All Films

To Love, Honor and Obey

1980 • 55 min

This film explores the social, psychological and cultural factors that contribute to violence against women regardless of ethnicity or economic background. Survivors, safe house administrators, counselors, police officers, and male abusers in counseling explore the many factors that contribute to the pervasiveness of this tragic aspect of American family life. Shot in battered women's shelters, urban and suburban neighborhoods, counseling centers, and even in a county jail where a woman has been incarcerated for the murder of her abusive husband

Wake Dream

1980 • 8 min

Wake Dream is an experimental combination of collages, posters, and a variety of objects. Walsh's use of sacred and modern music enforces a subtly persuasive work.

Western Mantra

1980 • 3 min • Japan

Arbres

1980 • 3 min • France

A lateral tracking shot is repeated. By reversing the reel during the shooting of the second strip of double 8mm film, movement is identical to the first shot and the two opposite tracking shots are combined on the screen, which gives the film the appearance of a cylindrical unwinding. Blown up to 16mm.

You're Not Communicating

1980 • 20 min

Video focuses on five vital elements of effective communication and delineates the responsibilities of the message sender. Cover such topics as concise expression, timing and feedback.

Making a Point

1980 • 6 min • Canada

Through the use of graphic animation this film portrays in a humoristic style, the historical evolution of the land and watermass called Pointe Pelée National Park.

Yuan Yuan He Ji Qi Ren

1980 • 11 min • China

The story takes place among a group of toys: the naughty Yuanyuan lost the shuttlecocks of two girls. In order to compensate for the shuttlecocks, he found chicken feathers. With the help of the robot, he caught a rooster, plucked the feathers and gave them to the little girls as compensation, but the two girls lost their shuttlecocks. The girl thought she shouldn't take the feathers, so she gave them back to the rooster.

Un balcon en Afrique

1980 • 15 min • Guinea-Bissau

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Sagan om den lilla Farbrorn

1980 • 12 min

Black Flag

1980 • 2 min • Yugoslavia

A man with a black flag in his hands leads a large group of people. The masses obey the leader's commands despite the fact that he is leading them into an abyss. However, the flag he carries is tied to a tree and from the collapsing table only the leader is saved, climbing the flag.

It's Grits

1980 • 44 min

With all the native wit, rib tickling humor and ability to see what makes the South the South found in the literary classics of Southern writers like Mark Twain, documentary filmmaker Stan Woodward helps us discover the common thread that connects the South’s people across all social, economic, political and racial boundaries – Grits! “Grits is us” - or, if we are to be grammatically correct, “Grits are us” - could easily be the title of this uproariously funny and at the same time insightful and poignant personal documentary.

Upsidedown and Backwards

1980 • 29 min

In Upsidedown and Backwards, two fairy tales — The Frog Prince and The Boy Who Went Out to Learn Fear — are told simultaneously, one backwards and one forwards, each interrupting the other. Jonas' ironic use of visual symbolism further inverts the structure and content of the fragmented fairy tale narratives, creating multiple, mirror-image reversals of the texts and their meaning. The inverted and mixed-up tales, which are intercut with Jonas' ritualistic performances, merge into a composition of transformation and sexuality that evokes the tangled subconscious of male and female desire. Jonas performs wearing a veiled doll face as she manipulates childlike objects or partners a skeleton in a danse macabre. Charged with the sublimated fears and fantasies of childhood, the tape's imagery mirrors the fairy tales in its fusion of innocence and horror, dream and nightmare.

Teyibahw – Andela

1980 • 8 min • United States of America

One of Recher’s earliest films, Teyibahw shows the young artist in full control of his medium – film, performance and sound. The message of the film may be hard to define, but his engagement with the mysteries of life pushes a surreal view of the artist’s activities within the confines of a small room.

Notes 78-80

1980 • 10 min

Short film.

Paper in River

1980 • 2 min • Switzerland

8mm film by Swiss artist Roman Signer.

Rope

1980 • 2 min • Switzerland

8mm film by Swiss artist Roman Signer.

Fountain

1980 • 2 min • Switzerland

8mm film by Swiss artist Roman Signer.

Rubber Band

1980 • 2 min • Switzerland

8mm film by Swiss artist Roman Signer.

Atlanta Nat Convention

1980 • 4 min

Filmed during the 52nd National Convention of the American National Association of Letter Carriers in August 1980.

Ultramint

1980 • 10 min • Japan

The Day Has Many Eyes

1980 • 57 min • Iceland

A documentary on the inhabitants and unique natural environment of the Western Isles of Breidarfjördur bay, Iceland. Photographed in 1975-1980, the film mirrors in a one-year cycle the age-old ties between man and nature. The film asks why these islands, where there was once a flourishing community, are now practically deserted, a little known utopia where time stands still.

Ein Haus in Prenzlauer Berg

1980 • 44 min • East Germany, Germany

A 360° shot from Schönhauser Allee reveals Stargarder Straße 3A’s neglected courtyard, where tenants, spurred by community leader Michalski, restore its greenery. Built in 1900 as a social-democratic workers’ cooperative, “the red block” once housed activists, ran its own kindergarten and summer fêtes. Wartime saw Nazi block wards, Post-’45 resident Bruno return, and ’50s festivals fade. By the ’60s, tenant turnover and mixed generations reshaped its life. Now, the film crew’s presence reunites residents for the first courtyard celebration since 1952, closing past and present.

Guten Tag, wir möchten heiraten

1980 • 29 min • East Germany, Germany

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

Speaker

1980 • 5 min • Poland

A portrait of a speaker, engrossed in his own speech, finds the hall empty.