All Films

Shoots

1980 • 19 min • Soviet Union

Industrial practice of pupils of grades 9-10 in labor and recreation camps of the Partizansky district of Primorsky Krai.

The Trial of Nine Hundred Million People

1980 • 18 min • China

Newsreel of the trail for gang of four.

Girl Assault

1980 • 60 min • Japan

Pink film distributed by Toei Central Film.

Even a Horse Must Laugh

1980 • 16 min • Soviet Union

A musical cartoon based on folk jokes about stupid and greedy rich people.

We

1980 • 9 min

A slow procession on May 9th, 1980. ”Victory Day”. A military parade is marching, a forest of red flags, veterans in suits covered with medals are laying flowers at the foot of the Soviet monuments. The usual Soviet propagandist spectacle. Barysas’s response to the system – and the film that got him suspended for a year from the Society of amateur filmmakers for transgressing the rules on amoral, lewd content.

Manos arriba!! Esto es un atraco

1980 • 2 min • Venezuela

Experimental Super-8 film by Carlos Castillo.

Karma II

1980 • 6 min

A toked-out drifter lands aboard a concrete planet to compete in the greatest skateboarding competition in the galaxy. Appears at the end of Skateboard Madness (1980).

The Black and the Gold

1980 • 50 min • United Kingdom

The Brent Delta is but one of 40 platforms between the Shetlands and Norway which reap this black liquid harvest. It is a strange and eerie world: the night sky glows bright orange; men work on deck sweltering in tropical warmth, but surrounded by a sub-Arctic sea; 300 miles from any city, commuters shuttle daily to and from their work on flying buses. Yet every activity of every one of the thousands of men confined to this unreal and dreamlike world is directed to one end alone: profit.

Us

1980 • 9 min

US is an ironic look at the Victory Day Communist parade on the main street of Vilnius.

MAGI Synthavision 1980 Demo Reel

1980 • 7 min

Early (1970s through 1980) demo reel from MAGI/Synthavision, who would later go on to provide many of the CGI effects for the feature film Tron. Mostly television advertising and effects in the early years

Refugees

1980 • 29 min • Soviet Union

Sketches from the life of an unnamed Middle Eastern country. The film features poems by Palestinian poet Muin Bseiso (1930–1984).

7'21"

1980 • 6 min

8mm film work from 1980 by the Film Studies Department of Bunkyō University. One sunny and gentle day, as I was dozing off by the riverside, I saw a strange dream in which everything in the world began to flow backwards. No that’s not right. This isn’t a dream at all! I have to find the cause behind this! And then I realized: it is I myself, sleeping now by the riverbank, who is creating this distorted world! The title “7’21”” seems to represent the actual running time of the film. (In reality, it is a little shorter.) It was intentionally created as a silent work, effectively using the absence of sound, appealing solely to visual perception, and thereby leading the viewer into a mysterious and extraordinary world they could never experience in everyday life.

History of the World in Three Minutes Flat

1980 • 4 min • Canada

A history of life on Earth compressed into three minutes.

Living Dolls

1980 • 9 min • United States of America

Melvin is a henpecked worker in a Bridal shop. To get way from the nagging women, he retreats to a storage room filled with mannequins where he vents his frustration. The only problem is, the mannequins upstairs offer something more horrifying than Melvin expected.

Zufalls-Horizonte

1980 • 47 min

Out of over 4,000 ordinance survey maps (scale 1:25,000) charting all of West Germany, 88 maps were selected by random generator. Then random intersections of two coordinates were determined. Between March 1979 and February 1980 I visited the places at these coordinates, going from south to north. If the random place was determined by with the help of the survey map in the landscape, then I set up the camera at eye-level and pointed it northwards. This first shot was followed by 23 other shots, with the camera turning 15 degrees to the right for each next shot. The length of the shots follows a simple pattern: in the beginning, the shots are 6-5-4-3-4-5-6-5...and so seconds long. Towards the middle of the film they become progressively shorter, reaching ¼ of a second before becoming longer again at the end of the film.

Board and Care

1980 • 27 min

Board and Care is a 1979 American short film directed by Ron Ellis and starring Richard Goss and Laura Jean Ellis. It won an Oscar at the 52nd Academy Awards in 1980 for Best Short Subject.

Out of Hand

1980 • 30 min

“OUT OF HAND is a search film, where a small boy returns to a house that is being evacuated, to search for something that he left behind. His method is to follow hidden clues in this house and to respond to the hidden aids in his memory. Back and forth, between inquisition and logic, he constructs a search with two unknowns – ‘What it is’ and ‘Where it is’. Each object he chooses has multiple functions, which extend both into the physical space of his search, and into the imaginary world of his perception and memory.” E.B. 1980

On Land, at Sea and in the Air

1980 • 10 min • Netherlands

Short animation telling three stories - of a man at home, a boat at sea and a bird. All three are seen simultaneously via a split screen and occasionally coincide.

Strip Tease

1980 • 24 min • Canada

The catalyst for this unusual documentary, which took the Silver Plaque at the 1980 Chicago Film Festival, was the attempt by Toronto striptease artists to form a union. The film is structured around the strippers themselves, as they speak directly to the camera about their attitude toward striptease, as work.

Akairo

1980 • 18 min • Soviet Union

The plot is based on a Japanese folk tale. A wanderer cures a boy by making him a paper toy.

The Bengali Night

1980 • 6 min • Argentina

“ Cinema is what happens between frames," said German experimental filmmaker Werner Nekes. A woman and a man are on the ground together but it looks as though they are floating without moving. Silence overruns the scene; she stops and walks away. La Noche Bengalí is a documentary made as part of the seminar that Wernes Nekes held in Buenos Aires in 1980, sponsored by the Goethe Institute.

Mr. Bill Looks Back

1980 • 30 min • United States of America

A collection of skits featuring the characters from the "Saturday Night Live" TV show of Mr. Bill and his dog Spot, as they are tormented, abused and eventually flattened by the evil Sluggo and Mr. Hand.

Living Memory

1980 • 39 min • United Kingdom

My intention was to explore the landscape where I spent my early life, and to some extent the people who helped me to inhabit it. So I started by flying over this landscape and was filmed while doing so. My new view of a place with which I am very familiar is an important aspect of the film.

Salandar

1980 • 33 min • Iran

The Mongol invasion of Iran leaves the country devastated but the people fight for their right in their own way.