1981 Movies

What will become of the American who crossed the seas to visit his ancestors’ graves? After reading his own name on a tombstone will things take a tur...

While we don't really know the origins of the song games, it is possible they came to the North in the 15th or 16th century. Over time, they have chan...

A girl who fights monsters, robots, and spaceships from early science fiction TV shows and films.

Relief and civil defense teams are responding to the town of Chosica, devastated by a huayco, an avalanche that covers the community with stones and m...

Impressions of the domestic prison and the suburban landscape through object animation, exploration of sound-image relationships and a variety of othe...

The film is a reflection on the cultural and psychological space attributed to women in the collective consciousness, and above all in contemporary ic...

Karl Kels' first film is a playful short piece comprised of shots of haystacks in the countryside. Quick repetitions of frames and the dance-like rhyt...

Computer generated. "With all the grace and flair of an elegant proof." - Carol Mickett. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.

A film in two parts. In the first part, the narrator describes the events that led to his impulsive decision to rob his former employer. The camera m...

Saga playing live in Dortmund (1981)

Experimental film.

Frankie Beverly takes seminal soul band Maze through its paces in this compilation culled from 12 shows the group performed at New Orleans's famous Sa...

The conductor of a mosquito orchestra gets into a fight with a tuba-playing bear. Based on the story by Dmitriy Mamin-Sibiryak.

Konrad Steiner's first film

Part 2 of "3 Miniatures after Melanie Klein"

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

An epic war film about the battle of the Italian and Libyan armies.

From the New York Transit Museum archives, a 1981 documentary about the workers who make "A" train service possible. A production of the New York Stat...