All Films

Ryoujutsu Ritual

1980 • 59 min • Japan

Pink film from Toei Central.

Vacations in Prostokvashino

1980 • 18 min • Soviet Union

The continuation of the adventures of Fyodor and his friends from the Prostokvashino village.

Lake Placid '80

1980 • 4 min

Paik produced this exuberant, high-speed collage as a commission for the National Fine Arts Committee of the 1980 Olympic Winter Games. In a fractured explosion of densely layered movement and action, images of Olympic sports events are mixed with Paik’s recurring visual and audio motifs.

Liberty's Booty

1980 • 48 min

Liberty’s Booty is an investigation into prositution from a female perspective under a late capitalist economy. The film is also a document and a celebration of a New York subculture in the late seventies. With a dense mix of real testimonies, verité footage and acted out scenarios, this film examines power relations and the commodification of the body. The film alludes to a growing globalisation with its reference to a MacDonalds strike in Dublin and imagery of Pope Paul’s visit to Ireland in 1979 which in retrospect, is seen as marking a final attempt to halt the transformation of Irish society.

Profiles of Andrea Dunbar and Victoria Wood

1980 • 35 min

This 1980 Arena documentary profiles writer and performer Victoria Wood and teenage playwright Andrea Dunbar. Wood is seen, alongside Julie Walters, during rehearsals for Wood's stage play Good Fun at the Sheffield Crucible and the film explores her talent to amuse through her witty and engaging songs. The film also looks at Dunbar, as her first play, The Arbor, written when she was only 15, was running at the Royal Court.

ABBA in Concert

1980 • 52 min • Sweden

ABBA's 1979 tour of North America and Europe, with emphasis on performances at Wembley Arena, London.

The Cheryl Ladd Special: Souvenirs

1980 • 46 min

Cheryl Ladd's second variety special featuring Jeff Conway, Joyce Dewitt and Charlie Daniels.

Les bottes sauvages

1980 • 27 min • Canada

La marche gaie

1980 • 15 min • France

A short documentary about the October 14 1979 March For Lesbian And Gay Rights in Washington D.C.

The Last Prom

1980 • 24 min

Prom night, teenage drivers and alcohol.

A Jury of Her Peers

1980 • 30 min

A Jury of Her Peers is a 1980 short film directed by Sally Heckel, adapted from the story by Susan Glaspell. A farm woman is accused of murdering her husband in early 1900's Midwest America. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

Spooky Kitaro: The All Seeing Eye

1980 • 12 min • Japan

Yasui is the president of a large company. After the war, he wandered into the world of evil spirits, where he obtained a hidden treasure "Geomancer's Eye". With the magical power of this treasure Yasui received enormous wealth. But the great miracles have a great price... A retelling of episode 37 from the 1971 TV anime.

Self-Portrait

1980 • 20 min • United States of America

Jonas Mekas reflects on his life.

Konst

1980 • 46 min • Sweden

"Art" - A different kind of Art film. One that takes the liberty to amplify and invent freely along the basis of reality. A film that speaks for the artist.

Rifleman

1980 • 30 min

Private Semple returns to his Antrim home after the Battle of the Somme, the village's sole survivor from all the 'brave boys of Ulster' who volunteered; but the battle scars go far deeper than anyone suspects.

God Natt Alfons Åberg

1980 • 12 min • Sweden

Alfons doesn't want to fall asleep - so he makes sure that he is awake an that his dad has a lot to manage whit him.

Solly’s Diner

1980 • 10 min

A homeless street character (Larry Hankin) tries to get free food from the night waitress (Ruth Silvera) in Solly's Diner. His plea is interrupted by a desperate business man (Roger Bowen) who pulls a gun and demands all the money in the cash register.

And Mum Came Too

1980 • 30 min

Gate-crashing and drinking have turned some teenage parties into nightmares. When it's Sandra's turn to have a party, Mum insists on coming too. Sandra is horrified - will any of her friends come?

Another Great Day

1980 • 7 min

Another Great Day depicts a day in the life of a housewife as she routinely performs her daily chores; TV, radio and pulp novels form her world of fantasy.

Act of Being Polite

1980 • 1 min

A hazy moment of relationship turmoil between a man and a woman with the iconic Residents eyeballs for heads.

Sultan and the Rock Star

1980 • 56 min • United States of America

Paul Winters, a rock star burnout, flees his fame and ends up by chance on an island where he comes face to face with Sultan, a domesticated Bengal tiger left there to be hunted by a wealthy businessman. He then befriends the animal and decides to do everything to save him...

Cambodia: Year One

1980 • 51 min

1980. The effect of aid to Cambodia and the extent of the country's new-found stability.

Fishing Moon

1980 • 50 min • Japan

Since Minamata: The Victims and Their World (1971), director Tsuchimoto Noriaki has made numerous works depicting people living in Minamata. This work for children is a visual fantasy poetically depicting the moon that governs the ocean’s tides, the fishermen and the various fish living there.

Tom Waits at Theatre le Palace

1980 • 35 min

Tom Waits performs at Theatre le Palace in Paris, France. It was recorded for French television and broadcast on the program "Palace One" in 1980.