All Films

Rabbits Are Sleeping

1979 • 32 min • Japan

This film has a structure like a Möbius loop, where reality and dream, dream and reality, are all in a row, and the loop repeats itself endlessly. There are scenes of conversations that seem to change location with each cut, or railroad crossings where up trains and down trains melt into one another, an exchange with a Polaroid brother from Tokyo at Osaka Castle, or a tennis scene. The artist's unique method and the expansion of images backed by it create a rich game of images and words.

養護学校はあかんねん！

1979 • 50 min • Japan

This is a documentary in which the camera's gaze is surrounded by a consciousness of staring, and this consciousness brings about a clear stance in approaching the subject. The distance between the able-bodied and the disabled is made clearer here by depicting it from the side of the disabled, and the film's title, "Why are schools for the disabled wrong? The title of the film, "Why are schools for the disabled wrong? This straightforward attempt at the most basic of documentary filmmaking, how to bring the subject to oneself, succeeds in capturing the full power of film itself, not just within the genre of documentary. The film is a success.

Memory

1979 • 16 min • France

Memory is an attempt to reconstruct the functioning of the memory process and, in particular, the phenomenon of triggering a memory from elements perceived in the outside world. The lens of the camera corresponds to the gaze of a single subject - the one who records and then remembers. This translates into an alternation of "real" sequences and "faked" souvenir sequences.

The Birth

1979 • 55 min

A movie about giving birth.

Shadow and Chair

1979 • 10 min • United Kingdom

Black and White Video Installation | Silent

La, Re, Mi, La

1979 • 9 min

Carles Santos, at the piano, plays the notes that make up the title 74 times, dressed up and disguised as that many characters.

The Art We Deserve?

1979 • 45 min

The ART WE DESERVE is an film essay by Richard Cork about the gulf between minority art and mass culture. Examining the public’s preference for bland mass reproduction pictures which are traditional in style and ‘look nice’, the modern artist’s tendency to create an insular, inward-looking art for an educated elite and the media’s unwillingness to take modern art seriously, the film argues that the sense of alienation between artist and the public is largely the result of a class-divided society.

Common Loss

1979 • 15 min • United States of America

With its loose narrative framework embroidered with an evocative and metaphorical montage, Doug Haynes' Common Loss recalls the poetic strain of the avant-garde. The film marshals thousands of individual pictures, each of which is meticulously cut out and painstakingly animated, into an allegory about growing up.

Crock of Gold

1979 • 9 min

When two children discover a herd of cows at the end of the rainbow they are disappointed as they were expecting to find gold. The film traces the journey of butter from cows grazing, to milking, to the final churning of milk into a crock of gold – packets of butter – much to the delight of the children. It is a simple delight, and moments like the creative sound mixing in the laboratory scene gives you a taste of Spence’s filmmaking talents.

The Rainhill Story: Stephenson's Rocket

1979 • 49 min • United Kingdom

First transmitted in 1979, this programme looks at the Rainhill Locomotive Trials in Rainhill, Lancashire (now Merseyside) in 1829, a competition to find the best passenger steam locomotive in Britain.On the 150th anniversary of the trials, replicas of its famous winner - Stephenson's 'Rocket' - and two of its competitors are rebuilt by modern day designers, and the trials are reconstructed in Hyde Park.

Peru: The Revolution that never was

1979 • 28 min

Shows the abject poverty and miserable life style still endured by Peruvian peasant farmers, and notes how the changes to the land tenure system brought about by the 1968 revolution have failed to bring any change in the deplorable living standards of the Peruvian peasant farmer

Tudor Style

1979 • 8 min • Ireland

A short documentary film on the privately owned Tudor Cinema built and run by Roy Spence’s identical twin brother Noel. The film shows the preparation and organisation involved in running the small 66 seat private cinema and is a loving tribute to classic cinemas of a bygone era.

Carles Salvador (Elogi a un xiprer)

1979 • 27 min • Spain

Documentary about the vital, intellectual and political trajectory of the poet and grammarian Carles Salvador, one of the main promoters of the linguistic normalization of Valencian.

Public Interventions for the City of Milan

1979 • 6 min • Italy

The film is ironic about the lack of actions for transforming city spaces; the few actions undertaken are almost always limited to the positioning of “poles and chains”: the temporary signs of a hypothetical transformation on the city. The film shows sequences of innumerable “pole and chain” barriers, commented on by architects, councillors, members of activity groups… who all underline the impermanence of these objects in view of some “elusive” transformations of the city.

The lake

1979 • 14 min • France

How we destroy the site of Lake Trémelin in Iffendic, in the name of tourism of course. The lake becomes the prey of promoters for a "marina"! A nature museum will be built there.

Pichón en el Obelisco

1979 • 5 min • Argentina

During the 1980s, Hirsch made a series of documentary films about various events in the city, like the appropriation of a monument in PICHÓN EN LE OBILISCO.

Speedy Life

1979 • 2 min • Italy

Two frantic views of Roberto Taroni and Luisa Cividin’s private life in New York. The first faces a double window at night, with Cividin smoking and getting dressed while Taroni putters around; the second shows a studio-like wide room, a toilet and ironing board, with Taroni looking lost in some work while now Cividin putters around. – Olaf Möller

Camera Car

1979 • 23 min • Italy

Doing the America thing: riding around in a car, looking out at the landscape (desert, trees and bushes, cities), observing the driver, enjoying the ride as a pure, almost primeval cinematic act. All bookended by phantom rides through the bright lights of Las Vegas. – Olaf Möller

No, No, Pickle

1979 • 5 min

A claymation adaptation of Arlo Guthrie's classic "The Motorcycle Song."

Quattro Delitti: Quasi Due Metri

1979 • 60 min

A corpulent two meters tall man goes to Turin for a fair. There, by chance, he finds the daughter of two people he knows "walking the streets". With various expedients, he convinces her to return to her native land

My Mother Was a Star

1979 • 23 min • France

A film by Joseph Morder

The Hole

1979 • 26 min • Soviet Union

A man digs a hole in his yard while everyone is against him.

Fantasy Fling

1979 • 28 min • United States of America

A documentary on the disco phenomenon using cinema verité techniques. Explores a disco dance class, disco clothing, the disco record industry, and the lives of four people as they prepare for a night at a disco.

Game of Don Quixote

1979 • 8 min • Bulgaria