1979 Movies

This film (which is silent apart from a song from the Easter Uprising of 1916 that it illustrates) uses only techniques available at the time, thereby...

Experimental short by Tetsuo Furudate.

Short film.

Amazing Maze is based on the stories of different people's passion for pinball. Cherry, the company that owned the pinball arcade Alexander Lucas, loc...

A story of an ambitious working couple's marital discord and the impact on their child.

UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Dramatization of the aftermath of the military coup d'état in Chile on September...

Two meetings in 1978 with Kimbanda Kambia, a traditional healer in rural southern Angola. Kimbanda shows the place where he treats and prepares medici...

A modern interpretation of a folk tale about a golden-haired beauty abducted by a monster.

Dominique Belloir and Rainer Werbitz experimenting with the use of the video synthesizer which, by various processing, explores the fascination of an...

A romantic story from the time of King Matthias. Hungarian soldier Peter Agárdi falls in love with the beautiful Italian widow Zilia Duca. The virtuou...

With growing urban paranoia about violence, a middle-class family sees a black office boy as a dangerous thief when he comes to pick up a wedding dres...

Hong Kong movie

A documentation of the eponymous area of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, then under threat of redevelopment.

16mm, bw, sound, 11m There are two soundtrack versions of this film, referred to as the “Barbara Bode track” and the “John Fernie track”. Both versio...

Black and white UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Edgar, a Jamaican American who is smoking marijuana, drinking wh...

A young Antillean couple relocates to metropolitan France, confronting everyday racism and straining to preserve their identity. As they settle into a...

With its loose narrative framework embroidered with an evocative and metaphorical montage, Doug Haynes' Common Loss recalls the poetic strain of the a...

The first rape trial aired on the italian television.