All Films

Children of Palestine

1979 • 35 min • Palestinian Territory

One of the many films Monica Maurer and Samir Nimer made for the PLO.

Six Days in September

1979 • 35 min • United Kingdom

Arena profiles John Hoyland, seen by many as England's finest abstract painter. As a major retrospective of his work opens in London, Hoyland faces hostile criticism, starts a new painting and explains why, in his bleaker moments, painting can seem little more than ' flicking away in a corner with a feather duster '.

Elbowing

1979 • 7 min

A man expresses his individuality in a conformist society.

Un sanglant symbole

1979 • 20 min • France

Un sanglant symbole is two films: the film of the image and the film of the voice. The film of the image was shot before the film of the voice. The film of the image is the reproduction of 160 photographs (of films, advertisements, news ...) filmed in variable durations (more and more slowly, then more and more quickly). What do we see? Looks. Hand gestures. The film of the voice is not a comment. Neither a voice-over: in no way does this voice have such a status and even less the character of an exhibit for a better understanding of the film. On the contrary, she perverts, disturbs, worries.

O Kimbanda Kambia

1979 • 41 min • Angola

Two meetings in 1978 with Kimbanda Kambia, a traditional healer in rural southern Angola. Kimbanda shows the place where he treats and prepares medicines, the women who help him with these preparations, and talks about his practice - how he treats cases of madness, epilepsy, spirit and witchcraft possession.

Cildo Meireles

1979 • 11 min • Brazil

A Brazilian avant-garde film matching the image of John Wayne on horseback to incongruous discourse in Portuguese.

The Ballad Of Annabel Lee

1979 • 59 min • United States of America

Unarius’ most controversial video work: the banned, pre-Civil War-era yarn The Ballad of Annabelle Lee! Whilst reliving one of her many past life experiences, Uriel becomes the Southern belle, Annabelle Lee. Meanwhile her nice white boy assistant gets demoted to her black mammy and is forced to wear black face and drag. Racial strife ensues on the riverboat, The Robert E. Lee, resulting in the tragic demise of all concerned. Of course, dems gots plenty mo’ lives t’ live. The ultimate in New Age logic, complete with blackface.

Five Improvisations

1979 • 4 min

The diagrammatic space first entered in Diagram Film becomes the stage for temporal, rhythmic, informational and spatial play with a single diagram (a 144-drawing cycle) that refers to the film and animation process, animation history, specific filmmakers and other encoded data. The arrangement of the drawings for each of the five sequences was improvised on the animation during the act of shooting, creating five variations and possible readings of the animated composition.

Al Neil: A Portrait

1979 • 40 min • Canada

An award winning 45-minute film portrait of Al Neil’s life, music and art. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

Bermuda Triangle

1979 • 7 min • Poland

The box from the film strip becomes an arbitrary plot of action relating to the mysterious phenomena taking place in the Bermuda Triangle. Experimental short by Jerzy Kalina.

Mend

1979 • 5 min

Is it happening in the screening room or on the screen; in a snowstorm or inside; what isn't surrounding and what is? From filming Ann sewing, on a grey winter day. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.

We’re out of the woods and songs

1979 • 16 min

Folk masters carve sculptures and recount memories in memory of the burned Ablinga villagers.

Poèmes électriques

1979 • 15 min

A film by Guy Gilles

The Motion Picture Camera

1979 • 33 min • United States of America

The history and development of motion picture machinery is lovingly and authoritatively presented and narrated by ASC cinematographer and film preservationist, Karl Malkames, using actual early motion picture cameras from 'The Malkames Collection'.

Food Doesn't Fly: Lunchroom Manners

1979 • 8 min

Children of the fourth grade take you through a typical lunch period - from washing hands to putting garbage in the trash barrel.

Canada Vignettes: Inuit Pipe

1979 • 1 min • Canada

In this animated short from the Canada Vignette series, the camera explores, in exquisite detail, the daily hunt, fishing scenes and children at play as etched in black on an ivory Inuit pipe.

Tollhaus

1979 • 16 min

Hérésie pour Magritte VII

1979 • 4 min • France

Hérésie pour Magritte III

1979 • 4 min

Ikuska 3: Bilboko hiri espekulazioa

1979 • 12 min • Spain

Documentary that presents the urban problems of Bilbao.

Blackstone Live From Seattle

1979 • 50 min • United States of America

Harry Blackstone Jr. performs a spectacular, live magic show in Seattle, 1979.

Taim

1979 • 31 min • Brazil

Ecology - the eco system, a nature reserve in the south of the country - RS (between the Mirim lagoons) shows the harmony between nature and animals.

Change. My Problem is a Problem of a Woman

1979 • 7 min • Poland

Ewa Partum’s work entitled Change. My problem is a problem of a woman (1979) is the culmination and the turning point of a process which began with Change in 1974. The latter was an action in which the artist had half of her face aged using make-up and immortalized in a portrait posted in the streets of Warsaw. Up to that point, Partum had used make-up to glamorize herself, signing various words with her lips outlined in red and pressed against paper as she spoke 1. But in Change. My problem is a problem of a woman, Partum had wrinkles, varicose veins, and grey hair applied over half of her body while, reclining on a white podium, she recited passages from the critic Lucy Lippard and the artist VALIE EXPORT.

Vicarious Thrills

1979 • 11 min • United States of America

First the Beaulieu documentation of the shoot, then the Arri footage, the porn loop, and the reprise. VT was shown from 1979–1981, with Jim Fulkerson performing on amplified trombone before the screen. Juan Carlos Kase discussed VT in “Alternative Projections.” Part of his essay, read by the author, is included. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.