All Films

Christmas Around the World

1979 • 5 min • United Kingdom

A short Christmas animation produced by Sheila Graber in which Santa Claus and his three robin helpers deliver presents all over the world.

Somewhere in Hackney

1979 • 50 min • United Kingdom

A community-based documentary following four local arts projects in the London Borough of Hackney.

Relative Similarities

1979 • 5 min • Poland

Gustowska recorded the protagonists, three pairs of female twins, in different situations and in the course of the passing time. The camera registered the changes that gradually occurred in the young women, capturing the differences and similarities between the siblings.

Joy Division (A Film by Malcolm Whitehead)

1979 • 17 min • United Kingdom

The film begins with 'New Dawn Fades'. Audio of speeches of Hitler are played alongside interviews of Chief Constable of Manchester. Montages of photographs, adverts and Manchester street scenes. Part of a Joy Division performance at Bowdon Vale and a rehearsal are shown. (Film only available in fragments)

It Ain’t Half Racist, Mum

1979 • 30 min • United Kingdom

Academic and activist Stuart Hall and actor and activist Maggie Steed present a rigorous deconstruction of the racism - both explicit and more insidious in its subtlety - of the British media from within.

Asparagus

1979 • 20 min • United States of America

A symbolic reflection on issues of female sexuality, art and identity constructs.

Tukiki and His Search for a Merry Christmas

1979 • 30 min • Canada

Tukiki is a small Eskimo boy who sets out to discover the meaning of Christmas along with a magical character known as North Wind. He visits different places and learns about their customs of Christmas which brings about a turn of events when he arrives home.

AC/DC: World Series of Rock '79

1979 • 45 min

World Series Of Rock, Cleveland Stadium, Cleveland, OH 07/28/1979 1. Intro 2. Live Wire 3. Problem Child 4. Sin City 5. Bad Boy Boogie 6. The Jack 7. Rocker

The Man Who Digs for Fish

1979 • 13 min

Frank Jenkinson, eighty-two, has been digging for fish for twenty-five years. His unorthodox conservationist practices have increased the numbers of the salmon population in the Jarvis Inlet from a modest 500 to 25 000. Using a spade and accompanied by his dog, Frank wades up and down the stream, digging for the newly hatched salmon that lie buried in the gravel. Without his intervention they risk dying before reaching maturity.

Giger's Alien

1979 • 34 min • Switzerland

Documentary about Giger's work for the movie Alien (1979).

Liberace: A Valentine Special

1979 • 60 min • United States of America

Join Liberace in his hot air balloon as he touches down at the Hilton Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada and jumps on stage for a Valentine's Day concert like no other! There's also a tour of the Liberace Museum, his private home and the Queen Mary where Sandy Duncan and Lola Falana join him in song, dance and laughter.

Farbrorn som inte vill va' stor

1979 • 55 min • Sweden

Ragnar works in an office. He turns 33 in May, and he has 45 in shoes. Ragnar has a vivid imagination. The more he thinks, the younger he wants to be. He thinks it would be good if he were ten years or maybe only seven. Then he would be out playing now. Usually Ragnar think when he sits in his office. He is actually the man who does not want to grow up, or become a grown-up.

Henry Intervening

1979 • 30 min

Today, Henry's usually dull journey to work is eventful enough to catapult him into the headlines.

Daughter Rite

1979 • 49 min • United States of America

A feminist documentary about female relationships, especially between mother and daughter.

John Denver at Wembley Arena

1979 • 40 min

Country singer-songwriter John Denver performs in concert at Wembley Arena in 1979, featuring hits including Rocky Mountain High and Take Me Home, Country Roads.

Storytime

1979 • 9 min • United Kingdom

The first story-time segment is about a cheerful cockroach named Don, who scurries throughout his mansion home, walks beneath the floorboards and does unspeakable things in the darkness of the cupboard, before being splatted by somebody's foot. The second segment is about an ordinary man named Albert Einstein ("the only Albert Einstein not to have discovered the Theory of Relativity") whose hands have a life of their own, staying out late at night, misbehaving and committing adultery with feet. The third segment – hasn't much story to it at all, and instead concerns the inhabitants of the moving pictures on an over-sized Christmas card, who interact with each other in all sorts of bizarre ways.

For Twenty Cents A Day

1979 • 24 min • Canada

A film documenting work shortages during the Depression of the 1930s and the attempts to deal with the unemployed, in particular young men. The film discusses the establishment of relief camps and projects, where men were paid twenty cents per day; the founding of organizations such as the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF), Workers' Unity League, and Relief Camp Workers' Union; general unionization and protest of the unemployed, including the On To Ottawa Trek, Regina Riot, sit-in strike from May to June 1938 at the Vancouver Main Post Office, Vancouver Art Gallery and Hotel Georgia, and the resulting Bloody Sunday of June 19.

Costa Rica Banana Republic

1979 • 16 min • Costa Rica

This film was originally made for the International Conference on Human Settlements (HABITAT) which was held in Vancouver, Canada. Taking as an example the production and marketing of bananas and the prevailing conditions in the world market - dominated by the virtual monopoly of three multinational companies -, it is shown how as a result of this monopolistic domination, the Costa Rican State has stopped receiving equitable taxes for what that, in the end, the housing and public services offered by the country are characterized as those of an underdeveloped society. The attempt made since 1974 by a group of banana-producing countries, aimed at improving sales prices to multinationals and raising taxes; The resulting “banana war” are examples of the enormous efforts that small banana countries have to make to achieve greater justice in the prevailing market conditions.

Birth of a Salesman

1979 • 50 min • Sweden

Films the process of making Bo Widerberg's film "Death of a Salesman'.

Psycho Shampoo

1979 • 1 min • United States of America

A short parody of the iconic shower murder scene from Hitchcock's "Psycho" framed as a shampoo commercial. This short was produced for the LA-based comedy theater group Our Lady of Laughter and used as part of their show "Rabies!" in 1979.

The Cockerel

1979 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The Two Kids playing a Chicken Balloon.

Singur și nesilit de nimeni

1979 • 9 min • Romania

Aurel Ghilezan, a young man recently released from prison, where he served time for vandalism after hitting his stepfather. He lives with friends from prison, and in private we see how his relationship with his girlfriend brings back unpleasant memories.

Kieselchen

1979 • 15 min • East Germany

A pretty mouse, gray as a pebble, comes into money, builds herself a cabbage house and looks around for a man. As she likes to sing herself, she wants him to have a nice voice. She doesn't like sheep, frog and rooster, so she gives her favor to a tomcat. One day, when he gets to lick her blood, his appetite overcomes him. She manages to escape - and they have lived in enmity ever since.

Interview

1979 • 13 min • Canada

A freewheeling cinematic experience, this film is the work of two filmmakers who relate their perceptions of each other through their respective animation techniques. Images and words are paired in startling associations. Each does a visual portrait of the other, based on characteristic gestures and impressions. A combination of techniques and materials produces a film of rich visual texture shaped by the hands and heads of two very different people.