All Films

Euridice

1979 • 12 min • Italy

A film by Valentina Berardinone

Sax

1979 • 6 min • Italy

Playing with yourself, asking yourself questions and giving yourself answers. With the video delude yourself that you are not alone.

Wie wir unsere Umwelt besser geplant haben

1979 • 11 min

Short film about nature.

Alien: Experience in Terror

1979 • 7 min

This featurette is included on The Alien Anthology Archives disc in the Alien Anthology blu-ray box set, released in 2013.

JoAnn & Susan x2

1979 • 5 min

“JoAnn & Susan x2” begins with a female protagonist, JoAnn Elam, playfully modeling a red, knit blanket, superimposed by a rider, JoAnn's sister Susan Elam, and her steed moseying around a indoor corral in Grayslake, IL. As the juxtaposition continues, Susan meanders in the background and JoAnn time travels backward, through a series of segments utilizing the blanket's progression as a visual marker: she goes from modeling the finished blanket, to sowing the blankets seam, to knitting the blanket in progressively smaller increments.

29 Seconds To Zero

1979 • 10 min

Film depicting the dramatic reconstruction of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour.

Drop of Water

1979 • 15 min • Egypt

Asma El Bakri's first film, A Drop of Water is a short observational-ethnographic documentary following life—sunrise to sunset—in a Western desert village. The film shows various practices of an endangered way of traditional life: farming, weaving, pottery, dancing, etc.

I-You-Witness: Visual Consciusness

1979 • 15 min

A playful study of cinematic perspective x 3: three cameras, three screens, I, You, Witness.

Pedra Sozinha Não Sustém Panela

1979 • 41 min

The confrontation between two visions of the world: that of the elders of Jau and that of the students of the Faculty of Arts in Lubango, in what is considered to be Ruy Duarte de Carvalho's most ethnographic cinema.

Der Super-Zug, der zu spät kommt

1979 • 44 min • Germany

Documentary about the German railroad system and it's trains

We Hope You Enjoy This Film

1979 • 4 min

This film is a good example of 'wrong' picture/sound juxtapositions. Uncanny collisions and combinations of sound and picture make this film one of my favorite films that I have made. –H. M.

59 Ways to Leave Your Film

1979 • 5 min

Experimental film by Bruce Licher.

Knobby the Belwood Wampus Cat

1979 • 54 min

1979 SOV Bigfoot film.

The Kowloon Connection

1979 • 17 min • United Kingdom

A look at the Metro-Cammell factory in Birmingham which designs and builds a variety of metro trains, looking in particular at the planning and building of the 'Kowloon Connection', a metro system between Hong Kong and Kowloon.

Underjordiskt sällskap : En fredagsresa under Stockholm

1979 • 29 min

A friday night in Stockholm.

Leicht haben wir's nicht miteinander

1979 • 11 min • Germany

Using the example of 16-year-old, physically disabled Wolfgang, the film shows how non-disabled people can help a disabled person and what should be avoided. It also shows that the tense behavior on both sides is caused by fear and insecurity and that the disabled person can also do something wrong, i.e. is a completely normal person.

Procession

1979 • 3 min • Yugoslavia

A super 8mm film by Davorin Marc.

Music For Voices

1979 • 7 min

"Music For Voices" was produced in a handmade process, by chemically soaking and staining unspooled strands of 16mm raw-stock. The film was subsequently made into a projection print without ever being run through a camera or subject to a final processing procedure. The resulting visual cascade of this cameraless film functions as the "music" of the title, accompanying spoken words of artist-performer Tony Billoni in an audio recording of him made circa 1984.

Beranduegi

1979 • 7 min • Spain

A boy is dreaming, comes out of the house, follows the trail of blood drops and arrives at a dead boy.

Bobos Nonos

1979 • 10 min

An experiment from the video lab of Hervé Huitric and Monique Nahas.

Essay

1979 • 18 min • Poland

A teenage boy attempts to define himself and answer the most important questions troubling him.

Film of Stars Group Activities

1979 • 47 min

This film documents the activities of the Stars Group, an underground collective of artists who pursued freedom of expression in China in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Huang Rui, Ma Desheng, and Wang Keping were key figures in the collective. The film begins with the group’s 1979 exhibition outside the National Art Museum of China in Beijing and records its closure by the authorities, the street demonstrations to protest the closure, negotiations with the authorities, and the subsequent exhibition at Beihai Park. The work is the only known video that records these significant moments, and it also offers insight into life in Beijing after the end of the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976). Held at M+ Museum in Hong Kong.

At the Origins of Soviet Cinema

1979 • 25 min • Soviet Union

About the history of Soviet documentary films.

They Call Me Chamar

1979 • 16 min • India

About 30 km away from Varanasi there is a small village of Dhakvan, where lives a Brahmin named Ram Dayal Dixit who has been living among Harijans, like a Harijan. He has also married a Harijan girl. This act of his invited a great wrath from the caste Hindus. He had to suffer a lot. Ram Dayal a fighter for the cause is not afraid of being called a chamar. But his story very sharply reveals the caste-ridden society that India is, particularly in its villages of north India.