernando Aire (1920-1976), known as 'Xalbador'.

Kurt's dream in life is to own the round boat with the striped chapel, but he can't afford it and the seller is a bluffer.