Cinematic Era: 1980 Vintage

Recorded live in Dortmund for WDR's Rockpalast.

Analysis of the history and memory of the Romani community that has lived for centuries in Portugal.

It has been debated for years. Is there such a thing as fate? Can people erase their fate and write whatever they want instead? Our hero was so unlucky that even after spending months in bird paradise hoping his luck would change, not even a sparrow had defecated on his honey! You know how eating sugar sweetens your mouth, and eating chili makes your eyes water? Well, that's the kind of comedy my last hope is—the national lottery...

Hyeon-shik discovers that his live-in girlfriend, Eun-suk, has two other passionate suitors; The artist, Jin-woo and In-tae, a taxi driver.

Two middle-class Dublin couples get together for a Christmas Eve party which degenerates into a kind of Irish "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf"? Alcohol causes smug exteriors to slip and reveals unpleasant truths.

A televised concert special featuring Barry Manilow and special guest star Dionne Warwick.

Agata is a member of the rowing sports club. At the next competition, she is going to sail in the team of the "eight". During this time she meets Robert, their relationship turns into love. Robert, however, turns out to be unworthy of her feelings, cheating on the girl by cheating on her with other women. Among them is Agata's trainer. The girl experiences it very much.

Triangulation.

A girl and a boy are forced to flee when they hurt a corrupt cop.

A César award nominate short feature.

A portrait of the eminent Nobel Prize winning physicist who greatly advanced our knowledge of the atom. Bethe discusses the milestones of his career: his student work in Germany, his flight from the Nazis, his work on the Los Alamos Atomic Bomb project under Robert Oppenheimer, and his research on the energy production in stars. In working to help solve the energy crisis of the 1970’s, Bethe established himself as one of the country’s leading spokesmen for a safe way to use nuclear energy. Speaking in support of a sensible use, he represents a side of this controversial issue that deserves more attention. The film provides crucial insight into this complex issue by one of the world’s authorities.

The film depicts the 75th anniversary and funeral of Edgar Kauliņš, the chairman of the collective farm "Lāčplēsis."

Cebolinha, having read a book on dog training, decides to train Floquinho to protect him by attacking Monica when she poses a threat. However, when Monica approaches to confront Cebolinha about tying knots in Samsão's ear, Floquinho mistakenly attacks a scarecrow instead of Monica. Consequently, Cebolinha ends up getting punished once again.

A couple of foresters living in the snowing mountains of Rugova get stuck after a blizzard.

Based on the novel by George Sand.

Short film.

In this film, dancer and choreographer Jane Comfort performs a short dance titled “For the Spider Woman.” She intentionally threw herself off balance and then recovered. We filmed the same dance once a month during the term of her pregnancy. As her body grew and her balance changed, successive months were denoted by the change of colors of her leotards.

We follow the rootless Sinsen gang in good times and bad. A life that consists of rock concerts, hut trips, amusement park visits and car thefts. The year is 1958, when the Americans launched the Explorer and the Russians Sputnik III. However, these events do not interest the youthful persons in this film, the members of the "Sinsen gang". For them, it is far more important to know which rock hits are on top on Top Twenty on Radio Luxembourg, and to have seen the latest film with Elvis. The most important is to be accepted by the gang, to be loyal to your pals, and for a very few to be prepared for school

Agathopulus loves his luxurious life. He does not want to be bothered with helping to rebuild a destroyed city. Instead, he invents machines and rationalizes the work flow. Although he is celebrated as a hero against his will, he has to escape.

A narrative constructed in the wishful-filmmaking, or “fanumentary”, genre. Rural women artists unite via CR to support one another’s work and to showcase more women’s art publicly available in their community. A refreshing weave that combines animation, nature shots and live action into a story of actualization.

1980 Urdu film from Pakistan

Punk rock short film

This is a short film by Mirza Idrizović.

An animated vignette. A lively dance of painted wooden dolls that twirl, swing and sway to gay music.

Live from the Metropolitan Opera, 14 February 1980. This version takes place in Boston rather than Sweden.

A report on the 1980 trial in which Kurt Lischka, Herbert Hagen and Ernst Heinrichsohn were convicted of deporting the Jewish population of France during the Second World War.

This is the most absolute. – S.B.

Based on the story from Guy de Maupassant, the film depicts six tales from Normandy, alternately funny, moving and cruel.

Hong Kong film

During the 1980 exhibition of Burden's monumental kinetic sculpture The Big Wheel at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, Burden and Feldman were interviewed by art critic Willoughby Sharp. Burden articulates the process of creating The Big Wheel, a 6,000-pound, spinning cast-iron flywheel that is initially powered by a motorcycle, and discusses its relation to his earlier performance pieces and sculptural works. Addressing his motivations and the meaning of this potentially dangerous mechanical art object, Burden discusses such topics as the role of the artist in the industrial world, "personal insanity and mass insanity," and "man's propensity towards violence."

Also called Pisces, this rarely-screened work is part of Belson’s Synchronicity Suite along with Apollo’s Lyre, Seapeace, and Eleusis/Crotons. It is listed by the Center for Visual Music as one of Belson’s unfinished and/or unreleased films.

A man is lured into a hedonistic world behind a waterfall.

Short film directed by Orly Toren

After graduating from school, Zholaman comes to the Mangyshlak peninsula and becomes an oil worker. Viewers will learn about how he grows up and matures, about his friends and his first youthful love…

A travelogue film using Pound's concept of invention as a starting point.

Phillip is married to Rositza but has a kid from Marta. Rositza adopts the kid, but she could not keep neither it nor her husband. Phillip takes the kid and moves to the attic where Marta lives. Rositza comes to pick up the kid, since she wants to take care of it. In the quarrel for the kid, get involved the proprietor of the attic Venera and her nephew Svetlozar. Soon everyone starts to unravel his or her own live experiences. The kid does not make a noise in the other room just to show that everyone has forgotten about him. No one from the characters has seen his or her faults. In order for them to avoid their vulnerability, they have a behavior style, which is not part of their human nature. They have lost their essence.

Frieda Liappa in this short film casts an alternative gaze on the notion of historicity. Loukia is a teenager currently staying at her cousin’s house in Athens. Unlike her cousin she is timid and quite stressed for the school exam. She studies history. Between the lines of her book the historical events sprung up in a multidimensional way. Liappa transverses the dimensions of the real the imaginary and the symbolic. She invites the viewer to consider the construction of the filmic as well as the historical text. She succeeds in making a film with an open end and to leave room for our own contingent constructions.

A Young man from the mountainous Part of Georgia, Khevsureti, tries to resist the monotony of life, and plays with death in a strange way. There is only bullet in his gun, when will it be fired?

Fairytale teleplay based on the fairytale "The Water of Life" by the Brothers Grimm. The wizard, ruler of the black forest, can be defeated if someone manages to draw water from the spring containing the water of life. The princess sets off to find the water of life for her terminally ill father. The sorcerer transforms the girl into a dragon. A fairy gives the king new courage to face life. He defends himself against the sorcerer. He is supported by the blacksmith, who takes up the fight and defeats the wizard.

This McDonald's training film shows how to enjoy your job by giving customer service with a smile.

The Loner is a psychosexual journey through the dark landscapes of Oursler's insular narrative universe. The tape's paranoid, tormented protagonist — who is represented by such objects as a spoon and a water-filled sack — wanders through a hostile dreamspace of macabre obsessions and sexual alienation. Incredibly, Oursler renders this unlikely anti-hero as a sympathetic, totally believable "character." The artist's somnambulant, pun-laden narration and astonishing visual inventiveness add black humor to the surreal proceedings; for example, a bar scene is populated by an outrageous "cast" of found-object grotesques. Oursler's classic happy ending, in which The Loner "would live a wonderful life," rings with an ironic desperation.

A psychedelic combination of live action and animation in the spirit of Dungeons & Dragons.

Olle Hedman's interpretation of Åke Karlung's “Globabels torn” at the Modern Museum 1979. (Filmform)

A cinematic portrait of the actress and performer Vija Armane.

This fast-paced and entertaining animated film is about water and the demands placed on our waterways by agriculture, industry, and urban life. An army of droplets, led by The Chief, shows what happens to water from the time it falls as rain until it reaches its destination.