Cinematic Era: 1980 Vintage

The multiple identities of Professor Anatole Lacoste.

A film about the life and death of the 116-year-old Balinese Master-Artist.

The filmmaker effects a variety of visual tricks that confound spatial relationships and defy gravity.

Images of a woman in evening clothes. She caresses and touches her body and looks at herself in the mirror.

Three-color separation imagery expands the experimental documentation of landscape. Alternating nuances of color conjure up; a formal beauty, which are echoed in birdsong and the buzzing of insects.

These words are data shows how information can be manipulated with different ways by the computer ; each signs is translated to numbers following the ASCII code. Those numbers are then utilized to set the color and the music. As soon as the structure is recognized by the computer programming system, it becomes automatic. The artist is working on the definition of a conceptual system.

“A totally artificial city created entirely in camera. There is virtually no sky…just a city gone mad and town planning berserk. Crazy angles created by a tilted camera are mirrored and enhanced by dutifully askew mattes which mock the architectural logic of urban space. Shadows and wind generated by the city’s structures defy pedestrians as the soundtrack (an insistent sine-wave) aggravates and reverberates off heavy geometric facades.” (Paul Winkler)

Arles Dolorosa is a poem about the city where José Guirao was born, through a self-portrait he did by shooting what is referring to his own memories : both far and close. The heat of Arles on a hot summer, antique statues, stones damaged by the wind and faces of old women and people in the crowd of the amphitheater are contrasting with the black bull's painful death during the corrida. All these images are becoming the light, and beauty of the film, which is an ode to a place that will always stay in Guirao's soul.

The story of the cultural life in Rotterdam around 1980. In particular, the punk scene does not go unnoticed. The television broadcasting (VPRO) during that time led to strong reactions and severe criticism. Now it is a unique document of a turbulent time, with a direct movie style.

A fantasy film of illusive geometry, changing and rebuilding itself by computer animation, unique visual magic done while artist-in-residence at NASA in Houston in conjunction with Richard Weinberg.

Canada resurrects the compulsory draft, but refuses to allow gays to enlist. Taking the form of a fictional community-access documentary, The First Draft purports to present struggles of a Paris, Ontario-based gay anti-war group opposing both the homophobic exclusion and the draft itself. Complete with tacky graphics and ribald war-songs, the tape looks at the limitations of constructing alternative media within a dominant culture.

The Zeil in the circle.

The youngest daughter in the house of a wealthy man is now only called "Cinderella" because since her father has been away, her mother has left her to do all the dirty work. Her two older daughters, on the other hand, are supposed to look after themselves and enjoy life. When their neighbor Kasperl finds out about this, he decides to help the poor girl. With all sorts of mischief, he ensures that the two older sisters stink to high heaven when they are invited to a ball at the prince's. But the youngest is helped even more by a good fairy who enables her to visit the castle. In order to remain unrecognized, Cinderella has to leave the dance at 12 o'clock and loses one of her shoes. The prince, meanwhile, has already fallen madly in love with the beautiful stranger and decides to send Kasperl with the shoe across the whole country. Only the one who fits the dainty thing should become his wife.

A glimpse of the boy next door...

A mother of five in the Mekong Delta leaves her ten year-old to look after the younger children while she goes to fight in the war.

The intermission.

Peter Morin' show, deliberately narrative, fantastical and symbolic, was calling for a cinematic transposition in which objects, actions, gestures, without losing anything from their power, would be used differently, liberated from real time, linearity, theatrical space. The use of cinematic language (i.e. numerous framings, dark and light opposition, camera motion, superimpositions, different rhythms at the editing) permitted this transposition.

GHOST DANCE LOTS OF FLARES THE BODY OF A WOMAN identified as lies under a blanket on fogs of san fran. small bits – J. K.

When Ace Bhona uses his friend’s magic ring under false pretences to make himself a wealthy man, his greed and desire for more soon becomes uncontrollable. He hires a group of thugs to steal the ring from his friend, hoping to possess the ring for himself once and for all. But the friend has a trick up his sleeve and counters Bhona’s greed with a curse.

This documentary questions the uses and abuses of food commodities is concerned. The statements of farmers, scientists, traders, and speculators, as well as manufacturers and politicians are assembled to create a comprehensive view of the factors that determined how wheat was cultivated in the United States and how related markets functioned as the 1980s begun. The film takes its title from the wheat futures or contracts used in commodity market transactions, where the contract months include September.

A film about a woman's choice whether or not to have children and state funding of abortion.

Towards the end of the 19th century, the imagination of many painters, among them Sydney Long, was captured by a romantic, poetic approach to the Australian landscape. In his creation of an indigenous population of nymphs and satyrs for the bushland he so loved, this film reveals to us Long's efforts to find common ground between European allegorical traditions, the decorative qualities of Art Nouveau and the quest for an Australian identity. The film also examines in detail the various later versions and adaptations of the title work, which Long etched or painted during his years in England.

The life and career of author, historian, and film critic Lotte Eisner are documented. Eisner recalls her childhood in Germany, and talks aout her friendships with famed directors F.W. Murnau and Fritz Lang. She discusses German Expressionist cinema, and how she relocated to France in 1933 in anticipation of World War II.

Film version of the operetta with the same name, based on the comedy "Karnavalet e Korçës" by Spiro Çomora. This is the first musical comedy made in Albania.

In the middle of a harsh winter, a partisan soldier goes to deliver supplies to a hospital.

Powerful short that privileges sound and experiments with image to chilling effect, disrupting conventions of issue-based, feminist documentary to address domestic violence.

A T.C. Christensen Film - A Hilarious and insightful look at LDS Children. By T.C. Christensen, whose credits include The Work and the Glory and Praise to the Man Digitally Remastered The new DVD, Mouths of Babes, is hilarious, charming, and honest! This classic LDS comedy is back and better than ever! When young children are asked thought-provoking questions, their spontaneous answers are unpredictable and often surprisingly wise! Digitally remastered, the DVD Mouths of Babes will surely be a family favorite!

1980 Czech experimental short by Petr Skala

1980 Czech experimental short by Petr Skala

1980 Czech experimental short by Petr Skala

Murphy combines several kinds of imagery and sound, in such a way as to reveal the ambiguity of personal and cultural significations once they are removed from their usual contexts.

Eye-sential images: latent, lingering, and off-screen.

“The suggestion of drifting psychosexual dreams fragmenting in & out of events, places, time itself. Locations include a Detroit basement, a Provincetown night carnival and an artist’s studio. Darkness becomes the conduit.” (J.B.)

An explosion in time.

Common movies Teresa Tyszkiewicz and Zdzislaw Sosnowski, such as the other side of the Permanent Position express interest in artists and create erotic situations appropriate iconosphere privacy. We see here a sensual story about the intimate relationship linking two loving people who improvised action-compositions develop a repertoire of visual equivalents experience of love and relationship. In their private zone gradually penetrate, but also a variety of media, like television or newspapers, enabling communication with the parallel reality of the political and aesthetic, which is also a source of the content processed by the Tyszkiewicz and Sosnowski - personal experience of eroticism is here confronted with clichés and poetics of erotic performances that permeated to Polish from the West.

Canadian Documentary (Short)

Paranoid surreptitious in-jail camera held in this prisoner's hands documents daily events and posturings of 25 gringos (and Mexican jailmates) arrested at Puerto Vallarta 1968 without charge. Was there Mexico, DF - Washington, DC collusion behind this round-up from Yelapa ferry boats, private town houses and palm-roofed wall-less jungle huts? It took place during national polarization (of youth culture, official culture) in US; older US tourists were shocked to find more new generation they thought they'd left behind, and official Mexico was already paranoid in the face of coming Olympics (police would shoot 108 people) six months later. Narration's a dense web of comedy, horror and Kafkaesque grotesque behind a succession of raw sunlit images of comely youths imprisoned, male and female.

short film by Gordon Ball about an LSD experience

A Visual Diary is a look at a private moment in one's life. A narrative form without utilizing a story line. The collaboration incorporates naturalistic non-verbal theater and dance techniques with photographs providing the environment.

Documentary made by the Kurdish resistance movement.

Christopher Guard and Michael Hordern star in Shakespeare's otherworldly romance about deposed magic Duke Prospero, who inhabits an island with his daughter Miranda, their helper-sprite Ariel and the enslaved monster Caliban. A shipwreck brings newcomers to the island, and with them come complications and even danger. Miranda falls in love, Ariel foils two murder plots, Caliban gets drunk, and Prospero confronts the brother who betrayed him.

Warren Mitchell and Gemma Jones star in Shakespeare's comedy-drama about Portia, a wealthy young woman whose father controls who she'll marry, and Bassanio, who wishes to marry Portia, but can't afford to. Bassanio borrows money from Shylock, but if he can't repay the debt, a "pound of flesh" will be taken from Bassanio's friend, Antonio. Meanwhile, Portia's father puts potential husbands to the test, but Bassanio is the only man she wants.

Moon Breath Beat is a hand-drawn experimental 2D film that depicts a woman and her two cats and how external forces such as birds and the moon impact their lives. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.

Orphans, Shambu and Birju, grow up together while committing petty crimes. When they successfully steal a diamond necklace, Birju deceives Shambu.

A snapshot from the filmmaker's own life in rural Maine.

Andy arrives home from school, and goes to light the fire in the living room. His sister, Sal, warns him against this, but Andy is adamant that if he's careful everything will be OK. Unfortunately a smouldering match lands on a copy of The Beano…

Cute animated TV-series based on the children's books by István Csukás. It tells about Pom-Pom, a hairy creature that could be best compared to a wig, who becomes friends with a schoolgirl named Bogyó ("Berry") and tells her stories about other, equally bizarre creatures and their adventures on her way to school. Most Hungarians who were kids in the 1980s know and like Pom-Pom and his stories. The series is nice and educative entertainment for children.

The Making of The Blue Lagoon

Loren Carpenter made this film in 1979-80 to accompany a SIGGRAPH paper on how to synthesize fractal geometry with a computer. It is the world's first fractal movie. It utilizes 8-10 different fractal generating algorithms.