All Films

Bugs Bunny's Bustin' Out All Over

1980 • 30 min • United States of America

Three all-new cartoons from animation legend Chuck Jones showcase Bugs Bunny and some of Jones' most famous characters. Springtime has arrived and stirred the birds, the bees and Bugs Bunny -- the time when an infant Elmer Fudd chased a youthful Bugs with his popgun, waiting for the start of "wabbit season"; when Bugs was held captive by Marvin Martian (in "Spaced Out Bunny"); and when, after 30 years of chases, Wile E. Coyote finally caught the Road Runner (in "Soup or Sonic").

Sky Dance

1980 • 10 min

Evocative images of ancient and modern art reflect the universal search for life on other planets. At the end of "Sky Dance," contact is made.

Black Pete – No, You're It

1980 • 48 min • Denmark

A drama-documentary film about the fatal effect of poor living conditions on health – the so-called "social inheritance." The principal characters in the film are two fourteen or fifteen-year-old children, Carl and Hanne. Covering a hundred-year period and drawing on case stories recorded by actual hospital staff, the film illustrates a number of variations of "the same old story."

Lancalot Freely

1980 • 20 min • Canada

A documentary portrait of Peter Mettler’s best childhood friend, who had left home to lead a lavish lifestyle.

Ein Leben

1980 • 31 min • East Germany, Germany

Using photos and letters that the director found in a landfill, she reconstructs in her documentary film the life of Maria Bartel, a Berlin baker born in 1902 who, as the director comments in voice-over, "was in the prime of her life during fascism." In 1920, she moved from the East Prussian province to Berlin with her first husband. After his suicide, she opened a bakery, which she ran until the end of the war in 1945, raised her son, and now has various relationships and love affairs.

Ikusmena

1980 • 12 min • Spain

During the awards ceremony of school paintings, a girl remembers how she ended up painting the picture she presented to the contest. Several people from her environment influenced, with their opinions and advice, the final result.

About a Tortoise

1980 • 4 min • Soviet Union

Cartoon about a small tortoise.

Little Tom Thumb

1980 • 11 min • Yugoslavia

A story based on the fairy tale about Little Thumb.

A Marine Barber

1980 • 25 min • Japan

Commando Ultrà Curva Sud

1980 • 52 min

This documentary testifies the birth of CUCS – Commando Ultrà Curva Sud -, union of the main firms of As Roma hooligans in the 70-80s. It also deals with the complicated and violent past of the ultras groups, with the historic rivalries with other teams and with the lives of its members.

Sea Voyage of Solnyshkin

1980 • 17 min • Soviet Union

The red-haired boy dreams of becoming a cabin boy, but for now he performs feats in his sleep.

The Bugs Bunny Mystery Special

1980 • 24 min • United States of America

F.B.I. and C.I.A. agent Elmer Fudd is after a tall, dark, stranger who robbed a bank. He gets him confused with Bugs Bunny...the chase is on.

Vacation in Val Trebbia

1980 • 50 min • Italy

Director Marco Bellocchio returns with his family to his homeland, in the province of Piacenza. The journey is an opportunity to confront oneself with one's past, as well as with the nostalgia of an era.

Vie et mort d'Untel

1980 • 55 min • France

In an antiquarian, a man buys a leather-bound blank book to use as diary. Once home, he finds the book has started writing itself - with Chapter I detailing everything that happened to him, including the book starting to write itself.

Man on Pink Corner

1980 • 55 min

The story is told from the first-person perspective of an unnamed narrator, who recounts the events of a particular night at a Villa Santa Rita bar and brothel. The clientele, including the narrator, spend the evening drinking and dancing the tango. Their festivities are interrupted by the arrival of a formidable stranger in black.

Ryoujutsu Ritual

1980 • 59 min • Japan

Pink film from Toei Central.

Vacations in Prostokvashino

1980 • 18 min • Soviet Union

The continuation of the adventures of Fyodor and his friends from the Prostokvashino village.

Lake Placid '80

1980 • 4 min

Paik produced this exuberant, high-speed collage as a commission for the National Fine Arts Committee of the 1980 Olympic Winter Games. In a fractured explosion of densely layered movement and action, images of Olympic sports events are mixed with Paik’s recurring visual and audio motifs.

Liberty's Booty

1980 • 48 min

Liberty’s Booty is an investigation into prositution from a female perspective under a late capitalist economy. The film is also a document and a celebration of a New York subculture in the late seventies. With a dense mix of real testimonies, verité footage and acted out scenarios, this film examines power relations and the commodification of the body. The film alludes to a growing globalisation with its reference to a MacDonalds strike in Dublin and imagery of Pope Paul’s visit to Ireland in 1979 which in retrospect, is seen as marking a final attempt to halt the transformation of Irish society.

Profiles of Andrea Dunbar and Victoria Wood

1980 • 35 min

This 1980 Arena documentary profiles writer and performer Victoria Wood and teenage playwright Andrea Dunbar. Wood is seen, alongside Julie Walters, during rehearsals for Wood's stage play Good Fun at the Sheffield Crucible and the film explores her talent to amuse through her witty and engaging songs. The film also looks at Dunbar, as her first play, The Arbor, written when she was only 15, was running at the Royal Court.

ABBA in Concert

1980 • 52 min • Sweden

ABBA's 1979 tour of North America and Europe, with emphasis on performances at Wembley Arena, London.

The Cheryl Ladd Special: Souvenirs

1980 • 46 min

Cheryl Ladd's second variety special featuring Jeff Conway, Joyce Dewitt and Charlie Daniels.

Les bottes sauvages

1980 • 27 min • Canada

La marche gaie

1980 • 15 min • France

A short documentary about the October 14 1979 March For Lesbian And Gay Rights in Washington D.C.