All Films

La confesse

1979 • 20 min

A man jumps off a train and soon after arrives in a sort of dressing room where a mannered individual is copiously putting on make-up. Between the man and this stranger a dialogue is established, the first one telling a story that happened to him with a woman... or rather his quest for a woman, his hesitations, his feelings of hope, joy and anguish. In return, he will only get laconic and disillusioned, ironic, even aggressive answers until he is properly and simply chased away.

The Earth is Our Home

1979 • 29 min

This documentary about the early Indians of the Great Basin emphasizes the traditional culture of the last 5,000 years. The story unfolds through the words and skills of the older Piaute women of southeastern Oregon and northern Nevada. They tell us how they make cakes from berries, baskets from tulles, cord for nets…necessary daily tasks linked with an ancient heritage. The earth is ever present in the film, wildlife, rivers and marshes, sagebrush desert, all part of the story. The lifeways of the Northern Paiutes are followed through a seasonal cycle, from root-gathering in spring to building shelter in winter.

The Great Blue Heron

1979 • 44 min

This film documents the yearly cycle of the great blue heron, its migration from Central America and the West Indies to the St. Lawrence River in Québec, and the breeding and rearing of its young. Outstanding footage shot by the filmmaker perched high in a tree affords close-ups of the birds' intricate courtship rituals. A sensitive, beautifully photographed nature film with much to tell us of ecology and wildlife.

Para Virginia

1979 • 14 min • Argentina

A tribute to Virginia, a 23-year-old girl who apparently committed suicide in Ibiza. Excerpts from her letters to Narcisa, written on the walls, appear in the film as a leitmotif.

Filming

1979 • 2 min • Switzerland

8mm film by Swiss artist Roman Signer.

Ala - Dad

1979 • 5 min

An outdoor gathering.

Box 1

1979 • 2 min • Switzerland

8mm film by Swiss artist Roman Signer.

Bronx Baptism

1979 • 30 min

A pentacostal baptism service at a large church (former movie theater) in the South Bronx, shot 1977, edited 1979. Begun as a landscape film about the destruction of the Bronx in the 1970s. Camera: Richard Serra, DeeDee Halleck, and Babette Mangolte, Jane Warrenbrand, Stuart Math, and Ted Glass.

Box 2

1979 • 2 min • Switzerland

8mm film by Swiss artist Roman Signer.

Blood Lust

1979 • 15 min

A salacious (and unexpectedly stylizied) adaptation of Le Fanu's "Carmilla." Not shown in theatres, Blood List was produced for the 8mm home movie market, and sold direct to consumers via advertisements in adult magazines.

Sleeping

1979 • 2 min • Finland

The faceless rebel's declaration of war and "a rousing stab into the gunky eye of Finnish amateur cinema"

Instant Movie

1979 • 1 min • Sweden

The multinational company's main marketplace — the film consists of a synch leader with Coca Cola at the end. (Filmform)

The Olympics

1979 • 17 min • Poland

These striking observations of a skiing competition for children in Zakopane make, at the same time, a little treaty about growing up. Innocent play in snow soon changes into a true competition where only the best can win. Adults get involved in the rivalry between children forcing them to continue gruelling efforts. The sound of a ticking stopwatch is a perfect complement to the story. At the end of the film, one of the boys rebels and leaves the run. He is not interested in the world of adults yet.

Real Space / Virtual Space

1979 • 20 min • Italy

Among the protagonists of this film, made for the sixteenth Milan Triennial exhibition “Lo spazio audiovisivo”, were Gau Aulenti, Vittorio Gregotti, Andrea Branzi, Bruno Munari, Nanda Vigo, Virgilio Vercelloni, Enzo Mari, Gianfranco Bettetini, Aldo Grassi, Costantino Bardi, Alessandro Mendini, Pierluigi Nicolin, Gillo Dorfles, Davide Mosconi… interviewed by Ugo La Pietra, who then transferred their statements onto a large “diagram of objectives”.

The Undertaker

1979 • 9 min • Yugoslavia

A phantasmagoric story about an undertaker and his wife who live alone because everyone avoids them. The undertaker cannot break human prejudices and superstitions, and in desperation he invites his former customers, the dead, to be his guests and to banish loneliness from him and his wife.

Yezh ar vezh

1979 • 51 min

A documentary about Breton identity and the Breton language from the 19th century to the 70s and the 60s and 70s struggle for cultural preservation in Brittany.

Hear Me

1979 • 2 min

A human figure - the artist herself - first gestures the word behind a scenery paper that functions as a membrane. After successive approaches of the mouth to the paper in which we deduce that the artist shouts the word "ouve-me", she then writes it with her finger, and finally with a pen she scratches the word.

The Sleepeater

1979 • 6 min • United States of America

A Harryhausen influenced short film by Woody Welch from 1979. Shot on 16 mm film, using motion analysis film projectors to combine live-action with stop-motion animation.

Tina Turner at the Apollo

1979 • 59 min

At The Apollo is Tina’s very first solo home video with a concert from London’s Apollo Theatre, recorded on March 25, 1979. Dressed in Bob Mackie costumes and supported by four dancers, Tina performed several cover versions of popular songs, some old ones from Ike & Tina and some new tracks from her solo records Rough and Love Explosion. The video was first released in short form with a selection of the original setlist in 1979 under the title "At The Apollo,“ but was later also released as an one hour concert under the title Wild Lady of Rock in 1984.

Soji-ji

1979 • 18 min

Soji-ji (1979) is a video work documenting a chant recitation at a Zen temple. The chant recited by many monks does not proceed in unison like group singing. Each monk recites in sync with his breath, so that the intake of breath occurs at different moments. That is to say, each monk articulates the chant differently. Since there is no unified division, when the multiple chants overlap, an endless wave of chant (sutra) appears as a collective density or modality (at the same time, each monk’s steps form a totally different rhythm from the individual chants).

Almeri & Ari: Ciclo do Recife e da Vida

1979 • 10 min • Brazil

Brazilian documentary about the pioneers Ary Severo (director, screenwriter, actor and screenwriter) and Almery Steves, his wife (actress of famous Recife Cycle films)

Danielle Carnaval e Cinzas

1979 • 23 min

It invites the audience to enter Danielle's home and life in this short film, considered one of the pioneers in addressing the LGBTQIA+ universe without resorting to stereotypes, having won the award for best film at the Super Festival Nacional do Filme Super 8.

Campuchea: People Everybody Wanted Dead

1979 • 29 min • Soviet Union

Old Man Tumbleweed

1979 • 10 min • Soviet Union

About a boy whom the fabulous old man Kanbak-shal introduced to a fascinating and interesting land of fairy tales.