1979 Movies

Leth's television production of Sanct Hansaften-Spil by the Danish playwright Adam Oehlenshläger is an attempt to take the poetic play at face value a...

The story follows five months in the life of Belgrade student Maja Sabljic, an actress-to-be, from her high school graduation day (at the end of May)...

“Reflections of sun rays penetrating through the rocks on the water surface in a narrow gap in Plakánek valley of a side stream of Klenice Creek in Bo...

An animated short film by Taku Furukawa.

A Quechua and Christian peasant festival in the town of Ocongate, featuring purification in the snows of Mount Ausangate and before a crucifix. The fi...

A boy and a girl play building sand castles. Suddenly, a bully came running, destroyed all the locks and took away the children's toys. The children c...

A singular cinematic figure, San Francisco’s Mike Henderson became one of the first independent African-American artists to make inroads into experime...

The words "My beloved Anna..." appear on a piece of paper. Later, only a flickering flame of a candle is visible. The subtle vocals of Ola Maurer can...

A model is photographed, but the film camera also comes close to her skin.

With a video camera, the filmmaker observes piece by piece her body, its forms, movements and sounds. In shots with the forcefulness of graphics, the...

Discusses the importance of the 55 mph speed limit established by the National Speed Limit Act of 1974, which has reportedly saved over 45,000 lives a...

An intimate discussion among three professional women active in the Gay Community. They share anecdotes of childhood, careers and many delights of bei...

Things quickly go awry for a hitchhiker in the woods after a motorist stops to pick him up.

A film by Joseph Morder

The densest film of the divided-frame group is the aptly titled 1978 Networks, which includes as many as 20 exposures of the same roll of film. Here o...

A short film by Lena Voudouri.

A short documentary film on the privately owned Tudor Cinema built and run by Roy Spence’s identical twin brother Noel. The film shows the preparation...