All Films

No. 19

1980 • 13 min

Film No. 19 US, 1980, 35mm, 12.5 min.

Buckeye and Pinto

1980 • 29 min

In a parody of traditional westerns and with subtexts galore, two cowpokes, Buckeye and Pinto, ride the range in the good ole United States of Australia.

Au cœur du cristal

1980 • 19 min • France

The song composed by the author modulates the phases of the film and constitutes, in its entirety, the specific form of a call.

Old Wolf Treat

1980 • 10 min • China

A fox manipulates a bear and a wolf to steal their food, framing each to the other.

Two Figures

1980 • 25 min • United States of America

Uncle Dave Macon

1980 • 58 min

Uncle Dave Macon, also known as "The Dixie Dewdrop"—was an American old-time banjo player, singer, songwriter, and comedian. Known for his chin whiskers, plug hat, gold teeth, and gates-ajar collar, he gained regional fame as a vaudeville performer in the early 1920s before becoming the first star of the Grand Ole Opry in the latter half of the decade.

Conversation with a Queen

1980 • 21 min • Soviet Union

A cinematic portrait of the actress and performer Vija Armane.

Salome

1980 • 3 min • United States of America

Portrait of the great chess master, aesthetician, human being, Eugene Salome.

Freedom's Skyway

1980 • 4 min • United States of America

July 5, 1980. Summertime, San Francisco's Chinatown. A gang of Chinese firework dealers dispose of their unsold goods to the glory of emulsified film. Negative explosions give way to the gateway of reversal images. This film utilizes high speed negative film to enhance grain and image deterioration. Must be projected at silent speed.

Warrah

1980 • 15 min • Australia

Three-color separation imagery expands the experimental documentation of landscape. Alternating nuances of color conjure up; a formal beauty, which are echoed in birdsong and the buzzing of insects.

Iran, Utopia in the Making

1980 • 60 min • France

The Iranian revolution leads to the Shah’s downfall and installation of the Islamic Republic. Avoiding the more sensational elements of the news this film questions Iranian society as a whole to try to understand what this wave of change means for the Muslim world.

Los hieleros del Chimborazo

1980 • 22 min • Ecuador

Since colonial times, the indigenous people of the Andean mountains have ascended to peaks that reach 5,200 meters above sea level. There, they crush gigantic blocks of ice that carry on their backs to sell them later in the fairs of Riobamba and Guaranda. The film shows the living conditions of the communities that live from this activity.

One Way Walk

1980 • 18 min • Italy

Experimental film from visual artist Cioni Carpi, shot in 16mm in b/w. One Way Walk concerns “the global effort of man … to exercise a condition, the meaning of which escapes him completely.”

Musikalische Arabesken: Träumerei

1980 • 3 min • East Germany, Germany

The animator uses expressionistic drawings for a filmic adaptation of Robert Schumann’s delightful and famous piece Dreaming, the composer’s well-known piece from Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood).

L'hydravion et Le Peintre

1980 • 6 min

Road traffic was intense at this location. Sometimes the roar of the engines declined in the distance, but never for very long and the passage of the new line of cars and coaches was accompanied by large air displacements, which hit the eardrums hard.

Leo T. Hurwitz: Filme für ein anderes Amerika

1980 • 44 min • Germany

Documentary about American filmmaker Leo Hurwitz.

Duck

1980 • 3 min

In stark opposition to the rest of the program’s surreality are the documentary-esque BINGO (6 min, silent) and DUCK (3 min, silent), the subjects of which are more or less aligned with their titles. -Karen Sachs

Luis Muñoz Marín: La voz que no muere

1980 • 54 min • Puerto Rico

This 1980 documentary presents an account of the life of Luis Muñoz Marín and an account of what happened during his death and burial.

Del movimiento espontáneo de la materia (Antoni Tàpies)

1980 • 20 min

Homage to the artist Antoni Tàpies

Ciganos

1980 • 53 min • Portugal

Analysis of the history and memory of the Romani community that has lived for centuries in Portugal.

The Wheel of Fortune

1980 • 17 min • Soviet Union

How Foxes and Chickens Became Friends

1980 • 20 min • Soviet Union

Based on the fairy tales of Jan Ekholm about the chicken Tutta Carlson and the little fox Ludwig the Fourteenth (from the cunning Larsson family).

Red Asphalt II

1980 • 15 min • United States of America

The second film in the Red Asphalt driver's education series, presented by the California Highway Patrol, shows graphic accident footage demonstrating the consequences of drunk, reckless and unsafe driving.

After School

1980 • 1 min • Japan

In a world where there are many films that synthesize a variety of images, this one-minute film, with just a single image, makes the atmosphere more diverse. After school, in an empty hallway, you can hear the whispering of high school girls, and it reminds you of the crowd of high school girls that many men have trouble with. Is it only men who have trouble understanding what they are talking about? Is it only men who don't understand what they're talking about? Her silhouette and fingers in blue-green are beautiful, and the way she wipes her rouge on the glass suggests the atmosphere after a fight.