All Films

Electric Light Voyage

1979 • 60 min • United States of America

“This 60 minute electronic fantasy featuring computer animation can control and change your moods of elation and tranquility. To change or enhance your mood, simply play a musical selection that accompanies your present feeling - its mesmerising! The abstract colorised computer animated visuals are artfully paced with their complimentary sound track. Images explode with colour while sooting with flowing shapes and rhythms, Great for parties or individual contemplation.”

Kiss the Girls: Make them Cry

1979 • 7 min • United States of America

Constructed of footage recorded from the television game show Hollywood Squares. The bulk of the piece is made up from recorded introductory gestures of female celebrities participating in Hollywood Squares, which are synced to then-contemporary Disco songs.

Inter-Dimensional Music Through Iasos

1979 • 27 min • United States of America

This is a documentary on Iasos that was created in 1979 in California.

Colored Milk

1979 • 9 min • Soviet Union

A grandson came to the village to visit his grandmother, who rarely rests in nature, which makes him look pale and sick. The boy likes the geese, the cow, and the local nature here. He gets involved in local life, starts making friends with animals, walks with them in meadows and lawns, and doesn't even notice how his grandmother's health turns into joy. And the reason for the transformation was the mysterious colored milk.

Quiet Swamp

1979 • 10 min • Soviet Union

About the protection of nature, about the inhabitants of protected swamps.

Patria Libre

1979 • 13 min

1979 Mexican experimental film

3 Minutes 12 Seconds To End

1979 • 3 min

“3 minutes 12 seconds” is an cyberpunk apocalyptic countdown

Priory: The Only Home I've Got

1979 • 28 min • Canada

The Priory is a public extended-care hospital in Victoria, British Columbia, for people suffering from chronic geriatric illnesses. Treatment is innovative. It is based on the theory that even the ordinary activities of a patient's life contain elements of therapy. The film shows us how patients are encouraged to do as much as they can for themselves despite their confinement to wheelchairs.

After the Game

1979 • 19 min • United States of America

The touching story of two women discovering their true feelings for each other.

Varnette's World: A Study of a Young Artist

1979 • 26 min

Presents a documentary on Varnette Honeywood, a painter who honors her ancestral heritage while searching for alternative skills for economic survival

Opus 40

1979 • 14 min • Canada

Opus 40” is about repetition: repetition in working and living, repetition through multiplicity and series, repetition to form pattern and rhythm, repetition in order and in revealing.

Caviar

1979 • 30 min • Iran

Short documentary by Ebrahim Mokhtari

Sham 69: Tell Us The Truth

1979 • 37 min • United Kingdom

This is the ultra rare Sham 69 Documentary which features a drama using the 'That's Life' album. Filmed for BBC Arena in 1979.

G

1979 • 5 min • United Kingdom

In Susan Stein’s early film, G, her interest is language and work and how the two are connected. Experimenting with the conjunction of images and sound, she shows a typewriter from a variety of angles, punctuating the images with the almost abstracted sounds of a clock, typing and a monologue. The result is a reflection on both the material and artistic processes confronting an author. “Thinking about writing and hearing and writing of the film, the same alphabet which has been shared by many women.” (SS)

Lotus

1979 • 12 min • United States of America

A film by Coni Beeson.

Ephemeral

1979 • 24 min • France

The construction of the film outlines the successive steps of a path that, as we move forward, reveals the different stages of its presentation: the moon, the rose, the child, the candle and the skull are linked in a unique picture that gives its internal meaning. Elements connected by the route of the film to lead to the final image: one in which the meaning becomes external.

Saving the Proof

1979 • 11 min • United States of America

"SAVING THE PROOF is a complex transformation of an ordinary action: a woman walking. The rhythm of her gait and the pulsating, repetitive sounds counterpoint with alternating images of her transversing city streets, passing windows and fences, descending stairs. As the images repeat and vary with mathematical precision, one becomes more interested in the process itself than in her destination. What appears to have been simple breaks down into a complex system of dichotomies, both in form and in content: city/country, completeness/fragmentation, presence/absence, illusion/reality, light/shadow, negative/positive, fiction/documentation. The film climaxes in a spectacular burst, as one feels that the film is literally coming apart. It ends as it began, as one long chain that can be interrupted at any point, and yet can only be seen as a whole piece." - Margaret Ganahl, Camera Obscura

From Left to Right

1979 • 10 min

A pair of puppets teaches the proper way to read.

Nostos I

1979 • 45 min • France

Kuntzel describes this work: "Three people, or rather three silhouettes of rare objects — frames, windows perhaps, a[n] illustrated manuscript — and a few minimal actions: pages being leafed through, someone sitting down, someone lying down, getting up, crossing a space, lighting a cigarette, a head turning, a mouth opening, someone looking around. There is hardly any representation in Nostos I: just enough to tip-toe around the edges of analogy, illusion, under the image and in between images." Unfolding as memory traces and dream images, figures and objects appear and disappear, decompose and recompose; disjointed fragments evolve in continuous transformation and manipulations of light and time.

Family Teamwork

1979 • 14 min

Short about families working together

Near and Far / Now and Then

1979 • 28 min • United States of America

2-Parts: One, a residency at the MacDowell Colony in Petersboro, New Hampshire with the seasons passing ... Two, an experiment with green-screen chroma-key and a play between 2-D and 3-D space.

Gulls Don’t Fly On Light

1979 • 5 min • United States of America

Gulls usually don't fly in movie theaters, but in this case... A scatterbrained camera observes seagulls. See breeze and editing league in order to transform this moment into choreography. The camera and the pair of wings finds themselves, escape from each other, brush against and let themselves passing through or levitate together a short indecisive moment before eclipsing, sometimes literally, until abstraction.

Painted Monitor

1979 • 5 min • Netherlands

An evening of television is apparently reduced to a few minutes. The image is blue, with an occasional hint of red for contrast.

Le Cri nu

1979 • 18 min • France

Discovery of the body in the state of matter which moves and takes shape. Two bodies thus evolve by confronting their own anatomical space. Their communication is based only on their bodily knowledge and meaning, thus ignoring the objectivity of the outside world. Reality being represented by the discovery of the different elements of matter. (CJC).