1981 Movies

This film is the achievement of a process initiated by a fascination with the split movement images Eadweard Muybridge made in the 1870's and 80's. It...

Video-tape documentary program about the First Latin American and Caribbean Feminist Meeting that took place in Bogotá in July 1981. The documentary i...

Shot in the Guatemalan Highlands, Meta Mayan II is a keenly observed, poetic video essay on the indigenous culture of the Mayans. Velez's vision is in...

With warmth and humour, Gay Hawley proposes ways in which feminist media might look at the realities of being a lesbian mother in an anti-lesbian soci...

The images from the landing of the first expedition of the spaceship Columbia are juxtaposed to a reflection on the function of the visual medium, and...

This colourful stop-motion animation utilises Essendon Airport drummer Paul Fletcher's collection of dolls and nick-nacks.

The film depicts maidservants in Pune, who work ‘purdah style’ in the isolation of home. It looks at piece work home labour, with long hours and low w...

Based in Stockholm Abelli Elander has been working as an artist since the 1970's. Her early works focus on contemporary gender issues, through a surre...

Gay women from different generations discuss their experiences in this revealing TV documentary.

Kauhava master craftsman Kustaa Lammi makes a traditional Finnish puukko knife.

""Southcote Road" was originally shot in super-8 with an intervalometer set to capture images at 1 fps. It was then blown up to 16mm and projected at...

This edition of LWT’s pioneering 1980s TV series looks at gay experience 50 years earlier.

An overprotective mother frets over her son's desire to learn to swim.

Recorded at the Roxy Theatre, 7 June 1981