All Films - Short Movie Database

Memories of Nijinsky

1980 • 25 min • Soviet Union

A valuable testimony that approaches the essence of Nijinsky who did not leave a video. Boris Kochno, who was at the center of Russian ballet, vividly tells how Nijinsky, who had fallen ill, witnessed his newly choreographed self-made work. Nijinsky's successor machine is a rare record of transferring Nijinsky's appearance in the popular work "Afternoon of a Faun" to two great dancers, Grigorowich and Wasiriev, who carry Bolshoi ballet on their backs.

Triptych

1980 • 22 min

A casting up off of hands ironically employs a composition of renunciation. "Foregone Conclusion" for the dame the world as butterfly is perceived "Edit Synch" for the little boy down the land as crystal abstracted "Concluding Cone" and as rainbow trout for the master pondered. Hand made sound, hand made and lens-captured images. "Golly, I'm glad I'm not your girlfriend." - Friend of a friend upon viewing TRIPTYCH

Minnesota Landscapes

1980 • 59 min • United States of America

Produced by the National Endowment for the Arts, along with the Jerome Foundation, this showcase is hour-long collection of shorts from six prominent video artists, all commissioned to the state of Minnesota.

What Is Poetry to You?

1980 • 23 min • Colombia

Cecilia Vicuña made her first documentary while residing in Colombia after the 1973 coup d’état in Chile. Through this fundamental inquiry: ¿Qué es para usted la poesía? / What is poetry to you?, Vicuña unravels the role and substance of poetry in people’s lives. Speaking with school children, street performers, policemen, sex workers, fellow artists, and a scientist, the all embracing character of poetry emerges—its transformative role in personal relations, as a basis of oral history and the revolutionary imagination. – Chris Borkowski

Challenge of the Occult: Teen Satanism

1980 • 36 min

At one time a Spiritualist Medium, Ben Alexander now travels world-wide to expose everyone to the real and seductive dangers of the spirit world. Ben has traveled millions of miles to spread the Good News of Jesus Christ and to alert his audiences to the clear teachings of the Bible regarding occultic practices. Now you can bring Ben's 3 day seminar message right into your home with his video series. Satan Exposed!

Cỗ Máy Bên Đường

1980 • 9 min

A biker discovered a strange machine in a box abandoned on the side of the road. After that, he had a shockingly unforgettable night.

Sandwich

1980 • 7 min • Italy

Italian comedy about a man on a bicycle outing who constructs a monumental sandwich for his lunch. The sandwich lurches out of his hands and leads him on a wild romp through the countryside. He finally catches up with it, high on a mountain top. The surprise ending reveals that the joke is really on him

One Way Street

1980 • 12 min • Canada

Alcoholism is the subject of this animated film. Stark line drawings portray the vicious cycle of drinking and family break-up, as the head of a family drinks to forget the drudgery of his life. The consequences are disastrous. A film without words in which images speak volumes.

恋のそよ風

1980 • 9 min • Japan

An omnibus film in which Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Yoshiharu Ueoka and others took part.

When Barriers Disappear

1980 • 29 min • Soviet Union

The problem of barriers has come close to all aspects of human life. We guide people towards talent, towards their maximum potential, and indeed, a person can do anything—there is no limit here, we haven’t found a limit. But they don’t know how... rather, they think they don’t know how. In reality, it’s nothing like that—it’s a typical adaptation process, like when we step into bright light and can’t see anything. What do we do? On one hand, we create an information environment that is as saturated as possible with information, and on the other hand, we teach people to feel at home in this environment, like a fish in water.

A is for Atom, B is for Bomb

1980 • 60 min

NOVA profiles Dr. Edward Teller, the "Father of the Hydrogen Bomb," an acclaimed scientific genius and brilliant theoretician, and a man considered by some the most dangerous scientist in the United States.

Radio Haïti-Inter: Straight to the Point

1980 • 14 min • Haiti

1980: the repression is in full swing in Haiti. A decree is going to ban all independent speaking and all manifestation of thought. Artists, writers, journalists, democrats all pay the price. A radio station, Haiti Inter, and its journalists are at the center of the storm. This film reconstructs a typical broadcast of Haiti Inter in the 1980s.

Canada Vignettes: Angel of Death

1980 • 2 min

A vignette about a 1912 fly-swatting contest organized by The Toronto Daily Star to draw attention to the danger posed to public health by flies. Through archival photographs and newspaper headlines the highlights of the contest are reviewed in a light, humorous manner. The winner, a determined young lady named Beatrice White, killed over 500 000 flies during the six-week contest and was dubbed the "Angel of Death" by the paper.

Geometry of Circles

1980 • 3 min • United States of America

A short animated film consisting of the movement of six circles (each with a different colour of the rainbow) that are formed by and split up into various geometric patterns.

Eat Shit

1980 • 2 min

16mm experimental short film.

Ceremonial Unfurling of Banner of Extinction (Floor of Vanishing)

1980 • 20 min • Japan

Floor of Vanishing was a work Matsuzawa Yutaka presented in a cobblestoned square in Middelburg, the Netherlands square in August 1980, and this video documents the Human Extinction ceremony Matsuzawa performed along with the unfurling of a banner. In this film, Matsuzawa appears highly energetic as he unfolds the pink Banner of Extinction and inscribes on it with a brush: “Humans, Let’s Vanish, Let’s Go, Let’s Go.” The film was shot by Matsuzawa’s eldest daughter Kumiko, who accompanied him on many overseas trips.