1980 Movies

A film which seems deceptively simple, Dead Reckoning comprises three identical-length shots which explicitly demonstrate the process of shooting a la...

ca. 1980-81, 4 min, Super-8mm. "In Blue Aura, a man and woman are asleep in bed. The dream begins with a crudely made, whirling paper spiral and the w...

Recalling the flickering invention of early silent film illusionists, this battle of wits begins simply enough, with the innocent creation of cut-and-...

Looking outside and looking back in the same moment; the collision of memory and reluctance. In Returning Susan Stein achieves a simultaneous sense of...

On the stage of a deserted movie theater, a man in a black robe appears and performs a series of yo-yo tricks. In this surreal work of celluloid anima...

The children are the protagonists. They believe in the old saying that for their dreams to come true in the world of adults who seem freer, they have...

While a young man attempts to deal with harassment from a bully, a priest experiences a crisis in his faith.

Through the use of graphic animation this film portrays in a humoristic style, the historical evolution of the land and watermass called Pointe Pelée...

A short film by Ahmed Zir

Family bonds, how they hold us and how we break them.

Oddball educational short designed to teach children about dental care and not to be afraid of a trip to the dentist via the story of a bratty nightma...

SWIM (7 min, sound) features a Warhol-like focus on a single body; here it’s a man, who’s mimicking swimming, complete with goggles, to a vaguely sexu...

This film wants to be a humorous demonstration of how a computer can be used in order to give life to a little environment, a cinema theater. In a sim...

A story based on the fairy tale about Little Thumb.

Through the unique story of a trans woman, this documentary shows what the experience of trans-identity could have been like in the 1970s.

"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 collec...

Gus Williams, who stood for the Liberals at Nuneaton in 1979 (against the wishes of some of the local party),speaks powerfully about the uphill strug...

It explains the lifestyle systems of the Paracas culture, which originated 1000 years ago on the desert coasts of southern Peru.