1980 Movies

More evocations of this style are evident in the shorter film THE POET AND THE POND (6 min, sound),an amalgam of patterns and repetitions that also b...

In stark opposition to the rest of the program’s surreality are the documentary-esque BINGO (6 min, silent) and DUCK (3 min, silent),the subjects of...

In stark opposition to the rest of the program’s surreality are the documentary-esque BINGO (6 min, silent) and DUCK (3 min, silent),the subjects of...

One film, FIGURE WITH 14 TRAINS (7 min, sound),exists in a sort-of middle ground between documentary and experimentation. Around and superimposed thr...

My favorite of the program is BED DESERT (5 min, silent),which is something of an outlier. In this inventive little film, the ripples of bed sheets a...

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...

We learn about bus safety from a young girl who is a self-professed Bus Nut. Emphasizes the danger of horseplay while waiting for a school bus, the da...

"The former is one that reminded me of Méliès, with its simple but profoundly affecting special effects, such as a shadow puppet-like model of a ship...

Stiff Little Fingers perform hits live at the Rockpalast festival in Durtmund, Germany in 1980

Landscape and Room opens with a rudimentary line drawing of a landscape on a white screen. A performer enters in the foreground and begins making a li...

Based on the children's fantasy novel set in Australia, written by Patricia Wrightson. The story involves an orphaned city boy named Simon Brent who c...

Three sailors land in the Santos port after four months at sea and head to São Paulo. (1) "A Carta de Érico" ("The Letter from Érico") The first sailo...

"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...

"As I said, but wish to imprint, MARKS OF REFERENCE is one of your very greatest films to me, Gary - a breakthru for my comprehension of yr working ov...

Realistic images of New York alternate with surrealistic indoor shots and posing fashion models, with references to aphroditism and transvestism.

Shot in the span of a few hours at a party held in Milan in 1979, the film takes the form of a reflection on a fragment of a lost youth reality in sea...