All Films

Sweet Career Girl

1979 • 50 min • Japan

The comical live-in life of Yuki, a stylist, and Dodoichi, a first-year college student who has come to Tokyo to visit his senior. The film is full of dark episodes such as infertility, prostitution, suicide, etc., but the filmmakers are careful not to lose the light touch, and how to make the best use of the characters in each situation is enclosed in a scene setting like a scene in a famous movie. The film is full of enthusiasm to show us the setting and storyline that could easily become a pattern of a cheap melodrama.

Scar Tissue

1979 • 7 min • United States of America

Scar Tissue by Su Friedrich is a filmic version of a white canvas or a silent music piece.The fact that Friedrich never really shows the whole body, but rather plays off of body parts could be read as a desire to show less of the people on the screen, so that the viewer's reading can be generalized. If the "characters" existed as people, the images would inevitably read to be telling a story about these people. The legs and torsos do not signify people; it is the experience of these body parts and the rhythm with which they are portrayed that constitute the work.

Yellow Elephant

1979 • 7 min • Soviet Union

A good story about how important it is to be able to negotiate and give in to each other. All the guys are looking forward to the New Year's carnival, choosing costumes for themselves. Bunnies, squirrels, bears, snowflakes and snowmen gathered at the Christmas tree. Two girlfriends sewed a yellow elephant costume for the celebration. They could become the most original and bright at the carnival, if they did not quarrel constantly. Each thought only of herself, not wanting to yield in anything. Really girlfriends, having quarreled seriously, will be left without a holiday?

Bugs Bunny's Valentine

1979 • 24 min • United States of America

Watch out as Elmer Fudd lays down his rifle in favor of a bow and "love arrows". None of the Loony Tunes favorites are safe from klutzy Elmer "Cupid" Fudd: Forhorn Leghorn and Daffy Duck are chased by love-crazed females and Bugs Bunny winds up getting hitched to Yosemite Sam!

In the Name of Reason

1979 • 24 min • Brazil

The infamous Hospital Colonia de Barbacena (Barbacena Colony Hospital), biggest mental institution of Brazil, once compared to concentration camps of Auschwitz ,opens its gates to a production crew during the country's dictatorship period. This short documentary depicts how mental patients were treated inside the institution and how anyone could end up an intern there for no plausible reason.

Erich Von Stroheim

1979 • 50 min

Documentary about notorious actor/director Erich Von Stroheim.

Keskidee Aroha

1979 • 54 min • New Zealand

Keskidee, a small Jamaican bird resilient in the face of hardship, is also the name of a self-help black arts centre in London, and the theatre group who work there. Keskidee's actors and musicians were brought to New Zealand to work with communities who face similar day-to-day dilemmas and who might be encouraged to express their frustrations and anger in drama, poetry and music. Keskidee were to act as a catalyst. the film shows some of their work and their response to the people they met. Tribal elders try to show keskidee the depth of Maori roots in the land, and the complexity and pain of their present struggles: against the loss of Aroha; against the laws of pen and paper; the alienation of their land; the suppression of their language; the devaluation of their people and culture.

Four Search for a Million

1979 • 50 min • Soviet Union

Four young men after university are sent to work as managers in a collective (kolkhoz). The film is about how these people try to achieve something better in the Soviet system.

Black Dawn

1979 • 20 min • Haiti, United States of America

Recounts the founding of Haiti through the eyes of two captured African tribespeople, Sili and Simba. Starting with their capture in Africa, the story follows their trans-Atlantic journey on a slave ship to Haiti. There they escape their slavery on a French plantation and join the fight for independence led by Toussaint L'Ouverture and Dessaline, ultimately joining in the celebration of the first raising of the Haitian flag.

Kaju

1979 • 52 min • Japan

16mm film by Teiji Aoyama and Izumi Suzuki's last acting performance. Completed shortly before the director's death. The film has not been screened since the 1980s, however, and may be lost

Thomas Munzer

1979 • 40 min • Soviet Union

A play about the Reformation in Germany, a broad religious and socio-political movement in Western and Central Europe of the XVI - early XVII century, aimed at the transformation of Catholic Christianity in accordance with the Bible; about the main ideologists of the Reformation - the leader of the peasant-plebeian masses Thomas Munzer and the representative of the interests of the conservative part of the German burghers Martin Luther.

Dir muss er ja nicht gefallen

1979 • 22 min • Germany

Love and jealousy within a group of teenage friends.

San Francisco Diary ’79

1979 • 9 min • United States of America

One week in November 1979, passing the time in Carmen Virgil's house. Probably the last in this series of diaries.

Heliography

1979 • 6 min • Japan

An experimental short through which Yamazaki brings his preoccupations and inquiries about time and light from conceptual photography into moving images.

Flashes rouges

1979 • 15 min

Filmed excerpts from the Flashes Rouges rock opera starring Catherine Ringer, future singer of Les Rita Mitsouko. Made for French television.

O Ladrão do Pão

1979 • 29 min

A fiction from the series "Contos Tradições Portugueses", based on a poem by Alexandre O'Neil, telling the story of a fisherman tired of the sea, who departs to conquer a new life on land.

Digit

1979 • 3 min • United States of America

Abstract animation set to music

Harlem Nocturne

1979 • 4 min • France

A French animated short film delves into a family living in Harlem's black ghetto, where a girl faces the choice between freedom and death. Features music by Johnny Otis.

Geo-Illogical Junket

1979 • 3 min • United States of America

Professor Phosphate discovers that he has no sample of an unusual mineral called "Zubbolite". He travels a considerable distance and endures the desert heat in his pursuit of the illusive mineral.

Fantasy

1979 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A lyrical, musical story about flowers.

Hugues le Loup

1979 • 52 min • France

Gédéon, the Count of Niedeck's gamekeeper, visits Dr. François to invite him to the chateau. He explains that his master has suddenly gone mad during a change of moon. En route, the two men meet a strange old woman who lives in the woods. Gédéon explains to the doctor that whenever this woman prowls around, the Count is plagued by dementia. Once there, the doctor treats the Count and calms him down. The Count has a daughter, Odile, whom he clearly hates. One evening, a mysterious traveler arrives.

Escura Maravilha

1979 • 8 min

(1979, Super 8, Color, Experimental)

The Greatest Adventure--The Story of Man's Voyage to the Moon

1979 • 55 min

The planning and implementation of the first flight to the moon, narrated by Orson Welles.

I & I: An African Allegory

1979 • 32 min

Drawing from Ayi Kwei Armah’s novel, "Two Thousand Seasons," Caldwell meditates on reciprocity and on the concept of “I and I” which postulates no division between people, whereas the splitting of “you” from “I” is an invention of the devil designed to brew trouble in the world.