All Films

Durga

1980 • 10 min • India

A 1980 Documentary on Durga Puja by National Film Development Corporation (NFDC).

Un Relatif Horaire

1980 • 2 min

The moon in the night sky chases us wherever we go. The moon is in fact moving, but it is too far away and its movement is too slow for the human eye to see its movement. It is almost the same as saying that it is not moving in our consciousness.

Roman Numeral: IV

1980 • 3 min

It was while studying this film that I decided to group these ‘romans’ under the title Roman Numeral Series and to give up the term ‘imagnostic’ altogether… also to dedicate the series to Don Yannacito who had seen something ‘concrete’ and even narratively dramatic in is this work. The term deja vu comes to mind each time I view this film – this, then, somehow the echoing of the birth of imagery. – S.B.

Ein gewisser Agathopulus

1980 • 13 min • East Germany

Agathopulus loves his luxurious life. He does not want to be bothered with helping to rebuild a destroyed city. Instead, he invents machines and rationalizes the work flow. Although he is celebrated as a hero against his will, he has to escape.

Transmogrification

1980 • 9 min • United Kingdom

A short film about the assumption of roles. A voice-over offers a long list of synonyms for transformation: change, modulation, shift, turn, mutation… Two girls are transformed into 18th century young ladies by putting on dresses. A performer, Alexei Sayle, gets ready for and then goes into his routine. Made, like many of Anne Rees-Mogg’s films, in the Rees-Mogg family home in Somerset, Transmogrification features her nieces and nephews Charlotte, Emma, Thomas and Jacob.

Achtung Kinder Pumm

1980 • 3 min • Switzerland

Diversion ...

1980 • 40 min

This short film was the basis for the hit film Fatal Attraction

The Wedding

1980 • 29 min • Soviet Union

An elderly man saves the life of an alien who is capable of time travel. They go back in time to the man's wedding day.

Children of the Wind

1980 • 60 min • France, Algeria

Three short films about abandoned children, left to the omnipotence of silence, of the eye and of the hand but also of abysmal loneliness

The Obsession of Billy Botski

1980 • 24 min

A young man meets his obsession, a ghostly '60's Playboy-bunny styled "Connie," and is never the same!

Who Will Comfort Toffle?

1980 • 25 min • Sweden

This short animation film is based on a Tove Jansson picture book. It tells of the little knytt (“knytt” is a non-existing word signifying something tiny like a crumb) who is ever so lonely, but so shy that he is afraid to approach others. The story follows the trials and tribulations of the little knytt and how he finally finds company.

Self-identification

1980 • 1 min

Self-Identification is a performance show which accompanied a series of photo montage films shown in the Small Gallery. Ewa Partum, therein, presents herself naked in public places in Warsaw. During the show she goes out from the exhibition space into the city, where nearby the Wedding Palace she met a bride. In this manner she confronted the institution of marriage determining one of the core elements of femininity seen as a paradigm of personality made up by patriarchal culture

La fièvre du castor

1980 • 27 min • Canada

This lively satire uses animation and a pseudo-documentary style to depict Canada's search for a national identity. The National Scream explains, amongst other elements of Canadiana, how and why the beaver became the country's symbol.

Une Succession Intermittente

1980 • 2 min

Even if you watch it all day long, the human eye cannot see the movement of the clouds. In that sense, it can be said that interval shooting in movies has expanded human vision itself. Just as the invention of photography captures momentary movement, cinema presents a world that seems to compress real time. Interval shooting is normally used only in science films and the like. In this work, such changes were captured at intervals of a few seconds, rather than frame-by-frame. Without a timer or anything, I set the camera on a tripod in my room, sat down on a chair beside me, and pressed the release bit by bit, entirely manually from before dawn until the sun went down.

De gamle

1980 • 32 min

Henning Carlsen's cinéma vérité trilogy on life and relationships begins with a portrait of elderly people in Denmark.

The Passage of the Bride

1980 • 6 min • United States of America

"Solomon's work - some of the best of contemporary experimental film - is difficult. Its optical and moral density eludes language, as if the films, which are often dark and cracked, were a palimpsest of obscured meaning. His PASSAGE OF THE BRIDE is dedicated to Duchamp's alter ego, Rrose Selavy - the title recalls Duchamp's 'The Bride Stripped Bare by the Bachelors, Even' - and is itself a ready-made, composed entirely from a 100-foot roll of wedding footage and what appears to be the honeymoon. BRIDE is hypnotic, dreamy. Solomon compulsively repeats recognizable images until they melt like distilled essences of the originals: The bride's run across a lawn, her climb into a car, a man (her husband?) emerging from a swim all become undulating black and white swirls of grain, ripples of water ...." - Manohla Dargis, The Village Voice

Heaven (Gay Life)

1980 • 25 min

The LGBT current affairs series visits the new Heaven nightclub, contrasting it with other parts of London’s gay scene.

Carpathian Eagle

1980 • 52 min • United Kingdom

Murder victims are being found with the hearts cut out. A police detective is assigned to find and stop the killer. Originally an episode of British horror anthology TV series, Hammer House of Horror, that later received a feature release in the United States.

A Christmas Special with Luciano Pavarotti

1980 • 55 min

Ciné-Verité

1980 • 20 min • Romania

"Ciné-Verité" is a self-reflexive movie that questions the underlying forces behind television reporting and, in a broader sense, films of different genres. The main character is a young television employee making her first attempts at reporting. She interviews ordinary people in an attempt to obtain authentic life stories (some of the footage that director Laurențiu Damian includes in the fictional fabric is real), but the idealistic reporter's work is repeatedly rejected by her boss, which eventually leads her to resort to the conventional solution of using a commentary that explains the footage in wooden language.

Ikuska 4: Euskal Telebista

1980 • 10 min • Spain

Debate on the launch of Basque television (ETB, Euskal Telebista).

A, B, C, Brasil

1980 • 19 min • Brazil

Documentary about the resumption of the workers 'movement during and after 17 years of dictatorship, led by the metallurgists of ABC Paulista (Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva) that culminated in the creation of the Workers' Party - PT

Mondrian in New York

1980 • 44 min

A film by Piet Hoenderdos about Mondrian’s time in New York and how his 3 years living there influenced radical changes in his work.

Disc Jockey

1980 • 10 min • Czechoslovakia

An alarm clock wakes a man who washes his face, has breakfast, drives his car to work, spins records, returns home, and takes his pills. It's a world of circles - often seen from above: an espresso cup, a stairwell, the pills, and the records spinning. At the dance where the music plays, the rhythms evoke images of a butcher slicing head cheese, gears driving other wheels and levers, a combine churning out bales of hay, a butcher cutting chunks of meat for a stew, and boxers punching. The circle of music and life.