All Films

Forget Me Not

1979 • 15 min • France

Le Speelberg Indien

1979 • 11 min • France

Rudolph Valentino s’est suicidé pour moi

1979 • 5 min • France

Rapid rhythms due to a geometrical treatment of the images, of which most of the chisellings are oblique lines. Insertion were made with film scraps inside the chisellings. A seventeenth century music adds a touch of original anachronism to the film and dialogue with the reading of a superficial text about Rudolph Valentino.

Current Autobiography According to Bargain Basement Sinatra

1979 • 21 min

Current Autobiography According to Bargain Basement Sinatra chronicles Natalka Voslakov's efforts to secure a boyfriend worthy enough to be the leading man in her film.

Pacific Far East Line

1979 • 12 min

A second landscape film, in this case urban. The work constructed from materials gathered over two years looking out at downtown San Francisco from a loft on Folsom Street. The elements are “folded” and mixed, Time redefines Space: the erector and helicopter appear as toys within a schizy motor-oil-ized ballet mechanique.

Holland/USA Studies

1979 • 57 min • Netherlands

Rhythmic Moves

1979 • 5 min • Netherlands

An Evening At Home

1979 • 12 min

A musical. This is a portrait of my father in three vignettes of his own fabrication. "... a black and white sound 'musical' featuring Camhi's father in three charmingly modest vaudeville turns, performed in his own living room... Using Pere Camhi and an Al Jolson anthem and campy foxtrot (among other things), this laid-back effort succeeds in capturing... euphoria... by following the 'realist' tactic of letting personality triumph over form.

Fight

1979 • 2 min • Poland

Picture of a fight between two women in which the victim is a judge - a man. 'Re-discovered' film by Jadwiga Singer.

Applying and Removing

1979 • 18 min

Applying: a nude woman is painted completely black. Attention concentrated on the process of going from white to black. Removing: she washes herself off in the bathtub, and goes from black to grey to white. Seemingly austere, the film is resonant on many levels, and each viewer brings to it his/her own associations.

Counterpane

1979 • 5 min • United States of America

An unnamed city's angular composition is highlighted in this short by Jim Jennings; Inky black and red geometry betrayed by a beautiful blue sky.

Bed and Sofa

1979 • 12 min

A remake of Abram Room's 1927 silent Russian feature, "Bed and Sofa". Heralded as a revolutionary feminist film, Room's version was suppressed for its radical treatment of sexual freedom, women's rights, and abortion. Armatage's version shifts the emphasis to the woman's point of view and stylizes the narrative. A comedy.

Tin Cans Are My Favorite Treat

1979 • 15 min

The Secret Abyss

1979 • 12 min

Evocations of a space in the mind – limitless, soundless. Blackness punctuated by bursting water bubbles ascending and descending into the unknown. The color red evokes feelings of the inner self – a microcosmic viewpoint for an expansion of time and space.

Children Nevertheless

1979 • 22 min • Palestinian Territory

The film depcits the life of the orphans of Tall Azaatar Martyrs in “Bait El- Somoud”, the house which was set for them by the General Union of Palestinian Women (GUPW). It recounts the sufferings that Palestinian children endure in diaspora camps and under the Israeli occupation.

Window

1979 • 3 min • Australia

“A woman stands ironing near a window. You never actually see the ironing, but you experience the repetition and the boredom. You see her from a multiplicity of viewpoints. Finally she opens the bloody window for a breath of fresh air.” (Paul Winkler) [Made for Oberhausen Film Festival, which invited a number of filmmakers to make a three-minute film on the theme of a window.]

A Place to Be

1979 • 55 min • United States of America

A documentary about the design/construction of the National Gallery of Art's East Building in Washington, D.C.

Amazeing Maze

1979 • 5 min • Sweden

Amazing Maze is based on the stories of different people's passion for pinball. Cherry, the company that owned the pinball arcade Alexander Lucas, located in Hötorget subway station in Stockholm, lended their machines for the shooting of this film. The stories are taken from Cherry's ads. Olle Hedman reacted to warnings in the media about how damaging pinball could be for children and youth. (Filmform)

The Rabbit in Australia

1979 • 24 min • Australia

This short documentary produced by Australia’s national science agency CSIRO in 1979 traces the introduction of the European rabbit to Australia and subsequent attempts to control its population.

Gay Pride

1979 • 25 min

The homosexual, or gay, movement has become increasingly prominent in Britain and around the world. In June 1979 Gay Pride Week celebrated a decade of the movement, culminating in a rock concert in London's Hyde Park. "World in Action" talked to members of the movement, and to one of the world's best-known gay musicians, Tom Robinson, one of whose hit songs, "Glad to be Gay", became an unofficial anthem of the movement.

Flippers

1979 • 16 min • France

Dominique Belloir and Rainer Werbitz experimenting with the use of the video synthesizer which, by various processing, explores the fascination of an apparently harmless game, pinball-- The artificial quickly becomes pulsating, violent and sexualized in a frenzy.

Semiconductors. Ninth grade. Physics

1979 • 18 min

A short film by Vladimir Kobrin.

Hand Piece

1979 • 7 min • United States of America

"This hand drawn animated film is a tribute to my hands. It was produced between 1977-79 with the assistance of a grant from the Sinking Creek Film Celebration. This animated film honors the legacy of Jules Engel the original head of Cal Arts Animation Program." -D. Pies. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

Untitled

1979 • 10 min

First a painter, Hugo Cleis was also making home movies that she used to show in her workshop. This one, with no title, depicts an exploration of her paintings.