1981 Movies

Journey back to ancient Egypt as Uriel’s students relive past lives through psycho-drama. This incredible video program is a psychodrama that is lift...

The Laziest Girl in Town features the transvestite antics of Morrisroe, Stephen Tashjian (Tabboo!),and Jack Pierson, culminating in an obscene sequen...

The film consists of 25 scenes. Each scene is performed by eight actors [out of a group of nine]; the ninth actor continually changing places with ano...

In Search of Ladino follows Ladino speakers, their culture, their memories and hopes for their mother tongue. This unique film is one of the earliest...

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 “custo...

Here Come the Puppets! is a special that was taped for PBS during the 1980 World Puppetry Festival. Co-hosted by Kermit the Frog and Jim Henson, it fe...

Anna Halprin Dancer's Workshop Event

This superbly animated science film traces the evolution of North America from the Earth's geophysical beginnings, through the genesis of the first li...

An animated allegory demonstrating the need to integrate the disabled into general society.

Experimental movie that seeks the relation between art and madness.

The camera is ready for the perfect shot! The bus driver pays special attention when he notices the camera. But the cameraman is actually waiting for...

United States / Cuba 1981, Super 8 transferred to digital, black and white, silent, 2 min

When her former lover, Anupam, returns to her life, her husband kills himself, and after this sudden suicide, Karuna Choudhary must not only look afte...

A puppy skips school to run a football game and learns a lesson.

Said to draw inspiration from the writings of Sigmund Freud and European mythology, My Brother Became A Sheep was an 8mm animation produced at the tim...

An early "walking" performance shot on super-8 in 1981.

The film scores particularly as a psychological study of a student dropout. It focuses on Pavle Komel, a young man who shuns even the most elementary...

In December of 1981, Japanese graphic artist Ryoichiro Debuchi shot one of the earliest films that experimented with a time-slice or bullet-time effec...