All Films

Create a Dream

1979 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Mars in 3D

1979 • 32 min • United States of America

A historical production by Stanford University and the History Office of the NASA Ames Research Center presented in Blu-ray 3D Video and features footage from the 1980's NASA Viking 1 & 2 Missions to Mars. The soundtrack was created at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) at Stanford under the direction of John Chowning. This disc contains bonus features including a 15 minute interview with John Chowning, William Schottstaedt and Michael McNabb.

L'Eclipse

1979 • 3 min • France

L'Eclipse, is composed as a visual little poem using light, colour, rhythm, to present a universe that is half celestial, half cerebral, in which graphic grids play with disappearing and setting suns. Robert Cahen creates effects of fire, clouds, steam, that contrast with the regular and geometric structure of the image.

The Lundstroms' Wilderness Christmas

1979 • 53 min • United States of America

An unforgettable hour of Christmas music and message your entire family will enjoy!

What the Hell's Going On Up There?

1979 • 28 min • Canada

A disgruntled Uncle Sam complains that nobody listens to him anymore, and what's more, he doesn't even know what's going on up there. "I thought we were living on the top floor," he mutters. He expedites the ubiquitous Marshall Efron on a fact-finding mission north of the border. Part satire, part serious, this film sets out to package Canada for American consumption, with some of the clichés thrown in. Contrasting with the decidedly lighter side of the film are interviews with well-known Canadians such as Marshall McLuhan, Mordecai Richler, Margaret Atwood, John Kenneth Galbraith, Raoul Duguay, and Pierre Bourgault.

Arrows

1979 • 32 min • United Kingdom

In 1979 filmmaker John Samson went on the road with a 22-year-old Eric Bristow, one of the rising stars of British darts. This film depicts Bristow between major competitions as he travels around the pubs and working men's clubs of Britain, challenging the local heroes and playing exhibition matches. Bristow takes on all-comers and breezily faces down a belligerent local radio host.

Jian mian li

1979 • 34 min • China

The Veldt

1979 • 25 min

The Hadley's new house does everything for them - it cooks, does the housework, reads to them, even comforts them. The playroom brings the Hadley children's fantasies to life in full color, three dimensions and odorphonics. However, Mr. and Mrs. Hadley are increasingly terrified by the images and sounds of the the African Veldt.

Investigation of Fear

1979 • 3 min • United States of America

A young investigator enters a house that may be haunted.

Korea: Rich Heritage, Land of Morning Calm

1979 • 18 min • United States of America

Traces Korea's cultural heritage through its ancient dynasties, religions, language, art, and customs.

Piano/Music

1979 • 2 min • United States of America

San Donato

1979 • 8 min

In 1979 Roberto Nanni began burying some 8mm footage underground and then unearthed it.

Soft Fiction

1979 • 55 min • United States of America

Chick Strand's SOFT FICTION is a personal documentary that brilliantly portrays the survival power of female sensuality. It combines the documentary approach with a sensuous lyrical expressionism. Strand focuses her camera on people talking about their own experience, capturing subtle nuances in facial expressions and gestures that are rarely seen in cinema. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 2015.

America of the seventies. Where do Los Angeles roads lead?

1979 • 57 min • Soviet Union

In ancient times, when heraldry was in use and every self-respecting city considered it necessary to have its own coat of arms, it was placed on that coat of arms that was symbolic and lily for the city (fortress tower, deer head, scales of justice, sword or something else, something especially revered). To this day, it would not be worthwhile to preserve this custom and wonder what the residents of Los Angeles, the third largest city in the United States, would like to take as a symbol. They surely would - they certainly would be the California Highways. Even Americans accustomed to car herds, coming from other parts of the country to California, finding themselves in Los Angeles and its suburbs, marvel at the empty weaving of concrete and asphalt belts filled to the brim with gasoline carriages...

Shellshock Rock

1979 • 48 min • United Kingdom, Ireland

John T. Davis’ first in a trilogy of films (including Protex Hurrah (1980) and Self-Conscious Over You (1981)) exploring the Belfast filmmaker’s local subculture and American cultural influence. It provides a look at the burgeoning punk scene in Northern Ireland, featuring early footage of bands such as Stiff Little Fingers, The Undertones, Protex, The Outcasts, and Rhesus Negative, among others. (from: http://artistsspace.org/programs/shellshock-rock/)

The Little Horse

1979 • 25 min • Mexico

The novohispanic equestrian statue of Charles IV of Spain is relocated in Mexico city.

Cinemarxism

1979 • 33 min • Hungary

A student film by Béla Tarr, from 1979. Presumed lost until very recently.

No. 17: Mirror Animations

1979 • 11 min • United States of America

Features Thelonious Monk's Misterioso. Extended version of No. 11 printed forward-backward-forward.

The Greatest Day

1979 • 8 min • Yugoslavia

In this short film the author, in her own specific way, documents the moment of connecting the two parts of the Krk bridge.

Malanka's Wedding

1979 • 20 min • Soviet Union

A documentary drama about Maria Kutyr, a resident of Chapayivka (Zolotonosha district, Cherkasy region), whose life reflected the fate of Ukrainian women from the World War II generation.

Tables d'hiver

1979 • 29 min • France

Winter 1978-1979: In his signature style, Hernández films hearty meals, long afternoons and candlelit dalliances inside his residence on rue des Entrepôts.

Ritual

1979 • 3 min

This is one of those rare, total in-camera edits that provided options for many of my later, densely layered films. The timing and lap dissolves were a pitch-perfect gift! Super 8, silent, experimental.—Joseph Bernard

Objects with Destinations

1979 • 4 min

Objects from the artist’s studio (hammer, cathode ray tube, circuit board rack, chair, clip light) constitute the subjects for a series of short sequences in which a single object moves through a series of overlapping transformations. These are electronically altered in such a way that their coloration and contours continuously morph. As the transparent images are superimposed one upon the other and faded in and out, they become slightly displaced, giving the impression that the objects are “wandering” across the image plane. In some sequences, the contours and colors of the objects dissociate, or newly arising color fields spread across the pictorial surface. The superimpositions and cross-dissolves result in a minimal amount of action, consistent with the ‘destinations’ implied in the work’s title.

Maryshka and the Wolf's Castle

1979 • 15 min • Czechoslovakia

A fairy-tale about a brave, self-sacrificial and faithful girl named Maryska who sets free an enchanted princess and her twelve maids from a mysterious castle.