All Films

Buccaneer Blood

1979 • 10 min • Brazil

One of the first Brazilian movies to conjecture about contraculture and its reflexes on the behaviour of a generation. A tribute to the late poet and friend Orlando Parolini.

Atlixco, granero del siglo XVI

1979 • 30 min • Mexico

A documentary that takes a tour of the city of Atlixco, where time and image intertwine in a poetic rhythm, in a walking cadence. Short film that is part of the collection of the Short Film Production Center (CPC) that is preserved in the IMCINE Collection.

Trei mere

1979 • 6 min • Romania

One of the primitive people discovered an apple tree but there is a condition: he can pluck apples from it, but only keep every third.

The Figure-Tamer

1979 • 10 min • Soviet Union

An animated miniature for children, affirming the principle of "Never give up!"

More Than Meets The Eye

1979 • 8 min

"...Frampton travels to the purported birthplace of the Eisensteinian model of cinema, the fairground, with its 'montage of attractions'...ambulating wide-angled portrait of the fair, its throng of participants, its array of attractions (Belgian Waffles, Walk Away Sundaes, Flying Bobs, the Toboggan, a Hall of Health). Interpolated within this walking tour are nine optically reversed textual passages which are briefly flashed on-screen, framed by a repeated image of a ride appropriately known as 'The Scrambler.'"–Bruce Jenkins

The Story of a Village and a War

1979 • 25 min • Lebanon

"The Story of a Village and a War" is a film about the citizens of South Lebanon during the israeli invasion in 1978. The film highlights their daily suffering during the occupation. It was shown at the United Nations at the request of Ghassan Tueini, the representative of Lebanon back then. The screening helped in the issuance of resolution 425, which provided for the withdrawal of the israeli occupation from the South.

Hitch Hike

1979 • 4 min

Things quickly go awry for a hitchhiker in the woods after a motorist stops to pick him up.

Circus at Home

1979 • 7 min • Soviet Union

A fairy tale for children about the need for an attentive attitude towards elders. It tells a story about how domestic animals - a cat, a dog and a parrot - taught their little master a lesson, who did not want to help his grandmother.

Fotomatar

1979 • 12 min • France

Fotomatar is a french-spanish word more or less made up, which makes us think of a "phot-booth" (photomaton) and hesitate between "mater" ("mater" is a french slang word for "to look at") and matar (which means "to kill" in spanish). This film plays with narrativity. It's also a film about duration, about appearance of color (rather creepy), about suspense - a concerto for polaroïd triggers and horror scream. An experimental thriller.

Jean-Michel Jarre - La Concorde

1979 • 60 min • France

Place De La Concorde was Jean Michel Jarre's first concert, held on July 14, 1979, celebrating the Bastille Day. One million spectators attended this concert, setting up a new record for Jean-Michel to the Guinness Book of Records.

Rouges Silences

1979 • 53 min • France

Here the codes are both amplified and distanced by an expressionist plastic that for the first time perhaps in Expressionism, takes humor into account. Some very close-ups of flowers, insects, are reminiscent of the prose of a Caillois that I did not know until this film equivalent cinema. There is a double movement in this film. At the same time, a sort of restraint of the plans and a bulimia, a frenzy to film, perhaps this is what mainly troubles us and takes us into a way of seeing that was unknown to us.

Along the Milky Way

1979 • 11 min

A comical documentary film by Roy Spence focuses on the various stages of a bottle of school milk. The commentary is given by a pint-sized cartoon character called Junior who appears on the milk-bottle cap. He explains the whole procedure to a little girl at school who has confused the words ‘diary’ and ‘’dairy’. This charming educational film was made for the Milk Marketing Board for Northern Ireland.

Canada Vignettes: Love on Wheels

1979 • 5 min • Canada

This short fiction film tells the love story between a young anglophone and a young francophone who unite their destinies in roller skates.

Paradies der Tiere

1979 • 21 min • East Germany

On the 160-hectare grounds of the former Friedrichsfelde Palace Park, the Berlin Animal Park was established in the 1950s with the active support of the local population. In 1980, more than 7,800 animals from all continents live here. The film describes the foundation, the construction and the care of the animals in the extensive park.

Fedir Prymachenko. The wheel

1979 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The film is about the work of an amateur artist from the village Bolotnya, Ivankiv district, Kyiv region, Fedir Prymachenko, the son of the artist Maria Prymachenko. The artist's works from the series "Man on Earth" are demonstrated.

Ti Miséria

1979 • 24 min • Portugal

Ti Miséria has a supernatural power. When Death comes to take her, she traps her in a pear tree. But without death the world doesn't work. Those whose work depend on Death, want it to be freed from the tree. It is then that Death makes a deal with Ti Miséria.

Sunset

1979 • 3 min • Japan

Early work of the celebrated director.

Deceived: The Jonestown Tragedy

1979 • 45 min • United States of America

Rev. Dr. Mel White’s famous documentary on the murderous cult leader, Rev. Jim Jones

Gertrude Stein Would Have Liked to Have Seen Chaplin in a Film Where He Would Have Nothing Other to Do Than Walk on the Street and Then Go Around a Corner, and Then Around the Next Corner, etc. From Corner to Corner

1979 • 3 min • Austria

A reconstruction of the "concept film," which Gertrude Stein ("a rose is a rose is a rose") suggested to Charlie Chaplin in the 1920s. (E.S.jr.)

Trois couches suffisent

1979 • 50 min • France

Love Reinvented

1979 • 15 min • France

For a long time now, we have been seeing outrageous attempts at tackling the 'woman problem' (and the 'man problem') by pretentious and old-fashioned 'professors' or 'revolu-tionaries,' related to the Nazis or Stalinists, who have just as outrage-ously exalted the proletariat, race or nationality, leading to racist and imperialist crimes. Such excessive behavior can only lead to the exploita-tion and destruction of the very gender concerned. In any case, the basic components of simple love and simple friendship (and a fortiori of Super-Love and Super-Friendship), that we have explored in depth (as evoked in my film, What is Love?), are still so poorly understood today by our contemporaries that even those who claim to be happily experiencing these run the risk of being quickly proven wrong by Life itself."

Broken English: Three Songs by Marianne Faithfull

1979 • 12 min • United Kingdom

12 minute short film for 'Broken English' directed by Derek Jarman, comprised of “Witches Song”, “The Ballad of Lucy Jordan” and “Broken English”. Part of the “The Dream Machine” vignette (1983).

Zur Ansicht: Peter Weiss

1979 • 44 min • Sweden, Germany

Interview film with Peter Weiss

Dream Age

1979 • 11 min • United States of America

"A 70-year-old lesbian feminist, seeing little change in the society after years of work, sends out her 40-year-old self on a journey taking her around the perimeters of the San Francisco Bay. During her quest she encounters aspects of her personality: the guardian angel who has all that she needs; the seductress who leads her astray; the wise woman of secrets who she meets underground. The film culminates in a visual crescendo ascending a tower as the heroine's hair is painted white by her counterparts. A dream vision film." —Barbara Hammer