All Films

Penetrating Through the Cave

1979 • 1 min • Czech Republic

“Performative record of the multiple relationship between the author's body, environment and the medium used.” (Miloš Šejn)

(Kozo Okamoto's Quote)

1979 • 17 min

Short work.

Microfilm

1979 • 1 min

The concept of putting microfilm in a movie projector.

El Cóndor y el Zorro

1979 • 10 min • Peru, Uruguay

Based on Andean legends, it's about the fights between the condor and fox that put nature in danger.

Big Relay Race

1979 • 9 min • Soviet Union

In ancient times, many centuries before our era, the Greeks fought so often and shed blood that even the formidable Zeus could not stand it and suggested taking a break every four years. For this, sports competitions were invented, during which it was strictly forbidden to fight with each other. The competition was named the Olympic Games, and since then the tradition has been passed down from generation to generation.

Dispatch

1979 • 9 min • United States of America

Dispatch, begins with oscillating greyish surface modulations that move sideways on the screen, rendering our view a partial window to some larger movement taking place. Geographic graphic ribbings then ascend, and as perceived, the thought occurs we might be watching animated film. A shadow of a truck’s front end appears in movement, then comes gently to a halt: we know this image to be photographed, and yet the texture of the film itself hasn’t changed at all.

Media Game I

1979 • 1 min • United States of America

"A one-minute split-screen goof" from Yugoslavian artist Ivan Ladislav Galeta.

Pattern Impulse

1979 • 3 min • United States of America

A film by Jean Sousa.

The Life Story Of Bruno S. Retrieved From A Drawer

1979 • 8 min • Poland

Black and white prints by Bruno Schulz take us to his room from pre-war Drohobych. Under the influence of quotes, objects are brought to life and green plants begin to appear on the surface of the antiquities. All of the things will be consumed by the fire.

Biddick Farm Performance

1979 • 20 min

Utilising the Videokalos synthesiser, Donebauer founded the Video And Music Performers (VAMP) delivering live interactive performances created between video and music performers. VAMP toured the UK in 1978-79 and had a retrospective performance at Tate Britain in 2006.

Mother Hen Moves

1979 • 16 min • China

Lines of Force

1979 • 11 min

Lines of Force opens with footage of a dramatic explosion. The screen is divided, into a triptych at first, and slowly into horizontal and vertical bars. Electronically manipulated footage from a variety of sources mingle and collide. Naturally occurring lines in the array of images presented mirror the electronically created bars and lines the artist uses to divide the screen; A piece as neon and free-jazz as it is meticulous and concrete.

No Art of Memory

1979 • 3 min

Disturbing hints of the inexplicable clear their throats in preparation for consciousness. Hand made image and sound; what you see is very nearly what you hear.

Insects’ Life, Bumblebee’s Flight

1979 • 9 min • Poland

The bumblebee wakes up and flies out of the nest, tempted by the scent of the meadow. It jumps from flower to flower until it comes across a lion's maw that wants to keep the bumblebee.

Lady Louise

1979 • 9 min

A meeting between a girl with magical powers and a seaman who is attracted by her, and the sea as well.

あまぎらふ

1979 • 26 min • Japan

A young man passes by a girl huddled on a bank. A mysterious world begins with a group of boys in the direction she points. In this world of life and death, the protagonist, whose emotions are controlled to the utmost extent, and the depiction of life as justice and death as evil, deny the superficial grasp of life. The film is a trace of the unparalleled encounter between living and making.

1979 Lovely Kids Venus

1979 • 10 min • Japan

A sunset scene with a fragment of the sun about to disappear at the edge of a mountain, children conveying a message against the background of a faintly coloured rainbow in the centre of the sky. The camera's point of view, which seems to be gazing at the scene, oscillates with a certain sense of rhythm, successfully expressing the flow of the filmmaker's mind.

Two-Zone Transfer

1979 • 24 min • United States of America

Director Ulysses Jenkins calls his film a "dreamscape in which the dreamer awakens to a visitation of three minstrels who tell the story of the development of African American stereotypes in the American entertainment industry."

Prairie Album

1979 • 15 min

A woman reminisces about her childhood on a Prairie farm during the Depression. Her memory album is a collection of watercolours by artist/filmmaker Blake James that describe a family's struggle to survive despite drought and poverty. The film is a historical account of the land and the times, simply told through paintings that are alive with warmth and colour.

Anna and the Fly

1979 • 16 min

A particular shot, made with a lens that breaks up the image field into fragments and reproduces the optics of a fly, explores a room where there is a girl with a guitar. The shot, back to normal, shows a container with the fly and a jar of honey. The girl than performs various actions: she plays the guitar, collects honey from the jar with a finger, reads a book while the buzzing becomes insistent. In this way, an ambiguous and unusual relationship with the insect arises.

Les acteurs de bonne foi

1979 • 51 min

Éraste, Madame Amelin's nephew, is about to marry Angélique. To thank his aunt for her consent, the young man asks his valet, Merlin, to orchestrate an entertaining comedy. In the midst of the rehearsal, the real feelings of the actors and the servants soon mingle with the comedy.

Elephant Boy

1979 • 41 min

From the beautiful jungles of Sri Lanka, this is the exciting story of a boy and his pet elephant and the lesson that it's easier to hide an elephant than it is to hide your sins from God.

Anna Letycia

1979 • 9 min

Documentary about the metallurgical artist

Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology

1979 • 20 min

Short educational film by Vladimir Kobrin.