All Films

Star and Flower

1979 • 3 min • East Germany, Germany

He is not interested in all the beautiful flowers around him and would give anything for only one star from the sky. And what about the man in the sky, who has all the stars around him? He wishes he could have just one flower…

A White Spot on the Back of the Head

1979 • 33 min • France

An adaptation of the Icelandic ghost story of "The Deacon of Dark River", set in 1970s France.

The Killing Ground

1979 • 49 min

1979 documentary film written by Brit Hume. The film portrays environmental and human health effects of toxic waste dump-sites in Niagara, New York and other locations.

Nihon Meisaku Kaidan Gekijō: Kaidan Kyūketsuki Murasaki Kengyō

1979 • 45 min • Japan

In Settsu Province, young women related to castle steward Tanaka Shūzen are being killed, each with fang-like bite marks on their chests. The priest Chinen suspects a vengeful plot. The next targets could be Shūzen’s daughter Myō or her fiancé Iori’s sister, Matsue. Despite Iori’s vigilance, Matsue is attacked by her koto teacher, Yamamura Kengyō, and his daughter Kaede—who are revealed to be vengeful vampires.

Down and Out

1979 • 5 min • United Kingdom

A homeless pensioner tries to fathom the correct procedure to get a meal.

Das Wunder von Lengede oder Ich wünsch keinem, was wir mitgemacht haben

1979 • 44 min • Germany

Documentary by Hans-Dieter Grabe.

He May Be Dead: But He's Elvis

1979 • 6 min

Elvis is dead. But can Elvis Exploitation Industries still squeeze one last new album out of him?

Cochon qui s’en dédit

1979 • 37 min

Jean-Louis le Tacon’s Cochon qui s’en dedit is a nightmarish documentary on the life of a factory farmer, Maxime. Shot on Super 8 over 3 years, the film exhibits the kind of intimacy of filmmaker and subject found in the works of Tacon’s thesis director, Jean Rouch. The film is also a late example of the kind of collaborative militant cinema that the Medvedkin Group and others pioneered in the years after May ‘68. - Brian Rajski

Making of Nahla

1979 • 26 min

Jocelyne Saab, a young Lebanese journalist and director, interviews the director and the film crew while filming Nahla in Beirut.

Who Is Poly Styrene?

1979 • 39 min • United Kingdom

A film portrait of the New Wave singer-songwriter Poly Styrene, which originally aired as part of the Arena series on BBC.

Infinite Horizons: Space Beyond Apollo

1979 • 60 min

For fans of science, both fact and fiction, this special provides a fascinating look into the future of space travel with topics ranging from lunar colonies to intergalactic travel. Hosted by acclaimed science fiction writer Ray Bradbury with an appearance from Isaac Asimov, the program presents a look at both the future of space exploration and what the U.S. of late seventies thought about that future.

Scène de ménage chez les gauchistes

1979 • 11 min • France

A realistic fiction. Characters: Laure Trouchet, Pierre Merejkowsky. They play their own roles. He, she. They talk about the community life. In one sequence shot they blame each other about politic and emotional failures.

Tās dullās Paulīnes dēļ

1979 • 23 min • Soviet Union

Cinématon n°56 : Marie-Noëlle Kauffmann

1979 • 4 min • France

Tytte Botfeldt - Aufs Sterben freu ich mich

1979 • 45 min • Germany

Documentary by Hans-Dieter Grabe.

Elvira

1979 • 8 min • Yugoslavia

Bosnian documentary film.

Certaines Observations

1979 • 14 min • France

A multi-projector, single-screen work superimposedshot a positive and negative print.

Ascent to Nanga Parbat

1979 • 29 min • France

A film about the 1979 expedition to Nanga Parbat in Pakistan, led by Lyon native Jean-Pierre Frésafond. After a city tour, they set off by bus and then on foot with Sherpas to base camp. Having set out to attempt the Rupal Pillar, the expedition was unable to reach its objective in time (torrential rain, blocked roads, scree, etc.) and lost precious time before choosing to attempt the Mazeno Ridge by default. The team theoretically had the means to do so, since it brought together no fewer than 21 strong climbers, with a large core from Lyon—a concentration of talent rarely seen. But the resulting group dynamic worked contrary to expectations, and they had to settle for the most modest of consolation prizes: the ascent of the First Peak (6,880 meters). Frésafond recounted this in a book-testimony "The Revenge of the Himalayas - The Human Adventure at Nanga-Parbat".

Roller Coaster/Reading

1979 • 3 min • United States of America

Meshing the visceral and the intellectual, "Sherman proposes, through editing and parallel camera movement, that the act of reading is exhilarating, like riding a roller coaster."

The Bugs Bunny Mother's Day Special 

1979 • 23 min • United States of America

Bugs has a "run-in" with a pixilated stork in the bridging sequence of this tribute to mothers.

Cree Way

1979 • 29 min

The principal and his wife at the Indian Affairs school in Waskaganish, James Bay, have initiated a curriculum development project with input from local people and resources from the community. The teaching materials are mainly in Cree and are drawn from Cree traditions.

Cold Journey

1979 • 29 min

Alanis Obomsawin shows children film clips about the struggle of a Cree boy who is caught between Indigenous and settler worlds. Following these clips, she has a discussion with the children about what they have seen.

Larn Yersel' Geordie

1979 • 11 min • United Kingdom

An animated interpretation of Scott Dobson’s comic guide to the Geordie dialect, Larn Yersel’ Geordie, presented in three lessons. With artwork by South Shields animator Sheila Graber and narrated by Scott himself, the film takes a humorous – and at times outrageous – look at Geordie culture and language.

Ich hasse, ich liebe Film

1979 • 6 min • Switzerland

A short film by Raphaela Schoenherr with HHK Schoenherr.