1980 Movies

This recording of an anti-logging protest is one of many documentaries made in the 1980s that reflect growing concern about progress at the expense of...

A claymation allegory for how political and religious differences separate peoples into tribes who build walls to divide themselves from each other. T...

A documentary about the Eagle's The Long Run album.

A British Transport internal training film. Training for Overhead Power Supply (TOPS).

Original film material from the Bauhaus dances of Oskar Schlemmer.

A member of The Ramblers’ Association (now known simply as The Ramblers) and reporter Sally Jones follow a route on the map of Sundry Ancient Trackway...

Cha made Exilèe ("exiled" in French) following her first trip back to Korea in 1979. For this simultaneous film and video installation, she embedded a...

One day at a high school, the headteacher suddenly announces that a draft is to be imposed at the morning assembly. The headteacher suddenly announces...

Black and white UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the Academy Film Archive. A young woman appears to be trapped perpetually at 6:28, as registered on a...

Super-8 film by Gianni Dal Masso.

The scene I shot from my hospital bed when I was hospitalized with a punctured lung (a condition called spontaneous pneumothorax). A snowstorm outside...

From the film cycle "Exposing the Text"

In 1978 the police attacked demonstrators at the Sydney (Australia) Mardi Gras celebrations. This film details the communities' responses.

A short film about the assumption of roles. A voice-over offers a long list of synonyms for transformation: change, modulation, shift, turn, mutation…...

Sam, a psychopath, attempts to murder his twin brother, Stan, a policeman.

Fragments of an interior space has been realized in 1980 with P.P. Fassetta. Images roused by the meeting between reality and imagination and gathered...

A look at the typical American family of the nuclear age.

An investigation in the city prompted by the assault of a young person by a bus driver. All over the street, the collective goes out to meet people an...

Computer imagery dances before a techno soundtrack.

In this film, dancer and choreographer Jane Comfort performs a short dance titled “For the Spider Woman.” She intentionally threw herself off balance...