1979 Movies

The second martial arts documentary film written and directed by Ikki Kajiwara. It features many famous fights of different martial arts fought by Ant...

Metamorphoses, rites of passage, Eros and Thanatos, illusion and reality, and film within a film are the key themes and images in perpetual osmosis wi...

After eighteen years of operating the favourite lunch counter in Manitoba's Interlake region, Ellen and Martin Kihn have retired. A poignant look at t...

Soji-ji (1979) is a video work documenting a chant recitation at a Zen temple. The chant recited by many monks does not proceed in unison like group s...

Budo: The Art of Killing is an award winning 1978 Japanese martial arts documentary created and produced by Hisao Masuda and financed by The Arthur Da...

A story of the resilience and determination of a group of children in London, Ont., battling leukemia at a time when no child had survived the disease...

A companion piece to Cosmic Letter, also produced for 3-2-1 Contact. Jarnow begins at his address in Brooklyn and zooms outward to the farthest reache...

In a small village, unexplained phenomena occur. After the passage of Jesus, a blind man recovers his sight and a little girl comes back to life. Face...

Military invention in Vietnam 1955 to 1975.

Dong-su, a retired criminal, is tempted back into robbing when his friend tells of a plan to rob a racetrack. They select a couple of other profession...

UCLA Animation Workshop Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Experimental animation with an array of hand-drawn patterns i...

On the waterfront, a few soldiers inspect the perimeter where a festive table has been set up in front of a makeshift wooden stage. The garrison comma...

Short film about nature.

In the early 19th century the Romanian Theodor Diamant was inspired by the French utopian socialist Charles Fourier and established one of Fourier's "...

Here the codes are both amplified and distanced by an expressionist plastic that for the first time perhaps in Expressionism, takes humor into account...

"A 70-year-old lesbian feminist, seeing little change in the society after years of work, sends out her 40-year-old self on a journey taking her aroun...

A travelling company makes its way round the small villages of France. Shot for the program Cinéma 16 broadcast by the French channel FR3, where Franj...