All Films

Master Mind

1979 • 3 min • Poland

Anorexie III

1979 • 9 min • France

Found footage, edited from international news footage.

California Street

1979 • 9 min • France

The reiteration of information in a constant scrolling of 24 frames per second, the coupling of positive and negative bands, then front and rear focal length variations progressively fragment the cinematographic space according to a recurring structure, highlighting the mechanism of the focal device. kinetic. This decreasing fragmentation disarticulates filmic continuity and hampers the discursive act, by which an observer apprehends a “reality” in the cinematographic field and sends it back to the construction of the perceived space.

Circus Riders

1979 • 17 min • United States of America

There are three characters in Circus Riders: the ventriloquist, the deaf-mute and the mime. They tell the story of story-making, which as they find out, demands perspective. The more they tell, the more distanced they are forced to become. Conversely, the more they stay within the subject(ivities) of their stories, the less they lose of their present and the less is their need to tell.

Sun Song

1979 • 3 min • United States of America

A short silent film by Joseph Bernard.

Mangiafuoco

1979 • 5 min • Yugoslavia

Der Apfel als solcher

1979 • 12 min • East Germany, Germany

Around 1 billion apples are harvested every year in Havelland, one of the largest fruit-growing regions in the GDR. In order to obtain this quantity in good quality, a large number of preparatory and maintenance operations are required. There are also reports on apprenticeships and practical work in the "Havelobst Central Youth Object". Impressions of the 100th Blossom Festival in Werder as well as myths and legends complete the apple theme.

Echoes

1979 • 5 min • Czech Republic

“Reflections of sun rays penetrating through the rocks on the water surface in a narrow gap in Plakánek valley of a side stream of Klenice Creek in Bohemian Paradise. The film suggests a hallucination visual effect after staring a long while at a single spot. Echoes is an excerpt from the 30-min. film Rokle.” (Miloš Šejn)

Videogram 4

1979 • 28 min • Yugoslavia

With the layering of picture (double exposure, flowing changes of images, frosen image, solarisation) and sound, the artists and the objects in the television studio merged into electronic sensations - an infinite series of over-illuminated, perforated and broken images. The video was made on the basis of the multimedia project (screening and installation) of the same title, and it was presented as 'the deconstruction of screening' in the framework of experimental programme on television. (RTV Ljubljana)

Penetrating Through the Cave

1979 • 1 min • Czech Republic

“Performative record of the multiple relationship between the author's body, environment and the medium used.” (Miloš Šejn)

(Kozo Okamoto's Quote)

1979 • 17 min

Short work.

Microfilm

1979 • 1 min

The concept of putting microfilm in a movie projector.

El Cóndor y el Zorro

1979 • 10 min • Peru, Uruguay

Based on Andean legends, it's about the fights between the condor and fox that put nature in danger.

Big Relay Race

1979 • 9 min • Soviet Union

In ancient times, many centuries before our era, the Greeks fought so often and shed blood that even the formidable Zeus could not stand it and suggested taking a break every four years. For this, sports competitions were invented, during which it was strictly forbidden to fight with each other. The competition was named the Olympic Games, and since then the tradition has been passed down from generation to generation.

Dispatch

1979 • 9 min • United States of America

Dispatch, begins with oscillating greyish surface modulations that move sideways on the screen, rendering our view a partial window to some larger movement taking place. Geographic graphic ribbings then ascend, and as perceived, the thought occurs we might be watching animated film. A shadow of a truck’s front end appears in movement, then comes gently to a halt: we know this image to be photographed, and yet the texture of the film itself hasn’t changed at all.

Media Game I

1979 • 1 min • United States of America

"A one-minute split-screen goof" from Yugoslavian artist Ivan Ladislav Galeta.

Pattern Impulse

1979 • 3 min • United States of America

A film by Jean Sousa.

The Life Story Of Bruno S. Retrieved From A Drawer

1979 • 8 min • Poland

Black and white prints by Bruno Schulz take us to his room from pre-war Drohobych. Under the influence of quotes, objects are brought to life and green plants begin to appear on the surface of the antiquities. All of the things will be consumed by the fire.

Biddick Farm Performance

1979 • 20 min

Utilising the Videokalos synthesiser, Donebauer founded the Video And Music Performers (VAMP) delivering live interactive performances created between video and music performers. VAMP toured the UK in 1978-79 and had a retrospective performance at Tate Britain in 2006.

Mother Hen Moves

1979 • 16 min • China

Lines of Force

1979 • 11 min

Lines of Force opens with footage of a dramatic explosion. The screen is divided, into a triptych at first, and slowly into horizontal and vertical bars. Electronically manipulated footage from a variety of sources mingle and collide. Naturally occurring lines in the array of images presented mirror the electronically created bars and lines the artist uses to divide the screen; A piece as neon and free-jazz as it is meticulous and concrete.

No Art of Memory

1979 • 3 min

Disturbing hints of the inexplicable clear their throats in preparation for consciousness. Hand made image and sound; what you see is very nearly what you hear.

Insects’ Life, Bumblebee’s Flight

1979 • 9 min • Poland

The bumblebee wakes up and flies out of the nest, tempted by the scent of the meadow. It jumps from flower to flower until it comes across a lion's maw that wants to keep the bumblebee.

Lady Louise

1979 • 9 min

A meeting between a girl with magical powers and a seaman who is attracted by her, and the sea as well.