Cinematic Era: 1980 Vintage

Pink film from Toei Central.

This propagandistic, race-car documentary is a vehicle for Werner Erhard (the founder of EST) to express his philosophy on motorized competition. Aphorisms and platitudes sprout up at every turn as the cars make their way around the track. Erhard and his group communicate in emotional terms when they do not win, filling the time between races with their viewpoints on life and living, and losing.

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

Edo and Ipah study in the same art college. Both are attracted to each other and the relationship is pure yet Ipah’s father does not approve. One day, Edo’s father who works in the railway service dies in an accident. Both Edo and Ipah must condemn with the decision that tested their relationships.

Documents the little-known heroism of the Belgian Resistance who, during the Nazi occupation, hid over 4,000 Jewish children, rescuing them from deportation and extermination, , often risking their own lives. Directed by Myriam Abramowicz and Esther Hoffenberg, children of parents who spent the war in hiding, the film inspired the creation of The Hidden Child, a world-wide network of hidden children, which, for three decades, has organized reunions of hidden children with the families who hid them in Belgium during WWII.

Venice will always be the city of romantic conquests.

5th Generation student film.

The marriage struggling with financial problems decides to impress visiting relatives.

A document that summarizes images of the energetic Mexican muralist's most significant works, using rhythmic montages that reflect the prevailing mood of each of his pictorial periods and a complex soundtrack composed of effects and various orchestral and choral interventions. Devoid of narration and didactic rigidity, this short film focuses its resources on the pure enjoyment of Orozco's work.

Dini goes to Sweden illegally and abandons his fiancée, Mari. After several months a young Finnish businessman called Pekka arrives in Budapest, carrying a letter and package from Dini. The sympathetic Pekka is judged by the friends of Mari to be suitable for the task of a nominal marriage, by which Mari could get out legally to Dini.

Rape is a matter which generates strong emotions. Immediate sympathies go to the victim...

The film tells the story of a fishmonger, who is in love with a beatiful young woman. They prepare for the marriage but all the happiness is destroyed by one bad guy.

A young butcher enters a surrealist, cold and eerie world.

A mature woman and a younger man are romantically related.

Under a South American dictatorship, Ernesto Carrion is the leader of a group of revolutionary terrorists who conspire against the military government. While the adventure of his life runs its unfailing course, he enters a deep inner conflict, relentlessly pursuing his ideals of universal freedom, rejecting the only means available to achieve his own.

Finding out what is atop a sunbeam.

Utilising an apparently new-found obsession with the colour red and reinvigorating some of the circular imagery of A Man and His Dog Out for Air and 69, Breer delves into the very basis of animation to explore how a variety of easily recognisable objects can be portrayed and manipulated differently using pixillation and classically drawn animation. -Malcolm Turner

A TV documentary that exposed abuse at an Austrian "child observation station"

A documentary film showing life in one of Hamburg’s homes for seniors. Over the course of six months, Elfi Mikesch interviewed and filmed the inhabitants, concentrating on a female couple who are spending the rest of their lives together in a close and intimate relationship.

Analysis of the problems facing the rural world of Araba, a region of the Basque Country.

A few weeks in the life of the family of an attractive woman, the TV presenter Magda, her second husband and her teenage son. Magda is a lively, energetic woman, not for nothing is she called "the boss" at home. Besides her profession, she handles other problems with aplomb. Her dream is to finally move from her small apartment to her self-built villa on the river and to make it by Christmas Eve. But everything is unpredictable and sometimes life finds its own ways.

“We are all from the same trust,” the old peasant replies to the driller’s foreman when he, justifying himself for the wounds inflicted on the ground, refers to the neighboring trust. “And we have no other.”

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.

In a country bar, Mario, a regular, spontaneously decides to integrate his stunt routine into the nude dancer's performance, which leads to a quasi-orgy. After things have calmmed down, Mario's girlfriend confronts him to what he considers to be his true calling: a double career as stuntman and upholsterer.

Sir Peter Hall's remarkably faithful interpretation of Beethoven's opera at Glyndebourne. Elizabeth Söderström plays Leonore, with Elizabeth Gale as Marzelline and Curt Appelgren as Rocco.

Rock Ross' ironically titled, time-lapse record of a 1980s Gay Pride parade in San Francisco is hardly the celebration of a celebration one would expect. By stationing his camera at a jog in the route so that the floats and people head right at us and then veer off at the last minute (and speeding up their movements in the process) he transforms the pageant's erratic asphalt ambling into an anxiety-ridden urban expedition. - Michael Fox

During a 7-week strike at a small Indiana chain factory in 1973-74, volatile union meetings and tension-filled interactions on the picket line provide an inside view of the tensions and conflicts inherent to labor negotiations. Circumstances delayed the film's release until 1980, after which a second installment would be produced focusing on collective bargaining.

Major Smith, a British intelligence officer, receives an assignment to transport to England a professor of the University of Bucharest, a geologist who has discovered a deposit of uranium ore in Romania. However, the professor suddenly disappears. To find him, the British devise a complex operation. In turn, German intelligence decides to use the results of the British. But there is a third interested party - Romanian patriots. They are relentlessly following the actions of the two intelligence agencies, trying to protect the professor and his discovery. With their help, the Romanian police commissioner manages to arrest the whole gang of spies.

After his father is killed, a young boy decides to join the partisans and fight in the war.

"Olimpiada-80" is a cycle of Soviet short animated cartoons about how two clowns - Foma and Yeryoma - were engaged in various sports.

UCLA Animation Workshop rotoscoped pen-drawn animation intercut with color stop-motion and photo stills of a bicycle road race.

Adapted from the book by Robert Muller and based on his own experiences, this film recreates the Germany of 1936, when a young boy is trying to conceal his Jewish blood. The film shows how the Nazi ideology was absorbed into the fabric of people's lives.

John Denver TV special

Short documentary on workers' movement in Brazil in the 1970s, such as the Movement Against Famine, and the policial repression against demonstrators and activists.

A television reporter's investigation into the life of a popular idol, singer Demis Flerianos, becomes an opportunity to highlight and document a series of political and social situations and issues in the early 1980s. Easy wealth, rural depopulation, cultural degeneration, bad taste, the preservation of sterile anti-communism, etc.

Biographical TV movie about controversial Austrian artist Egon Schiele.

taiwan films

An animated film for children about a little man who could not come to terms with the mystery of a mysterious object.

A performance by the band recorded for the German TV show at Dortmund's Westfalenhalle in November 1980, featuring hits including Going Underground, Start, In the City, David Watts, Eton Rifles and Down in the Tube Station at Midnight. Tracklist 1 Dream Time 2 Thick As Thieves 3 Boy About Town 4 Going Underground 5 Pretty Green 6 Man In The Corner Shop 7 Set The House Ablaze 8 Private Hell 9 Liza Radley 10 Dreams Of Children 11 The Modern World 12 Little Boy Soldiers 13 But I'm Different Now 14 Start! 15 Scrape Away 16 Strange Town 17 When You're Young 18 In The City 19 To Be Someone 20 David Watts 21 The Eton Rifles 22 Down In The Tube Station At Midnigh