1980 Movies

Refusing to go with the flock, Daffy seeks an easier way to travel north.

At every station, between sites filled with poetry and nostalgia for a bygone era, the poet's dashed dreams and idealized vision of her country coinci...

Pink film by Jô Ichimura.

Petey (voiced by Bryan Scott) and Dolly (voiced by Nancy McKeon) have to outwit poachers, a hungry bear and a hawk to rescue their humans from an aval...

Fencer is a documentary portrait of Władyslaw Kurpiewski, an eminent fencing coach and co-creator of numerous successes of Polish foilists. Combining...

Depiction of the short life of the influential, troubled playwright Christian Dietrich Grabbe. Impoverished and suffering from illness, Grabbe return...

Abel Gance looks back on his life and his films in this short film made to celebrate his 90th birthday in 1979.

Zagreb in 1942. The police blocks on of the houses while looking for one of the communist officials hiding in the apartment of young female illegal fi...

A train struggles to stay on track.

Using the phenomenon of inverted (or negative) video feedback, this work constructs a one-to-one correspondence between recited text and image. Black...

Short film by Hollis Frampton

Serving as a guinea pig in Dr. Wyoming's REM sleep research at the Second Sight institute, private detective Nick Malace is secretly implanted with a...

In 1949 a Nationalist military officer is tricked into fleeing to Taiwan without his wife. His godson's father also remained on the mainland. They hop...

Set in a cave imagined as an air-raid shelter, images of the surrounding trees are painted over directly on the film. Vivid colors intermixed with th...

Pink film directed by Keiko Hama