All Films

Snuden 3 - Snuden vender hjem

1980 • 18 min • Denmark

Snuden decides to leave the big city and return to his green bog.

Estuary

1980 • 55 min • United Kingdom

Estuary was made during the three weeks between December 17th 1979 and January 6th 1980. The film was shot from a small cabin boat moored near the mouth of the Keyhaven river. This is a place known to me since my childhood and the location for several paintings, films and photographic pieces. The camera was fixed relative to the motion of the boat as it responded to the action of wind and tide. This resulted in an intermittent scanning of 360 degrees about the central axis provided by the mooring, and a periodic vertical motion of about eight feet due to the rise and fall of the tide. A four second section of the film was exposed every fifteen minutes between dawn and dusk.

Aagaman

1980 • 20 min • India

To the city come men, women, fruits, flowers, vegetables, goats and sheep – all ready for consumption. It is the process of consumption/exploitation that forms the core of the film.

Sweet Love Remembered

1980 • 14 min • Canada

Inspired by remarks made by Freud, "Eros nowhere makes its intentions more clear than in the desire to make two things one." and by Nietzsche, "What must these people have suffered to have become this beautiful."

A General Has Been Taken Prisoner

1980 • 52 min • Albania

During the summer a two groups of children are spending time playing a war game.

Kurash

1980 • 10 min • Soviet Union

How a grandfather helped his grandson in the folk wrestling "Kurash".

Trace

1980 • 1 min • Canada

The memory of a nearly perfect evening.

Last Afternoon

1980 • 5 min

Short parody of black film whose male hero meets a mysterious lady who turns out to be his destiny, of course. Unlike black film, where action defines structure, here the actions of the characters are more enigmatic because they are subject to the filmic structure. Décor: the "Trou" des Halles, the passage Molière, the rue aux Ours, the square des Blancs-Manteaux.

Roman Numeral: IX

1980 • 3 min

This is the most absolute. – S.B.

No. 19

1980 • 13 min

Film No. 19 US, 1980, 35mm, 12.5 min.

Buckeye and Pinto

1980 • 29 min

In a parody of traditional westerns and with subtexts galore, two cowpokes, Buckeye and Pinto, ride the range in the good ole United States of Australia.

Au cœur du cristal

1980 • 19 min • France

The song composed by the author modulates the phases of the film and constitutes, in its entirety, the specific form of a call.

Old Wolf Treat

1980 • 10 min • China

A fox manipulates a bear and a wolf to steal their food, framing each to the other.

Two Figures

1980 • 25 min • United States of America

Uncle Dave Macon

1980 • 58 min

Uncle Dave Macon, also known as "The Dixie Dewdrop"—was an American old-time banjo player, singer, songwriter, and comedian. Known for his chin whiskers, plug hat, gold teeth, and gates-ajar collar, he gained regional fame as a vaudeville performer in the early 1920s before becoming the first star of the Grand Ole Opry in the latter half of the decade.

Conversation with a Queen

1980 • 21 min • Soviet Union

A cinematic portrait of the actress and performer Vija Armane.

Salome

1980 • 3 min • United States of America

Portrait of the great chess master, aesthetician, human being, Eugene Salome.

Freedom's Skyway

1980 • 4 min • United States of America

July 5, 1980. Summertime, San Francisco's Chinatown. A gang of Chinese firework dealers dispose of their unsold goods to the glory of emulsified film. Negative explosions give way to the gateway of reversal images. This film utilizes high speed negative film to enhance grain and image deterioration. Must be projected at silent speed.

Warrah

1980 • 15 min • Australia

Three-color separation imagery expands the experimental documentation of landscape. Alternating nuances of color conjure up; a formal beauty, which are echoed in birdsong and the buzzing of insects.

Iran, Utopia in the Making

1980 • 60 min • France

The Iranian revolution leads to the Shah’s downfall and installation of the Islamic Republic. Avoiding the more sensational elements of the news this film questions Iranian society as a whole to try to understand what this wave of change means for the Muslim world.

Los hieleros del Chimborazo

1980 • 22 min • Ecuador

Since colonial times, the indigenous people of the Andean mountains have ascended to peaks that reach 5,200 meters above sea level. There, they crush gigantic blocks of ice that carry on their backs to sell them later in the fairs of Riobamba and Guaranda. The film shows the living conditions of the communities that live from this activity.

One Way Walk

1980 • 18 min • Italy

Experimental film from visual artist Cioni Carpi, shot in 16mm in b/w. One Way Walk concerns “the global effort of man … to exercise a condition, the meaning of which escapes him completely.”

Musikalische Arabesken: Träumerei

1980 • 3 min • East Germany, Germany

The animator uses expressionistic drawings for a filmic adaptation of Robert Schumann’s delightful and famous piece Dreaming, the composer’s well-known piece from Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood).

L'hydravion et Le Peintre

1980 • 6 min

Road traffic was intense at this location. Sometimes the roar of the engines declined in the distance, but never for very long and the passage of the new line of cars and coaches was accompanied by large air displacements, which hit the eardrums hard.