All Films

Spanish Fly

1980 • 5 min • Germany

1979 German super 8 short work

He Likes to Chop Down Trees

1980 • 4 min • United States of America

A film about editing, rhythm, and a bit about character.

Deutschland Spiegel

1980 • 12 min

Deutschland Spiegel is a film of light, shadow, air, stone, fences, soldiers, roads. And words. Footage from old German newsreels and parallel personal footage is edited and optically printed into counterpoint with images of a young boy. The loss of innocence is the boy's, the burden of understanding is ours.

Sunbeam

1980 • 4 min • United Kingdom

Finding out what is atop a sunbeam.

Film avec pellicule

1980 • 9 min

On an idea by Maurice Lemaître. Polyatomic assembly.

Spirit of the Plains

1980 • 9 min

Towards the end of the 19th century, the imagination of many painters, among them Sydney Long, was captured by a romantic, poetic approach to the Australian landscape. In his creation of an indigenous population of nymphs and satyrs for the bushland he so loved, this film reveals to us Long's efforts to find common ground between European allegorical traditions, the decorative qualities of Art Nouveau and the quest for an Australian identity. The film also examines in detail the various later versions and adaptations of the title work, which Long etched or painted during his years in England.

Development Pieces

1980 • 12 min • Germany

Early Telscher film.

Dr. Jeckyll and Ms. Hyde

1980 • 4 min

This black-and-white nightmare gives Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic tale
of the dark id a campy, gender-flipping treatment reminiscent of George Kuchar’s works. Quaffing some chemical homebrew in her personal laboratory (like everything here, a "set" created by black paint on white construction paper), this female Dr. J. soon discovers her wild side.

The Day Off

1980 • 10 min

A day off allows us a break from routine existence, but it also prepares us for re-entering the workaday world. In this animated film, people relaxing on a beach are constantly being reminded of tragic events happening elsewhere. By the end of the day they are able to return to the real world and continue to "function."

Agnieszka

1980 • 8 min • Poland

A little girl living in a ruined tenement house tells about her dreams. The camera observes her playing in the yard on a warm, spring day.

No caminho das estrelas

1980 • 56 min

1980 Angolan documentary.

Coma Prana

1980 • 12 min • France

Shelter

1980 • 7 min • Japan

Set in a cave imagined as an air-raid shelter, images of the surrounding trees are painted over directly on the film. Vivid colors intermixed with the sound of wartime radio communications and bombing create a harmonious composition of documentary and animation.

Arles dolorosa

1980 • 28 min • France

Arles Dolorosa is a poem about the city where José Guirao was born, through a self-portrait he did by shooting what is referring to his own memories : both far and close. The heat of Arles on a hot summer, antique statues, stones damaged by the wind and faces of old women and people in the crowd of the amphitheater are contrasting with the black bull's painful death during the corrida. All these images are becoming the light, and beauty of the film, which is an ode to a place that will always stay in Guirao's soul.

Valse de la syntaxe cinétique

1980 • 55 min • Japan

Sequentia

1980 • 43 min • France, United States of America

"The images appear from nowhere and elsewhere, intermittent. Time is measured by memory and movement, the printed ribbon will be the support of the memory." -Lightcone.org

These Words are the Data

1980 • 13 min • United States of America

These words are data shows how information can be manipulated with different ways by the computer ; each signs is translated to numbers following the ASCII code. Those numbers are then utilized to set the color and the music. As soon as the structure is recognized by the computer programming system, it becomes automatic. The artist is working on the definition of a conceptual system.

Change In The Weather, Every Cloud

1980 • 10 min

Amateur tale about a company boss and his wife who turn up late for a dinner party hosted by an ambitious young salesman of his company and his wife. After their car breaks down they have to change a wheel in the rain, arriving soaking wet, where their young hosts dry them out and give them a nice meal.

Lempad of Bali

1980 • 56 min

A film about the life and death of the 116-year-old Balinese Master-Artist.

J'aimais encore cette vallée

1980 • 18 min • France

Shadow of a Journey

1980 • 20 min

"Shadow of a Journey begins, visually, with a movement of watery images flickering across the screen; and meanwhile, on the sound track, a woman sings a Gaelic song. Shadows on the sunlit water are identifiable as those of a ship"s from the ferry whose passage is causing the water to churn across the picture. ... The apparent situation is the familiar one of a journey during which the passing scene is registered but only partially engages the thoughts." - LUX

Diminished

1980 • 7 min

"I made this for my step-father who had passed away. I had an old 'Ambrotype' and if you held it up to the light, you could scratch away the backing to expose the negative. I set it up on an animation stand and created the sequence. This framed a central sequence of still photographs depicting a hospital visit." –RM

Birds Hunting

1980 • 7 min • Romania

Experimental film on 16mm by Emanuel Țeț as part of Kinema Ikon.

The Day is two feet long

1980 • 8 min • Netherlands