All Films

La Cotorra II

1979 • 10 min • Venezuela

A conversation between Rolando Peña and Iván Loscher during the construction of the Caracas subway. "La Cotorra No. 2" is a very personal, humorous rehearsal of the current communications of our societies as well as ours.

Grandomaniya

1979 • 10 min • Bulgaria

The hero watches as people honor the monuments of great people. He is obsessed with becoming great. He takes out one eye, like Admiral Nelson. He cut off his ear to look like a Van Gogh. He knocks out the other eye to be blind like Homer. In the end, he sets himself on fire, like Giordano Bruno. But people don't notice him. . .

The Broken Rule

1979 • 27 min

“THE BROKEN RULE is my reaction to the American education system, where learning blocks must be acquired by the group before any individual can progress to the next level. My film pictures learning blocks as relay races conducted by male players, where the girls are scores, and the goal is to enter the working world by the end of the game. Mike Kelley, the lead player in my film, makes a ritual out of his mistakes to escape the consequences of his mistakes. In this film, one person’s work is another person’s play, and play creates competition, a component of work.” — E.B. 1979

Freeze Frame

1979 • 6 min • United States of America

Wile E. Coyote chases the Road Runner across a frozen desert.

Angel Death

1979 • 33 min

A documentary depicting the dangers of PCP use. Shows how both animals' and humans' behavior is affected by the drug and describes its physical, psychological, and emotional aftereffects.

Melody Of Dvorzhak

1979 • 36 min • Soviet Union

A TV movie about a wounded Azerbaijani soldier who was captured during the WWII.

Dr. Who For Keep Australia Beautiful

1979 • 6 min

Dr. Who For Keep Australia Beautiful was a serialised mini-episode broadcast in four parts in 1979 to raise awareness of the growing litter problem in Australia, to aid the Western Australian Litter Act of 1979, also known as Keep Australia Beautiful. It featured the Fourth Doctor, or rather, Dr. Who, if one takes into account the title of the story.

Seven Husbands

1979 • 59 min • Turkey

'Yedi Kocalı', one of the films shot in the 1970s, which took Yeşilçam by storm, tells the story of a woman who marries seven different men due to financial difficulties and spends time with someone else every day of the week. Things get complicated when husbands realize they're not the only one over time. Ülkü Erakalın, who was known for his erotic films shot at that time, is in the director's seat of the film, and Zerrin Egeliler, who we also know with this genre, is in the leading role.

Beginning Responsibility: The Broken Bookshop

1979 • 13 min

Rueben is a used book store owner who believes he can communicate with the items he sells. Through these discussions, he learns the ways to keep books from being destroyed by careless and malicious children. Part of the Coronet "Beginning Responsibilities" series.

The Golden-Horned Deer

1979 • 8 min • Soviet Union

Screen adaptation of Dmytro Pavlychko's tale-poem of the same name. The shepherd Vasylko saves his friend, the magical golden-horned deer, from the greedy king and his army.

Shaping Bamboo

1979 • 33 min • Solomon Islands

For the 'Are'are people of the Solomon Islands, the most valued music is that of the four types of panpipe ensembles. With the exception of slit drums, all musical instruments are made of bamboo; therefore the general word for instruments and the music performed with them is "bamboo" ('au). This film shows the making of panpipes, from the cutting the bamboo in the forest to the making of the final bindings. The most important part of the work consists in shaping each tube to its necessary length. Most 'Are'are panpipe makers measure the length of old instruments before they shape new tubes. Master musician 'Irisipau, surprisingly, takes the measure using his body, and adjusts the final tuning by ear. For the first time we can see here how the instruments and their artificial equiheptatonic scale-seven equidistant degrees in an octave-are practically tuned.

Karajan conducts Ravel and Debussy

1979 • 52 min

Herbert von Karajan was a master of the fine blending of acoustic colours. This quality is shown to its best advantage in this programme of masterpieces of French Impressionism. Works include Debussy’s multifaceted La Mer, and his lascivious, dream-like Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, and Ravel’s Suite No. 2 from Daphnis et Chloé, a work which combines shimmering transience with uncompromising energy.

Recado de Chile

1979 • 20 min • Cuba, Chile

A documentary about the activities carried out by the Group of Relatives of Disappeared Detainees: We see presentation of writs of protection, reports, criminal actions, hunger strikes, pacific protests, public acts. The place where minors, the children of missing detainees, are rehabilitated is also shown. Finally, an account about some members in the group is given before international Human Rights organizations.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society

1979 • 42 min

Filmed in 16mm during 1978 - to highlight the sophisticated social, medical, educational infrastructure that the PLO built during the 70ies in the refugee camps in Lebanon. The documentary is a cinematographic testimony of the Palestinian effort to build a secular and pluralistic society, based on the participation of the people and thus strengthening their feeling of national identity and dignity. PRCS was shot in practically all the Camps in Lebanon, from Nahar el Bared in the North to Rashidiye in the South, from Nabatiye to Beirut - Sabra, Shatila and Burj-el-Barajneh. Among the personalities in the film are Abu Ammar (Yasser Arafat), Dr. Fathi Arafat (President of PRCS), Dr. Sait Dajani, Yusuf Iraki, Abdelaziz Labadi.

O Torneio Amilcar Cabral

1979 • 28 min • Brazil, Guinea-Bissau

On the Road with Red Mole

1979 • 52 min • New Zealand

A documentary about the New Zealand theatre troupe "Red Mole".

Shakespeare's Mounted Foot

1979 • 45 min • United Kingdom

The story of an aspiring actor's adventures around the Scottish Borders and northern England with a travelling theatre group.

Disco Mania

1979 • 24 min • United Kingdom

Nerdy teenage mummy's boy David dreams of wowing the girls with his disco dance moves - but alas he was born with two left feet.

The Taste of Life

1979 • 29 min

For years I've been looking for the means to capture everyday life just as it is perceived through a glance from the street. Twenty years ago, you could see young people standing with their bicycles on street corners, in fact, if the bicycles where there, you could be sure to find the young people standing there talking. I would like to document these kinds of events. On this occasion, I was presented with the opportunity to do so. For two and a half weeks, I walked around different parts of the city with my camera and collected images for the film. (Harun Farocki, 1979)

Major Effects

1979 • 47 min

Joseph Bottoms as Major Effects explains some of the secrets of special effects in the movies. Mike Jittlov appears with two stop-motion animated films he has made.

I Have a Tiger

1979 • 16 min • Finland

A little boy has a tiger as a pet, but it's a secret. The widemouth of the apartment building is Miss Kotilainen, who is always complaining about everything. Other people in the building have their own secrets too. After a lot of those secrets are uncovered, a party is held that melts the heart of Miss Kotilainen. After that, Kalle the Tiger won't have to be hidden no more.

Wednesday, January 17, 1979

1979 • 5 min

A deliciously indecipherable autobiography of important dates in McLaren’s life, set against the richly coloured head and tail frames cut from other (unknown) films; film stock garbage acting as diary.

The Wise Gudgeon

1979 • 9 min • Soviet Union

On the motives of Saltikov-Shedrin’s fairy tale, the film derides aimless and senseless being.

Harpy

1979 • 9 min • Belgium

An unknowing man rescues a rather aggressive and demanding harpy.