All Films

School Break

1979 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Photo Album

1979 • 4 min

Color UCLA Student Film, presreved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. A rocker gets sucked into a photo album, dancing across the images, only to have a maid close the album while she's still inside. Shot on video with a blue screen technology.

Cinématon n°43 : Nicole-Lise Bernheim

1979 • 3 min • France

Portrait of Nicole-Lise Bernheim

Requiem for Sally

1979 • 18 min • Northern Ireland

A mother and father’s grief following the loss of their daughter in a road accident is mapped alongside the changing seasons in this contemplative short film written by John McCullagh and produced and directed by Terence McDonald.

Septiembre Margo

1979 • 11 min

UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Dramatization of the aftermath of the military coup d'état in Chile on September 11, 1973 led by Augusto Pinochet and the story of the desaparecidos (the disappeared), those were imprisoned and killed by the Pinochet regime. The story follows the kidnapping and murder of Manuel, a filmmaker and teacher, Maria, artist, and their daughter Fabiana.

Report on Nicaraguan Revolution

1979 • 15 min

UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Documentary about the Sandanistas, the Nicaraguan Revolution, and their supporters in the United States. Features interviews with organizer Julio Virseños, Alex Palacios (Nicaraguan Representative to the Organization of the American States Human Rights Commission), and footage of protests in McArthur Park. It also includes news footage and excerpts from "Patria Libre O Morir," a film made about the Sandanistas in 1978.

Better than Heaven, Worse than Hell

1979 • 3 min

Two men climb out of a pit in the earth and dissolve into a wild collage of patterns, images and bodies. Barysas’ most experimental film.

The Finish of the Sports Year

1979 • 5 min • Soviet Union

About the figure skating competition for the prize of the Nouvelle de Moscoux newspaper

Split/Flow

1979 • 11 min

The screen is slit into colors. Through this moves a pattern that is constantly warped by waves. Another space opens up; level upon level of form is revealed. Clusters of voices repeat themselves. Alternating percussion and sharp edits counerpoint the auiovisual flow.

Amy's 4th or 5th B-Day

1979 • 4 min

Home movie documenting birthday celebrations for Palazzolo's daughter, Amy Louise, who was born in 1974. The footage captured here is most likely of her fifth birthday in 1979. She is shown surrounded by friends, excitedly opening her presents.

Dropout Window

1979 • 2 min

A missing line of information, a hole in a field.

Easy Street

1979 • 13 min • United States of America

A documentary produced by Blackside, Inc. as part of an effort to recruit minority youth into the health care fields.

Redonda y viene en caja cuadrada

1979 • 11 min • Cuba

In a satirical tone, multiple unexpected actions during a ball game and the reactions of the public are captured. In search of the unusual, the documentary ventures outside the field of this sport.

Jeder singt auf seine Weise

1979 • 28 min • East Germany

A culture festival is held in the village. Everyone is invited to take part, which is why the devil is also signing up to take part....

Behind the Curtain: Dinos Iliopoulos

1979 • 21 min

The episode of the documentary series Paraskinio, produced in 1979, dedicates its first part to two great actors of theater and cinema, Dinos Iliopoulos and Mimis Fotopoulos. On the occasion of their collaboration in the stage production "Some Like It Hot" at the Akropol Theater (1978–79 season), directed by Alekos Alexandrakis and co-starring himself and Nonika Galinea, the show's camera meets the two actors in an Athenian bar. The documentary features short interviews with Alekos Alexandrakis and Nonika Galinea, who speak about their collaboration with Iliopoulos and Fotopoulos and the reasoning behind casting them in those specific roles. The program also includes clips from films starring Iliopoulos and Fotopoulos, as well as scenes from the play "Some Like It Hot" at the Akropol Theater, written by Peter Stone, translated by Pavlos Matesis, and directed by Alekos Alexandrakis.

Anahtar

1979 • 39 min • Turkey

The Key a film with Funda Gürkan

Kasnakt sapnuoju...

1979 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A film about a distinguished industrial worker of the Lithuanian SSR, a weaver at the P. Ziberta Silk Factory in Kaunas.

Fetos

1979 • 8 min • Venezuela

Fetos is an allegory of the process of life. What would happen if a fetus became conscious in its mother's womb? It would interpret its' surroundings as its only reality. If he found another fetus, his twin brother, he would explain to him what he has learned. If later a third fetus appeared who did not agree with the other two that the womb is the only reality, and it proposed a different possibility. The first two fetuses would reject it. Only the one that understood the process would be born. In order to be born it is necessary to die.

Russian Winter Festival

1979 • 32 min • Soviet Union

A documentary on the Russian Winter Art Festival, which took place in Moscow every winter since 1964.

The Assistant

1979 • 38 min

Dr. Hubert Fez is looking for an assistant for his transportation company, and strikes a deal with young petty criminals

Canada Vignettes: Métis Coat

1979 • 1 min • Canada

The decorative pattern style of a traditional Metis coat is explored.

Shooting Range

1979 • 21 min • Soviet Union

An unemployed American gets a job in a shooting gallery as a live target. The greedy capitalist owner charges patrons double for the chance to shoot at a human being.

Las AAA son las tres armas: Carta abierta de Rodolfo Walsh a la junta militar

1979 • 20 min • Argentina

Short about the disappearance of the body of the political Argentinean writer Rodolfo Walsh after he was shot in an ambush by a special military group in Argentinia on March 25 1977.

Old Man

1979 • 26 min • Soviet Union

A man in his 30s visits a Soviet school to try to hook up with a young teacher there, and meets one of her students, whom he enlists to help introduce him to his romantic interest. While he waits for the student to free up, he observes the absurd Soviet culture, most evident within the school system, especially among the younger children.