All Films

Stop on Start

1979 • 9 min

Coming out of a persistent dream, it is difficult to be in reality right away. For the sleeper who is then awake, the sounds, the shapes continue to play a show: where is he and how can he know?

3302 – Taxi Film

1979 • 15 min • Germany

1979 German super 8 short work

Blind Passion

1979 • 13 min • Spain

This episode from Histories of Love and Carnage, the first adult-oriented animated feature in Spain, offers a scatological, decidedly unsentimental view of sexuality and old age.

Small Fairy Tales

1979 • 15 min • Soviet Union

Includes three plots: “The Bear with a Sweet Tooth,” “The Boastful Bunny,” and “The Ungrateful Little Goat.”

Child on a Chess Board

1979 • 8 min • India

Almost Unimaginable Story

1979 • 8 min • Soviet Union

About loons that have found shelter on the roof of a modern big house.

Transfiguration

1979 • 18 min • France

Carried by chamanics and cosmics vibrations music, this movie present us Aloual, the fetish actor, in a kind of naked and listless semi-captivity. Sustained by bandages, half floating in the airs, arrowed by glances, this St-Sebastian is the heart of a ritual who combine plastic beauty, Chrisitc's dolor and pagan's voluptuous pleasures.

Saturday

1979 • 22 min

A shearer, his wife and six children leave their farmhouse at daybreak for the week's big event - a Saturday visit to the nearest town, Lake Cargelligo. There's a trip to the barber, icecream for the kids, the weekly football match and a beer at the pub. Come nightfall, it's either a movie or the local dance. This beautifully shot film by Academy Award winner Dean Semler captures all the atmosphere of a weekly ritual repeated in country towns right across Australia.

Feast of the Sacred Ox

1979 • 42 min • Angola

Scenes from the three last days of the festival in which the population of the old Kingdom of Jau participate yearly.

Ailes

1979 • 14 min • France

Wings white, she's red, wings scream, she sings, wings fly, she moans, wings rise, she hides, wings move, she teaches me. Leila, night name, exhumates my childhood memories and introduces me to the marvelous.

Pussy Pumps Up

1979 • 7 min • Australia

“In a wry exploration of women’s sexuality, the character Pussy demonstrates the play between the masculine and the feminine, the strong and the passive, the observer and the observed, as she metamorphoses between female, feline and male figures. As the film demonstrates, animation is a form ideally suited to render the process of metamorphosis.” —Dr. Marian Quigley

À plate couture

1979 • 4 min • France

Fuga

1979 • 20 min

Eugenia Balcells presents an interesting reflection on the relationship between image, space and time.

This Is Your Museum Speaking

1979 • 14 min • Canada

This animated short features a night watchman who, with his dog Fang, discovers that museums are not just a collection of dusty old artefacts. With humour, the film shows how the past is very much alive and connected to our present.

Networks

1979 • 8 min • France

The densest film of the divided-frame group is the aptly titled 1978 Networks, which includes as many as 20 exposures of the same roll of film. Here only one slit was used, but Lebrat combines within one image many narrow strips taken at diverse Paris locations, sometimes seen through colored filters. The enclosed, even claustrophobic space of the strips contrasts with Lebrat’s superimposition of them and with the movement within the strips and by the strips within the frame... (Fred Camper)

The Right Candidate for Rosedale

1979 • 32 min • Canada

This short documentary records Anne Cools’ 1978 run for the Liberal Party nomination in Rosedale, one of Toronto's largest and socially most diverse federal ridings. The film records her bid for political power, and explains the nomination contest, a basic step in the Canadian electoral process. Because she was competing against the Liberal Party's preferred candidate, the nomination battle in Rosedale turned into one of the most innovative and fascinating in the history of Canadian politics.

Beautiful Name

1979 • 1 min • Japan

A special performance for Laforet, the large department store/museum in Harajuku.

The Ten Commandments of Love

1979 • 4 min • United Kingdom

Two people in an impassioned embrace on an ocean pier as Harvey and the Moonglows start singing “The Ten Commandments of Love”. “In the autumn of 1979 I was looking through a stack of old film stills in a secondhand record shop. I found a still from King Creole and decided that I would make a film from it. I had 10 new prints made from the still and hand tinted all of them. I seem to recall that at the time the image of 1950’s love on the waterfront was irresistible, although with hindsight the film looks like an exercise in formalism” (Cordelia Swann)

Sincerity IV

1979 • 36 min • United States of America

This, the sixth film of the SINCERITY/DUPLICITY series, seems rooted in the earliest tradition of my work, Psycho-Drama, as well as in the most recent, Imagnostic, directions taken. It is remembrance as well as thought which fashions it in lonely hotel rooms, sincere return of the mind to that which is loved, ephemeral faces of children growing older, familiar objects interwoven with easy alien familiarity, the images of strangers in UNeasy identification, sexual posture and the lure of the Beloved as irreducible image.

Cinema Verite

1979 • 1 min • Poland

A man's face appears on the screen with his eyes covered by a black strip. After a while, the strip covers his mouth, and when it covers his eyes again the man begins to say something.

Sea/Shore

1979 • 5 min • United Kingdom

The notion of a line which divides the land from the sea is a notion of convenience which is only valid in certain circumstances. If there is a line at all, it only exists for a second or so, and is never repeated again. This film was shot on this imaginary line, but the leading or trailing edge of the wave is never represented. The shore line is replaced by a frame line which divides each one-second "take" from its neighbour. The frame is either filled with water or littered with stones and sand exposed after the wave has receded. The image on the screen, the organic rhythm of the waves, is not destroyed by the violence of the structures imposed upon it. Nature emerges uninhibited, revealing yet further complexities of shape and form. The illusory shore line remains invisible, trapped on celluloid, hidden by the mechanics of the projector, and de-materialised by the illusion of cinematographic movement.

Lermite

1979 • 26 min

"Every landscape, like every subject, ends up looking like the painter who paints it" A posthumous tribute to painter Lermite (1920-1977), whose real name was Jean-Pierre Schmid.

Cinématon n°52 : F.J. Ossang

1979 • 4 min • France

Early portrait of Ossang in Courant's ongoing "Cinématon" series.

Piège pour une exécution capitale

1979 • 4 min • France

Bernard Roué records an exhibit of Michel Journiac's piece of the same name.