All Films

World Peace Talks

1979 • 2 min • United States of America

UCLA Animation Workshop Student Film. A short animated film critiquing Cold War global politics.

Grapefruits and Coconuts

1979 • 3 min • United States of America

Claymation Animation Workshop Student Film of an absurd chorus of dancing fruits, ending with one banana "splitting" from the scene.

Die einsame Spaziergängerin

1979 • 60 min

During the approximately one-hour performance, the performer holds an iron rod in her hand, which she uses to move a video camera mounted on a tripod at the edge of the painting. The filmed hands of the performer can be seen on two monitors using the closed-circuit method, in which what is recorded is played back immediately. During the performance, the piercing sound of a whirling wood, a ritual instrument of the Australian Aborigines, can be heard.

Surviving Hostage Situations

1979 • 28 min

The film recounts a survivor's harrowing experience of being kidnapped and held hostage. He reflects on the moments leading up to his capture, the psychological tactics used by his captors, and the strategies he employed to cope with his captivity. Throughout his ordeal, he emphasizes the importance of maintaining a sense of control, establishing rapport with his captors, and staying mentally and physically fit. The narrative culminates in his eventual rescue, highlighting the unpredictability of hostage situations and the resilience of the human spirit.

Ballad

1979 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Animation short based on orthodox themes.

Canada Vignettes: The Visitor

1979 • 1 min

The medieval Norse claimed in their sagas to have reached Vinland. Could this extremely significant archaeological find substantiate the Norse claim? Far to the north, on Baffin Island, a tiny carved wooden figure is discovered. The figure is clothed in a long, pleated and hooded robe, and, incised on the chest of this small mysterious artifact is a Christian cross.

The Abduction Golden-Haired Beauty

1979 • 10 min • Soviet Union

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

Roan Mountain Eulogy

1979 • 4 min

A short film by Peter Bundy

Transition

1979 • 3 min

A short film by Peter Bundy

Why Didn't the Mouse Sleep?

1979 • 20 min • Soviet Union

The orphan mouse can't sleep, there's no one to sing him a lullaby. He goes wandering around the world.…

Harmony of Fight...

1979 • 5 min • Soviet Union

About the figure skating competition for the prize of the Nouvelle de Moscoux newspaper.

Modern Cancan

1979 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Game trains run on tracks, bridges. A man wades through a snowfield. Woman with girl in the nursery. Dancer practising, grimacing. Spiker buildings on Daugavmala in Riga. Cancan dancers in glamorous dresses dance on stage. People climbing stairs in an underpass. A man finds a car corner, runs through a snow-covered forest, finds more car parts. A man sits in a pile of parts in the woods and modifies the steering wheel. Snow-covered apple trees with apples in the branches.

Down in the Rec Room

1979 • 13 min

Mike ambles through his mundane activities to the accompaniment of TV theme songs and children's tunes.

Double Flame

1979 • 3 min

A symmetrical object of contemplation

Shirley & Bruce

1979 • 26 min • United States of America

Portraits of Chuck’s cats and friends, as well as a self-portrait.

Lipanan: Our Country, Our Struggle

1979 • 10 min

"Filmed on location in war-torn Beirut, this straightforward, partisan documentary is an indictment of right-wing terrorism against the Armenian ethnic community in Lebanon, and a rallying target audience is primary-students, the presentation is conceptually very simple. The film cannot compete in technical finish with slicker and enormously better-financed productions which present an opposing view of the conflict in Lebanon. Nevertheless, the filmmaker's perspective and prescriptive message have been vindicated by events which have taken place in the years since its first release." – M.M.

Full Moon

1979 • 13 min • Japan

I cut out a rectangular portion of a photograph to create a peephole, equivalent to a camera viewfinder. The cut-out photograph is a sequence of photographs that show a hand pointing at the peephole. I repeatedly overlaid the sequence of peephole photographs onto a photograph of a corner of a room, creating an image in which the window looking into a part moves within the whole.

The Palestinian People Do Have Rights

1979 • 48 min

Reviews the background of the Israel/Palestinian problem, covering various periods of history from the Ottoman Empire and the British Mandate up through the creation of Israel, the three wars which have been fought, and the current situation of 3,000,000 Palestinian refugees.

Opération Survie Solitaire Huascaran

1979 • 42 min • France

Nicolas Jaeger, a French physician specializing in sports and high-altitude physiology, conducted an experiment by spending two months on the highest peak in the Peruvian Andes, Huascarán. From July to September 1979, Nicolas Jaeger lived alone for 60 days at an altitude of 6,700 meters and studied the effects of hypoxia on his body. He documented his experience on film and later in his book, "Carnet De Solitude," published in 1979.

Olokon

1979 • 9 min • Soviet Union

After falling prey to an eagle, a young hunter named Olokon has to find his way out of an eagle's nest and fights a dragon to save his new friends.

Behind the Curtain: Dionysis Papagiannopoulos

1979 • 20 min

The beloved theater and film actor, Dionysis Papagiannopoulos, talks about his life in Diakopto, reminisces about his childhood and school years, and his first amateur theatrical attempts. He describes his passion for theater and the difficulties he faced in pursuing theatrical studies, mainly due to his family's objections.

Old Meke and the Black Giant

1979 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A brave old man accepts a challenge to a fight with an evil giant.

Denain, Haut-fourneau De La Colere

1979 • 40 min • France

"Denain, Blast Furnace of Wrath" was produced with very few means but the film was widely distributed until in Norway where it came to support the strike of steelworkers engaged in their country for the same fight. Only one regret: despite all my efforts to seek funding, I was never able to shoot 'USINES' which would have been the continuation and the observation of this situation triggered in the process with the closure of the Usinor site. Neither Robert, nor Pierre, nor the others, and there were many of them, were never able to speak.

Para que no se le olvide su nombre

1979 • 9 min

A monologue in past, present and future by characters without a name.