All Films

A reminder of Dr. Fatemi's struggles

1979 • 42 min • Iran

Documentary about Dr. Fatemi, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mohammad Mossadegh's government

Science Fiction

1979 • 5 min

Science Fiction is a found-footage film that playfully explores the space-time continuum as it applies to narrative structure. Max J. Alvarez in the Milwaukee Journal writes: “J. J. Murphy’s Science Fiction, a dazzling five-minute experimental fantasy that at first appears to be a 1950s travelogue gone awry, features technical trickery that will impress and bewilder filmmakers and filmgoers.”

White Waves

1979 • 20 min

Surfing documentary.

Ikuska 1: Ikastolak

1979 • 12 min • Spain

The first film of the 'Ikuska' series, on the situation of schools in Basque language.

Kuma

1979 • 56 min • Turkey

There is a story about a German second wife brought from Germany to a village in Erzincan.

Cinématon n°41 : Raphaël Bassan

1979 • 4 min • France

Notes

1979 • 3 min

Made using a super 8 sound camera. The microphone is attached to a stick protruding from the camera, and kept just out of sight. This image-and-sound-gathering device is used to 'play' the open strings of a piano.

Wellspring

1979 • 5 min • Czech Republic

“Super 8 mm full coloured movie with sound, which was recorded directly among grains of sand, stired up under the water surface. Flowing water and sand create an elusive, hallucinogenic sonic image. In some ways, this moving picture is very close to Hans Jenny's research.” (Miloš Šejn)

Boys Beware

1979 • 14 min • United States of America

The 3rd edition of the Sid Davis original, now in colour and with an expanded script.

Girls Beware (3rd Edition)

1979 • 12 min

This educational film warns adolescent girls of the dangers posed by sexual predators, and offers tips on how to avoid dangerous situations.

Ravine

1979 • 5 min • Czech Republic

“With his camera, Sejn not only made detailed studies of nature or landscape photographs, but he also thematized his movement through the landscape. ‘Ravine’ is the title of a film that Sejn made as a direct recording of his hike through rocks in 1979. He showed the constant change of the dynamic and calm moments of walking and the alternation of light and dark in the rocky landscape.” (Simona Mehnert)

The Underground Eiger

1979 • 50 min

A marvelous portrayal of a key event in British caving, and of the adventurous spirit of the two cavers famous for their numerous cave diving breakthroughs and records. Documenting a world record-breaking cave dive of 6,000 ft (1,800 m) made by Geoff Yeadon and Oliver Statham from West Kingsdale Master Cave, in North Yorkshire, England to Keld Head.

The Stoker

1979 • 7 min • Poland

A picture of a metaphorical relationship between a huge cauldron and its guardian - the stoker called Guzla, who puts fuel into the giant furnace. The coexistence of two forms: technical and organic leads to the interpenetration of worlds.

Baggage

1979 • 9 min • Poland

A cinematic journey into the past, following the items that the absentee family gathered in an apartment in an old tenement house. Everything had a beginning which was the end of something. Time rolls on like a glass ball and it breaks into pieces.

Gadanho

1979 • 21 min • Brazil

The condition of social exclusion of the hundreds of people who live off the garbage of the Varadouro Municipal of João Pessoa. Figueiredo's speech about images of children disputing garbage with vultures. Music by Villa-Lobos and Piazzola contrasting with the routine of the garbage dump. Statement of a resident who returns to the place after 12 years in Rio, outraged with the requirement of a card for those who pick up the garbage. A sociologist speaks, trying to explain the situation of the garbage dumps based on the workers' struggle for better salaries, flattened "in more than 70%" since 1964.

Rabbits Are Sleeping

1979 • 32 min • Japan

This film has a structure like a Möbius loop, where reality and dream, dream and reality, are all in a row, and the loop repeats itself endlessly. There are scenes of conversations that seem to change location with each cut, or railroad crossings where up trains and down trains melt into one another, an exchange with a Polaroid brother from Tokyo at Osaka Castle, or a tennis scene. The artist's unique method and the expansion of images backed by it create a rich game of images and words.

養護学校はあかんねん！

1979 • 50 min • Japan

This is a documentary in which the camera's gaze is surrounded by a consciousness of staring, and this consciousness brings about a clear stance in approaching the subject. The distance between the able-bodied and the disabled is made clearer here by depicting it from the side of the disabled, and the film's title, "Why are schools for the disabled wrong? The title of the film, "Why are schools for the disabled wrong? This straightforward attempt at the most basic of documentary filmmaking, how to bring the subject to oneself, succeeds in capturing the full power of film itself, not just within the genre of documentary. The film is a success.

Memory

1979 • 16 min • France

Memory is an attempt to reconstruct the functioning of the memory process and, in particular, the phenomenon of triggering a memory from elements perceived in the outside world. The lens of the camera corresponds to the gaze of a single subject - the one who records and then remembers. This translates into an alternation of "real" sequences and "faked" souvenir sequences.

The Birth

1979 • 55 min

A movie about giving birth.

Shadow and Chair

1979 • 10 min • United Kingdom

Black and White Video Installation | Silent

La, Re, Mi, La

1979 • 9 min

Carles Santos, at the piano, plays the notes that make up the title 74 times, dressed up and disguised as that many characters.

The Art We Deserve?

1979 • 45 min

The ART WE DESERVE is an film essay by Richard Cork about the gulf between minority art and mass culture. Examining the public’s preference for bland mass reproduction pictures which are traditional in style and ‘look nice’, the modern artist’s tendency to create an insular, inward-looking art for an educated elite and the media’s unwillingness to take modern art seriously, the film argues that the sense of alienation between artist and the public is largely the result of a class-divided society.

Common Loss

1979 • 15 min • United States of America

With its loose narrative framework embroidered with an evocative and metaphorical montage, Doug Haynes' Common Loss recalls the poetic strain of the avant-garde. The film marshals thousands of individual pictures, each of which is meticulously cut out and painstakingly animated, into an allegory about growing up.

Crock of Gold

1979 • 9 min

When two children discover a herd of cows at the end of the rainbow they are disappointed as they were expecting to find gold. The film traces the journey of butter from cows grazing, to milking, to the final churning of milk into a crock of gold – packets of butter – much to the delight of the children. It is a simple delight, and moments like the creative sound mixing in the laboratory scene gives you a taste of Spence’s filmmaking talents.