All Films

Emergence Of Eunice

1980 • 5 min

A wryly ironic, deadpan voice-over belies the anxieties, fears and obsessions in the everyday life of a misunderstood adolescent; whose most intimate relationship is with her diary. A spare graphic style, an animation variant on New Wave / Punk, is powerfully effective in conveying unarticulated emotions. Felt tip on paper, backlit.

Hesther for Example

1980 • 60 min

Cousin, W. Clifford Mill, ran a dirty postcard business; which brings Paul to the country in search of a profitable afternoon. Hesther knows the value of most things and, when evening falls, she turns his visit to her own advantage.

Little Stork

1980 • 40 min • Soviet Union

A story about the adventures of a rural boy, the unassuming inventor and the dreamer. A young, inventive designer is interested in “new solutions”, which he will often get from adults.

Fish Heads

1980 • 5 min • United States of America

"Roly Poly" and delicious to eat. The verses describe various things they (mostly) cannot do such as play baseball, wear sweaters, play the drums, and drink cappuccino in Italian restaurants with oriental women.

A Girl's Dreams

1980 • 8 min • Yugoslavia

Filmed in a village where girls outnumber boys times three. A young woman in a traditional outfit, dedicated to spinning and combing wool, swaddling a newborn, drying clothes on the grass: her monologue and popular music accompany her gestures precise, immemorial. A simple and moving ethnographic film.

Rear Window

1980 • 60 min • Soviet Union

Detective Jeffries is forced to constantly stay in his apartment due to a broken leg. Having a lot of free time, he begins to study the life of the inhabitants of the house opposite. The behavior of one of his neighbors gradually arouses his suspicions. Jeffries starts checking them...

Birthday Night

1980 • 16 min • Soviet Union

The Night had her birthday, and gave a party to which she invited Dima, a little boy so afraid of the dark that he could never sleep when the light was out.

Endgame

1980 • 17 min • Soviet Union

Two men at a country dacha are having an intimate conversation about life and love. And then She appears.

Nitemare

1980 • 5 min • United States of America

A child, who is afraid, of the dark forms a unique relationship with the objects that once frightened him.

Nocturne

1980 • 8 min • Denmark

It's night. Perhaps after a dream of an intruder crashing through a window, a woman who's sensitive to light has a telephone conversation with a friend. The woman has a plane ticket from Copenhagen to Buenos Aires at 6 that morning. She doesn't want to go. Her friend encourages her to make the trip. Later, she stands in a car park with her suitcase. Flying geese fill the screen.

Biceps of Steel

1980 • 12 min • United Kingdom

A modern retelling of the Samson and Delilah story. A super roadie fights evil bouncers stopping a rock and roll crowd from having a good time. He then falls foul of an evil wench who seduces and cuts his hair in order to take away his strength.

Star Wars: Music by John Williams

1980 • 60 min • United Kingdom

BBC documentary. Witness John Williams composing the legendary score for The Empire Strikes Back and conducting the London Symphony Orchestra.

Chatterbox

1980 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Muhammad and Larry

1980 • 26 min

Through the poetic lens of visionary filmmakers Albert and David Maysles, Muhammad and Larry explores the unique and poignant relationship between two great boxers and two remarkable men who were more than just competitors. They were once teacher and student, and remain close friends.

Our Corner

1980 • 56 min • China

5th Generation student film.

Robert Haller's Wedding

1980 • 3 min

My wedding gift to Robert Haller and Amy Greenfield. The publishers of the Anthology Film Archives are very happy with the making this farce.

Tribute to Gloria Vanderbilt, Pt 2

1980 • 3 min

Keith dances to 'Money' by the Flying Lizards.

Şeytanın Kölesi

1980 • 53 min • Turkey

Aysel is a beautiful girl. She loves her neighbor Bulent, but he doesn’t interested in her. Eventually, they have sex, but after that day, a new crazy life begins for Aysel.

Video Tape for Two Monitors

1980 • 5 min

Two Keith Harings—one on a TV screen, the other sitting in front of the TV—recite a number of words.

Teeny-Tiny and the Witch Woman

1980 • 14 min • Czechoslovakia, United States of America

A deliciously scary story about a boy who outsmarts an old witch-woman before she can have him and his brothers for dinner.

Victory Thru Film Power

1980 • 3 min • United Kingdom

A short, sharp, visceral attack on the news using, amongst other things, science fiction footage and scattered newspaper headlines.

The Return

1980 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A Space travel comes to an end and before the landing the Cosmonaut falls asleep. He does not hear signals from the Earth. The disaster approaches. When the ship flies over the native house of the Cosmonaut, the ring of the alarm clock which the Grandfather winded up sounds and the Cosmonaut wakes up.

Gallagher: An Uncensored Evening

1980 • 57 min

Join Gallagher for his first TV special from 1980, complete with candy bar treats and a Sledge-O-Matic routine for which the audience was ill prepared.

Bio Woman

1980 • 11 min

A henpecked husband gets a welcomed surprise when he adds too much detergent to the laundry and out pops a beautiful woman made of soap suds.