All Films

Yezh ar vezh

1979 • 51 min

A documentary about Breton identity and the Breton language from the 19th century to the 70s and the 60s and 70s struggle for cultural preservation in Brittany.

Hear Me

1979 • 2 min

A human figure - the artist herself - first gestures the word behind a scenery paper that functions as a membrane. After successive approaches of the mouth to the paper in which we deduce that the artist shouts the word "ouve-me", she then writes it with her finger, and finally with a pen she scratches the word.

The Sleepeater

1979 • 6 min • United States of America

A Harryhausen influenced short film by Woody Welch from 1979. Shot on 16 mm film, using motion analysis film projectors to combine live-action with stop-motion animation.

Tina Turner at the Apollo

1979 • 59 min

At The Apollo is Tina’s very first solo home video with a concert from London’s Apollo Theatre, recorded on March 25, 1979. Dressed in Bob Mackie costumes and supported by four dancers, Tina performed several cover versions of popular songs, some old ones from Ike & Tina and some new tracks from her solo records Rough and Love Explosion. The video was first released in short form with a selection of the original setlist in 1979 under the title "At The Apollo,“ but was later also released as an one hour concert under the title Wild Lady of Rock in 1984.

Soji-ji

1979 • 18 min

Soji-ji (1979) is a video work documenting a chant recitation at a Zen temple. The chant recited by many monks does not proceed in unison like group singing. Each monk recites in sync with his breath, so that the intake of breath occurs at different moments. That is to say, each monk articulates the chant differently. Since there is no unified division, when the multiple chants overlap, an endless wave of chant (sutra) appears as a collective density or modality (at the same time, each monk’s steps form a totally different rhythm from the individual chants).

Almeri & Ari: Ciclo do Recife e da Vida

1979 • 10 min • Brazil

Brazilian documentary about the pioneers Ary Severo (director, screenwriter, actor and screenwriter) and Almery Steves, his wife (actress of famous Recife Cycle films)

Danielle Carnaval e Cinzas

1979 • 23 min

It invites the audience to enter Danielle's home and life in this short film, considered one of the pioneers in addressing the LGBTQIA+ universe without resorting to stereotypes, having won the award for best film at the Super Festival Nacional do Filme Super 8.

Campuchea: People Everybody Wanted Dead

1979 • 29 min • Soviet Union

Old Man Tumbleweed

1979 • 10 min • Soviet Union

About a boy whom the fabulous old man Kanbak-shal introduced to a fascinating and interesting land of fairy tales.

The Finest Kind: A People's History of the Lockeport Lockout, 1939

1979 • 30 min • Canada

In the fall of 1939, more than 600 fishermen and fish handlers in the tiny town of Lockeport, Nova Scotia walked the picket line in front of the town's only employers, Swim Brothers and the Lockeport Company. Both fishplants had locked their doors rather than recognize the Canadian Fishermen's Union as official bargaining agent. For eight weeks, as autumn turned to winter, the men, with their wives and families, held firm. It was a bread-and-butter struggle that made national headlines--one of the first major attempts by Nova Scotia fishermen and fishhandlers to win union recognition, and one of the first major tests of the N.S. Trade Union Act, passed in 1937.

Kabaret Ivo de Wijs: Formule 2

1979 • 38 min • Netherlands

A shortened recording of the theater program of the same name by Kabaret Ivo de Wijs (Ivo de Wijs, Pieter Nieuwint and Marnix Kappers).

Around About

1979 • 5 min • Italy

A free form film poem. Moving through inside and outside spaces Luisa Cividin unties a knot made with two curtains. Followed by Roberto Taroni smoking until he starts to turn around his axis, first in front of the window with the now re-tied curtains and then in slow motion seemingly in front of some stairs. A 70s enigma. – Olaf Möller

100 m selili kammerorkestri saatel

1979 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Ulvi Indrikson trains her daughters Kaire and Kaja and supports them at the competitions. Training in the gym and swimming competitions. Support by the audience, the participants' intense fight for the first place.

The Elvis Cover Up

1979 • 55 min

in 1979, Geraldo Rivera anchored an hour-long program for ABC's 20/20 titled "The Elvis Cover-Up," which established that Elvis was dependent on prescription medication. Here is the complete broadcast (with a couple of Elvis performances deleted for legal reasons) and subsequent updates.

Casa da Flor

1979 • 9 min • Brazil

Using the strangest objects collected from the trash, Mr. Gabriel dos Santos built his house in São Pedro D'Aldeia, on the north coast of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The film shows the interior and exterior of the house and reveals the simplicity and ingenuity of its builder.

Death in the Family

1979 • 4 min • Yugoslavia

A super 8mm film by Davorin Marc.

Craypot Sonata

1979 • 10 min • Australia

Australian horror short from 1979.

The Story of a Strange Friendship

1979 • 7 min • Soviet Union

Chicken and Fox's parents were against their children's friendship. But the kids managed to defend their friendship.

Sounds from Our People: Old Crow

1979 • 29 min • Canada

The village of Old Crow and the people from the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation are located on the banks of the Porcupine River 80 miles inside the Arctic Circle. The film shows the lifestyles and spirit of the people of Old Crow, reflected in the writings of Gwich'in Edith Josie and the stories told by Elder Kenneth Nukon. Alanis Obomsawin wanted to document life in the community before the proposed Mackenzie Valley Pipe line was to go through. "Everything will be changed -- it will never be the same again".

New Town, Home Town

1979 • 58 min

Writer Colin Ward sets out to discover the truth about Britain’s New Towns. He visits Harlow, Letchworth, Peterlee, Runcorn and the youngest and biggest New Town, Milton Keynes, hearing from their architects and residents, and examining their reputation.

The Goalkeeper Chip

1979 • 40 min • Soviet Union

The story of how a boy became friends with a talking frog and what came of it.

Quién lo hace

1979 • 22 min • Argentina

This short film was filmed in 16 mm, in the city of Colón, between 1976 and 1979 and released in 1980. It narrates the turn that a man's life takes when he becomes the suspect of a crime. Isolated and under pressure, he begins to question his own identity and the boundaries between reality and paranoia. Thus, your mind becomes a battlefield.

Housewives and a Day

1979 • 22 min

A plan of a house that is reminiscent of a miniature garden used as a psychological treatment to assist in self-confirmation at a middle-class housewive’s tea party.

The Imp's Tricks

1979 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The story is about a kind little devil who defended an honest shepherd and punished the judge for his injustice.