All Films

Operneïa

1980 • 46 min • France

A single plan and its inverted double: a portion of the Avenue de l'Opera, cut out in the city where "the zoom gliding over this space, rather in a deserted space, which anticipates or participates in a disaster. "(Claudine Eizykman in Erres, No. 5, Toulouse, 1978).

Fogo-Fátuo

1980 • 15 min • Brazil

The Claws of the Divine Beast

1980 • 45 min • Japan

Based on a mystery by Taiwanese-Japanese author Chin Shun-shin. After two elderly men in Yokohama quarrel over a Tang dynasty artifact, one of the men turns up dead with mysterious claw marks across his face. A detective takes up the case, and uncovers secrets dating back to war crimes committed during Japan’s invasion of China in WWII.

A Party for Ten, Plus Three

1980 • 54 min • Poland

A bunch of unemployed and unqualified workers are hired to unload a few railway wagons. Because of the low wages, the manager needs to encourage the workers in some other way.

Stay

1980 • 56 min • United Kingdom

A married landlord has an affair with a young man renting out one of her apartments in Greece.

Ghosts of Cape Horn

1980 • 54 min

Set prior to the opening of the Panama Canal in 1914, the 1980 documentary 'Ghosts of Cape Horn' retraces the journey made by sailing ships during the days when it was necessary to travel 18,000 miles around Cape Horn in order to sail from the East Coast to the West Coast of the U.S.

The Bells of Astercote

1980 • 50 min • United Kingdom

An adaptation of the novel by Penelope Lively. The plot revolves around the ghosts of plague victims in a sleepy wood.

Dive to the Edge of Creation

1980 • 60 min

1 hour-long TV special about deep sea exploration of the Galapagos Rift.

Kimoto

1980 • 30 min • Japan

Format: 16 mm standard; Color; Sound; 30 min 10 sec Sponsor: Japan Sake and Shochu Makers Association

The Mexicans

1980 • 52 min

1980. A report on political repression in Mexico.

John Ritter: Being of Sound Mind and Body

1980 • 49 min • United States of America

John Ritter shows off his comedic talent with a collection of comedy sketches.

Pete!

1980 • 59 min • United States of America

Narrated by Phil Harris, a longtime friend of Fountain's, "Pete!" uses performance film, interviews, behind-the-scenes footage and a home videos to offer an intimate portrait of Fountain, the walking, talking embodiment of his hometown. Produced and directed by by John Beyer, the film originally aired on PBS stations nationwide. When it aired locally as part of a PBS membership drive, "Pete!" was credited with raising "more than had ever been raised by a single program in the history of WYES," according to a story published in The Times-Picayune in August 1980.

Snuden 1 - Snuden rejser hjemmefra

1980 • 17 min • Denmark

Snuden is a secret and peaceful animal who lives in a green bog. He is a friend to all animals. One day a hunter tries to shoot Snuden's best friend, the otter Otto. Snuden decides that he will try to find an explanation to why humans are that mad.

Shirley Bassey: A Special Lady

1980 • 60 min

Recorded and broadcast by British TV (Thames Television) in 1980 with special guests Robert Goulet and Richard Clayderman

Rock/String

1980 • 1 min • United States of America

The filmmaker effects a variety of visual tricks that confound spatial relationships and defy gravity.

Murder Psalm

1980 • 16 min • United States of America

Inspired in part by a dream he had of murdering his mother, Brakhage here gives us one of his profoundest meditations on human aggression.

Schoolboy Father

1980 • 45 min • United States of America

High school senior discovers his summer girlfriend has given birth to his child, and decides to fight for custody.

Ixe

1980 • 48 min • France

“Ixe (written X and pronounced EEKS – as it is pronounced in French –, like a scream, a wound) is an imploded, crucified film. Made to be projected on four screens at once, X is drawn and quartered. At the four points of the compass, at the four ends of the cross, War, Sex, Religion and Drugs, the double exposures, the colliding glimpses the eye barely recognizes, the skilful repetitions of themes, remind us that Sex is also the war of bodies, and the pope, the Drug of the people. And the story of this young man, shooting up in order to experience all the horror of the world in front of his TV set, reminds us that the heroin orgy is indeed the subjective locus of the monsters of the modern unconscious.” - Guy Hocquenghem

Gracias a la Vida (o la Pequeña Historia de una Mujer Maltratada)

1980 • 48 min • Chile, Finland

The story of a Chilean refugee, marked by imprisonment and torture, illustrates the tragedy suffered by victims of violence in Latin America during the years of dictatorship.

Theatre Piece

1980 • 1 min • United States of America

Through "solipsistic, demiurgic actions," Sherman leaves his imprint on the theater world. He sits in a seat in the audience, occupies a chair onstage and stands at the door of the theater. Becoming transparent, he leaves his trace everywhere.

Women in Rock

1980 • 45 min • Germany

A documentary about women in the punk rock scene in Europe.

The Pied Piper of Hamelin

1980 • 29 min • United Kingdom

In 1376, the city of Hamelin is freed from a plague of hungry rats by a mysterious Piper who plays a tune and leads the vermin on a mery dance out of town and straight in to the river. But the greedy city Governers refuse to pay their agreed fee, so the Piper wreaks a terible revenge. He plays his pipe once more, only this time he leads all the children of Hamelin away to a magical mountain portal, from which they never return...

Les tailleurs de pierre

1980 • 53 min • Canada

Only the Ball Was White

1980 • 30 min • United States of America

Throughout the 1900's, before Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier in 1946, black baseball talent blossomed in the Negro Leagues. Baseball buffs still sing the praises of Josh Gibson who could be counted on to hit 70 homeruns in a season, and Satchel Paige who pitched over 100 no-hitters in his career. Only the Ball Was White pays tribute to the many topflight players from the Negro Leagues. Narrated by actor Paul Winfield, the program documents a bygone bittersweet era in baseball and the men who were denied stardom by the color line. Ballplayers throughout the country were interviewed for this program, all of them quick to tell tales of the life, the competition, and the camaraderie. These include: Satchel Paige, Roy Campanella, Buck Leonard, Jimmy Crutchfield, David Malarcher, Effa Manley, and Quincy Trouppe.