1980 Movies

The life energy, which guides man through life, is metaphorically represented through a hand. With the end of the life of the hand, the human dies.

The literal title of this film by Nikos Koutelidakis, loaded as it is with layers of irony and secondary meaning, serves as an early inkling of what w...

An elegy for Robert Opel. Cal Valadez, Pat Turnbull and Michelle Jeanette dance in a spring garden. The fairies’ dance by Gétry, taken from Zemire Azo...

Chania, Crete, during the 1970s. Hippolytos, a student of Botany, finds a way to carry on with his experiments on the medicinal plant called datura fa...

A teenager's quest for a new look leads to a new personality. Music by Suicide, The Andrew Sisters, James White & The Blacks, Los Microwaves.

Barlett narrates MAKING SERPENT and describes the creative process behind SERPENT, his award winning short of 1971. MAKING SERPENT is a step-by-step t...

A history of rural southeastern traditional American music, as told and played by Mike Seeger and Alice Gerrard. Mike and Alice recount their own invo...

This keenly observed short reflects on the duality of a modern Asian woman’s life in 80s Birmingham

Natalia LL carried out the seance Points of Support, during which she performed nude gymnastics combined with choreography on a meadow in the Pieniny...

Polish avant-garde animation in which a periodic series of aggressive starbursts interrupt the melodic dancing of fluid shapes, one raid even freezing...

It's hard to imagine confirmed Straussians not wanting this starry Metropolitan Opera performance of Elektra. Strauss and his librettist, Hugo von Hof...

A parody on films about safety. Looks at a typical suburban family and the many "risks" involved in trying to enjoy a typical suburban Christmas. Expl...

Report on the singer Eloísa Angulo (1919-1991) known as La Criollita, her artistic training and role within the coastal musical culture.

Presented by the Johnson Institute and produced and directed by Averill M. Kronick, "The Enablers" (1980s) is a drama showing the struggles of a fami...