1981 Movies

"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...

When the culture of a kingdom dictates that in finding the most suitable man for the beautiful princess of the kingdom, the man must emerge champion o...

Short 8mm experimental film.

The precisions and idiosyncrasies of movement associated with domestic activities are closely stared at, or as it sometimes happens, watched carefully...

After school special type short about illiterate high school students.

A film about South American immigrants who try to live in Sweden without a job.

A stony-faced Tom Morton, General Manager of Doncaster Rugby League team, has just received a copy of the Guinness Book of Records. His team now has a...

Safety short about signal warnings at construction sites.

Recently restored, Lisa Baumgardner's punchy Girl Pack rewrites Jean-Luc Godard's famous axiom, proving that all you need to make a film is six girls...

Satirical docudrama based on the racist practice of virginity testing that was carried out by the Home Office on Asian girls arriving in the UK from I...

Margaret Hixon's 1981 film documents a real-life wedding in the Old Believer settlements of Marion County, Oregon, in the years 1979 and 1980. The fil...

Joy Unspeakable is an ethnographic film that examines the question, what does it mean to be Pentecostal, through the documentation of three types of O...

Debut film.

Anne consults the dictionary in this one – what is “fat?” what is “thin?” Inanimate objects are animated, and Anne experiences problems with her camer...

Vegetarianism, bingeing, Thanksgiving with parents. (ACR)

Short political documentary.

In exemplary fashion, students of past-life therapy describe their present-day problems and relate how they were able to overcome them through applyin...