All Films

New York. Ein visuelles Arbeitstagebuch

1979 • 51 min

In the mid to late '70s, over several visits to New York, Schönherr produced an astounding 107 hour super8 film, a "visual diary" that consists of impressions of the city, its inhabitants, and its television culture. (Arsenal)

Associação de Moradores do Guararape

1979 • 11 min • Brazil

Documentary of the unique Rio favela, whose property was legally acquired by the community, in the sophisticated neighborhood of Cosme Velho. Statement by the president of the Residents 'Association, denouncing the authorities for non-compliance with residents' rights.

Jak wiele dróg

1979 • 12 min • Poland

It is 1969. Wiesiek has long hair, pants with patches, colored shirt and necklace beads. It is important for him to demonstrate rebellion. 10 years later. Wiesiek lives in the Bieszczady Mountains and gathers around them people who, like him, are looking for their place on earth. They work together, eat together and build a house together. Creating a community with others has now become the most important for life in Wieśka. Now it is his way.

Super-Maire

1979 • 16 min

A satire about a mayor who has problems with the cost of the 1976 Olympics.

Four Times for Children

1979 • 20 min • Sudan

Eltayeb Mahdis film ARBA'A MARAT LIL ATFAL depicts the everyday life at that time in facilities and schools for children with physical or mental disabilities. Children in class are being shown where amongst other things art, woodwork and speaking are being taught but also the hustle and bustle in the schoolyard as well as physiotherapy and the handling of walking aids are being described.

Vacuum Cleaner

1979 • 5 min • Yugoslavia

An episode from "A Bird and a Worm" series. Unable to fly by itself, a bird watches longingly a group of merry fliers. Seeing that even a snail has figured out how to fly, the bird gets an idea and makes its own flying machine. But the device falls apart quickly and the bird crashes down. When the furious bird notices its worst enemy, the worm, coming out of the makeshift aircraft, the chase begins.

To Move into Depth

1979 • 40 min

Documentary by Ateyyat El-Abnoudy

Hérésie pour Magritte VI

1979 • 4 min

Maria Guadalupe

1979 • 6 min • France

A reminder of Dr. Fatemi's struggles

1979 • 42 min • Iran

Documentary about Dr. Fatemi, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mohammad Mossadegh's government

Science Fiction

1979 • 5 min

Science Fiction is a found-footage film that playfully explores the space-time continuum as it applies to narrative structure. Max J. Alvarez in the Milwaukee Journal writes: “J. J. Murphy’s Science Fiction, a dazzling five-minute experimental fantasy that at first appears to be a 1950s travelogue gone awry, features technical trickery that will impress and bewilder filmmakers and filmgoers.”

White Waves

1979 • 20 min

Surfing documentary.

Ikuska 1: Ikastolak

1979 • 12 min • Spain

The first film of the 'Ikuska' series, on the situation of schools in Basque language.

Kuma

1979 • 56 min • Turkey

There is a story about a German second wife brought from Germany to a village in Erzincan.

Cinématon n°41 : Raphaël Bassan

1979 • 4 min • France

Notes

1979 • 3 min

Made using a super 8 sound camera. The microphone is attached to a stick protruding from the camera, and kept just out of sight. This image-and-sound-gathering device is used to 'play' the open strings of a piano.

Wellspring

1979 • 5 min • Czech Republic

“Super 8 mm full coloured movie with sound, which was recorded directly among grains of sand, stired up under the water surface. Flowing water and sand create an elusive, hallucinogenic sonic image. In some ways, this moving picture is very close to Hans Jenny's research.” (Miloš Šejn)

Boys Beware

1979 • 14 min • United States of America

The 3rd edition of the Sid Davis original, now in colour and with an expanded script.

Girls Beware (3rd Edition)

1979 • 12 min

This educational film warns adolescent girls of the dangers posed by sexual predators, and offers tips on how to avoid dangerous situations.

Ravine

1979 • 5 min • Czech Republic

“With his camera, Sejn not only made detailed studies of nature or landscape photographs, but he also thematized his movement through the landscape. ‘Ravine’ is the title of a film that Sejn made as a direct recording of his hike through rocks in 1979. He showed the constant change of the dynamic and calm moments of walking and the alternation of light and dark in the rocky landscape.” (Simona Mehnert)

The Underground Eiger

1979 • 50 min

A marvelous portrayal of a key event in British caving, and of the adventurous spirit of the two cavers famous for their numerous cave diving breakthroughs and records. Documenting a world record-breaking cave dive of 6,000 ft (1,800 m) made by Geoff Yeadon and Oliver Statham from West Kingsdale Master Cave, in North Yorkshire, England to Keld Head.

The Stoker

1979 • 7 min • Poland

A picture of a metaphorical relationship between a huge cauldron and its guardian - the stoker called Guzla, who puts fuel into the giant furnace. The coexistence of two forms: technical and organic leads to the interpenetration of worlds.

Baggage

1979 • 9 min • Poland

A cinematic journey into the past, following the items that the absentee family gathered in an apartment in an old tenement house. Everything had a beginning which was the end of something. Time rolls on like a glass ball and it breaks into pieces.

Gadanho

1979 • 21 min • Brazil

The condition of social exclusion of the hundreds of people who live off the garbage of the Varadouro Municipal of João Pessoa. Figueiredo's speech about images of children disputing garbage with vultures. Music by Villa-Lobos and Piazzola contrasting with the routine of the garbage dump. Statement of a resident who returns to the place after 12 years in Rio, outraged with the requirement of a card for those who pick up the garbage. A sociologist speaks, trying to explain the situation of the garbage dumps based on the workers' struggle for better salaries, flattened "in more than 70%" since 1964.