Cinematic Era: 1980 Vintage

"A very skillfully controlled semi-fiction, expressing itself through special effects and inlays." said Belloir in Cahiers du cinema. A four-screen version exists as well.

Lee Ju-Il dreams a lot of things. He wants to be proud of himself to his lover named Maeng-Ja, so that he comes to Seoul to become a member of show performance group of the theater. He is fired because of unexpected mistake to be expelled in the first show performance. While being astray, he lives marriage life with Maeng-Ja under poor conditions. His wife is forced to go to hospital and take Caesar's surgery, but is in short of money for the surgery. He is barely employed to become an assistant presider of local area performance, but is fired soon because his face does not look handsome. Thus, he loses a hope. Thanks to an ambitious producer's help, he becomes a top class actor in the show stage and attracts a lot of people who once looked down upon him in the past.

Children find a baby in the forest.

The year is 1941, World War II is going on. Vaso returns to his village, helping the revolt of the villagers against the enemy. Marko, his brother, wants to get revenge against the people who took his fiancée. This revenge becomes part of the overall revolt.

Six other months of my life (December 1979 – June 1980), from one decade to the next, a trip to Quebec, Brussels, Geneva and many other adventures.

In 1977, Robertas Verba followed Jonas Mekas in Lithuania, his second trip there after he left the country in 1944.

A woman's face under the light of life.

Two kolkhoz watchmen spend their free time each day playing cards and chess. Their competitive spirit gradually pushes the old friends to unforeseen extremes.

Minister Melone, his mistress, and his bodyguards, before heading to Luxembourg to drop off a briefcase filled with embezzled money, stay in a hotel. Lord and Lady Duncan also arrive, welcomed by Sophie, daughter of Professor Moricet, an eminent weapons researcher. They are at a show where a strange couple is watching them... Moricet is kidnapped with his briefcase containing top secret plans. From then on, detectives, briefcases, spies, and guards intertwine in a relentless and eventful pursuit! Which of them will recover the 'real' briefcase?

A snake incarnation girl becomes the object of men's in the bar where she works in.

South African Movie

A separated wife finds herself vulnerable to the wiles of men around her, as well as to temptations she could hardly resist.

1980 Bolshoi production of the Rimsky-Korsakov opera conducted by Yuri Simonov.

Writes Kobayashi, "In 1972 I started a series of participatory performances where the first person performs an ambiguous action in front of a recording camera; the next person watches the recorded footage and imitates the action in front of a recording camera; the third person repeats the same procedure using the second person's video recording, and so on. Within the repetition of recording and action, the original gesture is transformed by the participants' misunderstanding, interpretation, and memory."

Remember the skateboard craze? Made at its peak in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. With Tom Burckhardt, whose song "I'm a Skateboard Junkie" is played by Vincent Katz.

Cantaloup is an informal documentary on the Vasulkas' Digital Image Articulator, an imaging device they designed with Jeffrey Schier. Using a cantaloup and the three artist/designers as source material, Steina explains the capabilities of the machine, including its real-time imaging ability and the articulation of images in a digital code. She describes the varying sizes of pixels (picture elements), the layers (or slices) of color and tone that can be derived from one image, and techniques such as "grabbing" the image and multiplying it. This document offers an informative demonstration of a complex imaging device.

A documentary on the art of the Soviet equestrian circus. The film features striking and spectacular circus numbers requiring excellent skill, great courage and love for animals on the part of the artists.

After a curse, a young man transforms into a snake on every full moon. When he accidentally kills the woman he likes, her brother sets out to uncover the truth.

The film, based on Regina Ezera's story "It Dos All", has won recognition at the 23rd Latvian SSR Amateur Film Festival, receiving a bronze medal and an award for best cinematography. The main character remembers the unpleasant situation while relaxing in a Finnish sauna and an intrusive travel companion, although "it does everything", she does not want to do so.

A letter to the editor performed as a film. It lacks statistical basis. No adults, experts or others have been consulted. However, a group of children are asked about one thing: What would it be like if they were to decide?

Short film about bilingual kids

Footage of video game machines and rides from a Disney park in 1980.

Using the phenomenon of inverted (or negative) video feedback, this work constructs a one-to-one correspondence between recited text and image. Black and white rectangles, embedded one within another against a black background, are generated through a closed-circuit system: a camera’s signal is inverted and displayed on a monitor that the same camera is framing. The camera, as it were, sees itself seeing itself seeing itself and so on. (It’s the inversion itself that produces the alternating black and white rectangles). The number of rectangles is based on a precise score involving seven channels of chanted text (all in the voice of the artist)—a kind of “language canon.”

Eusebio Sempere's work serves as the basis for transforming it into movement and rhythms that are implicit in his own visual arts, but which can only be converted into another dimension other than the sculptural-pictorial through cinema.

Adventure film based on S. Zhubatyrov's story "Distant Islands" tells about the journey of children to one of the uninhabited islands of the Aral Sea. They want to find traces of the ancient city here. The difficulties experienced during the dangerous journey rallied the guys, they were able to check the value of strong friendship.

"I joined the army so I could travel and see the country. I saw Northern Ontario during training exercises. In the first few days, I fell secretly in love with another soldier. That's when I asked to be released from the army. I had a super 8 camera with me, so I could film stuff to show my mother on leave. This film tells a story, but not exactly the one I'd intended..."

A nocturnal "offside". Pascal Martin and the celluloid bather summon us to a strange magical rite that refers to the ambiguous games of childhood.

Portrait of the great chess master, aesthetician, human being, Eugene Salome.

Warm summer afternoons, concentrated on a group of young women and men on a weekend in the small town of Wels, form the setting for Andreas Gruber's diploma film, which was shot at the Vienna Film Academy and exclusively with amateur actors. The film primarily tells stories of adolescence, the basic tenor of which is already revealed in the film's title, through poses staged with attention to detail. The soundtrack provides the driving narrative force, not only expressing feelings and hopes, but also elegantly capturing a mood defined by waiting, while simultaneously archiving it.

Told with raw eccentricity and grotesque humor, The Weak Bullet is an ironic tale in which the trajectory of the eponymous bullet propels a bizarre narrative of social rupture and sexual paranoia.

A youthful drama that explores the clash between idealism and materialism, set against a backdrop of emotional complexity and personal transformation

The submarine and surface fleet of the USSR is the country's pride. From Murmansk to Vladivostok, sailors stand watch in difficult weather conditions, for whom the ship's deck has become their land and the cabin their second home. Submariners, who spend months in the depths of the ocean, face particularly challenging circumstances. The stories of these young sailors, their commanders, and the reasons behind their choice of this courageous profession shed light on their character development and post-service lives.

Short film from the Delta Space Mission film series. A giant tornado pulls the Delta spaceship into the endless ocean of a strange planet.

“Parting Shots from Animals” was inspired by essays by John Berger and developed in collaboration with Chris Rawlence. Shot entirely in the UK, it consists of a diverse series of arresting ‘films within a film’, each presented as if made about us from the perspective of the animals whose lives we may appear to celebrate, but continue to exploit and to destroy. While John Berger doesn’t appear in the film and wasn’t directly involved in it’s making, he narrates to great effect the text he co-wrote to accompany the film’s provocative opening sequence.

A documentary involving the work done by Arthur and Corinne Cantrill since 1975 in 3-colour separation. Also discussed are the classic theories and principles in 3-colour separation in film and photography.

In this animated short, Evelyn Lambart uses her well-known style of animation – paper figures and brightly colored backgrounds – to revisit Aesop’s tale of 2 mice with vastly different lifestyles. Ultimately, the film suggests it is far better to live simply and in peace than to live in luxury amidst danger.

A production of Offenbach's opera sung in english.

Friday is disco-day. But everything will not go as planned. The girl you just met disappears when your friends are about to move on. And too much booze adds to regrets and angst in the abandoned suburb.

Life Dances On is Robert Frank’s most personal and emotional work because it deals directly with his family and close friends. The film is dedicated to his daughter Andrea and to his friend and collaborator Danny Seymour, both deceased. Life Dances On is composed of delicately balanced, intuitive moments that merge Frank’s own sense of loss for two people close to him with several filmed portraits of those who share his life, including his family and people on the street in New York City.

In Gidal's films, the first level of resistance, that of the filmmaker to the lure of the object, is chiefly inscribed through the action of the camera in it's 'looking at' the space - variously through; motion, distance, focal length's effect on perspective, zoom or focus. The second level, the attempt to distanciate the spectator from the identification with the enunciator, is chiefly inscribed through devices like; repetition, graining out or darkening out of the image in printing, or disruptions in the flow of images and motion. It is particularly in the devices of the second level of distanciation - the effects on the screen of 'material flatness, grain, light movement' where Gidal, in an attempt to produce a condition for the spectator of response to the film, rather than identification with the filmmaker, that he has recourse to those features 'intrinsic' to film.

Yvan, who lives with his wife Éva and their 3 children in a villa by the sea, regularly has the same nightmare: Locked in a cellar, he is physically tortured and broken by executioners who want him to talk. But of what.

Examination of warp pattern weaving in Peru, an ancient Andean Indian tradition handed down from woman to woman for some 5,000 years.

Made by Yorkshire Television, this programme presented by Richard Whiteley is a look at Christmas celebrations in the village of Haworth in West Yorkshire, the home of the Bronte sisters. The special, first broadcast 18th December, 1980, includes footage of children waving from window of steam train in Haworth Railway Station, Haworth High Street with choir singing carols outside church, and Santa on a train talking to local children.