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This is a documentary of David Hammons prior to his leaving the Los Angeles arts community. This video covers the artist's creative strategies at that time. It served as both an interview and video performance by David Hammons.
With Nancy Halpern and Yves Marton. "Sitting home smoking cigarettes during the occupation. Very nasty and sophomoric. And beautiful." — A.H.
Three male voices dissect one edition of The New York Times through a series of locked-off shots, revealing the prejudice and latent content of news and advertisements, reading images as texts and presenting text as an image.
Rail Ditch and Fence. - Auteuil racetrack, Paris France
A video of Betty Kaplowitz in performance
Mike Jittlov's short film Time Tripper (1978), mainly filmed in Bob Burns’ back yard using the original titular prop from George Pal’s The Time Machine (1960). The music is “Morning On The Ranch” from Aaron Copland’s score to The Red Pony (1949). The majority of this short was re-used in The Wizard Of Speed And Time (1988), with a new score by John Massari.
This rare homemade movie by Joyce Randall depicts Artist, Sculptor, Doll Maker, Greer Lankton in an impossible number of positions, time lapsed. She manages to cover every square inch of the room before the film is done. Greer's friends often mention that she used to like to tie herself up in knots and stay in contorted positions, as well as sit in unusual poses that demonstrate her flexibility, so she and her sister created this home movie on VHS.
Documentary by Hans-Dieter Grabe.
A series of home move style shots of a mother and her young child crawling outdoors. Scenes include a mother and toddler playing in a Chicago backyard, a young family boating in a small lake, toddlers playing & bathing outdoors, a young girl and her stuffed animal and a children's birthday party with a pi?ata. Exact date of production is unknown.
"This is my first feature-length personal film which I started shooting while on a scholarship at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1975/6 and which was shot during a months-long lecture/film-showing-tour throughout the USA and Canada. The extensive postproduction work on an Optical Printer has been completed in Germany, and the reknown German bass-musician Eberhard Weber made the wonderful soundtrack while watching the film. To me this film is like an elaborate tapestry woven by thousands of fade-ins and fade-outs. It feels like stepping into a river and getting carried along." Bastian Clevé
Dubs is a somewhat abstract, experimental video without a clearly defined plot. It focusses mostly on the relationships between men and women and the lies they tell each other.
Non-camera style short film.
This Harun Farocki film shows the creation of a picture on which the artist worked for nine weeks. Sarah Schumann lives in Berlin and is a pioneer of the feminist scene. 1977 together with several other artists she organized the first large exhibition in which only work by women was shown. Sarah Schumann paints figuratively, that is to say she has developed a technique using layers of collage and painting worked on top of and into one another. Regarding a picture becomes an adventure. (harunfarocki.de)
An unknown, tucked-away, medieval island is threatened by the advent of big business. A wealthy business man wants to develop the untouched island, which could then be ruined by the subsequent pollution.
Changes of spatial relationships, scales, locations, and materials are intimated with recognisable clues which nevertheless do not always eliminate the former understanding of the images. These and other levels of ambiguity are instilled, which shake the photographic image’s authority as a principle of reality by confronting it with its illusory nature. We are back with magic, made possible with black and white film, shadows and lights, the limitations of the screen and the depth of field. So as when film grains, dots in deep space, disintegrate the solidity and enclosureness of a wall, the intentions of the film and the transforming events accumulate at a very intimate level of the viewer, that is at the level of the mechanism of his understanding.
A documentary on Chairman Mao and the Chinese communist revolution by Single Spark Films.
THE BLADDERWORT DOCUMENT is a diary film made when the filmmaker lived in southwestern Ohio at Bladderwort Farm (named for the only insectivorous plant native to North America). Here she plays with light: picks it up and embraces it, throws it around, pierces it and wiggles it. Artists Joyce Wieland, Carolee Schneemann, Beverly Conrad, Nancy Rexroth and Tony Dallas appear.
A film by Robert Cahen
Interviews with mothers and family members who lost loved ones in the Lebanese conflict with Israel.
Ficticious interview with a fictitious dictator.
Documentary portrait of a religious healer, and her shamanic mushroom-cult belief system.
In a rolling area of Syria, the villagers live their everyday life, in toil and poverty. Trapped between the hardships of farming, religious and political ideologies, they barely survive. Their children are the only ones that are still full of hope. They imagine their future lives and picture themselves as doctors or engineers. But these are pipe dreams. All they can actually look forward to is farming the land with primitive tools like their parents, getting a menial job in the city or becoming brainwashed soldiers..
TELLING TALES is about the failing marriage of an industrialist and his wife, about the industrialist's wish to sell his company to a colleague, Paul Roberts, and about the terminally ill wife of Paul, Ingrid. It is also about the shop steward organising a strike at Paul's factory that jeopardises the deal with the industrialist, and about the wife of the shop steward, who happens to clean and cook for the industrialist. A network of intertwined tales told in different ways, and for very different motives, by the main protagonists.
Part of BFI collection "Worth the Risk?"
art of BFI's "National Coal Board Collection".
The fauna of the megalopolis, the jungle of the supermarket, the bedlam of brothels and bars, the effect of the bars in the fog, the swaying ears of corn, the swaying of men hanging from the gallows, the ripple of water – seen by the eye of the animator…
World in Action interviews the residents of Haycroft Road, Brixton as a controversial by-election stokes concerns about race and immigration.
Portrait of the Rostock-based singing group “Aparcoa” and their songs. Political comics illustrate the junta's coup and the role of the USA. The film shows the solidarity of progressive humanity with the Chile of the Unidad Popular and calls for solidarity.
Historical documentary about popular Sandinista insurrection in Nicaragua, 1978.
the First 3D-polygonal short film with a story line
The manufacturing of PVC in Edinburgh and Manchester.
John talks about his dog Martha, who does frisbee competitions. Film footage of the dog leaping for the frisbee. Interview with John about how they got started in this activity. Footage of the two doing a show at Comiskey Park.
Three young bears are sent by their father to hunt on their own, using different techniques: strength, agility and smartness.
Ethnographic film documents a family of woodcutters living in isolation in the mountains of Calden, at the geographic center of Argentina. Through his narration, Sixto Ramon Zerda explains his wish for his children to be educated and to avoid the punishing work and exploitation he has suffered. Introduction narrated by Henry Fonda.
A documentary on the F.S.L.N. and its struggle against the Somoza dictatorship.
Animated short released during the 1970s, when tension escalated between neighboring countries Argentina and Chile which almost led to a war. The film was produced by the Argentinian military dictatorship at the time. It informs about the dangers of having an undefended border.
Janne, 24, gets a job as dishwasher at a restaurant in Stockholm. He meets a number of people with repressed feelings and amazing dreams.
Argentine filmmaker Gerardo Vallejo, exiled in Spain, visits the Salamanca village of Cespedosa de Tormes, where his grandfather was born, and reconstructs the memories of his time with the locals.
Located in Ontario, Point Pelée National Park attracts birds in its long grasses, and brilliant Monarch butterflies on its trees. Wooden walkways through the marsh facilitate access for numerous visitors. A film without words. - NFB
As a young film student immersed with the works of Godard and cinema verite, Will Combs barged into the backyard of the remaining Beats in San Francisco’s North Beach in the mid-1970’s. Using surplus film stock and a spring-wind Bolex, he began to capture the temperament of the Era, kabuki style. HEARTBEAT features rare and personal footage of Bob Kaufman, Jack Micheline and Hube the Cube in their environment, infusing poetry with a concise inquiry into the Beat Era.
"Between Glances... plays with the illusion of depth, with interactions between apparent upper and lower planes. Strong blacks and whites bound the range of grays they encompass, while, periodically, black and white stills devoid of gray tones and of motion demarcate the film's progress." – B. Ruby Rich
In this short vignette, skier Kathy Kreiner prepares for and participates in her Olympic gold-medal race at Innsbruck.
Documentary film that observes the live realities of Syrian women across the country in that period of time. It includes the ignorant and educated society.
Brazilian singer Elis Regina performing at the Villaret Theatre in Lisbon, 1978.
My first "real movie", which I started when I was a student, in 1978/79. An exploration / transformation of a mysterious house, black and white, with music by Couperin as indicated by the title. - Nick Collins
Agricultural culture in Peru from the time of the Incas and its benefits preserved to the present day.
This abstract film shows images of tree shadows or natural light of summer sky. Its use of special B/W film creates sharp contrasts depicting Karuizawa like another world.
The life of the timber farmers and reforestation.
Program by Jan A. Niemeijer, who spoke with various people who got to know Queen Juliana.
Short student film by Marc Almond
A young soldier catches a cockroach during a moment of boredom at his base. In doing so, memories from his childhood surface, of a time when he discovered the world through curious eyes and used to catch pigeons and release them along the seashore.
Documentary film about the official view of art in the Third Reich and state funding of artistic practice.
In the constant and cruel struggle of man to master nature, he will begin by destroying his greatest ally. An authentic story about a lesser-known profession that begins where the asphalt ends. In a mountainous setting, decorated with a variety of plants and home to numerous insects, birds and animals, man comes to bring unrest to the long-tamed bowels of the earth and disturbs the primordial peace of nature with the roar of explosives and the roar of machines.