Cinematic Era: 1980 Vintage

The film was shot at the opening ceremony of the Georgian Partisan Memorial in Italy and tells the story of the hero Fore Mosulishvili.

A German Film Award winning docu-drama about a woman who works in a school for deaf children.

A parody of American domestic and political life. Barbara Walters interviews Joan Kennedy. Assuming a reconciliation with Ted this acerbic farce casts alcoholic, manic depressive Joan Kennedy as First Lady.

This documentary takes us on a journey of discovery through the words of young girls, members of the work team at Wuchang station, who spontaneously answer the filmmaker's questions. In these words and confidences, a concern emerges: to be first and foremost at the service of the Chinese people. Collective life takes priority over individual or family life. And when you get married, you agree to see your spouse only when their respective workplaces and schedules coincide...

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?

Dreamlike film collage by Charlie Nykvist, the son of cinematographer Sven Nykvist.

A work on the perception of space, where a video of a motionless figure in a room correlates four different camera positions with four different synthesized tones. We see the inert artist and how she calmly faces the cameras head-on. Six minute version.

Folk och Rackare play music; Ebbe Schön and Sif Ruud tell Christmas stories.

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

A Golden Harvest Award Winner short film.

South African Movie

Produced by Kunming Film Studio in 1980. Adapted from the Chinese Opera of the same name. Directed by Zhang Baolai and Ma Changshu. Photography: Wen Yuzhang. Starring: Qiu Shirong, Wang Yuzhu, and Fan Fenglai.

A film about the outstanding chess player and world champion Mikhail Tal. The director, in collaboration with the cinematographer, has discovered a technique for showing not only the psychological portrait of the film's protagonist, but also the movement of his thoughts and the passage of time.

Short educational film by Vladimir Kobrin.

Short film by Keith Haring

The title of Vegetable Memory derives from the writings of Jalaludin Rumi, a 13th-century Persian poet. Evolving as what Viola terms a "kind of temporal magnifying glass," the work explores the perceptual phenomenon of repetitive, cyclic viewing. A loop of images recorded at the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo is extended in progressively slower cycles, changing the form, feeling and ultimately the meaning of the original images as they move further into the subjective and pictorial.

Alcoholism is the subject of this animated film. Stark line drawings portray the vicious cycle of drinking and family break-up, as the head of a family drinks to forget the drudgery of his life. The consequences are disastrous. A film without words in which images speak volumes.

The life energy, which guides man through life, is metaphorically represented through a hand. With the end of the life of the hand, the human dies.

The second drawing animation I made when I was a student at Musashino Art University.

The Watts Summer Festival is one of the oldest African American cultural festivals in the United States. The Watts community founded the event in 1966, one year after the Watts uprising. Ulysses Jenkins's film captures moments from the festival, including footage from a performance by the band War. This California funk band—famous for songs such as "Low Rider," "The Cisco Kid," and "Why Can't We Be Friends?"—was also well known for its multiethnic membership. The 1972 Watts Festival was one of the first events that Jenkins filmed, and he captured the underlying issues of community and commemoration that defined the annual event. At the time the local news media would, in Jenkins's opinion, misrepresent the festival by issuing warnings about it, and the artist's own footage served to counteract the media's negative view.

Based on a poem from the Icelandic sagas, this film tells of how Thrymur, the king of trolls, stole the hammer of Thor and how Thor got it back.

A young boy lives in fear after discovering his mother is Arp, a mythical spirit consisting of nothing but a head and bloody entrails.

A team of divers assemble a big bubble in the Arctic Ocean.

Little Peter goes to his grandparents' house for the holidays, but he forgets to take his storybook with him.

A film about lingering emotional memories.

Homage to the artist Antoni Tàpies

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.

A young man’s heart is full of passion and warmth. He decides to leave his father’s home to venture into the world. By chance, he overhears a conversation between a giant and the daughter of the sun, which reveals to him the legend of the Northern Maiden. He then chooses to set out to sea in search of this fabled being. Based on a story by Kārlis Skalbe.

Documentary about an Englishman who served as a hangman in Fiji Island.

Outtakes from the movies

Landscape and Room opens with a rudimentary line drawing of a landscape on a white screen. A performer enters in the foreground and begins making a line drawing of a room over the landscape drawing that is already there. The performer leaves the screen in the foreground and after a few seconds he re-enters. He then proceeds to use scissors to cut away the drawing of the landscape. The drawing of the room is left on the screen. The performer then gradually appears from behind a large piece of paper as he cuts it away. A drawing of a rectangular solid also appears as the paper is cut away. The performer leaves. After cutting away some lines from the rectangular solid the performer cuts away the drawing of the room. He then reappears from behind as he cuts away another layer of paper that covers the scene. As he cuts the paper away another drawing of a rudimentary landscape appears. The solid is now in the landscape. The film ends with the performer filling in the solid with red chalk.

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.

Mexican feature film

Commissioned by Remy Martin for a public exhibition in Grand Central Station in New York, Remy/Grand Central is an advertisement with a deconstructive twist. In a syncopated collage of appropriated footage (including a TV commercial for Sergio Valente jeans) and a young woman drinking Remy on a commuter train platform, Birnbaum calls attention to how mass media advertising uses a woman's body as a vehicle for selling products. In a stylized pastiche that she terms "a snack-en-route with a pretty girl, animated trains, updated Bacharach muzak (Brazilian style), and pouring Remy," Birnbaum turns the tables on the media's use of woman as commodity.

In this announcement/anti-commercial for the Rock Against Religion concert in Kaasee Rotterdam (1979), you can hear ear-splitting punk by Rode Wig and REVO. Kassee burnt to the ground, the bands disappeared and singer Aram Slappendel only made the headlines again when – in a haze of black magic, speed and LSD – he killed two of his girlfriends and himself.

Short film by Hollis Frampton

Musing on the past and the present, on roads not taken and the road I was already on. For Jeanine Hayden and her son Jeff, wherever you are. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

Film by Ana Mendieta, 1980

Sherman creates an elegant, graphically precise choreographed dance from the rhythmic, symmetrical movements of two elevators, two escalators and their two riders (a man and a woman) tethered to the aural image of an imposing jukebox.

A young man watches the bikinis and boogie boarders around him but just can't relate.

Lyubo is an actor in a provincial theater. He prepares for his role of Cirano De Bergerak from the play by Edmond Rostand. This is his dream role. His edge outside the theater is slowed down by the conformity of the artisan-ship. Lily is a pianist. She is taken by her pupils at the musician school. She wants to overcome her stage fright. Lyubo and Lily have never met. They know each other thanks to a wrongly dialed number. The culmination comes, just like in Rostand's play. The two arrange to meet, but Lyubo gets scared and he sends his friend - an unscrupulous boy. The one who gets the victory is not the one Lily loves.

The human hand transformed through various animation techniques.

A company director and a tramp bumps into each other, with the result of a broken liquor bottle, and a fight emerges, as well as the police. They are old working buddies taking to different roads during WW2. They wind up in court.