All Films

Son of Monsters on the March

1980 • 27 min • United States of America

American horror short from 1980.

The Act

1980 • 21 min • Yugoslavia

Short by N. Stojanović.

Renovations

1980 • 13 min

Experimental film by Connie Coleman and Alan Powell.

Alaska

1980 • 10 min

Alaska is the visual artifact of a two-week trip, in 1976, to Homer, Alaska, where my sister was marrying the son of a homesteader. Many of the issues that drove Concern for the City are present in this film, which preceded and inspired it. As compared to New York City, the setting for Concern, Alaska is a place where nature still overwhelms and has to be respected, where man and his works remain just a tiny dot on the rugged landscape. This is changing, of course, and the Alaska mindset is to try to control, vanquish and feed from the natural environment. Yet it is a far more even contest in the north.

Nomades d'aujourd'hui

1980 • 13 min

Witch Grandmother

1980 • 8 min

A fairy tale about a witch who helped mushroom pickers and punished an evil sorcerer.

The Godfather's Jaws

1980 • 21 min • Soviet Union

A parody of the criminal blockbusters of modern cinema.

Whales

1980 • 10 min

This is a diary film shot at the same time as my edited sound film, Alaska. The film reflects my awe as I accompanied my sister, Olga, a marine biologist, and her research partner Beth as they conducted whale research in Prince William Sound, among ice floes and cetaceous beasts larger than our small inflated boat.

Colliding Worlds

1980 • 31 min

Four generations of the "People Who Live Where the Cedar Trees Start to Grow" (Wah-up-weh-tuhneum), also known as the Mono or Western Monache people, and their attempts to maintain cultural traditions such as acorn collecting, food preparation, music, dance, powwows, and games.

All the Years in One Night

1980 • 29 min • Yugoslavia

Passing away, an old lighthouse keeper recollects the key events of her life, with the past and the present converging at her deathbed.

Horizon Perdu

1980 • 36 min • France

From 1977 to 1980, Bernard Cadoux and Jean-Paul Lebesson regularly visited Stanislas Rodanski at the Saint Jean de Dieu hospital, where he had been staying since 1954. These conversations gave rise to a film: Horizon Perdu, whose title references Frank Capra's Lost Horizon (1937) and Shangri-La, the mythical city where the story takes place.

Adama, the Fulani Magician

1980 • 22 min

A portrait of a renowned deaf African street performer and practitioner of the ancient Yan-taori magic tradition. Performance sequences which are explicit and often hair-raising are intercut with Adama Hamidou telling his own story in West African sign language.

Will-o'-the-wisp

1980 • 8 min • Soviet Union

The film, based on Regina Ezera's story "It Dos All", has won recognition at the 23rd Latvian SSR Amateur Film Festival, receiving a bronze medal and an award for best cinematography. The main character remembers the unpleasant situation while relaxing in a Finnish sauna and an intrusive travel companion, although "it does everything", she does not want to do so.

Space Seeing - Space Hearing

1980 • 6 min • Austria, Germany

A work on the perception of space, where a video of a motionless figure in a room correlates four different camera positions with four different synthesized tones. We see the inert artist and how she calmly faces the cameras head-on. Six minute version.

Mobius Film Loop Propellers

1980 • 5 min

A film loop twisted at its splice reverses a scene to its mirror image with each repetition. Here, spinning propellers describe three different forms: an ascending helix of propellers, two lines of propellers intersecting and one propeller moving in a sideways figure eight.

Chain Reaction

1980 • 10 min

A Konstantine Matsaberidze Cartoon

Vocation

1980 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A documentary film about the rural cinematographer of Pukskiy volost in Valga County, Jaan Vihme — a man for whom bringing the joy of cinema to people has become both a calling and a hobby, as well as the beloved work of his entire life…

Compass

1980 • 13 min • Japan

When you shoot incandescent light in daylight, the image appears blue. To compensate for this, you put an amber filter on the lens, but if you remove the filter from the lens and move it away from the camera, you will see two areas of different color temperatures. A series of photos was taken while rotating the filter around, and the area inside the filter becomes distorted as the shutter speed slows down.

Cinématon n°65 : Howard Guttenplan

1980 • 4 min • France

Country: United States of America. Profession: Filmmaker. Done in Paris (France) on July 7, 1979 at 3:15 p.m.

The Children of Palestine

1980 • 54 min • East Germany, Palestinian Territory

Interviews with children in Palestinian refugee camps.

Cet Homme Derriere La Vitre

1980 • 42 min • France

This film is the confession of a man whom society usually describes as mentally ill. It allows us to discover a being endowed with rare qualities of soul and spirit. It is also a testimony sometimes funny, sometimes tender, sometimes bitter and upsetting on the itinerary of an individual stuck between society, family, psychiatric institution and himself. Jacques Zelnio died in 1989 after having lived as a recluse at his parents' place, in a room of 10 m2 from which he only went out on very rare occasions... to be prescribed tranquillizers.

Cheese

1980 • 25 min • France

CHEESE! Anglo-Saxon expression whose pronunciation invites a smile... SMILE... French word widely recommended to cheerleaders. The popular festivals and the parade of drum bands seem to no longer be able to do without the participation of the cheerleading troops. This habit, directly imported from the U.S.A, is particularly widespread in the cities of the Nord Pas-de-Calais Mining Basin. CHEESE therefore invites us to dive into this small world with well-established habits. The gaze is sometimes critical but the general tone is humorous. CHEESE was entirely filmed in Somain, in the North, on the occasion of a large gathering of cheerleaders coming from many cities of the region.

Hispanic America

1980 • 13 min • United States of America

Produced by CBS News and distributed by Carousel Films, the film begins with a brief introduction from Walter Cronkite, then follows reporter Ed Rabel as he describes the changing demographics of the United States, centered around the three distinct communities of Cuban Americans, Mexican Americans, and Puerto Ricans.

Noapte roz

1980 • 10 min • Romania

The story of how two men want to take an abusive advantage of a young woman from the countryside by promising her the world, but only if she goes through them first.