All Films

Taylor Square

1980 • 19 min • Australia

“I lived in Darlinghurst [central Sydney] at the time. The hustle and the bustle of that section of the city intrigued me. I used a hectic camera, grainy newsreel film, a 75mm lens and a long matte box to create four intersecting segments…a degraded symphony of the city. Building facades, people and traffic variously interlocking and going their separate ways, across the grid of the Square.” (Paul Winkler)

Glo-Babel

1980 • 4 min • Sweden

Olle Hedman's interpretation of Åke Karlung's “Globabels torn” at the Modern Museum 1979. (Filmform)

Light Cavalry Girl

1980 • 9 min

a Chinese documentary about female motorcyclists

Twilight Journey

1980 • 12 min

A psychedelic combination of live action and animation in the spirit of Dungeons & Dragons.

The Chance

1980 • 8 min • Poland

The man drinks a cup of tea and taps the rhythm with his fingers. The insight into his thoughts shows the image of an airplane pilot who parachutes to tropical islands. He spends his life on fantasizing.

Malangan Labadama: A Tribute to Buk-Buk

1980 • 58 min • Papua New Guinea

For the people of Mandak region, New Ireland,the most dramatic and complex ceremonial events are those surrounding death. The creation and presentation of the Malangan Labadama with its carved figures, masked dancers and feasting is the final tribute by three brothers to a deceased clansman and former leader.

Le Sibille

1980 • 25 min • Italy

The seer speaks and evokes a journey into space. The journey is to Cuma and in Cuma there were the Sibyls...were there? There are! A ritual to open the past, to denounce the historical violence suffered by the Women/Sybils and their territory: Cuma, Naples.

キオク

1980 • 4 min • Japan

Floresta da Tijuca

1980 • 8 min • Brazil

The history of reforestation that took place in the mid-19th century, on the top of Tijuca. With the clearing of the primitive forest to plant coffee plantations, the springs in the region dried up and affected the water supply of the city of Rio de Janeiro. Correcting the ecological imbalance, Emperor Pedro II expropriated the local farms and appointed Manuel Gomes Archer for the task.

Memories of Nijinsky

1980 • 25 min • Soviet Union

A valuable testimony that approaches the essence of Nijinsky who did not leave a video. Boris Kochno, who was at the center of Russian ballet, vividly tells how Nijinsky, who had fallen ill, witnessed his newly choreographed self-made work. Nijinsky's successor machine is a rare record of transferring Nijinsky's appearance in the popular work "Afternoon of a Faun" to two great dancers, Grigorowich and Wasiriev, who carry Bolshoi ballet on their backs.

Triptych

1980 • 22 min

A casting up off of hands ironically employs a composition of renunciation. "Foregone Conclusion" for the dame the world as butterfly is perceived "Edit Synch" for the little boy down the land as crystal abstracted "Concluding Cone" and as rainbow trout for the master pondered. Hand made sound, hand made and lens-captured images. "Golly, I'm glad I'm not your girlfriend." - Friend of a friend upon viewing TRIPTYCH

Minnesota Landscapes

1980 • 59 min • United States of America

Produced by the National Endowment for the Arts, along with the Jerome Foundation, this showcase is hour-long collection of shorts from six prominent video artists, all commissioned to the state of Minnesota.

What Is Poetry to You?

1980 • 23 min • Colombia

Cecilia Vicuña made her first documentary while residing in Colombia after the 1973 coup d’état in Chile. Through this fundamental inquiry: ¿Qué es para usted la poesía? / What is poetry to you?, Vicuña unravels the role and substance of poetry in people’s lives. Speaking with school children, street performers, policemen, sex workers, fellow artists, and a scientist, the all embracing character of poetry emerges—its transformative role in personal relations, as a basis of oral history and the revolutionary imagination. – Chris Borkowski

Challenge of the Occult: Teen Satanism

1980 • 36 min

At one time a Spiritualist Medium, Ben Alexander now travels world-wide to expose everyone to the real and seductive dangers of the spirit world. Ben has traveled millions of miles to spread the Good News of Jesus Christ and to alert his audiences to the clear teachings of the Bible regarding occultic practices. Now you can bring Ben's 3 day seminar message right into your home with his video series. Satan Exposed!

Cỗ Máy Bên Đường

1980 • 9 min

A biker discovered a strange machine in a box abandoned on the side of the road. After that, he had a shockingly unforgettable night.

Sandwich

1980 • 7 min • Italy

Italian comedy about a man on a bicycle outing who constructs a monumental sandwich for his lunch. The sandwich lurches out of his hands and leads him on a wild romp through the countryside. He finally catches up with it, high on a mountain top. The surprise ending reveals that the joke is really on him

One Way Street

1980 • 12 min • Canada

Alcoholism is the subject of this animated film. Stark line drawings portray the vicious cycle of drinking and family break-up, as the head of a family drinks to forget the drudgery of his life. The consequences are disastrous. A film without words in which images speak volumes.

恋のそよ風

1980 • 9 min • Japan

An omnibus film in which Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Yoshiharu Ueoka and others took part.

When Barriers Disappear

1980 • 29 min • Soviet Union

The problem of barriers has come close to all aspects of human life. We guide people towards talent, towards their maximum potential, and indeed, a person can do anything—there is no limit here, we haven’t found a limit. But they don’t know how... rather, they think they don’t know how. In reality, it’s nothing like that—it’s a typical adaptation process, like when we step into bright light and can’t see anything. What do we do? On one hand, we create an information environment that is as saturated as possible with information, and on the other hand, we teach people to feel at home in this environment, like a fish in water.

A is for Atom, B is for Bomb

1980 • 60 min

NOVA profiles Dr. Edward Teller, the "Father of the Hydrogen Bomb," an acclaimed scientific genius and brilliant theoretician, and a man considered by some the most dangerous scientist in the United States.

Radio Haïti-Inter: Straight to the Point

1980 • 14 min • Haiti

1980: the repression is in full swing in Haiti. A decree is going to ban all independent speaking and all manifestation of thought. Artists, writers, journalists, democrats all pay the price. A radio station, Haiti Inter, and its journalists are at the center of the storm. This film reconstructs a typical broadcast of Haiti Inter in the 1980s.

Canada Vignettes: Angel of Death

1980 • 2 min

A vignette about a 1912 fly-swatting contest organized by The Toronto Daily Star to draw attention to the danger posed to public health by flies. Through archival photographs and newspaper headlines the highlights of the contest are reviewed in a light, humorous manner. The winner, a determined young lady named Beatrice White, killed over 500 000 flies during the six-week contest and was dubbed the "Angel of Death" by the paper.

Geometry of Circles

1980 • 3 min • United States of America

A short animated film consisting of the movement of six circles (each with a different colour of the rainbow) that are formed by and split up into various geometric patterns.

Eat Shit

1980 • 2 min

16mm experimental short film.