All Films

Canada Vignettes: Inuit Pipe

1979 • 1 min • Canada

In this animated short from the Canada Vignette series, the camera explores, in exquisite detail, the daily hunt, fishing scenes and children at play as etched in black on an ivory Inuit pipe.

Tollhaus

1979 • 16 min

Hérésie pour Magritte VII

1979 • 4 min • France

Hérésie pour Magritte III

1979 • 4 min

Ikuska 3: Bilboko hiri espekulazioa

1979 • 12 min • Spain

Documentary that presents the urban problems of Bilbao.

Blackstone Live From Seattle

1979 • 50 min • United States of America

Harry Blackstone Jr. performs a spectacular, live magic show in Seattle, 1979.

Taim

1979 • 31 min • Brazil

Ecology - the eco system, a nature reserve in the south of the country - RS (between the Mirim lagoons) shows the harmony between nature and animals.

Change. My Problem is a Problem of a Woman

1979 • 7 min • Poland

Ewa Partum’s work entitled Change. My problem is a problem of a woman (1979) is the culmination and the turning point of a process which began with Change in 1974. The latter was an action in which the artist had half of her face aged using make-up and immortalized in a portrait posted in the streets of Warsaw. Up to that point, Partum had used make-up to glamorize herself, signing various words with her lips outlined in red and pressed against paper as she spoke 1. But in Change. My problem is a problem of a woman, Partum had wrinkles, varicose veins, and grey hair applied over half of her body while, reclining on a white podium, she recited passages from the critic Lucy Lippard and the artist VALIE EXPORT.

Vicarious Thrills

1979 • 11 min • United States of America

First the Beaulieu documentation of the shoot, then the Arri footage, the porn loop, and the reprise. VT was shown from 1979–1981, with Jim Fulkerson performing on amplified trombone before the screen. Juan Carlos Kase discussed VT in “Alternative Projections.” Part of his essay, read by the author, is included. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.

Mt. Buko

1979 • 32 min • Japan

The silence capturing all the surroundings of Mt. Buko. Documentary directed by Minoru Shinojima 1979, 8mm.

قناديل الأمل

1979 • 15 min • Kuwait

Ya soy Rosca

1979 • 15 min

Fantasy and reality are mixed in the monologue of a proud and sexist male convict.

Feu l'objectivité

1979 • 27 min

Investigation into political journalism in Quebec. Mainly focusing on English-speaking journalists in the press gallery at the National Assembly and their perception of current events, Godbout argues that the sense of objectivity in journalism is above all a question of culture.

Cat

1979 • 2 min • Switzerland

8mm film by Swiss artist Roman Signer.

Nihon Meisaku Kaidan Gekijō: Kaidan Saga no Kaibyō

1979 • 45 min • Japan

In the Nabeshima clan’s castle town, lord Tango-no-kami kills his chief retainer Mataichirō for refusing to offer his sister as a concubine. To cover up the crime, the scheming retainer Buzen buries Mataichirō’s body in the armory walls and offers his own daughter instead. But Mataichirō’s vengeful cat, Koma, possesses Buzen, seeking revenge.

The Buenoromeros

1979 • 29 min

Three sisters living together are tied to the memory of their father. They welcome their suitors into their home and then repeat a ritual that seems to come from times past.

The Passenger

1979 • 7 min

L'Abécédaire du Maréchal

1979 • 21 min • France

This film shows the instruments of the Vichy government's propaganda among young people and, more specifically, the images distributed in the form of ABC books, posters, newsreels or propaganda. It shows the speech of Pétain, Georges Lamirand, general secretary for youth, Marcel Déat, founder of the National Popular Rally and Jacques Doriot, founder of the French Popular Party.

Abyss

1979 • 25 min • Soviet Union

The film begins in 1922 in Georgia. A strange event occurs near seven comrades. One of them, who knows the secret of horse riding, miraculously remains alive. Captivated by a sense of duty, the comrades decide to go to Gori to find this man, and if possible, then stop his crime, which will cost the lives of many innocents. With the light hand of the leader, a civil war breaks out in Georgia, which will claim the lives of everyone they found, but will have time to reveal many more deaths.

Aluminosa Espera do Apocalipse

1979 • 12 min

(1979, Super 8, Color, Experimental Documentary)

Recess II

1979 • 10 min • Soviet Union

About how bosom friends ate ice cream, got a signature in a diary, published a wall newspaper and launched a balloon.

Koryo Celadon

1979 • 25 min • South Korea

Koryo Celadon remains one of the high points of world art. This Korean pottery style, which was at its peak in the 12th Century A.D., and called by the Chinese "one of the ten most wonderful things in the world," was a truly major achievement in the field of ceramics. Its most important element was its delicate green glaze, a secret formula now lost. As simple and elegant as Koryo Celadons appear, they were the result of intricate craftsmanship that often employed up to four inlays.

Fatma of the Forest

1979 • 28 min • Turkey

Reflects life, longings and a major “fear” in the subconscious of a 12-years old “woodcutter” girl living under very hard conditions in the forest of Toros Mountains at an altitude of approximately 2000 m. The documentary, aiming to symbolize a little-known but common practice of child labour, accomplishes a dramatic portrayal of laborers who work for Ministery of Forestry totally deprived of social security.

T.z.

1979 • 9 min

An elegant home movie, its subject is Breer's apartment which faces the Tappan Zee (T.Z.) Bridge. It is permeated, as are all his films, with subtle humor, eroticism and a sense of imminent chaos and catastrophe.