Movie Trailers - January 1981

Good Night Fred Trailer (1981)

01 January 1981

A group of school teachers, lost in a metropolitan area and the coldness of living in it, tries to find their own social status and identity.

Beyond the Laxative, the Exploding Kindergarten Trailer (1981)

01 January 1981

Experimental film by Harumi Fujii.

Monológy Tomáša N. Trailer (1981)

01 January 1981

Cadru cu cadru Trailer (1981)

01 January 1981

A Thousand and One Tricks Trailer (1981)

01 January 1981

The king goes out onto the streets of his kingdom to find out how his people feel about him.

Salve Trailer (1981)

01 January 1981

"There's a paradox at the center of Couzin's work, in that for all of the wariness of form and order her films express, they remain tightly organized, elegant formal studies.

Nenechte se rušit Trailer (1981)

01 January 1981

Repairing the risers means dug-up bathrooms, toilets, kitchens – in short, a house without water. Tenants who were strangers just a few days ago are, for completely understandable reasons, forced to live together, which in itself brings many unexpected situations and plots.

Raps and Chants, Part I Trailer (1981)

01 January 1981

John Broderick recounts a bad LSD trip.

Old Frypan Trailer (1981)

01 January 1981

An old frying pan accidentally gets tossed out and ends up encountering many animals in his journey.

Grover Washington Jr. | Live from Philadelphia Trailer (1981)

01 January 1981

Multi Grammy Award-Winner Grover Washington, Jr. blends the best of jazz fusion, R&B, blues, funk, pop and soul to create his own innovative and distinctive musical voice.

Ice Break Trailer (1981)

01 January 1981

Documentary about a martial artist in London.

Verbotene Früchte Trailer (1981)

01 January 1981

Short educational film about plants.

Other Bottles Trailer (1981)

01 January 1981

Another series of short stories about bottles.

Well, Just You Wait! TV Special 3 Trailer (1981)

01 January 1981

Living in the Sahara Trailer (1981)

01 January 1981

This documentary goes back to the origins of the conflict in Western Sahara. The reasons for the Moroccan occupation of this vast territory are economic: the region has mineral (phosphate, uranium, iron) and fishing resources.

Prefaces Trailer (1981)

01 January 1981

Prefaces is composed of wild sounds constructed along entropic lines, placed tensely beside bebop rhythms, and a resurfacing narrative cut from a dialogue with poet Hannah Weiner.

Shopping Bag Spirits and Freeway Fetishes: Reflections on Ritual Space Trailer (1981)

01 January 1981

Shopping Bag, Spirits and Freeway Fetishes: Reflections on Ritual Space explores nine Los Angeles based artists reflecting on ritual in their life and art.

Semblance: Frampton Brakhage Relation Trailer (1981)

01 January 1981

“A simplistic analogy of obvious disparities between these two masters that I concocted on the beach in Provincetown.

Born Out of Death Trailer (1981)

01 January 1981

The West-German director Monica Maurer made a number of important films for the PLO. The Israeli airstrikes against Beirut on 17 July 1981 killed 350 people, including a pregnant woman whose baby could be rescued from her torn-up womb.

Plexi Radar Trailer (1981)

01 January 1981

Plexi Radar is the act of filming a gyrating motion of a circular plexiglas sculpture, which is then looped by a computer.

Services: b) Lost and Found Office of the German Reichsbahn Trailer (1981)

01 January 1981

The documentary provides a factual look at the lost and found services of the Deutsche Reichsbahn (the GDR state railway).

Adieu Philippines Trailer (1981)

01 January 1981

Shot during Deocampo’s year as a scholar in France under Atelier du Formacion Au Cinema Direct. His first documentary provides a glimpse of three Filipino painters residing in Europe: Nena Saguil, Macario Vitalis, and Ofelia Gelvezon-Tequi.

The Circle Trailer (1981)

01 January 1981

The life cycle of a man from childhood to death.

Eagle Fist Trailer (1981)

01 January 1981

Captain Lau Si Chung (Chi Kuan Chun), realizes his kung fu isn't that good when he gets beaten by a weird old man (Cheng Kei Ying).

Gridrose Trailer (1981)

01 January 1981

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

Samogłoska Trailer (1981)

01 January 1981

People carrying boards with the letter L unite with people carrying banners with the letter F. The vowel E is formed.

In Stride Trailer (1981)

01 January 1981

In adjusting to farm ways, a city boy who has come to visit his grandfather learns to understand the older man.

Mémoire en blanc Trailer (1981)

01 January 1981

Accidentul Trailer (1981)

01 January 1981

Piruetas Metafóricas Trailer (1981)

01 January 1981

Myria Trailer (1981)

01 January 1981

Arequipa Trailer (1981)

01 January 1981

“Shot in the Peruvian convent of Santa Catalina, AREQUIPA analogizes the building blocks of film (frames, color and black and white stocks, negative reversal, superimpositions) to the frames of architecture (doorways, windows, walls, corridors).

Ål i karry Trailer (1981)

04 January 1981

All the Colors Trailer (1981)

01 January 1981

Arthur in the Countryside Trailer (1981)

01 January 1981

Freek de Jonge: De Tragiek Trailer (1981)

01 January 1981

The second solo performance by the Dutch comedian Freek de Jonge.

Ikuska 10: Kontrasteak Trailer (1981)

01 January 1981

Documentary on the rural world and the city in the Basque Country.

Force Five : Danguard Ace Trailer (1981)

01 January 1981

Compilation film by Jim Terry "Heroic young fighter pilot. Winstar, is put to a test of courage and skill when he must combat the evil forces of Komisar Krel, an insane invader, who wants to ex-ploit the planet Promete for his own fiendish thrills.

Rainbow Trailer (1981)

01 January 1981

A black and white scenery is coloured in one after another by several crayons in a short animation, all explained by a female voiceover.

Land Makar Trailer (1981)

01 January 1981

"This is a landscape study of an Orkney croft, with the figure of the crofter, Mary Graham Sinclair, very much in the picture.

More Smokes Less Lollies Trailer (1981)

01 January 1981

Three young women in Adelaide, Australia, reflect on their past and futures. This is a shorter version of Fourteen's Good, Eighteen's Better, created for educational use.

Ana Mendieta: Selected Performance Works (1973-1981) Trailer (1981)

01 January 1981

1. Sweating Blood, November 1973 2. Blood Writing, February 1974 3. Body Tracks, March 1974 4. Burial Pyramid, Summer 1974 5.

Meta Mayan Trailer (1981)

01 January 1981

Filmed in the Guatemalan Highlands during a 1980 journey, Edín Vélez’s experimental video essay offers a lyrical portrait of Mayan life.

Morfas Trailer (1981)

01 January 1981

Light Journals Trailer (1981)

01 January 1981

"A series of catalogs of light, "light journals" if you will, dealing with everyday, ordinary realities in such a way that the surrounding light becomes tactile and intimately expressive.

Force Five : Gaiking Trailer (1981)

01 January 1981

Compilation film by Jim Terry based on Daikyu Maru Gaiking "The most spectacular tale of space adventure ever told.

Contours Trailer (1981)

01 January 1981

A study on a New Year's theme.

30000 Leagues in Search of Mother Trailer (1981)

05 January 1981

Little Juno sets out in search of his sick mother who has left home to work overseas.

Help, I’m a Woman! Trailer (1981)

01 January 1981

A creative and skilful montage as well as dramatically spot-on sound and music effects are combined in a snappy plot to offer a mordant commentary on the constitutionally enshrined equality of men and women in the GDR.