All Films

Shot in the span of a few hours at a party held in Milan in 1979, the film takes the form of a reflection on a fragment of a lost youth reality in search of new references. Young people who, emerging from years of intense political activism and profound social and cultural changes (the 70s), are about to enter a new decade (the 80s) lived under the banner of rampantism and hedonism. A document attentive to individual behavior, to original ideas, to communicative intentions that go beyond parched languages. Facce di festa is built by assembling material collected with different cinematographic techniques: hidden camera, behavioral interviews, descriptive images. In the film, there is an attempt to create a delicate but tenacious interference between the author's narration and the viewer's perception. The camera becomes a vehicle for forcing the cinematographic narration by seeking a new space in the presence of the spectator.

The film concerns Michael's decision to reveal his homosexuality to his family. It follows his preparation in coming out by his participation in a lesbian and gay male peer support group. In this session, several of the participants reveal their own actual experiences, both positive and negative, in coming out to their families.

We learn about bus safety from a young girl who is a self-professed Bus Nut. Emphasizes the danger of horseplay while waiting for a school bus, the dangers of running in front of a school bus without clear signal from the bus driver, and the correct way to enter a school bus.

One film, FIGURE WITH 14 TRAINS (7 min, sound), exists in a sort-of middle ground between documentary and experimentation. Around and superimposed through images of a man in bed are elegiac shots of Chicago trains, suggesting something almost erotic, much like SWIM, but it’s unequivocal in its depiction of the transit system as a wondrous framework. -Karen Sachs

Cordelia Urueta reflects out loud about her life and creativity, she finds that the shapes of reality surrounding her are never as beautiful as the ones in her own colored universe.

This film shows the entertaining and joyful experiences of children in a series of creative workshops. With the help of artists, children make kites, poetry, music, movement, dance and film in Toronto schools - both normal and special education classrooms - as well as Scadding House, headquarters for the Inner City Angels in Toronto. The film provides a useful reference guide for alternative teaching methods and techniques for interaction between teachers and students.

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

This documentary was produced in 1980 for WMTV in Madison, Wisconsin. It contains interviews with several Madison residents who were exploring various uses for personal computer technology.

A young man’s heart is full of passion and warmth. He decides to leave his father’s home to venture into the world. By chance, he overhears a conversation between a giant and the daughter of the sun, which reveals to him the legend of the Northern Maiden. He then chooses to set out to sea in search of this fabled being. Based on a story by Kārlis Skalbe.

An action limits the film, the swing of a microphone over a speaker modulates the sound of the action. A staging that will not do what one surprises oneself to expect.

The film follows walking feet and progresses to a preoccupation with the dancing shadow of the camera and the filmmaker. Much of the footage was home-processed to obtain the golden colours and solarization effects. In part the film documents the marking out of suburban space. By that I mean, that in suburban property the front and back yards form a private domain. This film tries to illuminate that space.

“I lived in Darlinghurst [central Sydney] at the time. The hustle and the bustle of that section of the city intrigued me. I used a hectic camera, grainy newsreel film, a 75mm lens and a long matte box to create four intersecting segments…a degraded symphony of the city. Building facades, people and traffic variously interlocking and going their separate ways, across the grid of the Square.” (Paul Winkler)

Olle Hedman's interpretation of Åke Karlung's “Globabels torn” at the Modern Museum 1979. (Filmform)

a Chinese documentary about female motorcyclists

A psychedelic combination of live action and animation in the spirit of Dungeons & Dragons.

The man drinks a cup of tea and taps the rhythm with his fingers. The insight into his thoughts shows the image of an airplane pilot who parachutes to tropical islands. He spends his life on fantasizing.

For the people of Mandak region, New Ireland,the most dramatic and complex ceremonial events are those surrounding death. The creation and presentation of the Malangan Labadama with its carved figures, masked dancers and feasting is the final tribute by three brothers to a deceased clansman and former leader.

The seer speaks and evokes a journey into space. The journey is to Cuma and in Cuma there were the Sibyls...were there? There are! A ritual to open the past, to denounce the historical violence suffered by the Women/Sybils and their territory: Cuma, Naples.

The history of reforestation that took place in the mid-19th century, on the top of Tijuca. With the clearing of the primitive forest to plant coffee plantations, the springs in the region dried up and affected the water supply of the city of Rio de Janeiro. Correcting the ecological imbalance, Emperor Pedro II expropriated the local farms and appointed Manuel Gomes Archer for the task.