Cinematic Era: 1981 Vintage

Animated short about an artist and an eye

Leon Brown, a young psychologist, find pamphlets, handbills and other critical materials concerning Marcus Garvey and his period in a trash can in Philadelphia. Intensely motivated, he follows the leads to the still active Universal Negro Improvement Association.

A film about light and aggression, heat and religion; she ascends from the piano.

The artist becomes two, or four, or still more - the videotechnique makes a group formation of just one person.

Artist Cindy Sherman first came to widespread attention in the early 1980s with evocative photographs that simulated film stills. Posing as "B" movie characters, she cast herself as director, producer and protagonist, masquerading as a startling range of female identities. The stylized scenarios of these photographs were the inspiration for the staged talk-show interview format adopted here by MICA-TV, in which Carole Ann Klonarides plays the role of a quasi-talk show host/art dealer handling Sherman's photographs. As they talk, Sherman metamorphoses into the different characters that she assumes for her photos. The cinematic backgrounds are created — as in her photographs — with rear-screen slide projection, a device that conveys the visual and conceptual themes of Sherman's early work. Muzak film scores accompany the transitions.

An astronomical love story.

exploiting the painterly 'smear' quality of undercranked 6 fps projected S-8: Shadow hunts, I follow.

Ehsaan Aap Ka is a Hindi Feature Film starring Urmila Bhatt , Suresh Oberoi , Deepti Naval , Vijayendra Ghatge , and more. The movie is directed by S. Yusuf , and produced by Jay & Nihar.

A ‘paradocumental’ by Dziworski & Rybczynski.

Produced at the Experimental TV Center and post produced at WXXI, winner of the LA Erotic Film/Video Festival.

In 1974, Narritjin Maymuru and his family are establishing a small settlement at Djarrakpi, an important Manggalili clan site on the northern head of Blue Mud Bay in the Northern Territory.

A portrait study of Shereen Maloney's mother Irene. Irene talks about growing older and says that she feels just as wide- eyed and interested in things now as she did when she was 20. She talks about her first job and the wonderful feeling of independence it brought her. The film follows her daily activities as she drives a Fiat Bambina through the city and plays with her grandchild.

In a humourous and bittersweet fashion, New Freedom takes a critical look at how television and the news media in general continue to project a stereotypical image of women in relationships.

A group of young architects have a chance to take part in an ambitious project. Will they have enough resilience to face the problems which await them?

After the death of his wife, Karol Kryszak prepares to commit suicide.

Lonely Ignacy is visited by his niece and her lover. The arrival of the guests destroys the orderly world of the old captain.

Back around 1981, a decade before MTV Unplugged came along, Dave Mason did this 50-minute show at Perkins Palace, playing acoustic guitar and backed by guitarist/violinist Jim Krueger. It was released on laserdisc by Pioneer Artists in the mid-'80s and became a favorite of fans who were equipped to play the software, but the 2002 CD release is the first chance that most of his audience will have to enjoy the performance. Mason does a nice, relaxed, informal set consisting of most of the songs for which he is best known -- "We Just Disagree," "Feelin' Alright," "All Along the Watchtower," "Bring It on Home to Me," "Take It to the Limit," and "Let It Go, Let It Flow" -- the latter beautifully showcasing Mason and Krueger's voices as well as their playing.

This documentary, directed by Jacques Renard in 1981, retraces seventy years of life in the mines through the testimonies of miners from the Nord-Pas-de-Calais coalfield. Confronted with numerous archival documents, the protagonists tell their stories and reflect on their past and present history. These four episodes (The Mine, The Memory, The Heart and The Body) shed light on the beginnings of coalmining, its working conditions, social and political struggles, the different technical evolutions of the miners’ work and the decline of the sector. Mémoires de la mine is unique in the history of French television documentaries because of its scope: never before have such life and career stories been recorded. Mémoires de la mine won the Prix de la critique and the Prix de la Société des Gens de Lettres.

Konrad Steiner's first film

As in La Jetée (Chris Marker, 1962), in "Estación de Chamartin" the story is constructed from still images. Through the history of a former party member of the extreme left who goes to the Madrid rail station with the intention of taking revenge from a friend who betrayed him.

An old man who used to be a projectionist, a cassette deck that comforts his solitary life, a nude photo of a woman who used to be a mobo (modern boy) and his girlfriend. These are the reality of Narita's performance. He brutally cuts them out and composes the film based on his own theme. It is the sincerity of the cold, detached, painstaking images of his wrinkled, toothless mouth that make him seem so present, even though he has lost his job. Without using any dialogue, the director Nagasaki poetically condenses what he encounters in the small room, which is interesting because it allows us to discover something that we had not noticed in our daily lives.

The nine-year-old Sinti girl Brigitta shows us her world. She lives with her family in a caravan site on the outskirts of a small Bavarian town. Everybody still speaks Romani and continues to live by the customs handed down. That means that the children take part in adult life and that the very highly respected parents describe how it used to be. In this community, all age groups live together naturally. For these Sinti, `gypsy' is an insult. At school they are taught there are two cultures, two languages and two realities: that of the Sinti and that of the Germans. While German is spoken at school, the only pupils are Sinti children. Brigitta animatedly describes the material deprivations, which are mollified by the life as `one big family'. Brigitta knows all too well where she belongs.

Animated satirical sketch on the comfortability of urban public transport during rush hour.

Two thousand fishermen, living in a 50-kilometer stretch of the coast of Rio de Janeiro, between Macaé and Cabo Frio, are threatened with paralyzing their activities. An anhydrous alcohol production plant, located on the banks of the São João River, is causing water pollution, with the indiscriminate release of "vinhoto", a by-product of sugar cane. It prevents the penetration of sunlight into rivers and compromises their oxygenation. Pollution, carried by the current, is already reaching the sea waters. Fishermen, scientists and technicians denounce the plant's procedure, which puts the health of the region's inhabitants and the traditional fishing economy at risk."

A friendly rubbish collector going on his rounds through the city of Riga.

The first four hours of MTV

A Film by Keiji Uematsu.

16mm experimental film by Dean Snider.

Centenary of the death of Alexandre Herculano.

Hryhoriy Porytsky, also known as Greg, was one of the central figures in the Lviv hippie movement in the 1970s. Together with other freedom-loving young people, he was a member of a non-conformist association called the Holy Garden Republic, which met in an abandoned garden of the Discalced Carmelites monastery in the centre of Lviv. The film shows the participants of the Republic, their apartment parties, walks, talks, and, basically, their lives.

With warmth and humour, Gay Hawley proposes ways in which feminist media might look at the realities of being a lesbian mother in an anti-lesbian society.

This colourful stop-motion animation utilises Essendon Airport drummer Paul Fletcher's collection of dolls and nick-nacks.

GDR documentary from the 1980s about the former district of Leipzig. The film goes beyond the city limits of Leipzig and conveys impressions of interesting buildings, typical businesses and unique landscapes outside the city gates of the trade fair metropolis. This film takes us beyond the city limits of Leipzig, into the GDR district of the same name. It conveys impressions from outside the city gates of the trade fair metropolis. Interesting buildings, businesses and landscapes, the historical and the contemporary form the basis of this multifaceted film kaleidoscope.

A film inspired by The Bible and filmed in the Sinai Desert, which stages the music contained within Popol Vuh's album Sei Still, Wisse Ich Bin

Small Foveal Fields, a continuation of my work with abstract filmic imagery, is primarily concerned with the mystery and elemental poetry of visual perception. Structurally, this film consists of ten separate-but- related episodes in which kinetic atmospheric light emerges from darkness, creates and activates color images and color space, then fades into black. Each of these ten mobile color fields interacts with a static grid system of white dots which provides a geometric reference and counterpoint to the film’s amorphic evolution

U2 at The Hague in 1981. Pro Shot footage

Documentary about Central African Republic before and during the reign of Jean-Bédel Bokassa. The first film to be made in the country.

Documentary film and music film from Germany

Face Concert is an ode to human expression in which VanDerBeek transforms the face into a visual canvas.

This Army training video was created in the 1980s by Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC to increase awareness of sexual harassment in the workplace. The video showed five dramatized examples of inappropriate workplace behavior, followed by suggested questions after each segment to generate group discussion.

Combines three short films: Richard, The Blanket of Life, Elementary Editing Theory

An experimental short done by Valentin Constantin in 1981, with Kinema Ikon.

Mexican feature film