1980 Movies

Why is the disco popular among Manila's youth?

Panoramic views of the high snow ranges provide the backdrop for the austere and rugged village life of Tibetans and Ladakhis, high in the the western...

Documentary on how the osprey catches its prey. The film shows the search for prey, the launch maneuvers, take-off maneuvers and the fights with the f...

Short documentary on the Belgian painter Max Selen.

About a woman waiting for her sailor husband, and when he returns, "she continues to wait". It's a story of transience, and the deeper meaning of happ...

Short experimental documentary about legendary post-punk venue Crystal Ballroom, St Kilda.

A film about everyday life in the Prenzlauer Berg registry office in 1980.

Cecilia Vicuña made her first documentary while residing in Colombia after the 1973 coup d’état in Chile. Through this fundamental inquiry: ¿Qué es pa...

A vignette about a 1912 fly-swatting contest organized by The Toronto Daily Star to draw attention to the danger posed to public health by flies. Thro...

“An uneasy, very personal reaffirming of vocabulary and somewhat obsessive meditation on looking, losing, recalling. A blindingly melancholic inner se...

An imagery sharp as stars and hard as the thought-universe (turning back upon itself) absorbed in gentle patterns of contemplation. – S.B.

Friday Fried mixes sound images in a strictly procedural manner based upon a relationship with the picture track which itself is structured around a s...

Although believing that doing so will cause her own death, a young girl willingly donates blood for her injured brother.

Animated film made at CalArts in 1980.

Music lovers fascinated by the ideas, experiences, and emotions that serve as the foundation of Jamaican reggae are invited to explore the history of...

"I know only that this work is an homage to that begun in cinema by Jean Cocteau in his famous trilogy and that, through James, I have become his succ...

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...