All Films

The Right Candidate for Rosedale

1979 • 32 min • Canada

This short documentary records Anne Cools’ 1978 run for the Liberal Party nomination in Rosedale, one of Toronto's largest and socially most diverse federal ridings. The film records her bid for political power, and explains the nomination contest, a basic step in the Canadian electoral process. Because she was competing against the Liberal Party's preferred candidate, the nomination battle in Rosedale turned into one of the most innovative and fascinating in the history of Canadian politics.

Beautiful Name

1979 • 1 min • Japan

A special performance for Laforet, the large department store/museum in Harajuku.

The Ten Commandments of Love

1979 • 4 min • United Kingdom

Two people in an impassioned embrace on an ocean pier as Harvey and the Moonglows start singing “The Ten Commandments of Love”. “In the autumn of 1979 I was looking through a stack of old film stills in a secondhand record shop. I found a still from King Creole and decided that I would make a film from it. I had 10 new prints made from the still and hand tinted all of them. I seem to recall that at the time the image of 1950’s love on the waterfront was irresistible, although with hindsight the film looks like an exercise in formalism” (Cordelia Swann)

Sincerity IV

1979 • 36 min • United States of America

This, the sixth film of the SINCERITY/DUPLICITY series, seems rooted in the earliest tradition of my work, Psycho-Drama, as well as in the most recent, Imagnostic, directions taken. It is remembrance as well as thought which fashions it in lonely hotel rooms, sincere return of the mind to that which is loved, ephemeral faces of children growing older, familiar objects interwoven with easy alien familiarity, the images of strangers in UNeasy identification, sexual posture and the lure of the Beloved as irreducible image.

Cinema Verite

1979 • 1 min • Poland

A man's face appears on the screen with his eyes covered by a black strip. After a while, the strip covers his mouth, and when it covers his eyes again the man begins to say something.

Sea/Shore

1979 • 5 min • United Kingdom

The notion of a line which divides the land from the sea is a notion of convenience which is only valid in certain circumstances. If there is a line at all, it only exists for a second or so, and is never repeated again. This film was shot on this imaginary line, but the leading or trailing edge of the wave is never represented. The shore line is replaced by a frame line which divides each one-second "take" from its neighbour. The frame is either filled with water or littered with stones and sand exposed after the wave has receded. The image on the screen, the organic rhythm of the waves, is not destroyed by the violence of the structures imposed upon it. Nature emerges uninhibited, revealing yet further complexities of shape and form. The illusory shore line remains invisible, trapped on celluloid, hidden by the mechanics of the projector, and de-materialised by the illusion of cinematographic movement.

Lermite

1979 • 26 min

"Every landscape, like every subject, ends up looking like the painter who paints it" A posthumous tribute to painter Lermite (1920-1977), whose real name was Jean-Pierre Schmid.

Cinématon n°52 : F.J. Ossang

1979 • 4 min • France

Early portrait of Ossang in Courant's ongoing "Cinématon" series.

Piège pour une exécution capitale

1979 • 4 min • France

Bernard Roué records an exhibit of Michel Journiac's piece of the same name.

La Seule Façon de rendre la Vie excitante est de regarder la Mort en Face

1979 • 3 min • France

Two Episodes from the Life of Hubert Aquin

1979 • 57 min • Canada

Documentary on the life of Hubert Aquin. Alive, he was a dazzling and extraordinary character. Dead, he is already legendary. From his legend, everything is both true and false. Neither biography nor critical work, this film is an evocation of his universe.

Play 28/29

1979 • 12 min • Switzerland

The film was realized according to the formulaic concept "TAM 4/71."

Whale Songs

1979 • 8 min • United States of America

Whale Songs, the ambitious final film in the period of Beams’s personal 16mm filmmaking, combines whale watching with depictions of the animation process itself. The film was hand-colored in negative color, then filmed on color-reversal stock and printed as a negative, contributing to the film’s singular look.

Ornamentals

1979 • 10 min

In Ornamentals (1979), Abigail Child explores rhythm and the poetry of the repetitive image form.

Baseball/TV

1979 • 2 min • United States of America

Using the accoutrements of baseball, Sherman analyzes the magic of tv/film representation and offers a pun on the word "catch." "The camera catches the image, just as a baseball player catches the ball."

In the Red

1979 • 20 min

A collage of live performance, intimate interviews, and cityscapes featuring San Francisco punk club Mabuhay Gardens. With Flipper's Will Shatter, The Avengers' Danny Furious, Negative Trend and more.

Anorexie I

1979 • 3 min

To approach a photo printed by Patrice Kirchhofer is frightening. I have long seen in them an agression by negligence. With patience, I found in them the solution that fancy lab prints could not convey. Patrice K manipulates the marks made irrationally, entirely by chance. When being photocopied, an overexposed photo reacts better than a carefully made print. It is this image, the photocopy, that K. used for his film. His films are characterized by accidental marks. And K. knows how to relate to one mark rather than another. (Bernard WEIDMANN - RHIZOME HERETIQUE - March 3rd, 1980.)

Sécan-ciel

1979 • 9 min • France

Excavations

1979 • 5 min

Excavations was shot in Israel, and portrays a culture concerned with rediscovery and renewal. -ETC

Notes on the Passage of Time

1979 • 13 min • Australia

A three colour separation study filmed at Pearl Beach, which examines the same scene of Amethyst Avenue during the progression of a winter, then a summer day. With the sea in the background, the moving objects such as the pedestrians, cyclists, traffic are transparent and ephemeral while the stationary objects are opaque and retain a permanent quality. A strange, almost surreal quality illustrating the transitional nature of life.

Down Below in the Foxhole under the Cold Ground in Emmental

1979 • 12 min • Switzerland

Emmental is lovely. To us, it looks like something out of a picture book. And this kind of landscape always has a history. And many good artists come from this landscape. And then the cows in this landscape. In Emmental, there are cows that look at passers-by sweetly, with big, pure cow eyes--and gaze after them. Long... In Emmental, each hill has a north side and a warm, beautiful south side. The filmmaker and sheep farmer, Guido Haas, live on the north side of a hill in Emmental, which is called Cold Ground and his house lies low in the valley and is a real Emmental house, with a raised driveway to the barn and a big shingle roof on top. Spiteful, rich neighbors must have gotten the idea of calling it Foxhole.

Autoportraits

1979 • 11 min

Hearts

1979 • 12 min

In Hearts, I am trying to express the integration of emotional energy over a period of time. It is a cycle that continues, beginning slowly, climaxing, and then transforming. So perhaps because of the subject matter it had to be developed as one single piece. The heart is this generalized icon not only of emotional energy but also the seat of consciousness, the heart-center that informs the whole psyche, which I depicted as a magnetic landscape. The heart issues forth many kinds of energies within the landscape. -BB

American Odyssey

1979 • 26 min

American Odyssey is a look at Orff-Schulwerk in America in 1979. Filmed in 17 schools in 7 states, it documents the creative process in music, movement, dance, theater, and the spoken word, involving students and teachers from kindergarten through community chorus and orchestra. Running throughout are the poem "Sky Dwellers" by Marcia Lunz and the poetic camerawork of Abbott Meader.