1981 Movies

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

The last in Phil Munnoch aka Captain Zip's series of 8mm portraits of the London punk scene captures the movement in decline - and Chelsea's last gasp...

A dramatized portrait of Susy James, a teenage runaway living in her boyfriend’s car. Original score by Jill Kroesen. In the permanent collection of t...

Kathe Sandler’s 1981 portrait of dancer Thelma Hill, a founding member of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.

One tree per frame, each from a different place on the surface of a doughnut-shaped parametric space, cooperate to rotate continuously, slowingly from...

Mr. Viola, who lives in a large castle, has no time for his granddaughter Claudia, and in fact, he has no time for himself either. He is constantly bu...

U2 at The Hague in 1981. Pro Shot footage

Produced by Carol Munday Lawrence as part of the seven-part "Were You There" series

A short animated sketch about the love lives of robots.

Abstract patterns of colorful pixels gradually form, dot by dot. Scored to Klaus Schulze’s “Stardancer.”

Lulu performs in concert in front of her own fans at Blazer's Club, Windsor, including such well-known songs as To Sir with Love, Miss You Nights and...

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...

Depicts a female form crafted from mud, whose centre (her womb) erupts into smoke which eventually leaves behind a scarred mark in the earth body.

Bollywood 1981

The passion for raising and fighting roosters in the capital of Peru.

Having inaugurated after massacring people in Gwangju, the fifth republic of South Korean government plans a large-scale state-organizing festival cal...

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...

Set in the late 1970s in North Chicago, 3725 traces the obsessions of a Japanese foreign student with the traditional Japanese toy kendama, jazz, and...