All Films

The Black Madonna

1980 • 50 min

Lou Parker feels very strongly that she and her husband, Ray, are different from the Farrells and the Ackerleys. With them it's all television. But she and Ray have the local library and The Observer. They keep abreast. They're different.

The Three Inventors

1980 • 13 min • France

In a white lace universe, three inventors create machines which are both pretty and useful. Unfortunately people do not understand them...

Mudflat

1980 • 27 min

Years ago, artists would walk around the muck at the edge of the San Francisco Bay in Emeryville, and build loads of sculptures out there on the flats, created from driftwood and found objects that drivers would enjoy as they motored south on the old Highway 17 (known in numerous radio ads as 'Highway 17, The Nimitz'). Grabbing material off someone else’s work was considered fair game and part of the fun, and contributed a kinetic dynamic to the ongoing display. Now the place is a park, and the sculptures are gone, but you can see what it used to be like in this neat and funny documentary by Ric Reynolds, augmented by Erich Seibert’s wonderful musique-concrète/time-lapse sequences. The flashback circus sequence includes Scott Beach and Bill Irwin. Sculptors interviewed include Walt Zucker, Tony Puccio, Robert Sommer, Ron & Mary Bradden, and Bob Kaminsky.

Carabosse

1980 • 4 min • United States of America

Animation, also of a new order in the recent series of short works. Mostly on black space, the figures in blue perform a very compact and jewel-like opera in surreal form, again to Satie’s piano music. Ideally, the film should be projected on a 30" wide white card sitting on a music stand, center stage of a large auditorium or music hall, with sound from the projector piped into the big speaker system. The film is most effective this way, but can be shown normal-size also

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

1980 • 40 min • United States of America

A mysterious stranger descends on the small town of Hadleyburg to teach its deceitful residents a lesson.

Capoeira of Brazil

1980 • 10 min

Features a performance of capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian martial art set to music in which men dance on their hands and use their feet as weapons. Blue Ribbon winner, American Film Festival.

Lynda Carter's Special

1980 • 50 min • United States of America

Lynda Carter's first musical TV special.

Aventure à Bleau

1980 • 26 min • France

Adventure in Bleau is a documentary about bouldering that takes place in Fontainebleau. Directed by Jean-Paul Janssen in 1980 and produced by Antenne 2, it is part of the series "Les Carnets de l'Aventure" and broadcast on the same television channel. It features different generations of the finest free climbing artists of the time: Patrick Edlinger, Catherine Destivelle, Lucien Bérardini, Jean Pierre Bouvier, and Bertrand Roche 'Zébulon'.

Bastion Point: Day 507

1980 • 27 min • New Zealand

Merata Mita, Leon Narbey and Gerd Pohlmann’s powerful documentary Bastion Point: Day 507 depicts the eviction of protestors from Bastion Point during the struggle for Māori land rights.

An Audience with Dame Edna Everage

1980 • 53 min • United Kingdom

Dame Edna Everage takes questions from a celebrity audience about her life and career.

White Trash

1980 • 7 min

Early short film from Larry Fessenden.

The Fantastic Funnies

1980 • 48 min • United States of America

In this partially-animated TV special, Loni Anderson salutes the funny pages with interviews with famous cartoonists AND their creations!

Carlton Your Doorman

1980 • 30 min

Rhoda's camera-shy doorman gets his own special in which we see his daily habits, including flirting with joggers and making the rounds of local watering holes.

Horny Virgins

1980 • 42 min • Turkey

The story of young girls who fall into brothels while looking for a job through newspaper ads.

Microphone's Test

1980 • 19 min • Poland

A Warsaw Pollena-Uroda cosmetics factory radio broadcaster is working on a programme investigating the workers' sense of factory ownership. The workers' answers come as a surprise, especially to the management. About the ruling and the ruled in communist Poland.

Jamaicaresan

1980 • 45 min • Sweden

Documentary following a Swedish non-profit organization on their study trip to Jamaica. One of the first films by Kristian Petri and a unique document on Jamaican society around 1980.

The Clue According to Sherlock Holmes

1980 • 50 min • United States of America

Sherlock Holmes is merely a framing device for the real story: The Treasure of Alpheus T. Winterborn. A small-town boy accidentally uncovers a list of mystifying clues to a hidden treasure left by the late Alpheus T. Winterborn, the town's richest citizen.

A Tribute to Dr. Shock

1980 • 58 min • United States of America

A tribute to Joe Zawislak and his horror host character "Dr. Shock".

Corkan and the German Tigthrope Walker

1980 • 56 min • Yugoslavia

The story published in 1921 follows Corkan, general scapegoat in Visegrad, a figure of fun who himself joins in the mockery. The object of his obsession is physically inaccessible: a tightrope walker in an Austrian circus company visiting Visegrad.

Kraft Salutes Disneyland's 25th Anniversary

1980 • 42 min • United States of America

Danny Kaye stars in the Disneyland 25th Anniversary television special with special guest star Michael Jackson, The Osmond’s, Adam Rich, and others.

Anatomia do Espectador

1980 • 20 min • Brazil

Actress Stela Freitas answers a series of questions that seek to show the figure of the Rio de Janeiro movie spectator, their habits, their preferences, how and why they watches movies.

Ramp Ahead

1980 • 56 min • Netherlands

Patrick Dench is a successful loudmouth barrister and professional womanizer who treats everybody with disrespect but still manages to bed every beautiful woman in sight.

The Cure: Apeldoorn

1980 • 24 min • Netherlands

The Cure concert at Apeldoorn, Netherlands 18 July 1980

The Constructor

1980 • 14 min • Yugoslavia

Documentary about poor people making ends meet in a slum on the town's outskirts.