1980 Movies

Essay film about music and urbanity.

A satirical and naif view of alcool use and abuse in Northern Italy at the end of 70s.

“ Cinema is what happens between frames," said German experimental filmmaker Werner Nekes. A woman and a man are on the ground together but it looks a...

Wearing a swimming cap and one-piece, with a bright white face, an alien-like woman circles the camera, snarling and contorting her jaw, using a rains...

Russian 3-D short film from 1980. Stereo-70/Stereokino.

Paranoid surreptitious in-jail camera held in this prisoner's hands documents daily events and posturings of 25 gringos (and Mexican jailmates) arrest...

short film by Gordon Ball about an LSD experience

The story is about how the fat and lazy boy Petka, because of the deception of the mischievous girl Susanna, ran away from home to the circus, and the...

Part of BFI collection "Worth the Risk?"

A report on the progress of the Bedford/St. Pancras suburban electrification scheme. An internal BR staff film which would not have been generally sho...

Explaining new developments in civil engineering survey work, and the latest methods of preparing accurate and highly detailed drawings. The film basi...

Part of BFI collection "They Stand Ready."

Directed by Ian Breakwell.

Short film by Jayne Parker.

This film was shot in summer 1979. The repeated ritual of Tutuguri that Tranquilino the saweame sang and danced six times in a short, strictly accurat...

A cynical woman who has never experienced true love and an ambitious man who has never made time for romance meet by chance one night when Mi-ja, avoi...

The children are the protagonists. They believe in the old saying that for their dreams to come true in the world of adults who seem freer, they have...