1980 Movies

A film about everyday life in the Prenzlauer Berg registry office in 1980.

An episodic film featuring the musical, choreographic and comedic skills of a variety of actors and actresses.

Film by visual artist Ana Hatherly.

“The suggestion of drifting psychosexual dreams fragmenting in & out of events, places, time itself. Locations include a Detroit basement, a Provincet...

Documentary filmed at the end of the Manic-Outardes hydroelectric projects on the North Shore of the St. Lawrence (1978) to pay tribute to the men and...

Interviews with children in Palestinian refugee camps.

Starting from the image-sound produced in real time, with the video loop it is possible to obtain continuous transformations until arriving at sequenc...

Life is like a gigantic phonograph record fifty feet across. Or like one of those whirling discs at the old amusement park. You get on the disc and it...

When his father is killed by local villains, a young boy trains to become a Shaolin monk and, years later, returns home to take revenge.

Out of over 4,000 ordinance survey maps (scale 1:25,000) charting all of West Germany, 88 maps were selected by random generator. Then random intersec...

A 1980 documentary in which Irish chair maker John Surlis makes a stick chair from an ash log using the "slab and stick method".

A young boy from a large family is accidentally forgotten when his family goes shopping for new clothes for the Eid celebrations. With no new shoes of...

Andy arrives home from school, and goes to light the fire in the living room. His sister, Sal, warns him against this, but Andy is adamant that if he'...

A short film by Allen Ross

A Swedish family movie about Allan, a 12 year old boy with a great imagination.

A small-town girl endures terrible suffering during her gradual rise to music stardom.

Experimental short by Sakae Henmi.

Beat-generation

A house being built by young people around a man playing the 32 variations of Beethoven on a piano.

In a quiet night, a sleepy writer battles against sleepiness and writer’s block.