1980 Movies

When a gangster starts exploiting Ramaiah and his daughters to retrieve information on a hidden treasure in their village, a detective steps in to tea...

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

When Zep dumps his pregnant teenage girlfriend, and later discovers she committed suicide as a result of this, he acts out. Angry and confused, he und...

This first "Frieda" collaboration between performance artists Barbara Lipp and Tom Koken and video artist Tom Rubnitz chronicles Frieda's rise from as...

A 1980 Documentary on Durga Puja by National Film Development Corporation (NFDC).

Short film directed by Jonathan Roberts

The documentary is about an old man from Yerevan who paints on garages, transforming rusty metal walls into vivid landscapes and leaving a subtle yet...

Moon Breath Beat is a hand-drawn experimental 2D film that depicts a woman and her two cats and how external forces such as birds and the moon impact...

Educational film warning children against shoplifting.

A short documentary about Dolly Freed, the author of the cult classic novel Possum Living.

Part of "The Process Tapes"

Life is like a gigantic phonograph record fifty feet across. Or like one of those whirling discs at the old amusement park. You get on the disc and it...

An animated futuristic autobiography of a man born in the year 2000.

Short documentary about a diner.

Loren Carpenter made this film in 1979-80 to accompany a SIGGRAPH paper on how to synthesize fractal geometry with a computer. It is the world's first...