1980 Movies

Part of BFI collection "They Stand Ready."

A short film on the Kurile Islands and its geology and industries.

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

A kung fu oriented film, that centres around a revenge of the protagonist against the person who murdered his mother. Mixes some Shaolin elements, but...

In “The Gloria Tapes” (55 min.) Steele draws from soap opera convention, as she creates a penetrating look at a woman navigating the welfare system.

Olle Hedman's interpretation of Åke Karlung's “Globabels torn” at the Modern Museum 1979. (Filmform)

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

Documentary about an alleged witch in a Hungarian village.

16mm experimental short film starring Toney Merritt.

Looking outside and looking back in the same moment; the collision of memory and reluctance. In Returning Susan Stein achieves a simultaneous sense of...

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...

A casting up off of hands ironically employs a composition of renunciation. "Foregone Conclusion" for the dame the world as butterfly is perceived "...

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

According to the liner notes and all contemporary databases with proven reliability, this is the only extant video footage of Jim Shepard's jaw-droppi...

Biographical television film about Małgorzata Fornalska, a Polish communist activist and anti-Nazi resistance fighter who was executed by the Gestapo...

a Chinese documentary about female motorcyclists

Murphy combines several kinds of imagery and sound, in such a way as to reveal the ambiguity of personal and cultural significations once they are rem...