1980 Movies

The film tells the story of Shang Qin, the president of the court, who is upright, enforces the law like a mountain, withstood pressure from all parti...

This film records the most spectacular sacred ceremony of the Balinese people. The Eka Dasa Rudra, or Festival of the 11 Powers, was held by order of...

End of the 1970's after Jesus Christ. The whole of Gaul is brought into line with the supremacy of nuclear energy and its world. All of it? No, becaus...

A documentary short telling about Salah Abdel Karim the scrap artist.

Influenced by Italian neorealism and by the social environment of the heroes: ruins, landscapes, Khrushchev-apartment houses rising on the outskirts o...

"Trivia was Brakhage's choice out of all my films up to that point to be shown at the School of the Chicago Art Institute on a program with a Werner H...

"Shadow of a Journey begins, visually, with a movement of watery images flickering across the screen; and meanwhile, on the sound track, a woman sings...

A glimpse of the boy next door...

1980 Czech experimental short by Petr Skala

The Flower reflects the director's experience of living in a totalitarian communist state and pays homage to Trnka’s film Ruka, The Hand, made 3 years...

The sea. The beach where I ran with him. Those days when everything was beautiful. Now, I walk alone along the shore filled with memories. The sound o...

The story of a folktale character is told through his son, who takes after him, and makes it clear that junior is better than senior.

Chinese opera film from 1980.

A bold model who is raped attempts to avenge her humiliation by taking the law into her own hands, but her mother is held hostage by her violators.

A psychedelic combination of live action and animation in the spirit of Dungeons & Dragons.

Explains the difference between fantasy action and the real life action shown on news and sports programs. Shows how TV violence is staged and explain...

Experimental film in which musical excerpts of the 20th century and images of a 15th century statue are superimposed.

1980 Czech experimental short by Petr Skala

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