All Films

The Magic Chamois

1980 • 17 min • Soviet Union

Based on an Uzbek folk tale about how a magical chamois helped poor Hassan become rich. However, his wealth makes him cruel and greedy.…

Na Bahia Ninguém Fica em Pé

1980 • 20 min

Censura Livre

1980 • 28 min • Brazil

The New City

1980 • 10 min

Short documentary film on the construction of the new town, Marne-la-Vallée.

Sincerely

1980 • 14 min

A film about a woman's choice whether or not to have children and state funding of abortion.

Quilts in Women's Lives

1980 • 28 min

A series of first-person portraits of seven quilt makers, including a Mennonite, a Bulgarian immigrant, an African-American, and two midwestern sisters. They provide insights into the inspiration for their work and reveal their passion and love for an art form that reflects their values and philosophy of life.

Wall Street

1980 • 6 min • United States of America

Shot at high noon in New York’s financial district, Wallstreet is much like a vertical tickertape, charting the existence of typical office workers. The film’s elongated shadows suggest these workers’ depersonalized, neuter, nearly uniform lives, which flow by without any solid or stable element that might provide definition.

Friday Fried

1980 • 17 min • United Kingdom

Friday Fried mixes sound images in a strictly procedural manner based upon a relationship with the picture track which itself is structured around a sequence of 16 slide images. Four voices narrate a series of descriptions which refer to the visual detail in the picture whilst also cross-narrating with one another. During the construction of the soundtrack 12 different sources were combined without alteration to balance, tone etc. throughout the film’s 15 minute duration.

The Nine O’Clock Gun

1980 • 8 min • Canada

Real time is an oxymoron. The film presents one firing of Vancouver's famous gun; an event that attracts an audience visible on screen unlike the audience watching the film; ourselves. Our experience of time in our innermost self is unlike our experience of space or mass yet nothing in physics corresponds to the passage of time. How can something we experience as so real be based on an illusion. Norfolk, Virginia also has a Nine O'clock Gun.

Rusting World

1980 • 6 min • Canada

An allegorical film about the human condition with images that are similar to the art of Kandinsky or Klee and, closely combining surrealism and abstraction, prefigure a world that is becoming decline.

Second Thoughts

1980 • 18 min

GHOST DANCE LOTS OF FLARES THE BODY OF A WOMAN identified as lies under a blanket on fogs of san fran. small bits – J. K.

Wind & Water

1980 • 3 min • United Kingdom

Untitled: Silueta Series (Gunpowder Works)

1980 • 4 min

United States 1980, Super 8 transferred to digital, colour, silent, 4 min

Jesper

1980 • 13 min • Germany

Learning to see our surroundings

A Touch of Venus

1980 • 8 min • France

Fatehpur Sikri

1980 • 9 min • Germany

Not to See Again

1980 • 14 min • United Kingdom

Misrecognitions and simulacra. An anti-montage film: a series of discrete shots that nevertheless gel at one or two points to produce simple meanings. Hovering on the line between abstraction and representation, the film hopes to problematize them both. According to Peter Gidal, “the abstract quality (never total, for the objects are always recognizable as objects) helps Hamlyn to negotiate sexual imagery as it occurs in the film by rendering those images relatively abstract and on a par with other objects depicted. The effect is to drain the image [of the naked body] of its conventional sexual meanings and associations (with pornography, for instance) and instead neutralize it almost.”

Returning

1980 • 7 min • United Kingdom

Looking outside and looking back in the same moment; the collision of memory and reluctance. In Returning Susan Stein achieves a simultaneous sense of identification and displacement by filming from the ‘inside out’ – a subjective camera places us inside a house, behind a door, peering through blinds – and from the ‘outside in’ through a voice-over whose broken streams of memory describes ‘her’: “Fragments – she arranged them as moments to be watched.” Filmed in black and white, it is though we were invited into the shadowy area of our own fragmentation, our own sense of stopping and starting.

South Africa Belongs to Us

1980 • 55 min

The story of the lives of five ordinary black South African women living under the apartheid system, secretly shot with the help of journalist Nomavenda Mathiane, also featuring interviews with Fatima Meer and for the first time, Winnie Mandela

zoku-SHINPU

1980 • 3 min • Japan

Erotic Trilogy

1980 • 13 min • United States of America

Costumed Capers...Fetish and Fantasy...Punk Pleasure...a must for those who enjoy erotic humor.

Urban Spaces

1980 • 27 min • Australia

“A totally artificial city created entirely in camera. There is virtually no sky…just a city gone mad and town planning berserk. Crazy angles created by a tilted camera are mirrored and enhanced by dutifully askew mattes which mock the architectural logic of urban space. Shadows and wind generated by the city’s structures defy pedestrians as the soundtrack (an insistent sine-wave) aggravates and reverberates off heavy geometric facades.” (Paul Winkler)

Time 2

1980 • 3 min • Yugoslavia

A recording of a clock ticking for 3 minutes.

Suddenly Once More

1980 • 2 min

The multiple identities of Professor Anatole Lacoste.