1980 Movies

8mm film by Roman Signer.

A Short film about a cow that doesn't want to eat grass.

In 1949 a Nationalist military officer is tricked into fleeing to Taiwan without his wife. His godson's father also remained on the mainland. They hop...

The title of this video work, ‘Running Time’, refers to its duration. A figure running in landscape from infinity towards and past the camera is fores...

Short film.

A story based on the fairy tale about Little Thumb.

In Upsidedown and Backwards, two fairy tales — The Frog Prince and The Boy Who Went Out to Learn Fear — are told simultaneously, one backwards and one...

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...

At the end of the 70s there was a vigorous fight for socialism in Jamaica. In this film Landau follows Michael Manley on his tour in Jamaica, during h...

In this performance, filmed in March 1980, Sol y Dar y Dad (Solidarity: To Give and Give Sun),one of the word-splitting, deconstructive poems Vicuña...

Short film based on Cesar Vallejo's short story Paco Yunque.

The film explores and attempts to decipher the complex ornaments encoded in the traditional folk costume accessory, Lielvārde’s belt, drawing parallel...

One of Recher’s earliest films, Teyibahw shows the young artist in full control of his medium – film, performance and sound. The message of the film m...

Two children playing hide and seek stumble upon a strange visitor on the beach. This sparks a chain of bizarre events inspiring civil disobedience in...