1980 Movies

Tony Buba trains his documentary lens on the washing of his 87-year-old grandmother’s kitchen walls, an annual ritual. While the filmmaker works dilig...

The Cure concert at Apeldoorn, Netherlands 18 July 1980

"This homage to structural filmmaker Paul Sharits, was made by re-photographing thousands of cement splices, then arranging them into four movements....

This is an unusual documentary on the oldsters in a nursing home. Young director Claude Godard (unrelated to Jean-Luc) has eschewed dialogue, music, a...

A short trip into daydream-like surrealism.

Short animation telling three stories - of a man at home, a boat at sea and a bird. All three are seen simultaneously via a split screen and occasiona...

In Hot Pink, director Patssi Valdez provided costumes and make-up to two young men and one young woman who perform in an unscripted scenario of play,...

Two kids once argued about whether it was possible to play out a book plot in life - they almost quarreled. Sixteen-year-old Erkin solved their disput...

1980 mainland Chinese film.

A BAFTA award nominated horror feature. One hundred years after a man murdered his wife's lover and left his body in a wardrobe for her to find, the n...

A company director and a tramp bumps into each other, with the result of a broken liquor bottle, and a fight emerges, as well as the police. They are...

A documentation of a Jack Smith drag performance featuring a large red wig.

This true classic from 1980 features the incredible surfing performances of Australia's Simon Anderson, Chris Byrne, Terry Fitzgerald, Wayne Lynch, Ma...

Short film directed by Lutz Konermann

Dialogue between children from Kampuchea who talk about their terrible experiences during the Pol Pot regime and pupils from Erfurt, Arnstadt and Plau...

"An introductory sequence of flickering color frames serves as a conceptual architecture for the single-frame exploration of a multi-cornered New York...

The second part of John Hanson and Rob Nilsson's Prairie Trilogy

Alan Garner was the author of The Owl Service, one of the key texts within the recent fad for the English Wyrd. This early 1980’s documentary features...

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 uncontroll...

What shall one say? – S.B.