Cinematic Era: 1980 Vintage

Short documentary about Titograd (now Podgorica), the capital of Montenegro and its history.

An observational documentary about life in Glasgow which aims to avoid the usual cliches about crime and poverty and show the city in a more positive light.

A lyrical drama about the difficulties of love. A geologist husband returns home after a long absence, but he is sent on a new business trip the same day.

About the funny adventures of Mishka, Shavkat, and Ulubek from the 6th "A" class of the Tashkent School.

About a womanizer who got entangled in his love affairs.

Super-8 film by Gianni Dal Masso.

The cunning and deceitful fox is exposed while trying to pull off a new trick.

During the fifth offensive, the day before the last punching hoops on Sutjeska 1943. in a small area is connected to a lot of heavy dramas and the many fates. Company proletarians passed a group of seriously wounded closer Gojkovoj hair, the closer to the breakthrough in the direction Balinovac, where it will be early in the morning make a breakthrough hoops. With wounded stays only Dunja, terrain, man of the people, to whom they entrust the seriously wounded to guard them. All that could be under the circumstances for them to do is done. Shows the power and human courage of ordinary people through which relief outlines the breadth and humanity of the whole revolution. Film is a synthesis of both.

Once a year, on his father’s name day, Slavek Slivar, an employee of the city waterworks, is traveling with his wife and daughter to the village outside Zagreb to congratulate “years” to his father who lives there. Slavek’s sister Mira and her husband Miroslav also come here to congratulate.

Young journalist Nenad Bajkic works in the editorial office of the newspaper “Press”, managed by Despotovic. Bajkic suspects that Despotovic killed his father and wants to expose him. In 1920, “Press” became the center of increasingly complex intrigues.

A short film by Allen Ross

In 1979, an agreement between Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina allowed for the exploitation of water resources from the stretch of the Paraná River, starting from Sete Quedas.

A look at the decline of the 200-year-old slate roofing tile industry in North Wales, which once supported thousands of workers and their families and since dwindled to just a few working quarries.

A documentary about a group of carolers who travel through villages with a Nativity scene and reenact scenes from the Nativity.

Experimental film made with television images out of the air.

A stop-motion animation consisting of the front grilles of different cars, shot in the parking lots of local supermarkets. The 13-second sequence keeps looping while the ticking sound of the acoustic guitar is sped up to frantic levels.

A Muslim fighter is injured in a clash with security officers. His sister rescues him from the officers and he takes refuge in a house frequented by the son of a high-ranking SAVAK official, who is not a Muslim. The young man falls in love with the girl, but her father, a SAVAK officer, who is against their marriage, creates trouble for the fighter's siblings. As a result of the sibling clashes, the boy is influenced by the sibling's actions and converts to Islam and marries the girl. A short time later, he and the girl's brother are killed in a clash with security officers.

8mm film made in 1980 by the Bunkyo University Film Research Club.

A tongue-in-cheek look at masculinity and aggression.

Documentary by Gordon Carr on the so-called 'Persons Unknown' case in December 1979 in which members of the Anarchist Black Cross were tried at the Old Bailey on a charge of 'conspiring with persons unknown, at places unknown to cause explosions'. A concise look at the 'Persons Unknown' trial. A fascinating snapshot of history in the making, The Persons Unknown pieces together an intricate web of radicals at a thriller’s pace. Carr crisply relates the correspondences of a Black Cross secretary and imprisoned Irish republican and reaches all the way back to the Paris Commune to discuss the secretive, internationalist elements of radical leftist politics. Where mainstream media tends to become hysterical where anarchism is concerned, The Persons Unknown remains keenly factual throughout. Among those featured in the film are Stuart Christie, publisher of the "Black Flag" newsletter and former would-be Generalisimo Francisco Franco assassin, and the anarcho-punk group Crass.

In the spring of 1980, political and satirical clown Stoney Burke travels around the United States. In his one-man shows on the streets and squares, he loudly criticizes American society and starts conversations with different people.

Famous French Director, Abel Gance visits the Twin Cities for a special screening of his famous silent film Napoleon.

The story of a witch who is victim to her own trickery.

CHEESE! Anglo-Saxon expression whose pronunciation invites a smile... SMILE... French word widely recommended to cheerleaders. The popular festivals and the parade of drum bands seem to no longer be able to do without the participation of the cheerleading troops. This habit, directly imported from the U.S.A, is particularly widespread in the cities of the Nord Pas-de-Calais Mining Basin. CHEESE therefore invites us to dive into this small world with well-established habits. The gaze is sometimes critical but the general tone is humorous. CHEESE was entirely filmed in Somain, in the North, on the occasion of a large gathering of cheerleaders coming from many cities of the region.

Pink film directed by Keiko Hama

Interviews with children in Palestinian refugee camps.

Cinema entertainment creates a series of conditions for the viewer (a dark theater, credits, actors, types of films), elements that prepare us for what we are about to see. In my film, I take a story and offer four endings (happy, dramatic, commercial). So, if films have a beginning, middle, and end, mine has a beginning, middle, end, end, end, end...

Maldoror reports on a painting exhibition of the Cuban artist Wifredo Lam at the Artcurial gallery in Paris in 1980.

A bloodthirsty vampire satisfying his most odious desires.

The circus arrives with its artists to the town, and the people hide the chickens. The documentary introduces us to the creation of the show and the experiences of the troupe, in an incredible record of acrobats, trapeze artists, tigers and interviews, which give it a modern feel and take it away from the beaten path.

A film by Steve Schuler.

Industrial practice of pupils of grades 9-10 in labor and recreation camps of the Partizansky district of Primorsky Krai.

Served as the inspiration for Jerry O'Sullivan's 'Gut Pile".

" A synthesis film about the electrical means of command and control, which prove the modern orientation of the Romanian industry: neurons within integrated circuits drive industrial machinery, excavators, robots, turbines, entire assembly lines. "

UCLA Student Film. An experimental video piece about "Driving Under the Influence", with footage of a driving car, train tracks, a junk yard, and a car crash, featuring visual experiments with blue screen and color inversion.

A fairy tale about a witch who helped mushroom pickers and punished an evil sorcerer.

Documentary about a Sinti community in Duisburg, Germany.

Alaska is the visual artifact of a two-week trip, in 1976, to Homer, Alaska, where my sister was marrying the son of a homesteader. Many of the issues that drove Concern for the City are present in this film, which preceded and inspired it. As compared to New York City, the setting for Concern, Alaska is a place where nature still overwhelms and has to be respected, where man and his works remain just a tiny dot on the rugged landscape. This is changing, of course, and the Alaska mindset is to try to control, vanquish and feed from the natural environment. Yet it is a far more even contest in the north.

In the society, there were many cases of theft of property and unexpected accidents. The benefits of property insurance in people's lives are illustrated by the events that happened to the families of Dorje and Nyambuu.

Color Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Pixel stop-motion animation of one man's war against an army of toilet paper rolls.

Short by N. Stojanović.

American horror short from 1980.

Abel Gance looks back on his life and his films in this short film made to celebrate his 90th birthday in 1979.

A short film by Myron Ort.

A short film by Myron Ort.

A short film by Myron Ort.

Primeval forest voices accompany the play of the Indio girl Wilma with a large butterfly. Wilma belongs to the Aguaruna Indian tribe. The camera accompanies her as she tends to her little brothers and sisters, helps out around the house, meets the Spanish-speaking 'strangers' who have established their culture in the city, walks through the market, and finally dances in the rain and plays in the mud.

Although written documents record more than 350 years of events in North America, they reveal little about what everyday life was like. The three segments of this magazine-format film explore the current work of historical archaeologists at three sites across the United States. Details of peoples' lives are revealed in excavations at slave quarters on St. Simon Island, slag heaps in northern California mining towns occupied between 1859-1902, and subway construction sites in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where urban archaeologists devise new methods to discover artifacts in land still used.

Short film.