All Films

Board and Care

1980 • 27 min

Board and Care is a 1979 American short film directed by Ron Ellis and starring Richard Goss and Laura Jean Ellis. It won an Oscar at the 52nd Academy Awards in 1980 for Best Short Subject.

Out of Hand

1980 • 30 min

“OUT OF HAND is a search film, where a small boy returns to a house that is being evacuated, to search for something that he left behind. His method is to follow hidden clues in this house and to respond to the hidden aids in his memory. Back and forth, between inquisition and logic, he constructs a search with two unknowns – ‘What it is’ and ‘Where it is’. Each object he chooses has multiple functions, which extend both into the physical space of his search, and into the imaginary world of his perception and memory.” E.B. 1980

On Land, at Sea and in the Air

1980 • 10 min • Netherlands

Short animation telling three stories - of a man at home, a boat at sea and a bird. All three are seen simultaneously via a split screen and occasionally coincide.

Strip Tease

1980 • 24 min • Canada

The catalyst for this unusual documentary, which took the Silver Plaque at the 1980 Chicago Film Festival, was the attempt by Toronto striptease artists to form a union. The film is structured around the strippers themselves, as they speak directly to the camera about their attitude toward striptease, as work.

Akairo

1980 • 18 min • Soviet Union

The plot is based on a Japanese folk tale. A wanderer cures a boy by making him a paper toy.

The Bengali Night

1980 • 6 min • Argentina

“ Cinema is what happens between frames," said German experimental filmmaker Werner Nekes. A woman and a man are on the ground together but it looks as though they are floating without moving. Silence overruns the scene; she stops and walks away. La Noche Bengalí is a documentary made as part of the seminar that Wernes Nekes held in Buenos Aires in 1980, sponsored by the Goethe Institute.

Mr. Bill Looks Back

1980 • 30 min • United States of America

A collection of skits featuring the characters from the "Saturday Night Live" TV show of Mr. Bill and his dog Spot, as they are tormented, abused and eventually flattened by the evil Sluggo and Mr. Hand.

Living Memory

1980 • 39 min • United Kingdom

My intention was to explore the landscape where I spent my early life, and to some extent the people who helped me to inhabit it. So I started by flying over this landscape and was filmed while doing so. My new view of a place with which I am very familiar is an important aspect of the film.

Salandar

1980 • 33 min • Iran

The Mongol invasion of Iran leaves the country devastated but the people fight for their right in their own way.

S.p.l.a.s.h.

1980 • 13 min • Canada

This fast-paced and entertaining animated film is about water and the demands placed on our waterways by agriculture, industry, and urban life. An army of droplets, led by The Chief, shows what happens to water from the time it falls as rain until it reaches its destination.

Dreams and Light

1980 • 10 min • France

Peter Morin' show, deliberately narrative, fantastical and symbolic, was calling for a cinematic transposition in which objects, actions, gestures, without losing anything from their power, would be used differently, liberated from real time, linearity, theatrical space. The use of cinematic language (i.e. numerous framings, dark and light opposition, camera motion, superimpositions, different rhythms at the editing) permitted this transposition.

Mirrored Reason

1980 • 9 min • United States of America

A Kafka-inspired tale, Mirrored Reason tells the story of a woman who is haunted and eventually replaced by her double.

Symphonie

1980 • 33 min • Belgium

Symphonie mixes fiction with reality. The author, Romain Schneid, tells the story of his own claustrophobia in front of the camera when, when he was 12 years old, hiding as a Jew during the German occupation, he could not leave a tiny apartment. He tells and he plays alone all the characters in his drama. He invents, deforms, imagines another end. He is at the same time the author, the narrator and the actor (the actors). Did he really experience what he's talking about, or did all that happen in his head? Are we facing a testimony or a delusion?

Maternal Filigree

1980 • 18 min

An exploration of life in the female body.

Souvenirs/Paris

1980 • 29 min • France

Fugitive images of old Paris neighborhoods.

Narrows Inlet

1980 • 8 min • Canada

Starting with a boat swaying on its anchor at the head of an inlet, a landscape of pilings, shore, and forest is slowly revealed by time-lapse photography as the morning fog lifts. While the deep space of the landscape evolves out of the fog-enshrouded flatness of early morning, the camera skips from fixed point to fixed point - suggesting the motion of the human eye while reading.

Washing Walls With Mrs. G

1980 • 5 min • United States of America

Tony Buba trains his documentary lens on the washing of his 87-year-old grandmother’s kitchen walls, an annual ritual. While the filmmaker works diligently and mostly out of sight of the camera, his grandmother anchors the piece, recounting stories of her immigration from Italy in the 1940s, her first impressions of the United States, and her endearing love of Braddock.

Experiments in Three-Colour Separation

1980 • 21 min • Australia

A documentary involving the work done by Arthur and Corinne Cantrill since 1975 in 3-colour separation. Also discussed are the classic theories and principles in 3-colour separation in film and photography.

Soothing the Bruise

1980 • 21 min • United States of America

“A subjective assault, a kind of found cinema, in which the pieces of existence, the pablum pop of Top 40 radio, mix effortlessly with thermonuclear techno-jargon, and stoned-out kids camping around in the buff co-exist in a restless uneasy mix with Times Square strip shows, neon effluvia, lugubrious country-western ballads and Bromberg’s own visceral polemics.” –Brian Lambert, TWIN CITIES READER

Le Deal mexicain

1980 • 50 min • Canada

Documentary

Der Bund Deutscher Mädel

1980 • 45 min • Germany

German League of Girls in the Hitler Youth movement. By age 10, all German girls were required to join the BDM. The BDM was the female organization under the Hitler Youth. At age 17 the girls could join the Belief and Beauty movement within the BDM. The primary focus of both movements was special training to become good wives mothers and homemakers. They learned cooking, sewing, child care . They learned all about Germany's leader Adolf Hitler and Nazism. My mother grew up in Nazi Germany and her stories about the BDM were very interesting. The children were not involved in the atrocities that occurred.

The Outcasts: Self-Conscious Over You

1980 • 40 min

Organised by Terri Hooley's Good Vibration Records, this legendary gig found almost 1800 people cramming into The Ulster Hall to see local band The Outcasts. The events depicted here were later immortalised in the 2013 film Good Vibrations. The final part of documentary filmmaker John T. Davis 'punk trilogy' – preceded by Shellshock Rock (1979) and Protex Hurrah (1980). These films sought to portray the leading figures of Ulster’s underground punk scene of the late-1970s and early 1980s.

Going Places

1980 • 9 min • United States of America

Joann Elam captures urban residents on the go in various seasons. The film begins in winter, as JoAnn captures sleepy neighborhood scenes from her snowy Logan Square windowsill. This is followed by manipulated summer scenes of a fast paced marathon. Through light flares and in-camera editing, marathon runners deconstruct into colorful forms.

Eine vo dene

1980 • 36 min • Switzerland

Bern, 1980: A caleidoscopic portrait of Swiss urban life in the early 1980s.