All Films

My Window

1979 • 2 min • Austria

Zbigniew Rybczynski's experimental short film of a bottle of wine, a parrot in a cage, and a television with news.

Couleurs mécaniques

1979 • 16 min • France

Couleurs mécaniques presents, in the order they were filmed, six different viewpoints of a merry-go-round. In each case the focus is adjusted so as to select, isolate and inscribe parts of the filmed scene onto the film strip in a way that allows elements of color in movement to be recombined in a particular manner during the projection of the film.

This Voice Among Many

1979 • 45 min • Argentina, Mexico

The testimonies of three Argentines: Laura Bonaparte, Carlos González Gartland and Raúl Fonseca, on repression and torture in Argentina between 1973 and 1979. It was performed during the team's exile in Mexico

Bellydancing: A History and an Art

1979 • 22 min • United States of America

Filmmaker Alicia Dhanifu, who appears in director Jamaa Fanaka’s Emma Mae, constructs a rigorous and beautifully rendered history of belly dancing — its roots and history, forms and meanings. The filmmaker performs this art as well, alone and with other dancers. —Shannon Kelley

Heavy Metal

1979 • 12 min • United States of America

A graphic disintegration of paranoia, perversion and violence in Chicago. (worldcat.org)

The Kitten

1979 • 6 min • Soviet Union

About how a boy, overcoming his own fear, saves a little kitten that is freezing.

Ed Kelly and the Fighting 47th

1979 • 54 min • United States of America

An investigative documentary that focuses on political activities in the 47th Ward of Chicago and on the relationship between party politics and the park district. Originally aired on local Chicago news station WBBM-TV in 1979, the documentary details machine politics, patronage, clientelism and bribery that ran rife in Chicago's 47th Ward under the helm of Democratic Party Committeeman Ed Kelly. The digitization of this program was made possible by a grant from The Brinson Foundation.

Queen: Live At Budokan

1979 • 60 min • Japan

Queen – Live At Budokan 1979

Play 22

1979 • 8 min • Switzerland

Canada Vignettes: Delta Plane

1979 • 1 min • Canada

This film is about the emotions that can lead one to take that jump into space necessary for hang gliding with a Delta Plane.

Bliss D.F.²

1979 • 8 min

"The performer describes how to shrink a head, using an avocado and its pit that is recorded on one audio channel. The other props include a table cloth a pan of water and a wine cork. The second audio channel plays a tape made by Tamara Rand, a sex therapist and psychic who describes how to maintain an erection and how to get away from poor self-image by placing that image in a 'black box' and throwing it away." - Askevold

Rapunzel, Rapunzel

1979 • 14 min

Rapunzel imprisoned in a tall wooden tower by a witch, allows a young man to climb her long brown hair to visit her.

Tor 2

1979 • 32 min

Documentary about a steelworker strike on New Year's Eve 1978/79.

Window to the Yard

1979 • 3 min • Poland

A man doing the ironing on the ground floor of a tenement house observes the yard.

Death Row

1979 • 59 min

About daily life on Death Row in Texas. When the film was made in April 1979, 114 men were housed in the special death cells of Ellis prison's rows J-21 and J-23. The men spend their time waiting for the State to kill them or fighting as hard as they can to prevent that death from happening. Their hardest job is staying sane.

Los pirañas

1979 • 14 min • Peru

A merchant from the Amazon River arrives at a village located on its banks, and in the purchase-sale manipulations with a couple of riverside peasants, he manages to sell them utensils that they do not need and increase the debt they have with him.

In a Not Far Away Place

1979 • 22 min • Romania

On the waterfront, a few soldiers inspect the perimeter where a festive table has been set up in front of a makeshift wooden stage. The garrison commander greets a motley group of foreign visitors as the waiters open the champagne to start the show. The perspectives alternate, the bah-humbug atmosphere at the guests' table is counterpointed by the reluctance of the performers and the resentment of those who prepare the meal and must serve the guests. From this group, the character played by Marga Barbu stands out for her eccentric, disruptive presence, upsetting the fragile balance of the whole performance and aggravating the already tense situation towards its dramatic climax.

You Must Remember This

1979 • 26 min • Canada

Marshalore's You Must Remember This is an autobiographical narrative on the pressure to conform to a feminine stereotype of beauty. It deals with a series of small, intimate dramas where she sings old songs of the 1930s and 40s. If the text seem banal, the melodies derived from the title song combine with remarkable camerawork to create a wonderfully seductive atmosphere.

Painting

1979 • 8 min • Poland

A film about the act of creation, in which the representation of the artist's different emotions and her relation to environment shows how the creative process develops to its end.

Sounds From Our People: Gabriel Goes to the City

1979 • 29 min • Canada

Obomsawin narrates as children learn of the traditions and life of Gabriel, a Cree boy from Fort George, James Bay. The Northern Cree "Walking Out Ceremony" is one such tradition. This is followed by scenes of Gabriel touring Old Montreal.

hedgehog

1979 • 30 min • Soviet Union

movie follows ia and a boy nicknamed by her as the hedgehog, the boy gets irritated by the girl's teasing and they dvelop a rivalry but when the boy has to leave town they both realize that they actually quite enjoyed each others company

The Detour

1979 • 34 min • United Kingdom

During a school outing, Dominic’s [John Galdes] pet dog Rameses – which a sculptor [Adrian Rendle] has sketched for a work depicting the Egyptian dog-headed god Anubis – runs away. While looking for the animal, Dominic visits the sculptor’s home, and on seeing the finished sculpture experiences a premonition of evil. That night, however, he has a dream about a religious revelation at the Miraculous Grotto, and the next morning goes to the site to find Rameses unharmed.

Am I Normal?: A Film About Male Puberty

1979 • 22 min

13-year old Jimmy has a lot of questions about his changing body. His often hilarious search for answers uncovers the facts about male sexual development, and raises important issues about peer pressure and readiness to date.

Tigers Are Better Looking

1979 • 20 min • Sudan

Tigers are Better Looking is an adaptation of a short story by Jean Rhys. In the film, Shariffe directs his view towards exile in Europe, showing the wide disparity between North and South. The film contrasts two different civilisations, the homeland, Sudan, and the country of exile, Great Britain. Through poetic abstractions the director manages to portray the strong sense of exile and the longing for the homeland.