1980 Movies

This installment in the Canada Vignettes series depicts the Canadian Forces Air Demonstration Aerobatics team at work.

I took along a beach ball on my trip to California; it is bounced, rolled, tossed, kicked and carried by a motley collection of complete strangers who...

Images of city and landscape moving with a romantic piano sonatina by Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924),then classic keyboard figures by Johann S. Bach. I...

This film shows the entertaining and joyful experiences of children in a series of creative workshops. With the help of artists, children make kites,...

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

Explores the tension between a Japanese theatrical mask-maker and the mask itself.

THE UNUSUAL BOOK is more thoughtfully stylized in its depiction of a living book featuring a woman’s face on and around which things happen, including...

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...

The film follows the stories of men and women who work with steel drums in various capacities, including a steel drum tuner, university and primary sc...

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...