All Films

The Loner

1980 • 30 min

The Loner is a psychosexual journey through the dark landscapes of Oursler's insular narrative universe. The tape's paranoid, tormented protagonist — who is represented by such objects as a spoon and a water-filled sack — wanders through a hostile dreamspace of macabre obsessions and sexual alienation. Incredibly, Oursler renders this unlikely anti-hero as a sympathetic, totally believable "character." The artist's somnambulant, pun-laden narration and astonishing visual inventiveness add black humor to the surreal proceedings; for example, a bar scene is populated by an outrageous "cast" of found-object grotesques. Oursler's classic happy ending, in which The Loner "would live a wonderful life," rings with an ironic desperation.

Layer of Destruction

1980 • 32 min • Greece

In 1972, to provide Athens with water, a bold project began, involving the creation of an artificial lake from the water of Mornos River, leading, however, to the destruction of the Velouchovo village, and the ancient town of Kallipolis.

Hand

1980 • 10 min • Yugoslavia, Netherlands

The life energy, which guides man through life, is metaphorically represented through a hand. With the end of the life of the hand, the human dies.

Face to Face

1980 • 3 min • United Kingdom

Using a smudge-and-click pastel animation technique, traces the history of a life from cradle to grave.

Vah!

1980 • 15 min • Soviet Union

The comedy mocks the vestiges of the past, which sometimes exist among educated people with kind, sympathetic and generous hearts.

Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland Pilot 1

1980 • 8 min • Japan

The first of three pilot shorts that eventually became the 1989 movie Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland.

In One Blinding Moment

1980 • 18 min • United States of America

A boy is tragically killed in a car accident. Will his father transform into a vengeful monster, or a forgiving wise man?

Ikuska 5: Elebistasuna

1980 • 11 min • Spain

Study on the situation of Basque language compared to Spanish.

I Want to Be Violated!

1980 • 60 min • Japan

A newspaper reporter takes pictures of famous people cheating on their wives in his secret business, and uses them to blackmail them for a lot of money. He rents an apartment in Tokyo with the money and keeps a mistress. One day, the man's wife is raped while alone at home. The wife cannot tell her husband about it. The man goes to a university professor as usual to ask for money, but is confronted with a photo of his wife being raped. If he doesn't want this to be spread to the world, he should never do this again. Meanwhile, the wife, feeling lonely because her husband doesn't pay her attention, accepts the rapist two or three times, and eventually they fall in love with each other...

Durga

1980 • 10 min • India

A 1980 Documentary on Durga Puja by National Film Development Corporation (NFDC).

Un Relatif Horaire

1980 • 2 min

The moon in the night sky chases us wherever we go. The moon is in fact moving, but it is too far away and its movement is too slow for the human eye to see its movement. It is almost the same as saying that it is not moving in our consciousness.

Roman Numeral: IV

1980 • 3 min

It was while studying this film that I decided to group these ‘romans’ under the title Roman Numeral Series and to give up the term ‘imagnostic’ altogether… also to dedicate the series to Don Yannacito who had seen something ‘concrete’ and even narratively dramatic in is this work. The term deja vu comes to mind each time I view this film – this, then, somehow the echoing of the birth of imagery. – S.B.

Ein gewisser Agathopulus

1980 • 13 min • East Germany

Agathopulus loves his luxurious life. He does not want to be bothered with helping to rebuild a destroyed city. Instead, he invents machines and rationalizes the work flow. Although he is celebrated as a hero against his will, he has to escape.

Transmogrification

1980 • 9 min • United Kingdom

A short film about the assumption of roles. A voice-over offers a long list of synonyms for transformation: change, modulation, shift, turn, mutation… Two girls are transformed into 18th century young ladies by putting on dresses. A performer, Alexei Sayle, gets ready for and then goes into his routine. Made, like many of Anne Rees-Mogg’s films, in the Rees-Mogg family home in Somerset, Transmogrification features her nieces and nephews Charlotte, Emma, Thomas and Jacob.

Achtung Kinder Pumm

1980 • 3 min • Switzerland

Diversion ...

1980 • 40 min

This short film was the basis for the hit film Fatal Attraction

The Wedding

1980 • 29 min • Soviet Union

An elderly man saves the life of an alien who is capable of time travel. They go back in time to the man's wedding day.

Children of the Wind

1980 • 60 min • France, Algeria

Three short films about abandoned children, left to the omnipotence of silence, of the eye and of the hand but also of abysmal loneliness

The Obsession of Billy Botski

1980 • 24 min

A young man meets his obsession, a ghostly '60's Playboy-bunny styled "Connie," and is never the same!

Who Will Comfort Toffle?

1980 • 25 min • Sweden

This short animation film is based on a Tove Jansson picture book. It tells of the little knytt (“knytt” is a non-existing word signifying something tiny like a crumb) who is ever so lonely, but so shy that he is afraid to approach others. The story follows the trials and tribulations of the little knytt and how he finally finds company.

Self-identification

1980 • 1 min

Self-Identification is a performance show which accompanied a series of photo montage films shown in the Small Gallery. Ewa Partum, therein, presents herself naked in public places in Warsaw. During the show she goes out from the exhibition space into the city, where nearby the Wedding Palace she met a bride. In this manner she confronted the institution of marriage determining one of the core elements of femininity seen as a paradigm of personality made up by patriarchal culture

La fièvre du castor

1980 • 27 min • Canada

This lively satire uses animation and a pseudo-documentary style to depict Canada's search for a national identity. The National Scream explains, amongst other elements of Canadiana, how and why the beaver became the country's symbol.

Une Succession Intermittente

1980 • 2 min

Even if you watch it all day long, the human eye cannot see the movement of the clouds. In that sense, it can be said that interval shooting in movies has expanded human vision itself. Just as the invention of photography captures momentary movement, cinema presents a world that seems to compress real time. Interval shooting is normally used only in science films and the like. In this work, such changes were captured at intervals of a few seconds, rather than frame-by-frame. Without a timer or anything, I set the camera on a tripod in my room, sat down on a chair beside me, and pressed the release bit by bit, entirely manually from before dawn until the sun went down.

De gamle

1980 • 32 min

Henning Carlsen's cinéma vérité trilogy on life and relationships begins with a portrait of elderly people in Denmark.