All Films

Lipanan: Our Country, Our Struggle

1979 • 10 min

"Filmed on location in war-torn Beirut, this straightforward, partisan documentary is an indictment of right-wing terrorism against the Armenian ethnic community in Lebanon, and a rallying target audience is primary-students, the presentation is conceptually very simple. The film cannot compete in technical finish with slicker and enormously better-financed productions which present an opposing view of the conflict in Lebanon. Nevertheless, the filmmaker's perspective and prescriptive message have been vindicated by events which have taken place in the years since its first release." – M.M.

Full Moon

1979 • 13 min • Japan

I cut out a rectangular portion of a photograph to create a peephole, equivalent to a camera viewfinder. The cut-out photograph is a sequence of photographs that show a hand pointing at the peephole. I repeatedly overlaid the sequence of peephole photographs onto a photograph of a corner of a room, creating an image in which the window looking into a part moves within the whole.

The Palestinian People Do Have Rights

1979 • 48 min

Reviews the background of the Israel/Palestinian problem, covering various periods of history from the Ottoman Empire and the British Mandate up through the creation of Israel, the three wars which have been fought, and the current situation of 3,000,000 Palestinian refugees.

Opération Survie Solitaire Huascaran

1979 • 42 min • France

Nicolas Jaeger, a French physician specializing in sports and high-altitude physiology, conducted an experiment by spending two months on the highest peak in the Peruvian Andes, Huascarán. From July to September 1979, Nicolas Jaeger lived alone for 60 days at an altitude of 6,700 meters and studied the effects of hypoxia on his body. He documented his experience on film and later in his book, "Carnet De Solitude," published in 1979.

Olokon

1979 • 9 min • Soviet Union

After falling prey to an eagle, a young hunter named Olokon has to find his way out of an eagle's nest and fights a dragon to save his new friends.

Behind the Curtain: Dionysis Papagiannopoulos

1979 • 20 min

The beloved theater and film actor, Dionysis Papagiannopoulos, talks about his life in Diakopto, reminisces about his childhood and school years, and his first amateur theatrical attempts. He describes his passion for theater and the difficulties he faced in pursuing theatrical studies, mainly due to his family's objections.

Old Meke and the Black Giant

1979 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A brave old man accepts a challenge to a fight with an evil giant.

Denain, Haut-fourneau De La Colere

1979 • 40 min • France

"Denain, Blast Furnace of Wrath" was produced with very few means but the film was widely distributed until in Norway where it came to support the strike of steelworkers engaged in their country for the same fight. Only one regret: despite all my efforts to seek funding, I was never able to shoot 'USINES' which would have been the continuation and the observation of this situation triggered in the process with the closure of the Usinor site. Neither Robert, nor Pierre, nor the others, and there were many of them, were never able to speak.

Para que no se le olvide su nombre

1979 • 9 min

A monologue in past, present and future by characters without a name.

Incident

1979 • 9 min • Bulgaria

Egg factory. The eggs are arranged in orderly rows and march in rhythm. One small egg falls out of the circles measuring the size. The other eggs laugh at him. In the paint department, all eggs are painted in bright colors. Only the small egg remains white and sad. Finally, however, it turns out that only it hatches a yellow chicken.

Kampuchea Will Be Victorious

1979 • 34 min • Canada

Film shot by a delegation of the Canadian Communist League (Marxist-Leninist) about the ways in which the people of the state of Democratic Kampuchea (1975-1979) were rebuilding their society through farming cooperatives and education while resisting United States, Soviet, and Vietnamese threats to their sovereignty. Although the film aims to celebrate Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge as liberators of an oppressed people, viewers should be aware that the Khmer Rouge was responsible for committing genocide and killing 1.5 to 2 million people from 1975-1979 under Pol Pot's rule.

Cathode

1979 • 21 min

Experimental short by Harumi Fujii.

Bachelor's Room

1979 • 7 min • Bulgaria

Studio (in French: garçonnière - a place for a bachelor without partition walls). And in the horror of tomorrow's apocalypse and in the exhaustion of yesterday's love even in the fleeting moment of bliss beware of the like The man is a crowd.

Atenção Realidade

1979 • 9 min

The Ghost of Thomas Kempe

1979 • 48 min

Poor James Harrison! Everyone is upset with him - his parents, the next-door neighbor, even the town sheriff - but he didn't do anything wrong! The real culprit is Thomas Kempe, a sorcerer from a prior century who's been unwittingly released from an antique bottle. Young James, after moving into a charming Victorian home with his family, finds that he has an invisible roommate - the ghost of Thomas Kempe. The ghost needs an apprentice, but when James refuses to cooperate, accidents and mysterious events plague the neighborhood. Coincidentally, all the clues point to James as the guilty party! Fortunately, a friend volunteers to help the boy lure the mischief-loving spirit back to his resting place. But even if the two succeed, will anyone believe the explanation?

Story of agates

1979 • 15 min

Hermitage - the treasury of world art. Surprise and delight become the companion of a person who passed through the halls of this museum. Here is a picture, sculpture, panel, made of multicolored stones. Look in the hall of ancient gems and find on one of the showcases cameo Gonzago. Next to it time manifests its most mysterious properties, the minutes are compressed into centuries, and the surrounding space inhabit heroic ancient characters... Wondering about the beauty of the ancient jewelry, you will unwittingly ask yourself what miracle stone has given nature into the hands of an ancient master. It is agate...

Purple Haze Blues

1979 • 43 min

8mm film made in 1979 by the Bunkyo University Film Research Club.

The Toy Tree

1979 • 5 min

Bunkyo University Film Study Club 1979 8mm Film Production.

Day Dream

1979 • 23 min

Bunkyo University Film Study Club 1979 8mm Film Production.

The Tale of Genji & Poop

1979 • 9 min

Bunkyo University Film Research Club 1979 8mm Film Production.

The Deranged Cog

1979 • 23 min

Bunkyo University Film Study Club 1979 8mm Film Production.

Even the wind has a path

1979 • 16 min

Bunkyo University Film Research Club 1979 8mm Film Production.

Beats of the Heart: Konkombe: The Nigerian Pop Music Scene

1979 • 51 min • United Kingdom, Nigeria

Konkombe is an extraordinary journey into the musical kaleidoscope of juju, Afrobeat, highlife, Afro-pop, and Lagos street music that makes up the Nigerian pop music scene. From traditional minstrels wandering the streets of Lagos to the talking drums of the Saharan north, from recording session with stars of juju and highlife to an intimate visit with Fela surrounded by his exotic wives, Konkombe looks at the entire spectrum of Nigerian music from its primitive roots to the most exciting stars of Afro-pop. Features performances, intimate interviews and recording sessions with some of the biggest stars of African music including King Sunny Ade, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, Sonny Okosun, I.K. Dairo and more.

Final Marks: The Art of the Carved Letter

1979 • 49 min

A documentary about lettercutting, in both monumental inscriptions and on gravestones. The filmmakers were given complete access over a two year period to the work of the craftsmen of the John Stevens Shop in Newport, Rhode Island, the oldest business in the United States still in continuous operation in the same colonial building. It chronicles the work of John ‘Fud’ Benson, then the owner and principal designer, and, arguably, one of the most accomplished letter cutters in the world, as he and his colleagues lay out and then execute the inscriptions on the then unfinished East Building of the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., designed by I.M. Pei.