All Films

The Waltzing Policemen

1979 • 4 min

Two policemen dance the waltz together in an empty grand ballroom.

The Newcomers

1979 • 44 min • Iran

Kianoush Ayari’s film captures rare scenes of everyday life on the streets of Tehran in the months following the revolution of 1979.

Lonesome Cowboy

1979 • 1 min

A self-portrait of Merritt's "cowboy" phase, tongue firmly planted in cheek.

Oh, Rested

1979 • 7 min • Soviet Union

How animal friends taught a poacher a lesson.

Sweet Sal

1979 • 26 min • United States of America

A portrait of a wiry, engaging street hustler, Sal Carulli, whose cocky patter breaks down at the end of the film, when he visits his father’s grave.

Sandbags & Trenches

1979 • 3 min • United Kingdom

This film (which is silent apart from a song from the Easter Uprising of 1916 that it illustrates) uses only techniques available at the time, thereby giving the impression of what a Republican propaganda movie would have looked like had they the access to film making resources. Shot in black and white it has a hand-tinted section at the end which was quite common during this period.

Three Blue Songs

1979 • 7 min • United States of America

Conciseness, lightness and popular themes make these aquatic entertainment (on fresh or salt water) as many songs for the eyes and ears. An atmosphere of happy memory is evoked by the play of double exposure. This process is enhanced by the colorful treatment. Through family or individual times, the film sings for these moments lived without ostentation.

Basil Bunting

1979 • 40 min

The poet Basil Bunting talks briefly about his long, autobiographical poem "Briggflats", published in 1968, and about the craft of poetry, but the majority of the film is devoted to his reading of extracts from the poem itself. The film also observes Bunting's daily routine, his return to Briggflats and the Quaker Meeting House, and shows the Northern landscapes so crucial to his work.

Jari

1979 • 59 min • Brazil

Documentary filmed in the Jari Project area – multinational enclave, located between Pará and the then Federal Territory of Amapá, on the occasion of the visit made to the Project by the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry about the devastation of the Amazon. Jari is the largest known land occupation in the Amazon, and probably the largest in the world, to belong to a single owner, the American millionaire Daniel Keith Ludwig.

Spaceboy Cache

1979 • 60 min

A Korean animated film about an android boy and his struggle against the forces of evil.

Panda's Department Store

1979 • 16 min • China

Young panda of the department store fulfills requests of all special customers.

Hérésie pour Magritte I

1979 • 4 min • France

Itaúnas: Ecological Disaster

1979 • 8 min • Brazil

Artistic documentary that combines images of human beings and nature to achieve a highly significant aesthetic result. Irrational deforestation in Itaúnas (northern Espírito Santo, Brazil) makes the village vulnerable to sand blown by the intense winds. In 1968, the region becomes uninhabitable, producing a living example of ecological disaster.

Animation

1979 • 10 min • United States of America

a film about animation by Vince Collins

Būkite sveiki, ufonautai!

1979 • 9 min • Soviet Union

A film that ridicules alcoholics, comparing them to aliens from outer space, pigs, goats and so on.

Beaver Report

1979 • 17 min

Landscapes of drained marshes and reclaimed meadows, from where scientists from the Experimental Station of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Popielno relocate beavers to forest wetlands, secluded lakes, and rivers essential for the beavers' survival. With the film camera, we participate in this operation of capturing and transporting the animals, observing their first steps in the new environment, which they begin to organize for their needs. They fell trees they have gnawed, build dams, and create water expanses.

The Patient with the Bottle

1979 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A satirical story for adults about the harmful effects of alcohol not only on health, but also on personal life.

Hello, the Olympics!

1979 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Where is the Little Bear?

1979 • 8 min • Soviet Union

The adventures of Russian souvenirs on the eve of the opening of the 1980 Olympics. The main character of the film is Misha the mascot who greets the guests of the Olympics together with his souvenir friends.

Parto solar 5

1979 • 45 min • Mexico

Mexican feature film

16 Millimeter Earrings

1979 • 25 min

A re-creation for film of Meredith Monk's seminal dance/theater work incorporating film and original music, voice, guitar, and audiotapes. Originally performed in 1966, Judson Memorial Church, New York.

A Film on Family Planning

1979 • 2 min • Indonesia

The letters KB refer to the official term `Keluarga Berencana’, i.e. `Family Planning’. This is a “Non KB” film. A spontaneous vision on the introduction of family planning.

Roundtable

1979 • 18 min

Early student film by composer and director Mikel Rouse.

Frammento Catanese

1979 • 13 min • Italy

16mm short by Massimo Bacigalupo.