All Films

A Little Swelling

1980 • 56 min

A drama shot on location in Reykjavík which deals with the pregnancy of a 16 year old schoolgirl and the effect it has on her life. This is an unusual look at a classic situation through the eyes of the young mother-to-be. Humour heightens the refreshingly new treatment of the subject matter.

The Escape

1980 • 6 min • United States of America

Horror short.

The Myths of Shoplifting

1980 • 16 min • United States of America

A short film that tries to deter young people from shoplifting.

Tailor for Women

1980 • 53 min • Yugoslavia

A former bowler (former trader as well) finds the meaning of life in tailoring female clothes, a job through which he meets women of all interests.

Like Someone's Knocking

1980 • 12 min • Yugoslavia

Parents who lost track of their children speak about their attempts to find them and hope for reunion.

Water Ring Karma 2

1980 • 4 min • Japan

Abstract forms animated in drawings.

Petit Pierre

1980 • 8 min • France

Scenes from the life and creative work of Pierre Avezard (Petit Pierre), an "art brut" artist with Treacher Collins syndrome who, since 1937, reused waste materials to build a massive merry-go-round automaton in Loiret. The work is currently part of La Fabuloserie's collection. Winner of the 1980 César for Best Short Documentary.

Alkoholmißbrauch durch Jugendliche

1980 • 6 min

Intended for young people, the film uses real-life scenes to depict situations of alcohol consumption among predominantly male adolescents and uses animated graphics to provide information on consumption quantities, risk calculation and the physical effects of alcohol.

South Slope: What Love Tells Me

1980 • 25 min • United States of America

South Slope: What Love Tells Me is a 16mm film made in 1978-1980 by the artist Abbott Meader. It is a dramatic portrait of a piece of land in Maine as seen through the seasons filmed over a period of two years. It is both a documentary and a film poem structured to respond to the 6th Movement of Gustav Mahler's 3rd Symphony as performed by the Portland (Maine) Symphony Orchestra, which kindly donated the performance recording for use in this film. Mahler's subtitle for the 6th Movement is "What Love Tells Me."

Vill du följa med mig Martha?

1980 • 25 min

The daily life of an immigrant woman.

The Rescue

1980 • 5 min • East Germany

A man and his donkey rescue someone from a crevice, who repays the man with gold and the donkey with sugar. Later, they hear another cry for help and proceed to a second rescue.

Zhang Fei Shen Gua

1980 • 25 min

Zhang Fei solves a malicious accusation when he is taking charge of a local official.

Tunait is de nait

1980 • 12 min • Spain

Confidential Part 2

1980 • 21 min

A portrait of a filmmaker confessing his remorse at the scandalous manner in which he gathered material for his voyeuristic film, Spying. here an eerie interpersonal relationship is developed between the filmmaker and his camera which culminates in violence…

Scopitone

1980 • 35 min • France

The Loner

1980 • 30 min

The Loner is a psychosexual journey through the dark landscapes of Oursler's insular narrative universe. The tape's paranoid, tormented protagonist — who is represented by such objects as a spoon and a water-filled sack — wanders through a hostile dreamspace of macabre obsessions and sexual alienation. Incredibly, Oursler renders this unlikely anti-hero as a sympathetic, totally believable "character." The artist's somnambulant, pun-laden narration and astonishing visual inventiveness add black humor to the surreal proceedings; for example, a bar scene is populated by an outrageous "cast" of found-object grotesques. Oursler's classic happy ending, in which The Loner "would live a wonderful life," rings with an ironic desperation.

Layer of Destruction

1980 • 32 min • Greece

In 1972, to provide Athens with water, a bold project began, involving the creation of an artificial lake from the water of Mornos River, leading, however, to the destruction of the Velouchovo village, and the ancient town of Kallipolis.

Hand

1980 • 10 min • Yugoslavia, Netherlands

The life energy, which guides man through life, is metaphorically represented through a hand. With the end of the life of the hand, the human dies.

Face to Face

1980 • 3 min • United Kingdom

Using a smudge-and-click pastel animation technique, traces the history of a life from cradle to grave.

Vah!

1980 • 15 min • Soviet Union

The comedy mocks the vestiges of the past, which sometimes exist among educated people with kind, sympathetic and generous hearts.

Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland Pilot 1

1980 • 8 min • Japan

The first of three pilot shorts that eventually became the 1989 movie Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland.

In One Blinding Moment

1980 • 18 min • United States of America

A boy is tragically killed in a car accident. Will his father transform into a vengeful monster, or a forgiving wise man?

Ikuska 5: Elebistasuna

1980 • 11 min • Spain

Study on the situation of Basque language compared to Spanish.

I Want to Be Violated!

1980 • 60 min • Japan

A newspaper reporter takes pictures of famous people cheating on their wives in his secret business, and uses them to blackmail them for a lot of money. He rents an apartment in Tokyo with the money and keeps a mistress. One day, the man's wife is raped while alone at home. The wife cannot tell her husband about it. The man goes to a university professor as usual to ask for money, but is confronted with a photo of his wife being raped. If he doesn't want this to be spread to the world, he should never do this again. Meanwhile, the wife, feeling lonely because her husband doesn't pay her attention, accepts the rapist two or three times, and eventually they fall in love with each other...