1980 Movies

A travelogue film using Pound's concept of invention as a starting point.

Animated short film. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2009.

A documentary that captures the loss of Athens’ neoclassical houses, portraying a city caught between its past identity and modern transformation.

Filmed in response to the LAPD’s shooting of Eulia Love in 1979, Gidget Meets Hondo opens with stills taken by Bernard Nicolas of a demonstration agai...

When his father is killed by local villains, a young boy trains to become a Shaolin monk and, years later, returns home to take revenge.

Mazuy's first film, made while nannying in L.A. A lovers on the lam story. No longer in circulation, partly because of music rights issues with The Do...

“A subjective assault, a kind of found cinema, in which the pieces of existence, the pablum pop of Top 40 radio, mix effortlessly with thermonuclear t...

An insight into various fashion shows in Germany, for example in Düsseldorf or Bonn.

Canada resurrects the compulsory draft, but refuses to allow gays to enlist. Taking the form of a fictional community-access documentary, The First Dr...

Malayalam language film directed by T Hariharan

Red Boxing Gloves / Orange Kitchen Gloves was shot in 1980 in Polavision, an instant movie format that the videocassette made obsolete. The work is in...

Twin sisters Ellie and Essie must descend into the macabre world of the occult when their father, the town's only Mortician, is murdered by an ancient...

“Since all matter in the Universe pulsates rhythmically, it is therefore , in constant motion. My film/videos become an activated metaphor to elucidat...

After his father passes away, Xuma heads for the city in search of work to be able to support his family back home. Here, he is introduced to Stella,...

At night, a city. Through the burst-crackle of typewriter and television, we are drawn towards uncertain landscapes; We find ourselves "travelers of t...

A poetic study about flowers.

Color Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Pixel stop-motion animation of one man's war against an army of toilet paper ro...