1980 Movies

Scenes from the life and creative work of Pierre Avezard (Petit Pierre),an "art brut" artist with Treacher Collins syndrome who, since 1937, reused w...

Documentary about farmers battling the elements in a remote valley in Kyrgyzstan.

A documentary on Baybie Hoover, a blind New York street musician.

Cited as the first Saudi narrative feature.

A short film by Ahmed Zir

The princess decides for herself what it means to live "happily ever after", raising important questions about marriage, independence and responsibili...

Sharits's Ode to Communism uses the single-frame potentials of his camera to portray city streets with lightning speed.

Djunawunya, Arnhem Land, east of the town of Maningrida, July 1978. Frank Gurrmanamana is responsible for preparing the final mortuary ceremonies for...

Forcing himself to confront his own 16mm camera each day for over two weeks, Suzuki Shiroyasu initially seems to regret his own idea and indulges in v...

A documentary shot in SF circa 1979 about a trio of middle-class kids experimenting with heroin and cocaine. They start out innocently enough but they...

Gail Vachon's Mary Smith offers vignettes of the filmmaker acting out a variety of familiar social roles

Experimental film on 16mm by Emanuel Țeț as part of Kinema Ikon.

Commissioned by Remy Martin for a public exhibition in Grand Central Station in New York, Remy/Grand Central is an advertisement with a deconstructive...

The Units’ Training Film was a visual backdrop for this groundbreaking punk-syntho band.

In this announcement/anti-commercial for the Rock Against Religion concert in Kaasee Rotterdam (1979),you can hear ear-splitting punk by Rode Wig and...

A young agronomist dreams of developing a new early-ripening variety of corn. Despite difficulties and comic situations, he not only succeeds in his p...

"I made this for my step-father who had passed away. I had an old 'Ambrotype' and if you held it up to the light, you could scratch away the backing t...