Most Viewed Year 1980 - 263

Experimental film by the basque painter and filmmaker Ramón de Vargas

Montage documentary on the bombardment of Gernika.

Documentary about an Englishman who served as a hangman in Fiji Island.

Bressan's first truly fictional foray, created after he defended a thesis in literature on Alexandre Dumas. (CJC)

Kalah is an old Arabic mathematical game, played by two people with 72 stones. The film is a "mapping" of the moves of a game that ends in a draw:...

Explains the difference between fantasy action and the real life action shown on news and sports programs. Shows how TV violence is staged and...

The focus is on the bus driver and his need for continuous and absolute concentration. There is emphasis on the potential disaster that is always...

Influenced by Italian neorealism and by the social environment of the heroes: ruins, landscapes, Khrushchev-apartment houses rising on the outskirts...

THE UNUSUAL BOOK is more thoughtfully stylized in its depiction of a living book featuring a woman’s face on and around which things happen,...

More evocations of this style are evident in the shorter film THE POET AND THE POND (6 min, sound), an amalgam of patterns and repetitions that also...

In stark opposition to the rest of the program’s surreality are the documentary-esque BINGO (6 min, silent) and DUCK (3 min, silent), the...

One film, FIGURE WITH 14 TRAINS (7 min, sound), exists in a sort-of middle ground between documentary and experimentation. Around and superimposed...

My favorite of the program is BED DESERT (5 min, silent), which is something of an outlier. In this inventive little film, the ripples of bed sheets...

SWIM (7 min, sound) features a Warhol-like focus on a single body; here it’s a man, who’s mimicking swimming, complete with goggles, to a...