All Films

In Hiding

1980 • 60 min

A teenager learns about life and death while staying with his aunt during the school holidays.

The Marquise

1980 • 56 min

The only period comedy written by Noel Coward. France, 1736. Two distinguished families are celebrating the engagement of their children. The young couple are putting on a brave face, but neither is happy. Adrienne, daughter of the Compte, is secretly in love with her father's penniless secretary, while Miguel, the Duke's son, has lost his heart to a dancer in Paris. An unexpected visitor arrives on the scene.

Rhubarb Rhubarb

1980 • 28 min

During a game of golf between a police inspector and a vicar the inspector cheats by having a constable move his ball into favourable positions and the vicar's into hazardous ones. when the vicar discovers this he prays for divine intervention which turns the tables.

Barn Burning

1980 • 41 min • United States of America

Ab Snopes (Tommy Lee Jones) is a Southern tenant farmer whose unrelenting and violent nature proves to be his undoing in William Faulkner's Barn Burning. Snopes sets his employer's barn on fire when he thinks he's been treated unfairly. His son, Sarty, is horrified. Snopes escapes justice for lack of proof, but he and his family are told to move on. No sooner do they move than Snopes is offended by his new rich employer. Torn between trying to win his father's acceptance and his aversion to what his father will do, Sarty must make a decision and act quickly. Adapted by Academy Award winning screenwriter Horton Foote, Faulkner's complex world of class divisions and hostile family relationships comes to life through a boy's attempt to liberate himself from hatred and poverty.

Audition

1980 • 8 min • United States of America

A young woman grapples with the decision of following her dream of an acting career or marrying and having babies with the man she loves.

The Errand

1980 • 29 min • United Kingdom

A soldier at an elite military institution is sent on a strange and increasingly nightmarish errand in this full-on fever-dream thriller from long-time Pete Walker collaborator David McGillivray (House of Whipcord).

Night Shift

1980 • 25 min

UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. A drama about two night shift diner workers whose care for each other transcends the minutia. Bad tips, argumentative customers, and the long hours behind the counter foster a profound sense of solidarity between these two women.

Amy!

1980 • 34 min • United Kingdom

Amy Johnson was the first woman to fly solo from Great Britain to Australia. Mulvey and Wollen’s experimental documentary combines newsreel footage of the aviator’s arrival, dramatic recreations of events from her life and contemporary discussions by feminist groups on the subject of heroism in this most unconventional biopic.

Tokyo Cabbageman K

1980 • 59 min • Japan

A young man wakes up one morning to find that his head has transformed into a large cabbage. He quickly becomes a source of bemusement, desire and hostility to all those around him.

Gnomes

1980 • 45 min • United States of America

A family of gnomes preparing for the wedding of their eldest son must engage in a battle of wits with an enemy family of vicious trolls.

Away from It All

1979 • 14 min • United Kingdom

Mock travelogue that was shown in cinemas before "Life of Brian."

Canada Vignettes: Moccasins

1979 • 1 min • Canada

Close-ups of fine detail of the ancient skill of quillwork embroidery--brightly coloured geometric designs on high-ankled, Seneca-type moccasins. These moccasins are over one hundred years old, from the fabled Speyer Collection that was repatriated from Germany by the National Museum of Man in 1975.

Two Space

1979 • 7 min • United States of America

Two Space systematically explores symmetries used by Islamic artists to create abstract temple decorations. The two dimensional patterns, like the tile patterns of Islamic temples, are generated by performing a set of symmetry operations (translations, rotations, and reflections) upon a basic figure or tile. Two Space consists of twelve such patterns produced using each of nine different animating figures (12 x 9 = 108 total). Rendered in stark black and white, the patterns produce optical illusions of figure-ground reversal and afterimages of color. Gamelan music from the classical tradition of Java adds to the mesmerizing effect.

Topless

1979 • 16 min • United States of America

A collaborative faux documentary by then roommates Cara Perlman and Jane Sherry, tracing Jane’s activities as a topless dancer in a New York City nightclub–where she was in fact working at the time.

The Adventures of Chip

1979 • 20 min • Soviet Union

Based on the story of the same name by L. Davydychev.

Table Scenes

1979 • 7 min • Argentina

A group of people, blindfolded and fed distorted German dialogue through headphones, sit at a table and feel their way towards the food in the centre.

Clapping Songs

1979 • 6 min

In this work Keane's daughter and a friend perform a series of playground clapping songs. The consistent audio of their singing contrasts with the intermittent images of their actions which is particular to the original slide-tape format, through which a series of projected slides are accompanied by a synchronised audiotape soundtrack.

Often During the Day

1979 • 10 min • United Kingdom

Feminist essay film.

Film Display

1979 • 5 min

Experimental short.

Chicana

1979 • 23 min • United States of America

CHICANA traces the history of Chicana and Mexican women from pre-Columbian times to the present. It covers women's role in Aztec society, their participation in the 1810 struggle for Mexican independence, their involvement in the US labor strikes in 1872, their contributions to the 1910 Mexican revolution and their leadership in contemporary civil rights causes. Using murals, engravings and historical footage, CHICANA shows how women, despite their poverty, have become an active and vocal part of the political and work life in both Mexico and the United States.

Fever Dream

1979 • 7 min

A wet hot dream about sensuality. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with the National Film Preservation Foundation and the Pacific Film Archive in 2009.

Graphic Variations on Telidon

1979 • 8 min • Canada

"In an effort to explore the flexibility of Telidon, Canada's videotex system, Pierre Moretti, animation artist from the National Film Board, used, in the graphic mode, the geometric figures which form the basis for Telidon's picture description instructions. Thus he created this short animated film."

Hexenschuss

1979 • 30 min • Germany

Berlin 1978. The film tells the story of three women who live together and build a jamming transmitter, which they use to highjack the soundtrack of TV news broadcasts. Why they do this is explained through a polemic montage of archival TV footage, which shows how men in leadership positions talk about women and what they do.

Volcán

1979 • 3 min • United States of America

Volcán captures a raised mound of earth set against a grassy riverbank. A white silhouette in the shape of a female body lies atop of the form. The same shot then cuts to a frame where the base of the white figure spontaneously starts smoking. It then quickly sets aflame. As it combusts, a deep cavity is revealed, even as it is cloaked in growing flames and smoke, evoking a volcanic eruption. Finally, the entire body is engulfed so that only ashes remain in the negative space, human remains. Mendieta short the work in 1975 at Old Man’s Creek in Sharon Center, Iowa, near where the artist was living at the time.