All Films - Short Movie Database

My Child, My Child

1979 • 12 min

The film begins with a woman reflecting about her role as a person and as a mother. Her love and the sacrifices she has made for her children are evident and she has many happy memories of her time spent with them.

Wandawega Waters

1979 • 9 min • United States of America

Solo work by Dan Sandin acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in 2021.

Postkarten

1979 • 10 min • Poland

On colorful German postcards and photos, WW I looks like a great adventure for men. It is enough to compare them with documentary photos describing that terrible period to reveal the whole falsity of the iconographic project of the war.

Survival House

1979 • 45 min

This evocative film is a kind of dossier on San Francisco’s Survival House, which served homeless gay and transgendered people during the late 1970s. Located on Haight Street, the halfway house provided survival services and a supportive environment for GLBT people with nowhere else to go. Through interviews with residents and staff and images that capture both the melancholy liminality of its domestic spaces and the comforting intimacy enjoyed by its residents, Pavlow creates a portrait of a unique place that attracted a diverse group of people during the summer of 1977.

Kiiroiyoru

1979 • 10 min • Japan

This is a film with a rich and expansive image based on an incredibly high technical level, with a mostly female crew, and careful attention to the composition and tone of each cut, and a calculated editing process that follows the flow of the images. A symbolic night for all women, in which something important is lost and something important is gained, is written in a poem-like form over the flow of the images.

Bo Peep 5～7

1979 • 14 min • Japan

This film, which begins with the words "Be Peep 5" scratched into the film, is projected at 9 frames per second, twice the speed of the normal 8mm projection, 18 frames per second. By doing so, the object filmed frame by frame is exposed to the viewer's eyes for a longer period of time, creating an effect that is different from that of normal slow motion, where the object filmed at high speed is projected at a normal number of frames. This creates a strange sense of rhythm that strongly stimulates the viewer's sensibilities. 6 shows the overlapping of colors, and 7 shows the development of an image centered on silhouettes as the mind moves.

Face

1979 • 4 min • Japan

By re-shotting several still photographs in 8mm, the film gives movement to the supposedly motionless still images and uses zooming and other effects to lure the viewer into a surreal world where a man's "face" rotates in time and space. While using the usual methods of depicting an unrealistic world, each movement of the subject successfully creates a rhythm in the image that brings this work to a certain level.

No City Fun

1979 • 12 min • United Kingdom

Amplification of article by Liz Naylor in the Manchester fanzine, 'City Fun', entitled 'No City Fun'. Music by Joy Division.

Material Ecstasy

1979 • 10 min • Japan

Using film as a medium, Umebayashi uses a clear style to depict the fragile, crumbling images of light and shadow that threaten to disappear. Because of the silent nature of the film, you can hear the rhythm and melody in the spectacle of light unfolding on the screen. When the director himself shows the film, he freely controls the speed of the projection to create the effect of a live performance.

Now You're Talking: Australian Cinema 1930-1940

1979 • 47 min

Part 3 of the History of Australian Cinema series. The story of the Australian film industry in the 1930s, from the pioneering days of talkies through to the decline of the industry with the coming of WWII.

Another Room

1979 • 9 min • South Korea

Iris

1979 • 3 min • United States of America

An example of Gusella's impressive switch edits; A disarming rhythm is produced.

PropellorTape

1979 • 10 min

Documentary film footage of ground personnel starting the propeller of an American B-17 bomber is repeated in a tightly edited, rhythmic structure. The obsessive fragmentation of the young soldiers lifting the propellers renders their action an exercise in frustration; A study in memetic repetition by Klaus vom Bruch.

Single Gun Theory

1979 • 1 min

The Three Stooges shoot JFK.

YOUSHI KEI (Another Rainbow City)

1979 • 17 min • Japan

Film by Tanaami Keiichi.

The Calvary Line

1979 • 49 min • Australia

The Holy Land from a reverent Protestant view of an Armenian perspective

The Box Of Life

1979 • 12 min

16mm film documenting Federica Marangoni's performance.

Five Minutes, Ms. Lenska

1979 • 1 min

A spoof on the classic Oil of Olay commericals of the 1970's as portrayed by the international star Rula Lenska. Iconic drag perfomer Codina Disposa gives tidbits to the smart women of Britian on how to keep their youthful beauty.