All Films

Movieman: James Nairn's 60 Years of Cinema

1979 • 53 min • United Kingdom

Movieman follows the career of James S. Nairn who, for almost all his working life, aspired to the highest standards in cinema presentation.

The Herdboy

1979 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The tale of how a greedy gentleman took away a cow from a young herdboy, and the latter tricked her back.

Cartoon Le Mousse

1979 • 15 min • United States of America

An abstract compilation of found footage. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with National Film Preservation Foundation and Pacific Film Archive in 2009.

All My Tomorrows

1979 • 17 min • United States of America

A Centron Film presentation, produced by Gordon-Kerchoff, this color film is about a teenage girl who overdoses on alcohol and pills, and winds up in a coma, opens with the girl recovering in a hospital bed. This scare film from 1979 is essentially a public service announcement on the dangers of getting involved in drugs and the horrible effects that using drugs and overdosing can have on an individual and their loved ones.

The Fir Tree

1979 • 28 min

Adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's "The Fir-Tree". The tale was adapted to a 28-minute video format in 1979 by Huntingwood Films produced by Kevin Sullivan, directed by Martin Hunter and filmed at Black Creek Pioneer Village, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Jeff Kahnert provided the voice of the Fir-Tree. This was the first film produced by Kevin Sullivan who went on to write, direct and produce the Anne of Green Gables movies.

Le Garage

1979 • 22 min • France

In 1977, some teenagers from Alfortville, Vitry-sur-Seine and Val-de-Marne estates created the Collectif Mohamed and made three shorts. They wanted to produce their own images and stories, created by themself and not by other people. They wanted to investigate the projects where they lived, to produce a political speech and give substance to their own revolt.

Humberto Mauro: Eu Coração Dou Bom

1979 • 43 min • Brazil

Iranian Women's Liberation Movement: Year Zero

1979 • 13 min • France

In 1979, Iranian Women invite the American feminist Kate Millett to celebrate March 8, the International Women's Day, in Tehran. On March 7, the religious leaders announce that women have to wear the Islamic veil. From March 8 to March 13, women and liberals demonstrate in the streets against the veil. A crew of four French feminists filmed these historical events before being expelled by the mullahs.

Republic of Zambia

1979 • 24 min • East Germany

Erich Honecker visits the Republic of Zambia

Rostik and Kesha

1979 • 16 min • Soviet Union

About the friendship between the boy Rostik and the puppy Kesha.

Ellis Island

1979 • 7 min

Not to be confused with her longer film from 1981, this is an earlier film about Ellis Island made by Meredith Monk.

Who Will Get the Prize

1979 • 10 min • Soviet Union

About forest competitions in which Misha wins and becomes a symbol of the Olympics.

Miserere

1979 • 12 min • France

In Miserere by Miralda and Rossell, pathos and comedy are closely linked to one another. The liturgical songs that they use for long stretches of this short film refer to human suffering and repentance, while the images counter this by referring to industrial animal breeding and lab experiments. The Franco dictatorship in Spain is contrasted with a subversive/surreal series of images using video footage.

The House of the Plague

1979 • 11 min • Yugoslavia

On its quest of death and terror, plague approaches a small village. The village knows nothing and lives its normal life…

Action erotico patriotique

1979 • 4 min • France

Action for Michel Journiac.

Panic

1979 • 9 min • Hungary

A technological civilization takes three intelligent salamander creatures captive to conduct experiments on them. The experiments go awry and the salamander creatures wreak havoc in the city of humans.

Equal Time

1979 • 4 min

In this work, the field of Hill’s experimentation is the synchronization of visual and linguistic elements. For Equal Time, he sets up a minimalist arrangement, whereby two identical panels with grid patterns, starting respectively on the left and right side of the monitor, slowly move across the screen against a black background to the opposite side. As the panels overlap they produce moiré patterns. Each is associated with the voice of a different speaker, whose voices emerge from the left or right stereo channel. As soon as the panels completely overlap, the words of the two texts merge and the two voices, now in unison, produce a phasing sound similar to the visual moiré pattern of the panels.

After Dark

1979 • 14 min • United Kingdom

Colin Welland presents this public information film about the hazards of nighttime driving.

Picture Story

1979 • 7 min

“A structural work (with humor) that uses indeterminacy to forge an abstract landscape upon which the ‘vision’ of an ox appears. A sequence of words—hierarchically ordered from the utilitarian (functions and processes of the tools being used to make the piece) to the more abstract and conceptual, ‘content,’ ‘concept,’ and ‘vision’—become the building blocks of a linguistic picture story.”

The Reef

1979 • 60 min

This is the story of the Great Barrier Reef, from man's ancient awareness of it, to his realisation that it is a major world wonder of great value to mankind. Beautiful, dangerous and diverse, the Reef provides escape and recreation, a vast resource and limitless retreat for the fisherman, tourist, adventurer, industrialist, scientist, artist and sportsman. But — a small increment of pollution or a slight deprivation of sunlight may set in motion a chain of events that could precipitate a decline and decay of the Reef on which little coral polyps have been working for some six hundred thousand years.

Ski Peru!

1979 • 28 min • Canada

Ski Peru is the story of two skiers’ dream of descending the untamed slopes of Huascaran, although maybe 'Ski Peru and die' would be a more appropriate title given the tragic climax to Peter Chrzanowski’s Peruvian odyssey. Filmed long before today’s adrenaline charged ski videos on heavy 16mm movie cameras there is no heavy rock soundtrack, no helicopters, no roboskiers mainlining powder at Mach 5.0. It is a slow moving film that explores man’s relationship with the mountain and what it is to ski into the unknown.

Generation on the Wind

1979 • 58 min

The film is a character study centered on a rag tag group of young artists, mechanics and environmental activists who successfully built the largest electrical generating windmill in the world.

White Hole

1979 • 6 min • Japan

A mesmerizing trip through the psychedelic vastness of space.

When Léon M.’s Boat Went Down the Meuse for the First Time

1979 • 38 min • Belgium

Documentary about a man remembering his struggles while floating on a boat down a river.