All Films

Eva 2000

1980 • 14 min • Germany

An insight into various fashion shows in Germany, for example in Düsseldorf or Bonn.

[Garden & Joe]

1980 • 4 min

Gardening was an essential part of Elam’s life; she not only tended to her own, quite impressive, backyard garden, she also attained the status of Master Gardener and then helped Chicago communities develop gardens and landscape neighborhoods. Elam’s garden features prominently in many of her films, and here is captured with devotion and blended beautifully, through use of double exposure, with other elements of her home.

Chair Maker John Surlis

1980 • 26 min

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

Standing Waves

1980 • 10 min

Excerpts from a series of large scale abstract real-time video-art projections for LA's and WeHo's pre-rave club culture.

Masayuki Tomioka’s One-Shot Gag Collection

1980 • 3 min

8mm film made in 1980 by the Bunkyo University Film Research Club.

The Fantastic World of M.C. Escher

1980 • 50 min

Explores the life and work of the Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher.

Karl Hess: Toward Liberty

1980 • 26 min

A look at Karl Hess, libertarian intellectual and activist, from his background as a magazine editor in his youth to his work as a Republican speechwriter, as he became simultaneously a writer for Barry Goldwater and a member of Students for a Democratic Society. In the late 1960s he embarked on a new period in his life, moving to rural West Virginia and becoming involved in movements promoting alternative technologies and renewable energy. He discusses his views opposing large institutions, ranging from government to corporations to universities.

Andy Lights the Fire

1980 • 1 min • United Kingdom

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's careful everything will be OK. Unfortunately a smouldering match lands on a copy of The Beano…

Morris Family Old-Time Music Festival

1980 • 30 min • United States of America

Captures the music and mood of the 1972 old time music festival 1973 held at the home of brothers John and Dave Morris in Ivydale, West Virginia. These annual "back porch" festivals were famous for their outstanding fiddle, banjo, and ballad music, as well as for their persistent rain and mud. About thirty musicians are featured.

Julie

1980 • 3 min

A snapshot from the filmmaker's own life in rural Maine.

Thresholds

1980 • 19 min • Argentina

Marie Louise Alemann, who died in February 2015, was an experimental filmmaker based in Buenos Aires. She worked on Super8 and developed a bold yet enigmatic style, frequently performing in her own films, and emphasising physical sensations and the primacy of the body. In the words of curator Federico Windhausen, her Umbrales ‘deserves to be seen as a major work of Latin American queer cinema’.

RX Recipe

1980 • 12 min

Early film by Jayne Parker.

Be Quiet Please!

1980 • 4 min • Japan

Short animated film by Tadanari Okamoto

My Movie Melodies

1980 • 7 min • Japan

In this film, the image produces the sound, the "image sound". The filmmaker takes pictures of landscapes, incidents. The various images are used to cover a wide range of sounds. The main melody is the radiographic image of a comb.

Nesterka

1980 • 17 min • Soviet Union

Based on Belarusian humorous tales about the joker and merry fellow Nesterka.

The Magic Chamois

1980 • 17 min • Soviet Union

Based on an Uzbek folk tale about how a magical chamois helped poor Hassan become rich. However, his wealth makes him cruel and greedy.…

Na Bahia Ninguém Fica em Pé

1980 • 20 min

Censura Livre

1980 • 28 min • Brazil

The New City

1980 • 10 min

Short documentary film on the construction of the new town, Marne-la-Vallée.

Sincerely

1980 • 14 min

A film about a woman's choice whether or not to have children and state funding of abortion.

Quilts in Women's Lives

1980 • 28 min

A series of first-person portraits of seven quilt makers, including a Mennonite, a Bulgarian immigrant, an African-American, and two midwestern sisters. They provide insights into the inspiration for their work and reveal their passion and love for an art form that reflects their values and philosophy of life.

Wall Street

1980 • 6 min • United States of America

Shot at high noon in New York’s financial district, Wallstreet is much like a vertical tickertape, charting the existence of typical office workers. The film’s elongated shadows suggest these workers’ depersonalized, neuter, nearly uniform lives, which flow by without any solid or stable element that might provide definition.

Friday Fried

1980 • 17 min • United Kingdom

Friday Fried mixes sound images in a strictly procedural manner based upon a relationship with the picture track which itself is structured around a sequence of 16 slide images. Four voices narrate a series of descriptions which refer to the visual detail in the picture whilst also cross-narrating with one another. During the construction of the soundtrack 12 different sources were combined without alteration to balance, tone etc. throughout the film’s 15 minute duration.

The Nine O’Clock Gun

1980 • 8 min • Canada

Real time is an oxymoron. The film presents one firing of Vancouver's famous gun; an event that attracts an audience visible on screen unlike the audience watching the film; ourselves. Our experience of time in our innermost self is unlike our experience of space or mass yet nothing in physics corresponds to the passage of time. How can something we experience as so real be based on an illusion. Norfolk, Virginia also has a Nine O'clock Gun.