Cinematic Era: 1981 Vintage

Punjabi Movie

Portrait of the filmmaker's mother during her visit to Paris.

It is a 1981 Indian Kannada-language action film directed by V. Somashekhar and produced by Parvathamma Rajkumar. The film featured Rajkumar and Sulakshana playing pivotal roles. The film was written by M. D. Sundar and had lyrics and dialogues written by Chi. Udaya Shankar.

The scene of the story taking place in the 18th century is an inn, which is advertised by its owners for sale. The inn was namely the scene for mysterious disappearances and murders, but the result of all these events, the treasury is hidden and guarded by the mother. Everybody want to get it from her during one night: the inn-keeper couple, the fake couple who arrived as buyers, Colonel Majorossy with his son, the secret agent and the servants.

Many stars, only at night, illuminate the vast. Aigokeros is the Greek name for Capricorn, the sign of the zodiac, which is half goat and half fish and which, according to Jung, follows the age of Aquarius and will unite the opposites. (Text by Narcisa Hirsch)

Based on oriental fairy tales.Three masters -a woodcarver, a tailor and a jeweler -performed a miracle: they created a girl from an ordinary log, who came to life from their art.

This short animation uses appliqué and embroidered tapestries to recall a young girl's happy summers spent sailing with her family off the coast of British Columbia. Each tapestry, meticulously stitched by hand with brightly coloured yarns, evokes the memory of leisurely days at sea, drifting among the islands.

A film in blue, with a few red moments. It is an attempt to paint with the camera, to try to approach, through the associations/oppositions of objects, elements, colors, a certain tactility assumed by the visual. The Super-8 camera, often hand-held like a pencil or a brush, produces a sum of sketches that the montage has tried to articulate. (The rhythmic component of this one made me give up any use of sound). —Eric Lanz

Birago Diop appears as the pioneer of African letters. He knew the long journey of poets of blackness from the 30s. But, while young writers Antillean and African chose poetry to express the search for their identity, Birago Diop was located from the beginning of his work at the heart of the African literary world, adopting as a mode of expression the tale and the novel. Birago Diop evokes his memories: coming from the old Saint-Louisian bourgeoisie, he made his classes at Faidherbe high school, the first high school of West Africa, before coming to France to study veterinary medicine, an opportunity for him to participate in the first one. core of African Presence. His works are now on the curriculum of high schools in Senegal.

35-year old ballet soloist Peter ends his career as a performance dancer and, on the occasion of his last stage performance, looks back on his career and his life. Peter′s retrospection is centred on the relationship with his professional and romantic partner Lotte, who he had once met at a joint performance. Peter remembers the landmarks of their love: their marriage, their child, and Lotte′s severe illness that threatened to end her career. In flashbacks, the film shows how the couple survived this crisis by working sacrificially to return to the stage and celebrate international success.

When I turn the pages of an album, there she is, running toward me through a violet-colored breeze. A memory from a distant day. I wonder what she is doing now. Even now, I still love her so much, and yet all I can do is speak to the version of her preserved in these album pages… Set to the classic Off Course song “Ai wo Tomenaide” (Don’t Stop the Love), this film unfolds in a retrospective, memory-driven style, resembling a music video. The extensive use of soft-focus cinematography throughout almost the entire film lends the work an especially lyrical and poetic atmosphere.

"A masterpiece of compilation film" (Berlin Kinemathek), Dream Documentary uses footage from other films to create a surreal and foreboding societal landscape

A silent softcore bondage loop. Released as part of Something Weird Video's collection Bizarro Sex Loops Volume 24.

19 months after the fall of the dictator Somoza, the Austrian film team travels across Nicaragua for seven weeks (from August 4th to September 20th, 1980) and gathers information, mostly from farmers, workers, market women and soldiers. We are shown life in the Fincas, the agricultural co-operatives, in a banana plantation of Standard Fruit, a private corporation, in the "Carlos Roberto Huembes Hospital" in La Esperanza which is run by Austrians. A report on Nicaragua of 1980 which discusses the dream of the murdered freedom fighter of Nicaragua, General C.A. Sandino and whether it has been realized and answers this question affirmativeley. In spite of the present and threatening difficulties, the film is optimistic.

About a lazy and boastful sparrow who didn't want to take care of a warm home for autumn and winter in the summer, and then regretted it. But the friends from the sparrow flock did not leave the silly in trouble.

An insight into a girls' group in a mining community in the Ruhr region.

Experimental film by Hiroyuki Sekine.

On the theater stage, a monkey masterfully juggles and walks on a rope. The audience is bored. The monkey tosses the knives that get stuck in its hands, balances on a ball with spikes that pierce its legs, swallowing the saber. The audience is ecstatic. . . In the dressing room, the monkey takes off his costume, and a soulful human face appears under it.

A Stop Motion Short Film

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Underexposed scenes from a backyard barbecue likely at the home of JoAnn Elam and Joe Hendrix, featuring members of the "Logan Square Rhinos" — a group of small gauge filmmakers that included Elam and filmmaker Chuck Kleinhans. Elam's husband Hendrix is seen grilling chicken while Elam (in a red "VOTE" shirt) talks in the yard with her mom and brother. Kleinhans' fellow Jump Cut co-founder John Hess can be seen helping at the grill.

According to its author, Mom's chicken soup is based on a recipe for six people: one small chicken, two onions, two cloves of garlic, one carrot, three cups of milk, two potatoes, one tablespoon of cornstarch, and salt and pepper to taste. Mrs. Maite is making chicken soup in her kitchen, and next to her, on a television set, a strange character (Francisco) is seen struggling with windows and doors, determined to enter a house. In ten minutes, Castillo recounts, two actions are described that ultimately complement each other, as the outcome is disconcerting.

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About how the Woodpecker and the Finch punished the elephant stubbornly and taught him kindness.

The industrial site, the dam under construction and the colony of workers’ housing attached to them are among the favourite spaces of the Sahia documentary, especially during the last decade of the communist regime. The work on the country’s numerous industrial sites is a constant theme included in the annual Thematic Plans of the studio, therefore repeatedly fixed on film and repeatedly missed, or at least simplified by the documentaries of the time, always completed under the pressure of the political imperative.

A silent, Super 8 film in color by Joseph Morder.

Pink film distributed by Toei Central Film.

UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. An experimental short about a man who travels into Los Angeles and falls in love.

A film by Mischka Popp & Thomas Bergmann

Horror short.

Bruce Lacey wandering around and interacting with stones

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

President Richard Nixon has been assassinated and Vice President Spiro Agnew has declared martial law throughout America. Pete leads a band of rebels known as the Rangers in taking over Eastman, a small Michigan town and setting up a pirate TV station there known as Free Amerika Broadcasting.

The plot from the newsreel "Wick" No. 235.

A striptease in which the spectators remove their clothing to show their true faces.

A true story about a pilot whose plane crashes, forcing him to land in the "Noman's Land," after which he begins searching for a way to reach his homeland.

Experimental documentary short shot with the peculiar style of Beryl Sokoloff. 16mm, 9 minutes.

Set to an Albinoni score, Chase hypnotically manipulates line and block patterns.

Six-year-old Lala has a masculine nature, as her father, Anton Wijaya, who wanted a boy. Mrs. Anton is extremely worried about her youngest child’s attitude and requests the help of child psychologist, Kak Seto. Lala’s unruly behavior often complicates everything. She even manages to put the relationship between Kak Seto and his girlfriend in jeopardy. Dina, Lala’s sister, admires Kak Seto who can be gentle with children. And when Dina is disappointed with Kak Seto, this triggers Anton Wijaya’s anger. He thinks that Kak Seto wants to ruin his family. Then Bujel, with his devil-may-care unconventional attitude, arrives to bring their problem into focus. This is the point when Lala’s problem can be solved. The film presents a nicely handled child psychology problem while criticising the psychologists at the same time.

Dos Bravos: Directed by J. Erastheo Navoa. With Niño Muhlach, Dante Varona, Anne Villegas, Mon Gaudinez.

Aaron's drawn imaginary world is seen visually and physically embedded in the real world.

Popular science film about different views on the theory of evolution and the infinity of human knowledge.

A creative and skilful montage as well as dramatically spot-on sound and music effects are combined in a snappy plot to offer a mordant commentary on the constitutionally enshrined equality of men and women in the GDR. The film was awarded a medal at the 1982 congress of UNICA, the Union Internationale du Cinéma, in Aachen.

Highlights from the "Snip & Snap" revues by René Sleeswijk, with the comedy duo Willy Walden and Piet Muyselaar. Featuring show ballet The Carden Singers & Dancers.

1930s, Dobrudja. The shepherds Vasil, Peter and Ago work in the farm of Zachariah and Sevastitsa. Vasil is the manager of the sheepfold. In his house lives the young and beautiful Vasilena, for whom everyone sighs.

Barbara Rose narrates the life and artistic development of Jackson Pollock.

Experimental documentary about the baroque school of music that flourished in Minas Gerais, hinterland of Brazil in the eighteenth century, formed mostly by mulatto musicians. Original baroque music and electronic music by Arthur Omar.

Contemplative images of rivers, snow, waterfall, mountain and bodies.

Phil Morton’s “SAIC Memo” video art work from 1981 features Timothy Leary, Jane Veeder and Jamie Fenton. The Sandin Image Processor, a patch-programmable analog computer optimized for realtime audio video processing and synthesis developed from 1971 - 1973, and The Bally Arcade Video Game System, a programable home video game console developed in 1974, are used to compute and process the material of this playful, critical and self-reflexive psychedelic cybernetic communication system.