All Films

The Savages

1979 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Follow the different attitudes to life - creative and consumer.

Brenda Starr, Reporter

1979 • 30 min • United States of America

Pilot for unproduced Brenda Starr television series

Sunstone

1979 • 3 min • United States of America

Experimental computer animation from pioneering artist Ed Emshwiller.

Diversion

1979 • 39 min • United Kingdom

Gary is a happily married man, devoted to his wife, their kid and the family dog. A weekend without the presence of his wife presents to him a chance of getting involved in a casual encounter with a pretty woman he met some time ago. Things go quite well but the woman isn't interested in Gary for just an one night stand.

The Trophy Case

1979 • 26 min • United States of America

A father encourages a son to do things he couldn't when he was young, then he realizes his son has his own ambitions.

Diploma Thesis

1979 • 16 min • Soviet Union

The sculptor Mahmud, an art student comes to his grandmother's village for vacation. He chooses his cousin Zumrad as a living model for his diploma work. When the work has finished, the relatives of Zumrad demand Mahmud to marry her. A young artist runs away. After all, he can't marry all the models he's working with...

Shadow Master

1979 • 55 min • United States of America

Shadow Master is a dramatic documentary about a family of performers in Bali. The film is an inside view of Balinese life which reveals the cultural context of theater, music, and dance on the island. The film is a dramatization of events which occurred during the filming process and during the two years the director, Larry Reed, spent living and studying with 'dalang' (shadow master) and his extended family. The dalang's daughter as she remembers the summer before she left home, and the boy she left behind. He is an apprentice to her father and wants to become the shadow master for his generation. By contrast, his brother wants girls, motorcycles, and money. The film follows the two brothers as each attempts to realize his dream.

Lick Fat Boys

1979 • 3 min • United States of America

Video and language artwork by Keith Haring

The Tell-Tale Heart

1979 • 60 min • Germany

A man is sitting in a padded cell. He remembers how he got there. Munich in the run-up to Christmas: The loner roams the city, has abnormal ideas when looking at the most harmless things and wants to turn his perverse fantasies into reality. To do this, he chooses an old man whom he happens to see in a shop. He perfectly plans a perfidious, cruel murder.

The Magic Lake

1979 • 17 min • Soviet Union

Baba Yaga steals a young maiden, and her groom-to-be goes off to rescue her.

Kha Uebertragung - Les embaumées

1979 • 60 min • France

The film revolves around three notions: Kha = the etheric double according to ancient Egyptians. Perpetual specter in all respects resembling the physical body of a dead person. Uebertragung = transfer. Phenomenon by which an emotional state experienced for one object is extended to another by an association. Identification. Projection. Moving from one order of things to another. Embalming = filling a corpse with balsamic, desiccating and antiseptic substances to preserve them. Fill with a sweet smell. Perfume.

The Last Window

1979 • 10 min • Yugoslavia

If one does not approach every problem carefully and patiently, the failure is inevitable. The view through the window that offers nothing, if one does not wait, is another story about a man who does not have the patience to study the problem in detail and calmly for which there was a real solution. Because after a hasty step, of course wrong, that same window offers a different view. The blank wall is no longer there, of course only the one who knows how to approach things studiously and who knows how to be patient and calm can see that.

To Good To Be True?

1979 • 45 min

Film profile of gay rock star/political activist Tom Robinson, intercut with the Tom Robinson Band in concert

Stalk of the Celery Monster

1979 • 2 min • United States of America

The only fragments remaining of the film today depict a dentist named Dr. Maxwell Payne making bloody experiments with his patients. He tries a woman, and after that the monster of the title shows up, roaring. In the following clip, the woman leaves, as Dr. Maxwell Payne searches for another victim.

The Police - Live '79 at Hatfield Polytechnic

1979 • 40 min

The Police's performance on BBC's 'Rock Goes To College' programme, recorded at Hatfield College in February 1979. Tracklist : 01. Can't Stand Losing You 02. So Lonely 03. Fall Out 04. Hole In My Life 05. Truth Hits Everybody 06. Message in a Bottle 07. Peanuts 08. Roxanne 09. Next To You

Thriller

1979 • 34 min • United Kingdom

What happens after the curtain falls on the death of Mimi, tragic heroine of Puccini's La boheme. In Thriller, Mimi teams up with the opera's comic heroine Musetta to investigate her own death.

The Five Forty-Eight

1979 • 58 min • United States of America

An advertising man, emotionally estranged from his wife and those around him, has seduced and then fired and discarded his secretary. She pursues him and forces him to confront the squalor of his life.

Two Breaths To...

1979 • 7 min • United States of America

This animated film dramatizes the danger of working in oxygen-deficient conditions. It was intended for viewing by mine and construction workers in order to promote safety and prevent accidents.

The Mother

1979 • 26 min • Portugal

The Mother is one of Monteiro’s first essays on the universe of Portuguese oral culture, folktales and obscure colloquialisms. The plot revolves around a traditional tale about theft, greed, an ubiquitous mother, and the links between the worlds of the living and the dead.

En magisk värld

1979 • 35 min • Sweden

"A Magic World" - For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must assume responsibility for being here, in this marvelous world, in this marvelous desert, in this marvelous time. I want to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.

Rona Barrett Looks at 1978

1979 • 30 min • United States of America

Rona Barrett looks back at 1978 and reflects on the news and entertainment highlights of the year. Includes interviews with John Travolta, Robin Williams, Pricilla Presley, Donna Summers, Steve Martin, and Barbra Streisand.

Our Friend Read'n'Write 2

1979 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Kolya and the book gnome go looking for the letters that make up the boy's name. Continuation of the fairy tale about the alphabet.

B.o.o.o.m.

1979 • 11 min • Canada, Czechoslovakia, Soviet Union

A view of man's perpetual struggle for self-destruction, in which we glimpse a world where rockets are part of everyone's lives.

Masha and the Magic Jam

1979 • 10 min • Soviet Union