All Films

Korea: Rich Heritage, Land of Morning Calm

1979 • 18 min • United States of America

Traces Korea's cultural heritage through its ancient dynasties, religions, language, art, and customs.

Piano/Music

1979 • 2 min • United States of America

San Donato

1979 • 8 min

In 1979 Roberto Nanni began burying some 8mm footage underground and then unearthed it.

Soft Fiction

1979 • 55 min • United States of America

Chick Strand's SOFT FICTION is a personal documentary that brilliantly portrays the survival power of female sensuality. It combines the documentary approach with a sensuous lyrical expressionism. Strand focuses her camera on people talking about their own experience, capturing subtle nuances in facial expressions and gestures that are rarely seen in cinema. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 2015.

America of the seventies. Where do Los Angeles roads lead?

1979 • 57 min • Soviet Union

In ancient times, when heraldry was in use and every self-respecting city considered it necessary to have its own coat of arms, it was placed on that coat of arms that was symbolic and lily for the city (fortress tower, deer head, scales of justice, sword or something else, something especially revered). To this day, it would not be worthwhile to preserve this custom and wonder what the residents of Los Angeles, the third largest city in the United States, would like to take as a symbol. They surely would - they certainly would be the California Highways. Even Americans accustomed to car herds, coming from other parts of the country to California, finding themselves in Los Angeles and its suburbs, marvel at the empty weaving of concrete and asphalt belts filled to the brim with gasoline carriages...

Shellshock Rock

1979 • 48 min • United Kingdom, Ireland

John T. Davis’ first in a trilogy of films (including Protex Hurrah (1980) and Self-Conscious Over You (1981)) exploring the Belfast filmmaker’s local subculture and American cultural influence. It provides a look at the burgeoning punk scene in Northern Ireland, featuring early footage of bands such as Stiff Little Fingers, The Undertones, Protex, The Outcasts, and Rhesus Negative, among others. (from: http://artistsspace.org/programs/shellshock-rock/)

The Little Horse

1979 • 25 min • Mexico

The novohispanic equestrian statue of Charles IV of Spain is relocated in Mexico city.

Cinemarxism

1979 • 33 min • Hungary

A student film by Béla Tarr, from 1979. Presumed lost until very recently.

No. 17: Mirror Animations

1979 • 11 min • United States of America

Features Thelonious Monk's Misterioso. Extended version of No. 11 printed forward-backward-forward.

The Greatest Day

1979 • 8 min • Yugoslavia

In this short film the author, in her own specific way, documents the moment of connecting the two parts of the Krk bridge.

Malanka's Wedding

1979 • 20 min • Soviet Union

A documentary drama about Maria Kutyr, a resident of Chapayivka (Zolotonosha district, Cherkasy region), whose life reflected the fate of Ukrainian women from the World War II generation.

Tables d'hiver

1979 • 29 min • France

Winter 1978-1979: In his signature style, Hernández films hearty meals, long afternoons and candlelit dalliances inside his residence on rue des Entrepôts.

Ritual

1979 • 3 min

This is one of those rare, total in-camera edits that provided options for many of my later, densely layered films. The timing and lap dissolves were a pitch-perfect gift! Super 8, silent, experimental.—Joseph Bernard

Objects with Destinations

1979 • 4 min

Objects from the artist’s studio (hammer, cathode ray tube, circuit board rack, chair, clip light) constitute the subjects for a series of short sequences in which a single object moves through a series of overlapping transformations. These are electronically altered in such a way that their coloration and contours continuously morph. As the transparent images are superimposed one upon the other and faded in and out, they become slightly displaced, giving the impression that the objects are “wandering” across the image plane. In some sequences, the contours and colors of the objects dissociate, or newly arising color fields spread across the pictorial surface. The superimpositions and cross-dissolves result in a minimal amount of action, consistent with the ‘destinations’ implied in the work’s title.

Maryshka and the Wolf's Castle

1979 • 15 min • Czechoslovakia

A fairy-tale about a brave, self-sacrificial and faithful girl named Maryska who sets free an enchanted princess and her twelve maids from a mysterious castle.

Buccaneer Blood

1979 • 10 min • Brazil

One of the first Brazilian movies to conjecture about contraculture and its reflexes on the behaviour of a generation. A tribute to the late poet and friend Orlando Parolini.

Atlixco, granero del siglo XVI

1979 • 30 min • Mexico

A documentary that takes a tour of the city of Atlixco, where time and image intertwine in a poetic rhythm, in a walking cadence. Short film that is part of the collection of the Short Film Production Center (CPC) that is preserved in the IMCINE Collection.

Trei mere

1979 • 6 min • Romania

One of the primitive people discovered an apple tree but there is a condition: he can pluck apples from it, but only keep every third.

The Figure-Tamer

1979 • 10 min • Soviet Union

An animated miniature for children, affirming the principle of "Never give up!"

More Than Meets The Eye

1979 • 8 min

"...Frampton travels to the purported birthplace of the Eisensteinian model of cinema, the fairground, with its 'montage of attractions'...ambulating wide-angled portrait of the fair, its throng of participants, its array of attractions (Belgian Waffles, Walk Away Sundaes, Flying Bobs, the Toboggan, a Hall of Health). Interpolated within this walking tour are nine optically reversed textual passages which are briefly flashed on-screen, framed by a repeated image of a ride appropriately known as 'The Scrambler.'"–Bruce Jenkins

The Story of a Village and a War

1979 • 25 min • Lebanon

"The Story of a Village and a War" is a film about the citizens of South Lebanon during the israeli invasion in 1978. The film highlights their daily suffering during the occupation. It was shown at the United Nations at the request of Ghassan Tueini, the representative of Lebanon back then. The screening helped in the issuance of resolution 425, which provided for the withdrawal of the israeli occupation from the South.

Hitch Hike

1979 • 4 min

Things quickly go awry for a hitchhiker in the woods after a motorist stops to pick him up.

Circus at Home

1979 • 7 min • Soviet Union

A fairy tale for children about the need for an attentive attitude towards elders. It tells a story about how domestic animals - a cat, a dog and a parrot - taught their little master a lesson, who did not want to help his grandmother.

Fotomatar

1979 • 12 min • France

Fotomatar is a french-spanish word more or less made up, which makes us think of a "phot-booth" (photomaton) and hesitate between "mater" ("mater" is a french slang word for "to look at") and matar (which means "to kill" in spanish). This film plays with narrativity. It's also a film about duration, about appearance of color (rather creepy), about suspense - a concerto for polaroïd triggers and horror scream. An experimental thriller.