1979 Movies

The heads and tails of reels of Super-8, made of white plastic and printed with text in red, are the material used on the film; the film is comprised...

Animated film made using the 'pen on paper' technique, with blown-up shapes forming the letters of the alphabet. A drawn man tangles with these letter...

In the Nabeshima clan’s castle town, lord Tango-no-kami kills his chief retainer Mataichirō for refusing to offer his sister as a concubine. To cover...

On the eve of the German Peasants' War, the family of the young Christoph falls victim to an act of revenge by the knight Scharfenstein. The peasant l...

This documentary short introduces us to the Caravan Stage Company, the world's only horse-drawn open-air theater. Every summer it tours British Columb...

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

A French boy, the son of an astrophysicist, came to Armenia from Paris. His father came to work at the observatory. Friends from the pioneer camp unde...

Delicate Issue offers an uncompromising, micro-examination of the artist's body to consider the relationship between the artist, the audience, and the...

A man doing the ironing on the ground floor of a tenement house observes the yard.

Influential Jamaican reggae artist Dennis Brown takes the stage at Switzerland's Montreux Jazz Festival in 1979 to perform some grooving tracks, inclu...

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

The first half of the film features neon signs and scenes of Chicago night life. The second half of the film depicts scenes around Kleinhans' home in...

During a school outing, Dominic’s [John Galdes] pet dog Rameses – which a sculptor [Adrian Rendle] has sketched for a work depicting the Egyptian dog-...

The Schleyer Tape is a compilation of television and news footage comprising two hours of media accounts regarding the infamous Baader-Meinhof gang. K...

"The mise-en-scene, the whole story, takes place in one location, the artist's studio. A delicate psychological allegory on 'a day in the life of' anc...