All Films

Leicht haben wir's nicht miteinander

1979 • 11 min • Germany

Using the example of 16-year-old, physically disabled Wolfgang, the film shows how non-disabled people can help a disabled person and what should be avoided. It also shows that the tense behavior on both sides is caused by fear and insecurity and that the disabled person can also do something wrong, i.e. is a completely normal person.

Procession

1979 • 3 min • Yugoslavia

A super 8mm film by Davorin Marc.

Music For Voices

1979 • 7 min

"Music For Voices" was produced in a handmade process, by chemically soaking and staining unspooled strands of 16mm raw-stock. The film was subsequently made into a projection print without ever being run through a camera or subject to a final processing procedure. The resulting visual cascade of this cameraless film functions as the "music" of the title, accompanying spoken words of artist-performer Tony Billoni in an audio recording of him made circa 1984.

Beranduegi

1979 • 7 min • Spain

A boy is dreaming, comes out of the house, follows the trail of blood drops and arrives at a dead boy.

Bobos Nonos

1979 • 10 min

An experiment from the video lab of Hervé Huitric and Monique Nahas.

Essay

1979 • 18 min • Poland

A teenage boy attempts to define himself and answer the most important questions troubling him.

Film of Stars Group Activities

1979 • 47 min

This film documents the activities of the Stars Group, an underground collective of artists who pursued freedom of expression in China in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Huang Rui, Ma Desheng, and Wang Keping were key figures in the collective. The film begins with the group’s 1979 exhibition outside the National Art Museum of China in Beijing and records its closure by the authorities, the street demonstrations to protest the closure, negotiations with the authorities, and the subsequent exhibition at Beihai Park. The work is the only known video that records these significant moments, and it also offers insight into life in Beijing after the end of the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976). Held at M+ Museum in Hong Kong.

At the Origins of Soviet Cinema

1979 • 25 min • Soviet Union

About the history of Soviet documentary films.

They Call Me Chamar

1979 • 16 min • India

About 30 km away from Varanasi there is a small village of Dhakvan, where lives a Brahmin named Ram Dayal Dixit who has been living among Harijans, like a Harijan. He has also married a Harijan girl. This act of his invited a great wrath from the caste Hindus. He had to suffer a lot. Ram Dayal a fighter for the cause is not afraid of being called a chamar. But his story very sharply reveals the caste-ridden society that India is, particularly in its villages of north India.

World Peace Talks

1979 • 2 min • United States of America

UCLA Animation Workshop Student Film. A short animated film critiquing Cold War global politics.

Grapefruits and Coconuts

1979 • 3 min • United States of America

Claymation Animation Workshop Student Film of an absurd chorus of dancing fruits, ending with one banana "splitting" from the scene.

Die einsame Spaziergängerin

1979 • 60 min

During the approximately one-hour performance, the performer holds an iron rod in her hand, which she uses to move a video camera mounted on a tripod at the edge of the painting. The filmed hands of the performer can be seen on two monitors using the closed-circuit method, in which what is recorded is played back immediately. During the performance, the piercing sound of a whirling wood, a ritual instrument of the Australian Aborigines, can be heard.

Surviving Hostage Situations

1979 • 28 min

The film recounts a survivor's harrowing experience of being kidnapped and held hostage. He reflects on the moments leading up to his capture, the psychological tactics used by his captors, and the strategies he employed to cope with his captivity. Throughout his ordeal, he emphasizes the importance of maintaining a sense of control, establishing rapport with his captors, and staying mentally and physically fit. The narrative culminates in his eventual rescue, highlighting the unpredictability of hostage situations and the resilience of the human spirit.

Ballad

1979 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Animation short based on orthodox themes.

Canada Vignettes: The Visitor

1979 • 1 min

The medieval Norse claimed in their sagas to have reached Vinland. Could this extremely significant archaeological find substantiate the Norse claim? Far to the north, on Baffin Island, a tiny carved wooden figure is discovered. The figure is clothed in a long, pleated and hooded robe, and, incised on the chest of this small mysterious artifact is a Christian cross.

The Abduction Golden-Haired Beauty

1979 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A modern interpretation of a folk tale about a golden-haired beauty abducted by a monster.

Roan Mountain Eulogy

1979 • 4 min

A short film by Peter Bundy

Transition

1979 • 3 min

A short film by Peter Bundy

Why Didn't the Mouse Sleep?

1979 • 20 min • Soviet Union

The orphan mouse can't sleep, there's no one to sing him a lullaby. He goes wandering around the world.…

Harmony of Fight...

1979 • 5 min • Soviet Union

About the figure skating competition for the prize of the Nouvelle de Moscoux newspaper.

Modern Cancan

1979 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Game trains run on tracks, bridges. A man wades through a snowfield. Woman with girl in the nursery. Dancer practising, grimacing. Spiker buildings on Daugavmala in Riga. Cancan dancers in glamorous dresses dance on stage. People climbing stairs in an underpass. A man finds a car corner, runs through a snow-covered forest, finds more car parts. A man sits in a pile of parts in the woods and modifies the steering wheel. Snow-covered apple trees with apples in the branches.

Down in the Rec Room

1979 • 13 min

Mike ambles through his mundane activities to the accompaniment of TV theme songs and children's tunes.

Double Flame

1979 • 3 min

A symmetrical object of contemplation

Shirley & Bruce

1979 • 26 min • United States of America

Portraits of Chuck’s cats and friends, as well as a self-portrait.