All Films

Teshuinada, semana santa Tarahumara

1979 • 52 min • Mexico

Documentary about Tarahumara religious observances around Easter time.

Roman Numeral: I

1979 • 7 min

An attempt to conjure pictorially, from the mind, an image that isn't referential: "...I'd like to give something back, not a picture of a flower, but some flower that couldn't exist except on film." - S.B. "I'm not sure if this work is titled I for Imagnostic, or "I" as designating first person singular or Roman Numeral One."

The Art of Worldly Wisdom

1979 • 55 min • Canada

A compelling and revealing exploration of one person's psyche in crisis.... The film is a screen diary of a man in his early 30s afflicted with a life-threatening disease, a man confronting his own mortality.

Tree Frog

1979 • 18 min • Soviet Union

The tale of a tree frog that helped people cope with the drought.

The Tale of the Wonderful Doctor

1979 • 9 min • Soviet Union

The young man helps the old woman he meets get home. It turns out to be Death. She teaches him the secrets of healing, but makes him promise to abide by the agreement - if he sees her at the feet of a patient, he can treat him, but if she stands at his head, this person is hers. But circumstances are such that the doctor violates the agreement.

Provincetown Pieces

1979 • 51 min • United States of America

This is a shortened version of a three-movement film made over a summer’s stay in Provincetown, MA (Cape Cod), first alone, then with family. A journal of sorts, it renders the place with obvious affection. The town remains today, to an amazing degree, as it appears in this film from decades ago.

Feira de Campina Grande

1979 • 10 min • Brazil

Beats of the Heart: Rhythm of Resistance

1979 • 60 min

Rhythm of Resistance examines the vital role of music in the lives of black South Africans under the oppressive regime of apartheid.

Cut-Up

1979 • 3 min

A character, played by Jean-Yves André, is caught in the trap of a "closed room". After his disappearance, the voice of Nico is heard. "Fiction" is parasitized by the structure of the film and by the accumulation of references to Bataille, Burroughs, Calder, Lovecraft, Michaux, Warhol.

Free Show

1979 • 17 min • United Kingdom

A film in three acts, each act prefaced by a short circus act. Act 1 – Cutting liver, Act II – Ironing, Act III – Plucking Eyebrows. Three potentially violent domestic activities performed by a woman. Jayne Parker discovered film as a medium when she was a sculpture student at Canterbury College of Art (1977-80). In early works, objects, performance and gesture were combined by the camera to explore space, duration and the physical body. The images in these early films were both literal and metaphoric, depicting exact events but also creating physical and personal associations for the viewer. Ideas are evoked in images rather than words; ordinary actions are also enigmas.

Roman Numeral: III

1979 • 3 min

The third in this series of Imagnostic Films seems particularly magic to me in as much as I cannot even remember the photographic source of these images or, thus, having taken them. – S.B.

National Geographic: The Invisible World

1979 • 54 min

Each moment, events take place that the human eye cannot perceive because these occurrences are too small, too large, too fast, too slow or beyond the spectrum of visible light. Witness some of the captivating sights that will forever alter your knowledge and perception of the world around us. This 1979 classic video shows us that 'hidden' world. Different sizes, different spectrums, and even different rates of speed can illuminate the underlying processes that are beyond the limits of our eyes.

A Piece For Sunlight, Piano and 45 Fingers

1979 • 10 min

45 fingers were needed to play the film soundtrack mimicking the sun's movement over four months on piano keys.

Ciné regards: Tess: Roman Polanski

1979 • 49 min • France

Television documentary about the making of Roman Polanski's 1979 film, Tess.

Untitled: 'Silueta' Sequence No. 3

1979 • 3 min

United States 1979, Super 8 transferred to digital, colour, silent, 3 min

Alcohol Trigger Films for Junior High School: The Party, The Mother, The Ride

1979 • 10 min

Educational shorts intended to prevent teenagers from getting bombed and killing themselves or wrecking the family car.

The Knack: Live at Carnegie Hall

1979 • 49 min • Japan

With one of the fastest selling debut albums of all time, The Knack burst onto the scene in 1979 with their own brand of straightforward power pop and a lead-off single ("My Sharona") that would top the charts and become Billboard's Top Pop Single of 1979. A true overnight sensation that would be doomed by overhype and the inevitable critical backlash that followed, The Knack were nonetheless an exciting live band with both musical chops and a sense of humor.

Pituitary

1979 • 4 min • United States of America

“It came from 1979! A paranoid tale of the myths and misconceptions surrounding body changes in adolescence. Found footage with hand drawn flourishes. In full 16mm punk-era unrestored decrepitude! Made in one week. Sound by Ground Zero, Boston.” —Lisa Crafts

Rumores

1979 • 27 min • Brazil

The loneness, the Other and the living together with himself.

Like A Passing Train 2

1979 • 6 min • Japan

Time. In HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE, Gabriel Garcia Marquez describes a long process a year it takes to cross a railway station. The film consists of an image of a train crossing a bush in the garden Ando. The film was shot from the same angle fixed for six months, through the seasons.

Guesswork

1979 • 11 min • United Kingdom

Details, fragments, transformations and shadows of a confined space.

Pudim de Morango

1979 • 4 min • Brazil

Lumiere's Train (Arriving at the Station)

1979 • 8 min • Canada

The subject of the first essay is cinema itself: an apparatus of representation wherein fact and fiction are recreated. As such, the pro-filmic facts are necessarily drawn from two of cinema's "pioneers": Louis and Auguste Lumière and Abel Gance (La Roue), with additional material provided from a Warner Brothers featurette, Spills for Thrills.

Susis Schicht

1979 • 7 min • East Germany, Germany

Susi works in a large depot for waste paper, which is bundled and loaded onto trucks for recycling.