Cinematic Era: 1980 Vintage

Offshore's 1978 award winning documentary on the St. Francis Perpetual Regatta of that year.

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

"L'Aspect rose de la chose" was shot in Grenoble in 1980. It is one of the few openly political films on homosexuality in France. By offering a collective description of members of the G.L.H. (Homosexual Liberation Group) the films raises issues such as being in a relationship, ghettos, sisterhood, militancy, working-class gays and lesbians, or growing old. It also shows what Grenoble was like back then, and how it tried to approach tolerance, borderlines and the struggle for identity.

Ann Turner delves into the atmosphere of the works and reveals, besides Degas the gifted draughtsman and painter, also an experimental graphic artist, sculptor, photographer and poet.

An enumeration of various ways by which the public might react to a film projection.

The program brings a career resume of the Samba's master Paulinho da Viola playing classics of MPB like "Sinal Fechado"(Closed Signal), "Nervos de Aço" (Nerves of Steel), "Pecado Capital", "Foi um rio que passou em minha vida" (It was a river that passed in My Life), "Cantando para não chorar" (Singing for not cry) and many others.

1980 Bollywood drama from director Al Waheed, featuring music from Jagjit Singh and Chitra.

"Standing Alone" is the story of how Kim, a Christian wanting God's best for her life, struggles with the demands for conformity to the world. It examines the life changing effects of commitment to God, especially the irreversible consequences that follow true decision.

A film by Ion Grigorescu.

It’s been a year since I broke up with Akko. Even when I’m practicing hurdles, just catching a glimpse of her walking in the distance still makes my heart ache. Then one day, I meet another Akko. She’s a girl in the same class, yet we had never spoken before. I never imagined she would be someone I could talk to so easily, but I can feel the Akko from my past gradually growing smaller inside me…

A parody on films about safety. Looks at a typical suburban family and the many "risks" involved in trying to enjoy a typical suburban Christmas. Explores the "hazards" of sending Christmas cards, cuddling under the mistletoe, giving gifts, and eating Christmas dinner

US is an ironic look at the Victory Day Communist parade on the main street of Vilnius.

A silent, Super 8 film by Joseph Morder.

A super 8mm film by Davorin Marc.

A magician's assistant has a surprising trick of her own.

Experimental film by Bruce Licher.

Short film directed by Jonathan Roberts

The Seebold family is to vacate their apartment because the house is being demolished as part of 'redevelopment measures'. The search for a new apartment proves difficult.

8mm film by Swiss artist Roman Signer.

8mm film by Swiss artist Roman Signer.

8mm film by Swiss artist Roman Signer.

Keith dances to 'Money' by the Flying Lizards.

An omnibus film in which Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Yoshiharu Ueoka and others took part.

The director, cinematographer and screenwriter leave the film set to examine the footage. They take with them an elderly actor who suffers a heart attack while traveling.

This piece was originally planned by the artist as a reading for the Viewpoint series at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. “It was an attempt to circumscribe my work in the structure of a reading,” Hill explains. Processual Video is minimal with regards to an “image” but quite complex in terms of the interplay of language and image. In fact, the image as such functions more as a tracking device. On a black screen, a white line slowly rotates on its own axis, seemingly generating a spoken text that refers to itself. Depending on its position, the line gets narrower, then wider, finally dissipating horizontally into thin white strokes. While this is happening, Hill reads a text that triggers associations and wordplays with the precise position and detail of the continuously changing line.

A boy's exciting journey to school

Throbbing Gristle: Live at Sheffield University 10th of June 1980

Featured in Ana Mendieta's "Selected Performance Works"

A film about the life and work of the acclaimed Dutch animator.

“A subjective assault, a kind of found cinema, in which the pieces of existence, the pablum pop of Top 40 radio, mix effortlessly with thermonuclear techno-jargon, and stoned-out kids camping around in the buff co-exist in a restless uneasy mix with Times Square strip shows, neon effluvia, lugubrious country-western ballads and Bromberg’s own visceral polemics.” –Brian Lambert, TWIN CITIES READER

This black-and-white nightmare gives Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic tale
of the dark id a campy, gender-flipping treatment reminiscent of George Kuchar’s works. Quaffing some chemical homebrew in her personal laboratory (like everything here, a "set" created by black paint on white construction paper), this female Dr. J. soon discovers her wild side.

Terror Lostralis is a B grade genre, cult comedy, film classic. Directed by David Shepherd, it was the first 16mm film ever to be independently released in Australia. A plane crash and seven survivors are forced to fight their way through the steaming jungles of Australia.

"This was my first student documentary. I shot it over the Easter vacation in 1980 on 16mm, black-and-white reversal film. Apart from two five-minute exercises, it was destined to be the only film I ever finished at the College of Film and Television of the German Democratic Republic (Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen der DDR, HFF) in East Germany’s Potsdam-Babelsberg. It was quickly banned from being shown publicly and it remained in storage until the end of 1989. The film tells the story of a mother and her sons having coffee and cake while they try to remember –in vain– when the first time was that they tangled with the police. The reason it was banned was the casual way the film portrayed those young men living their lives untouched by ideology, including taking their careers as petty criminals for granted, meaning the film’s author accepted their existence, as is, and simply wanted to explore it.”

“Sonic artist” Chris Cree Brown discusses composing with new media and how he orchestrates particular sounds into formal compositional structures. Some sounds are made instrumentally, while others are recorded from his environment. In 1980 few classically-trained musicians in New Zealand experimented with synthesized sound and the gloriously large and sturdy equipment Brown uses to create his music will be of sure anthropological interest to many musos. The documentary was recorded with no script to capture the true art of creation.

Bollywood action film starring Padma Khanna, Vijendra Mittal and Rehana Sultan

With music by The Cardboards, The Shakes, Hans Brinker and The Dykes. By combining semi-fictionalized and documentary material, this film is as definitive a record of the Pittsburgh punk scene during its nascent underground as anyone could hope for. Beroes' band footage is radical departure from the gimmickry of stereotyped rock band documentary in its use of pans and slow dollys, capturing small glimpses of the musicians at work that a 'PR' film would have avoided at all costs. The cinematography demands a reconsideration of the rock band documentary's hoary technical vocabulary. From the time this film was made changes have already taken place in Pittsburgh punk-dom as the bands have moved from an insular salon society to more 'legitimate' venues. Some say things are better than ever, others mourn the passing of Pittsburgh punk's innocence. Beroes in Debt Begins at 20 has produced not only entertainment, but also a small and very precious time capsule.

Rakta Bandham (1980) is a classic Telugu action-drama film directed by Aluri Ravi, starring Megastar Chiranjeevi as a sub-inspector of police. The plot follows two brothers and a friend who reunite to take down a greedy antagonist whose lust for wealth ruined their families during their childhood

For one day, the film followed the workers at the Upmann cigar factory in Havana through their daily work routine, painting a portrait that is as endearing as it is informative, yet does not shy away from conflicts. The self-confidence, originality, wit, and warmth—as well as the productive drive—on display here made life in Cuba feel very complex and brought into sharp relief what this island stands to lose.

Hong Kong film

Documentary about the Royal Navy and its role in NATO.

Hugo (also known as Pingu Test Film) is an animated short which was the start of what later became the Pingu television series. It was shown on Swiss television network, Schweizer Fernsehen, on October 28th 1980, as an ident that would play before advertisments. The original airing had audio with narration provided by an unknown voice actor, but later releases omitted it.