Daniel Eisenberg's film (or "memory essay," as theorist Nora Alter referred to DISPLACED PERSON) is a challenge to a conventional view of history, a provocation using traditional documentary forms: found footage, newsreels, a radio lecture of French anthropologist Claude Levi Strauss and Ludwig van Beethoven's "Razumovsky" quartets.
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United States 01 March 1981
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15 October 1981
In 1979, a group of college students find a Sumerian Book of the Dead in an old wilderness cabin they've rented for a weekend getaway.
31 December 1981
The found-footage collage was overlaid with a psychologist expounding on sex offenders, analog video effects, edgy graphics, and a new wave score by the band Human Sexual Response.
01 January 1981
Celia Berni is facing the possibility of receiving an inheritance and is forced pretend to be a virtue.
28 March 1981
James Levine leads a remarkable cast in one of Verdi’s most enduringly popular operas and brings fresh insights to this beloved score.
22 January 1981
Many films have received almost no audience response at the time of their release in cinemas - this one is one of them.
16 October 1981
Due to her parents' divorce, a young lady named Judy begins to doubt herself and love in general as her wedding day approaches.
10 December 1981
A schoolgirl and her older girlfriend seduce the teacher in order to improve their grades.
21 June 1981
A small-time gofer gets his dream car while running hush money for his boss's counterfeit empire, picks up a jilted singer at the airport along the way, and ends up the last man standing in everyone's love life but his own.
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