1980 Movies

My intention was to explore the landscape where I spent my early life, and to some extent the people who helped me to inhabit it. So I started by fly...

A South Vietnamese refugee family learns to live in the USA

A 'parapsychocomical' mockumentary look at the production of Australia's newest prestige feature, Weekend of Summer Last, a film that deals realistica...

A film about the rediscovery of the infamous opening into the Palmer River goldfields of northern Queensland by three young explorers on trail bikes....

Towards the end of the 19th century, the imagination of many painters, among them Sydney Long, was captured by a romantic, poetic approach to the Aust...

On Sacred Ground looks at the story behind the Noonkanbah dispute, the well-publicised Aboriginal struggle to stop mining in the Kimberley region of W...

Two mentally handicapped people from Hotham House, Victoria, marry. Film deals with the problems they face and the help they receive when they leave t...

Life Dances On is Robert Frank’s most personal and emotional work because it deals directly with his family and close friends. The film is dedicated t...

A Portuguese film

Early Telscher film.

Film No. 19 US, 1980, 35mm, 12.5 min.

The red-haired boy dreams of becoming a cabin boy, but for now he performs feats in his sleep.

It was while studying this film that I decided to group these ‘romans’ under the title Roman Numeral Series and to give up the term ‘imagnostic’ altog...

Short parody of black film whose male hero meets a mysterious lady who turns out to be his destiny, of course. Unlike black film, where action defines...

On an idea by Maurice Lemaître. Polyatomic assembly.

“Since all matter in the Universe pulsates rhythmically, it is therefore , in constant motion. My film/videos become an activated metaphor to elucidat...

1980 Czech experimental short by Petr Skala