All Films

Alcohol Trigger Films for Junior High School: The Party, The Mother, The Ride

1979 • 10 min

Educational shorts intended to prevent teenagers from getting bombed and killing themselves or wrecking the family car.

The Knack: Live at Carnegie Hall

1979 • 49 min • Japan

With one of the fastest selling debut albums of all time, The Knack burst onto the scene in 1979 with their own brand of straightforward power pop and a lead-off single ("My Sharona") that would top the charts and become Billboard's Top Pop Single of 1979. A true overnight sensation that would be doomed by overhype and the inevitable critical backlash that followed, The Knack were nonetheless an exciting live band with both musical chops and a sense of humor.

Pituitary

1979 • 4 min • United States of America

“It came from 1979! A paranoid tale of the myths and misconceptions surrounding body changes in adolescence. Found footage with hand drawn flourishes. In full 16mm punk-era unrestored decrepitude! Made in one week. Sound by Ground Zero, Boston.” —Lisa Crafts

Rumores

1979 • 27 min • Brazil

The loneness, the Other and the living together with himself.

Like A Passing Train 2

1979 • 6 min • Japan

Time. In HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE, Gabriel Garcia Marquez describes a long process a year it takes to cross a railway station. The film consists of an image of a train crossing a bush in the garden Ando. The film was shot from the same angle fixed for six months, through the seasons.

Guesswork

1979 • 11 min • United Kingdom

Details, fragments, transformations and shadows of a confined space.

Pudim de Morango

1979 • 4 min • Brazil

Lumiere's Train (Arriving at the Station)

1979 • 8 min • Canada

The subject of the first essay is cinema itself: an apparatus of representation wherein fact and fiction are recreated. As such, the pro-filmic facts are necessarily drawn from two of cinema's "pioneers": Louis and Auguste Lumière and Abel Gance (La Roue), with additional material provided from a Warner Brothers featurette, Spills for Thrills.

Susis Schicht

1979 • 7 min • East Germany, Germany

Susi works in a large depot for waste paper, which is bundled and loaded onto trucks for recycling.

Hérésie pour Magritte II

1979 • 5 min • France

La Grande Famille by René Magritte in different sizes superimposed, animates the dove and gives an impression of continuous flight.

Hérésie pour Magritte V

1979 • 3 min • France

Under the Sun

1979 • 11 min • Japan

Regarded as a creative extension of Stone (1975), animation unfolds on drawing paper placed on a field and farm.

The West Village Meat Market

1979 • 11 min

"THE WEST VILLAGE MEAT MARKET is an autodidactic debut film documenting a New York neighborhood, a meat market, which combines documentary and metaphorical overtones, as well as exploring certain aspects of the medium of film: in hand camerawork, motionless to moving objects or minimal movements, black and white material to color, flatness to depth effect.These formal contrasts emphasize textures and spatial conditions that are of particular importance for the area of ​​the meat market. " (Christine Noll Brinckmann)

Codex

1979 • 59 min • United Kingdom

London is cut up and manipulated in this highly structured, emotionally compelling piece about the UK's capital city and its capacity to alienate and atomise people. Images printed using custom-made equipment at the London Filmmakers' Co-op stagger forward and back in precise rhythms and establish both a spatial and emotional map of the various night-time locations seen here.

Shinpu

1979 • 3 min • Japan

Vision Elargie

1979 • 12 min • France

The window serves as a metaphor for looking and watching. The cinematic illusion is redoubled by the uncertainty of the iconic referent. It is a query on the status of the visible. Games and multiplications of the framework generate an impalpable architecture. In a film which is limited by black and white.

Imag'in the sea

1979 • 4 min • France

L'Age du bois

1979 • 13 min • France

Sensitivity as Bread

1979 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The focus of attention in one of the earliest films by a highly prolific documentary director Edmundas Zubavicius is a veterinary clinic in Kaunas; the observation of its daily routine reveals the longing for human sympathy as if yearning for a prayer. Quite a sophisticated relation between the visual and the sound is outweighed by the junctions of poetic film language and realistic shots. They invite to contemplate the relationship between nature and man.

Narcisso-Métal

1979 • 12 min • France

Narcisso Metal is a film for Narcissus, mirrors and windows where the look is the subject since it’s Narcissus’ toy. This isn’t without danger as we know. Truly speaking a self-portrait film: in most of the scenes, the director is filming himself through an automatic release mechanism or at a distance.

Sappho

1979 • 7 min

Using the sixth century B.C. lyricist's poetry, a group of women unwrap the papyrus gauze of the lesbian goddess and bring her to life. Made by Barbara and six students, together at the Women's Building in Los Angeles.

Anorexie II

1979 • 3 min • France

A cinema encyclopedia. Yet another history of film.

Coca No. 1

1979 • 1 min • Sweden

Rolling Coca Cola bottles and industry sounds. This is part of a series of anti-commercial films. (Filmform)

Astérie

1979 • 12 min • France

A film by Michel Bulteau