All Films

My Way

1979 • 37 min • United Kingdom

Arena documentary investigating the history and influence of iconic song 'My Way'

Britannia

1979 • 26 min • United Kingdom

A study of train enthusiasts.

Double Shutter

1979 • 7 min

A reworking of material from the 16mm film ‘Blue Bathroom’, a distillation of ideas concerning the tension between representation and materiality. By superimposing and alternating identical framings of two windows filmed by day and by night the film uses their positive/negative aspect to construct and break down representational images and sounds.

Toro Pink

1979 • 7 min • United States of America

Pink Panther once again becomes a toreador once the first one chickens out.

Electric Eskimo

1979 • 57 min • United Kingdom

A young Eskimo boy accidentally gets hit by a mysterious ray during a secret British experiment and finds that he is now electrified.

Pearl Barley

1979 • 44 min • Yugoslavia

A TV drama about orphaned children.

Over There

1979 • 34 min

'It's like the Sealed Knot innit, it's historical.' A group of World War II enthusiasts forgather in the Lake District to do battle with a similarly devoted group of Waffen SS, especially imported from Gravesend. Of course, Windermere 1979 is not Normandy 1944, but for some, perhaps wishing will make it so?

Pink Suds

1979 • 7 min • United States of America

The Pink Panther goes to the launderette, and causes mishaps to a customer there.

Sleepless Nights

1979 • 49 min • United States of America

New Cinema cofounder Becky Johnston recently described this little-seen feature as “an East Village reinvention of the Otto Preminger movie *Laura*” that plays “fast and loose with the noir detective genre.”

Pink Quackers

1979 • 6 min • United States of America

The Pink Panther adopts a wind-up duck as a house pet.

Canned Laughter

1979 • 26 min • United Kingdom

Robert Box asks his colleague Lorraine out for a date. They go to a restaurant where Dave Perry tries to break it as a stand-up comedian.

Pink Breakfast

1979 • 7 min • United States of America

The Pink Panther unsuccessfully tries to make breakfast.

Minus Zero

1979 • 50 min • United States of America

A psycho noir where stalkers, terrorists and government agents collide.

Strange Fruit

1979 • 33 min

Strange Fruit is a 1979 short film directed by Seth Pinsker. It follows a black painter in 1948 Georgia who faces racism after becoming involved with voter registration. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

Golden Gordon

1979 • 30 min • United Kingdom

Barnestoneworth United is the worst football team of 1935, who lose every match. Gordon Ottershaw is, however, their loyal fan, determined to prevent them from being disbanded after their final game. To this end he recruits the players from the renowned winning team of 1922 who turn up to defeat rivals Denley Moor.

Black Box

1979 • 20 min • United States of America

An innocent youth is abducted and dragged down into a dystopian nightmare where teenage Lydia Lunch throws him into the Black Box.

Jack Frost

1979 • 48 min • United States of America, Japan

Pardon-me Pete, the official groundhog of Groundhog Day, tells the story of Jack Frost, who falls in love with a beautiful young woman and begs Father Winter to make him human so that she can see him. His request is granted, but only on the condition that by the Spring he has a house, a bag of gold, a horse and a wife. But Jack finds that life as a human is more complicated than he thought.

Floating Free

1978 • 11 min

Floating Free is a 1978 short documentary directed by Jerry Butts featuring images of several of the contested events at the 1977 World Frisbee Championships. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

Reflexfilm/Familyfilm

1978 • 22 min • United States of America

A blend of home movie and structuralist film

John Fahey: Live at Audimax Hamburg

1978 • 60 min • Germany

"Shot live for TV by the legendary German music show “Rockpalast” this DVD represents the earliest example of a complete Fahey concert performance. The multi-camera filming features detailed close-ups of Fahey’s playing style giving fans a rare insight into what Pete Townsend has called the William Burroughs of the guitar. Fahey’s 1978 visit to Europe saw him in fine wild form performing an 11 track set and as an incredibly rare bonus a short interview with the maverick iconoclast.

37/78: Tree Again

1978 • 4 min • Austria

At the center are takes which do not change - a tree in a field in Vermont, U.S.A. Since the film was shot over a period of fifty days, the single frame shots create a storm of pictures.

Alim and His Donkey

1978 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Young boy treating his donkey in a cruel manner sooner or later realizes that animals also should be treated kindly.

Violin Power

1978 • 10 min • United States of America

Steina trained as a classical violinist, pushing her experience as a professional musician into the electronic realm with this seminal work. Originally performed in the late 1970s as a live recital with monitors, "Violin Power" began with the idea of generating a video image solely through the sound and movement of the bow. This signal switch, from audio to visual, grew in possibilities and variances as technology continued to expand in the ensuing decades. The most recent iteration of this performance involved Steina working with a MIDI violin and laptop.

Manual

1978 • 1 min • Yugoslavia

The artist is balancing a video-camera on a tripod the top of which is poised in the palm of his hand. The lens of the camera is directed downwards so that it acts the part of witness and hostage of the action at the same time. Although the camera, together with the hand holding it, is keeping moving, it is seemingly staying still, and the floor the author is standing on appears to be sliding away. The video lasts as long as the artist retains the control over the equilibrium of the camera.