1980 Movies

Real time is an oxymoron. The film presents one firing of Vancouver's famous gun; an event that attracts an audience visible on screen unlike the audi...

A portrait of a renowned deaf African street performer and practitioner of the ancient Yan-taori magic tradition. Performance sequences which are expl...

Experimental film by Connie Coleman and Alan Powell.

Amateur tale about a company boss and his wife who turn up late for a dinner party hosted by an ambitious young salesman of his company and his wife....

The war has been going on for some time. Every day, Take Five, a guard protecting the deserted border district of Firebird, sits alone by his radio. I...

Friday Fried mixes sound images in a strictly procedural manner based upon a relationship with the picture track which itself is structured around a s...

Short film about a hospital.

Directed by Ian Breakwell.

YORKY BILLY is set in Ngurgdu (Spring Peak) in the Northern Territory, an area irrevocably disturbed by uranium mining. There, 80-year-old William Ald...

Two men continue a war between families after one kills the other's father in a fit of rage.

Like many mountain villages, Ano Ravenia, has been progressively deserted by it most active population. The film shows the painful transformation from...

DEADLY FORCE documents the groundbreaking investigations into the Burkholder killing including the Coroner's Inquest. The Police Commission's enacting...

An educational film about birdlife in Iceland, with a main emphasis on birds that nest in swampland.

Self-Identification is a performance show which accompanied a series of photo montage films shown in the Small Gallery. Ewa Partum, therein, presents...

Short film by Tetsuo Furudato

Also called Pisces, this rarely-screened work is part of Belson’s Synchronicity Suite along with Apollo’s Lyre, Seapeace, and Eleusis/Crotons. It is l...

A retired film projectionist tells us about his experiences as such, from silent to sound films, with both national and international cinema.