Cinematic Era: 1981 Vintage

A film about a housewife obsessed with the idea of a large hairy creature, 12 feet tall, with big feet. Chronicles her eventual breakdown in no uncertain terms.

The unlikely friendship between a 10-year-old boy, Leonid, recovering from a broken arm in a hospital, and a young, paraplegic actor. As the actor, disillusioned with life, struggles with his condition, he begins to tell Leonid an elaborate and adventurous pirate story. Their shared fantasy world, in which they play the main roles, gradually intertwines with the realities of their hospital life.

A poetic story about the tragic fate of the poor young man Bakhtiyar and the beautiful Lola, who turned into a tulip from separation from her beloved, leaving the immortal light of love on earth…

The film explores the theories put forward by Soviet and foreign scientists regarding the origin of the Sun and the planets of the Solar System, and discusses research into celestial bodies using spacecraft.

With his family, Malcolm Douglas travels to Tasmania to fish for giant trout at Lake Pedder and the lakes of the beautiful high plateau, returning by five metre boat from Hobart up to Sydney.

A smelter causes havoc in the steel company after being shot naked by a photographer during shower, and then put on a front page of a weekly magazine.

Homage/portrait to a utility building on the Santa Monica pier

Pink film by Kensuke Sawa.

Eleven-year-old Papik (nickname for Yannick Vallençant) dreams of climbing Mont Blanc with his father, Patrick Vallençant. After serious training, the adventure begins: they set off from the summit of the Aiguille du Midi, climb the ridge of the three Mont Blancs, bivouac at the Col de la Brenva, cross the Mur de la Côte and reach the summit of Mont Blanc. No child his age had ever before achieved this feat by this route.

Two archaeologists go to the hot desert to excavate...

Chase fuses undulating lines with undulating an disco sound.

A documentary film about a bear's adventures.

During the height of the Cold War, the Waterside Workers' Federation Film Unit produced eleven (11) films for several trade unions on political and industrial issues. Independent film-makers worked with them to develop critical dialogue from one generation of concerned film-makers onto another. FILM-WORK looks at sequences from 4 of these films and interviews some of their makers, raising a diversity of issues pertinent to current debates in film, history and politics. The 4 films that are looked at are PENSIONS FOR VETERANS (1953, NSW Branch, WWF), THE HUNGRY MILES (1954, WWF), NOVEMBER VICTORY (1955, WWF), and HEWERS OF COAL (1953, Miners Federation). PENSIONS FOR VETERANS covers the issue of the need for pensions to be given to workers who have worked on the waterfront all their life. THE HUNGRY MILES shows the strength of the workers, the union and its democracy. HEWERS OF COAL is about the coal miners and their struggle to get better working conditions and pensions.

William Grant Still's all-black opera performed for the first time on television since its 1941 composition. Based on a Southern folk tale, the opera depicts a young idealist who finds himself falling in love with a mystical spirit.

Tour of La Ribera, a region located in the south of Navarra.

Gavião is a bandit who is massacring the people of a region and kidnapping the women. Gregory is a hero, whose wife was also kidnapped and he is determined not to rest until he finds her.

The film, based on a true story, concerns a kidnapped child, and "poses ancient questions regarding home and heart".

Hajj Ali makes a living as a taxi driver during the day, carrying citizens safely across the city, but he also runs a funeral home, waiting for “customers” to be delivered daily. As he documents one man’s existence in a civil war-ravaged Beirut, Amiralay creates a tragicomic portrait of a society held captive by conflict.

Filipino Action movie.

“One can not speak of time as a thing in itself. It is movements and variations that give the feeling of time. Men have always linked time and spatial movement.” - Yo Ota

Featuring the incredible tube riding of Peter Mccabe, Tommy Carroll, Larry Blair and others in a dazzling array of exotic wave frontiers including Java, Bali, Hawaii and the mysterious "Isle of Kong". A surfing Odyssey by Stephen Spaulding

The life cycle of a man from childhood to death.

Filipino Vietnam War flick

After failing in his attempt to escape, a teenager is taken back to his family.

The story revolves around Laufer, an Israeli soldier from the wealthy suburbs of northern Tel Aviv, who is ordered to accompany another soldier, known only as "the Indian", to prison.

Springtime in Greenland uses '50s cinematic conventions and attitudes to tell a story about the sophomoric inhabitants of a fictional utopia.

A protopunk music video.

Outtakes from the movie

The planet is forever changed when the bumbling disciples of a devarshi (Lokanath) and a beguiling nymph disguised as a parrot (Manjula) come down to earth for different reasons. But in order for them all to be liberated, the nymph must help reform a decadent king's (Vishnuvardhan) sinful ways. Well-known comedian Dwarkish produced this entertaining farce with music by K.V. Mahadevan.

This police training film originally made for police officers and bank staff takes a look at both the role of the financial institution and local law enforcement authorities before, during and after a robbery. It represents an insight into the motivation and behavior of the offender, tactics used by note passers and armed robbers versus bank personnel or law enforcement officers, and what scenarios are needed to activate the silent alarm or not. Also uses actual black and white surveillance photographs, chosen from those taken during real robberies or taken by news photographers.

On February 28, 1981, sixteen-year-old Roger Johansson was knifed to death at the Old Town's subway station during a fight with two boys of the same age. This was in the media referred to as the punk-killing.

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.

Whyte's observations and research show why some urban open spaces such as the Seagram Plaza in New York City attract people and why others are unsuccessful.

Animated short directed by Michael Schaack.

The townspeople of Meinung inherited their Hakka ancestors' stamina, diligence and optimism. They continue treasured traditional practices, notably the production of oiled-paper umbrellas.

Masum and Hashi, a newly wed couple, move to a remote area after Masum gets a job as a forest officer, where an unfortunate event changes their life greatly.

Four students live in an urban community, where, in principle, everything can be discussed, divided, shared: each one's allowance, personal objects, relationships, political commitments. But things start to change with the arrival of a fifth resident, older and disillusioned, who puts in check the capacity of each one to live according to their ideas.

Mexican feature film

SIREN ISLAND is a real find-stream-of-consciousness from Switzerland. Director Isa Hesse-Rabinovitch creates a moviegoer's 'Morpehus Descending,' a dream trip on stepping stones of the drugged self into an Underworld/Underground of floozy female 'chanteuses,' drag acts and the lunatic fringe of showbiz. Mostly set in New York but also slithering for surreal variation through the skull-piled catacombs in Rome, this narrative fantasia is pure association-of-ideas in film form. (...) –Harlan Kennedy, 1982 Venice Film Festival, Film Comment

Souls in the Sun takes an honest look at some victims of the world's neglect - a few individuals among the teeming masses of poor people.

"Untoward Ends, along with Dead End, Dead End and Endless are a kind of cross between diaries and structural films and span the main part of my career working in 16mm. These were not happy years for me and they are not happy films. They were all conceived as silent films and I was very consciously working out my ideas about visual rhythm and visual/musical form. When I had them transferred to digital I had the opportunity to see how they would work as sound films - How hard would it be to compose musical tracks for them that would complement their spirit without detracting from their purity as silent film compositions? I had lots of fun in the process and have learned a great deal from them about the interaction between the two modalities as kinds of musical expression. I will leave it to others to decide if they are successful or not." -DB

“With this film I try to retrace my journey, my story through the ruins, neighbourhoods, and streets of Berlin. I filmed the dialogue that took place between the city and myself, the wanderings in the old neighbourhoods (Moabit, Kreuzberg, Wedding), places where you can still find most of the traces of the past, or rather what’s left of them.” (AL)

Blekbala explores the lives and aspirations of Aboriginal people living in the Northern Territory - on small outstations, remote desert locations and in regional town - from Arnhem Land to Central Australia. It looks at a selection of Aboriginal-run businesses and enterprises: cattle stations; children’s education; community projects; sports and music.

A character study showing the dissolution of the characters sense of self. The structure is based loosely on a pantoum structure in poetry.

The fourth part of the Wittstock cycle is not only a continuation of the cinematic chronicle of the "Ernst Lück" tricot factory, but also a first summary of the development of the company since its almost ten-year existence. Edith Rupp takes center stage. She is now a master craftswoman and has become engaged, but is still skeptical about what the future will bring.

When did her heart begin to drift away from me? She no longer even tries to listen to what I have to say. Two hearts that can no longer connect. Yet she was feeling the same thing. Maybe if I try talking to him one more time… surely then…