All Films

The Two Faces of Evil

1980 • 52 min • United Kingdom

A family on holiday stop to pick up a mysterious hitch-hiker. Originally an episode of British horror anthology TV series, Hammer House of Horror, that later received a feature release in the United States.

The Sensuous Caterer

1980 • 46 min • United States of America

The Ruts: Live from Le Théâtre de l'Empire, Paris

1980 • 21 min • France

Recorded live in Paris for Chrous TV. Malcolm Owen would be dead six months after the filming of this concert, but the legacy of The Ruts live on through the works of the artists they'd influenced over the years. Songs include: "Jah War" "Babylon's Burning" and "In a Rut".

Ecstatic Stigmatic

1980 • 57 min

No-Wave film directed by Gordon Stevenson from Teenage Jesus & the Jerks. Mirielle Cervenka (Exene's sister) plays a young woman named Rose who is afflicted with a case of extreme stigmata.

An Ordered Life

1980 • 60 min

Colin Jeavons is the German composer Anton Webern who survives Naziism only to be shot by an American GI in the closing days of WW2. Daniel Gerroll plays his son Stephen who, against his father's wishes, joined the Wehrmacht and was killed in a railway accident in 1943.

Ghost of a Chance

1980 • 30 min • United States of America

After Jenny Clifford gets married, the ghost of her first husband comes back. Pilot episode for an unproduced series.

Standing in for Henry

1980 • 60 min

At an advertising agency in Nottingham, young graphic designer Graham is recruited as a temporary replacement for the iconic Henry. The agency are desperate to be part of the Swinging Sixties but not without Henry. Can Graham replace him?

All Girls Are Twins

1980 • 23 min

The film multiplies women. A tragicomedy about a boy who is continually pranked by the appearance of his twin lovers.

Check Fraud: Paper and Persuasion

1980 • 19 min • United States of America

Presents a check-passer describing the tricks of his trade. Explains how a conscientious check-out clerk can easily trip him up.

The Clash: Live in Paris 1980

1980 • 42 min

Australian DVD pressing of this live performance from the UK Punk Rockers, previously only released in Japan. This rare live footage was filmed in 1980 for the French TV program Chorus and captures the band at their peak, touring in support of their vinyl masterpiece London Calling. Contains 12 tracks including 'Train In Vain', 'I Fought The Law, 'Janie Jones', 'Tommy Gun' and 'London Calling'. 1. Jimmy Jazz 2. London Calling 3. Protex Blue 4. Train In Vain 5. Koka Kola 6. I Fought The Law 7. Wrong 'en Boyo 8. Stay Free 9. Janie Jones 10. Comprete Control 11. Garageland 12. Tommy Gun --Tracks

Mickey Mouse Disco

1980 • 7 min • United States of America

A clip-show music video for the album of the same name and vintage. Includes 5 songs from the album ("Mousetrap", "Disco Mickey Mouse", "Watch Out For Goofy", "Macho Duck", "Welcome To Rio").

Coins Against The Wall

1980 • 30 min

A play about bullying, asking whether anything can actually be done about it. A gang of boys engage David in a game of 'coins against the wall' every day at school, a game for which David needs a daily supply of money, and which he inevitably loses. When he doesn't have money he truants from school, and eventually steals money from home.

Empty Suitcases

1980 • 52 min • United States of America

Bette Gordon describes her first feature film as “a narrative derived from film’s own material and my concern for exploring issues of representation and identification in cinema."

Peter Cook & Co.

1980 • 60 min • United Kingdom

A TV Special consisting of various sketches with the titular comedian and fellow comics in guest appearances.

Thanksgiving in the Land of Oz

1980 • 25 min • Japan, United States of America

Dorothy is carried back to Oz by a green turkey balloon on the final Thanksgiving she is to spend with her aunt and uncle, who are moving to a retirement community. She meets Jack Pumpkinhead, The Hungry Tiger, and Tic Toc (sic), and must stop the evil Tyrone the Terrible Toy Tinkerer (looking suspiciously like John R. Neil's depiction of the Nome King), who brings the balloon to life.

The Black Madonna

1980 • 50 min

Lou Parker feels very strongly that she and her husband, Ray, are different from the Farrells and the Ackerleys. With them it's all television. But she and Ray have the local library and The Observer. They keep abreast. They're different.

The Three Inventors

1980 • 13 min • France

In a white lace universe, three inventors create machines which are both pretty and useful. Unfortunately people do not understand them...

Mudflat

1980 • 27 min

Years ago, artists would walk around the muck at the edge of the San Francisco Bay in Emeryville, and build loads of sculptures out there on the flats, created from driftwood and found objects that drivers would enjoy as they motored south on the old Highway 17 (known in numerous radio ads as 'Highway 17, The Nimitz'). Grabbing material off someone else’s work was considered fair game and part of the fun, and contributed a kinetic dynamic to the ongoing display. Now the place is a park, and the sculptures are gone, but you can see what it used to be like in this neat and funny documentary by Ric Reynolds, augmented by Erich Seibert’s wonderful musique-concrète/time-lapse sequences. The flashback circus sequence includes Scott Beach and Bill Irwin. Sculptors interviewed include Walt Zucker, Tony Puccio, Robert Sommer, Ron & Mary Bradden, and Bob Kaminsky.

Carabosse

1980 • 4 min • United States of America

Animation, also of a new order in the recent series of short works. Mostly on black space, the figures in blue perform a very compact and jewel-like opera in surreal form, again to Satie’s piano music. Ideally, the film should be projected on a 30" wide white card sitting on a music stand, center stage of a large auditorium or music hall, with sound from the projector piped into the big speaker system. The film is most effective this way, but can be shown normal-size also

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

1980 • 40 min • United States of America

A mysterious stranger descends on the small town of Hadleyburg to teach its deceitful residents a lesson.

Capoeira of Brazil

1980 • 10 min

Features a performance of capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian martial art set to music in which men dance on their hands and use their feet as weapons. Blue Ribbon winner, American Film Festival.

Lynda Carter's Special

1980 • 50 min • United States of America

Lynda Carter's first musical TV special.

Aventure à Bleau

1980 • 26 min • France

Adventure in Bleau is a documentary about bouldering that takes place in Fontainebleau. Directed by Jean-Paul Janssen in 1980 and produced by Antenne 2, it is part of the series "Les Carnets de l'Aventure" and broadcast on the same television channel. It features different generations of the finest free climbing artists of the time: Patrick Edlinger, Catherine Destivelle, Lucien Bérardini, Jean Pierre Bouvier, and Bertrand Roche 'Zébulon'.

Bastion Point: Day 507

1980 • 27 min • New Zealand

Merata Mita, Leon Narbey and Gerd Pohlmann’s powerful documentary Bastion Point: Day 507 depicts the eviction of protestors from Bastion Point during the struggle for Māori land rights.