1979 Movies

Reflections on television debate and rhetoric through impromptu discussions.

The notion of a line which divides the land from the sea is a notion of convenience which is only valid in certain circumstances. If there is a line a...

About how Bacho and his animal friends re-educated the lazy and sloppy little goblin.

A collection of tapestries designed and sewn by the filmmaker illustrates the lyrics of a song about a young girl's hometown. Animation is created thr...

A documentary film about Algerian women

In this personal film made during when Idemitsu went back and forth between Japan and USA, the subjective gaze is depicted in the abstract images with...

UCLA Animation Workshop Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Rotoscoped and painted animation of figures swimming in water melds w...

A man violates his village's law by seducing and abandoning his childhood sweetheart. Exiled to Jakarta, he learns to love and respect those in the re...

A short film shot in Santa Monica, CA., which shows the creation of a 464-foot hero sandwich, the world's longest.

At the documentary film seminar given by Gisela Tuchtenhagen at the dffb in 1979, three documentary portraits of women were made that were combined un...

Short film by Teruo Koike. 18fps/8mmfilm/silent

The author wanted to return to his characters, the grown—up children, whose naivety was so charming in the previous film, "Just Three Lessons", and tr...

Experimental docufiction concerns itself with the future of the Ryuku islands, as the United States turns control over to Japan in the late 1970s.

In the fall of 1939, more than 600 fishermen and fish handlers in the tiny town of Lockeport, Nova Scotia walked the picket line in front of the town'...

Gustowska recorded the protagonists, three pairs of female twins, in different situations and in the course of the passing time. The camera registered...

16mm film by George Kuchar.

The stars are cast as a gorgeous woman, a mystic and a kung-fu expert. They team up to form a united front when an insidious empire threatens the wel...