1979 Movies

A mosaic film with "the division of the screen into six fields already attended to in the camera.... The real landscape simply becomes the experience...

Film by Ana Mendieta

A film by Michel Bulteau

At a party, which was organized for Wendy, each person invited brought a photo of themselves. Each photo was filmed according to a strict scheme: each...

Brittania: The First of the Last

A second landscape film, in this case urban. The work constructed from materials gathered over two years looking out at downtown San Francisco from a...

Meshing the visceral and the intellectual, "Sherman proposes, through editing and parallel camera movement, that the act of reading is exhilarating, l...

The filmmaker's waving hand, its wooden facsimile, a steamship, a rowboat, the ocean and a bowl of water are the main elements in this visual pun that...

Using the accoutrements of baseball, Sherman analyzes the magic of tv/film representation and offers a pun on the word "catch." "The camera catches th...

The film was realized according to the formulaic concept "TAM 4/71."

A man and a woman in a desolate landscape; the camera interrupts their walks until they meet. Then a game of attraction and repulsion sets in; filmed...

Documentary film.

Latin American children, children of exiles and political prisoners, tell of their experiences of integration in Cuba, sharing their memories from exi...

Whale Songs, the ambitious final film in the period of Beams’s personal 16mm filmmaking, combines whale watching with depictions of the animation proc...