All Films

Heads

1979 • 6 min

Eerie transformations of human and animal forms, rendered nearly abstract through image-keying, resonate with visual power in Heads. -EAI

Ghost: Image

1979 • 8 min • Canada

50 km/h

1979 • 3 min • Poland

One of Jadwiga Singer's analitical, conceptual films, showing how, using the simple tool of a 16 mm film camera, we are able to manipulate the conception of reality.

Johnson and Johnson: Private Detectives 40th Anniversary Edition

1979 • 11 min • United States of America

A couple of bumbling private detective siblings get hired to investigate a bar robbery, in this short, low budget, action/comedy send-up of the 1970s "TV private detective" genre.

Soul City

1979 • 2 min • United States of America

Punk rock group FLESHTONES perform the song "Soul City," as tiny black & white cut-out figures, (with hand-tinted flesh tones), against a flickering background of brilliant color. In the film, Jones 'recycled' the same basic movements of his subjects by reconstructing totally new motions from the same severely limited amount of footage. This was done through alteration of perspective, and reversal of selected movements at varying intervals. The number of movements a subject can make, artificially created from a few basics, becomes almost limitless once an understanding of what motivates activity in that subject from the beginning is achieved.

À pas lentes

1979 • 40 min • France

Four years after the great struggle and strike at the Lip factory in Besançon, the Cinélutte collective gives the word to the workers, two women, making an unforgettable portrait of two working class heroines.

Um Estranho Sorriso

1979 • 13 min • Brazil

The daily lives of children with double disabilities (hearing and visual) and the treatment given to them by teachers are presented in order to relate moments of leisure and directed instruction. The film also addresses the behavior of these children through dramatic games.

Digital TV Dinner

1979 • 3 min

Digital TV Dinner is a video art clip from 1979 created using the Bally Astrocade console game to generate unusual patterns. The Bally Astrocade was unique among cartridge games in that it was designed to allow users to change game cartridges with power-on. When pressing the reset button, it was possible to remove the cartridge from the system and induce various memory dump pattern sequences. Digital TV Dinner is a collection of these curious states of silicon epilepsy set to music composed and generated upon this same platform.

The Hometown

1979 • 5 min • Canada

A collection of tapestries designed and sewn by the filmmaker illustrates the lyrics of a song about a young girl's hometown. Animation is created through a combination of sewing and cinematic techniques. The needlework, done in a naïve style, is particularly well suited to the bright colours and varied textures of the work. This lively film is designed to promote interest in the art of tapestry.

Portrait of the Enemy: A Film About Periodontal Diease

1979 • 12 min

Uses an analogy of basketball game strategy in dealing with gum problems. Recognizes the opponent (gum disease) and his style of play (plaque), effective defense (proper home oral hygiene and regular professional care), and the cost of losing (loss of teeth).

Shoplifting: It's a Crime?

1979 • 15 min

An ‘educational’ documentary on the evils of shoplifting is itself shoplifted, mocked, and then remade or extrapolated on the Proudhonian principle that ‘property is theft,’ with the figure of the shoplifter freed from the zone of morality and re-situated as a vital part of an alternative economy. The dual aim is to shake up the disciplinary role of the educational doc as well as conventional definitions of criminality.

Usual Gesture Drama

1979 • 7 min • France

Pedestrian Wavelength

1979 • 9 min • United States of America

The film is composed primarily of a series of zooms inside an apartment in Logan Square accomplished by running or walking with the camera, and also features two cats and footage of the blizzard of 1979.

Beatricse

1979 • 3 min • Hungary

School in the Sky

1979 • 2 min • United States of America

With an audio track of children describing their dreams, Beams’s animation depicts them soaring above fields and through the clouds in scenes of youthful revelry.

Master Mind

1979 • 3 min • Poland

Anorexie III

1979 • 9 min • France

Found footage, edited from international news footage.

California Street

1979 • 9 min • France

The reiteration of information in a constant scrolling of 24 frames per second, the coupling of positive and negative bands, then front and rear focal length variations progressively fragment the cinematographic space according to a recurring structure, highlighting the mechanism of the focal device. kinetic. This decreasing fragmentation disarticulates filmic continuity and hampers the discursive act, by which an observer apprehends a “reality” in the cinematographic field and sends it back to the construction of the perceived space.

Circus Riders

1979 • 17 min • United States of America

There are three characters in Circus Riders: the ventriloquist, the deaf-mute and the mime. They tell the story of story-making, which as they find out, demands perspective. The more they tell, the more distanced they are forced to become. Conversely, the more they stay within the subject(ivities) of their stories, the less they lose of their present and the less is their need to tell.

Sun Song

1979 • 3 min • United States of America

A short silent film by Joseph Bernard.

Mangiafuoco

1979 • 5 min • Yugoslavia

Der Apfel als solcher

1979 • 12 min • East Germany, Germany

Around 1 billion apples are harvested every year in Havelland, one of the largest fruit-growing regions in the GDR. In order to obtain this quantity in good quality, a large number of preparatory and maintenance operations are required. There are also reports on apprenticeships and practical work in the "Havelobst Central Youth Object". Impressions of the 100th Blossom Festival in Werder as well as myths and legends complete the apple theme.

Echoes

1979 • 5 min • Czech Republic

“Reflections of sun rays penetrating through the rocks on the water surface in a narrow gap in Plakánek valley of a side stream of Klenice Creek in Bohemian Paradise. The film suggests a hallucination visual effect after staring a long while at a single spot. Echoes is an excerpt from the 30-min. film Rokle.” (Miloš Šejn)

Videogram 4

1979 • 28 min • Yugoslavia

With the layering of picture (double exposure, flowing changes of images, frosen image, solarisation) and sound, the artists and the objects in the television studio merged into electronic sensations - an infinite series of over-illuminated, perforated and broken images. The video was made on the basis of the multimedia project (screening and installation) of the same title, and it was presented as 'the deconstruction of screening' in the framework of experimental programme on television. (RTV Ljubljana)