All Films

Amy's 4th or 5th B-Day

1979 • 4 min

Home movie documenting birthday celebrations for Palazzolo's daughter, Amy Louise, who was born in 1974. The footage captured here is most likely of her fifth birthday in 1979. She is shown surrounded by friends, excitedly opening her presents.

Dropout Window

1979 • 2 min

A missing line of information, a hole in a field.

Easy Street

1979 • 13 min • United States of America

A documentary produced by Blackside, Inc. as part of an effort to recruit minority youth into the health care fields.

Redonda y viene en caja cuadrada

1979 • 11 min • Cuba

In a satirical tone, multiple unexpected actions during a ball game and the reactions of the public are captured. In search of the unusual, the documentary ventures outside the field of this sport.

Jeder singt auf seine Weise

1979 • 28 min • East Germany

A culture festival is held in the village. Everyone is invited to take part, which is why the devil is also signing up to take part....

Behind the Curtain: Dinos Iliopoulos

1979 • 21 min

The episode of the documentary series Paraskinio, produced in 1979, dedicates its first part to two great actors of theater and cinema, Dinos Iliopoulos and Mimis Fotopoulos. On the occasion of their collaboration in the stage production "Some Like It Hot" at the Akropol Theater (1978–79 season), directed by Alekos Alexandrakis and co-starring himself and Nonika Galinea, the show's camera meets the two actors in an Athenian bar. The documentary features short interviews with Alekos Alexandrakis and Nonika Galinea, who speak about their collaboration with Iliopoulos and Fotopoulos and the reasoning behind casting them in those specific roles. The program also includes clips from films starring Iliopoulos and Fotopoulos, as well as scenes from the play "Some Like It Hot" at the Akropol Theater, written by Peter Stone, translated by Pavlos Matesis, and directed by Alekos Alexandrakis.

Anahtar

1979 • 39 min • Turkey

The Key a film with Funda Gürkan

Kasnakt sapnuoju...

1979 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A film about a distinguished industrial worker of the Lithuanian SSR, a weaver at the P. Ziberta Silk Factory in Kaunas.

Fetos

1979 • 8 min • Venezuela

Fetos is an allegory of the process of life. What would happen if a fetus became conscious in its mother's womb? It would interpret its' surroundings as its only reality. If he found another fetus, his twin brother, he would explain to him what he has learned. If later a third fetus appeared who did not agree with the other two that the womb is the only reality, and it proposed a different possibility. The first two fetuses would reject it. Only the one that understood the process would be born. In order to be born it is necessary to die.

Russian Winter Festival

1979 • 32 min • Soviet Union

A documentary on the Russian Winter Art Festival, which took place in Moscow every winter since 1964.

The Assistant

1979 • 38 min

Dr. Hubert Fez is looking for an assistant for his transportation company, and strikes a deal with young petty criminals

Canada Vignettes: Métis Coat

1979 • 1 min • Canada

The decorative pattern style of a traditional Metis coat is explored.

Shooting Range

1979 • 21 min • Soviet Union

An unemployed American gets a job in a shooting gallery as a live target. The greedy capitalist owner charges patrons double for the chance to shoot at a human being.

Las AAA son las tres armas: Carta abierta de Rodolfo Walsh a la junta militar

1979 • 20 min • Argentina

Short about the disappearance of the body of the political Argentinean writer Rodolfo Walsh after he was shot in an ambush by a special military group in Argentinia on March 25 1977.

Old Man

1979 • 26 min • Soviet Union

A man in his 30s visits a Soviet school to try to hook up with a young teacher there, and meets one of her students, whom he enlists to help introduce him to his romantic interest. While he waits for the student to free up, he observes the absurd Soviet culture, most evident within the school system, especially among the younger children.

The Waltzing Policemen

1979 • 4 min

Two policemen dance the waltz together in an empty grand ballroom.

The Newcomers

1979 • 44 min • Iran

Kianoush Ayari’s film captures rare scenes of everyday life on the streets of Tehran in the months following the revolution of 1979.

Lonesome Cowboy

1979 • 1 min

A self-portrait of Merritt's "cowboy" phase, tongue firmly planted in cheek.

Oh, Rested

1979 • 7 min • Soviet Union

How animal friends taught a poacher a lesson.

Sweet Sal

1979 • 26 min • United States of America

A portrait of a wiry, engaging street hustler, Sal Carulli, whose cocky patter breaks down at the end of the film, when he visits his father’s grave.

Sandbags & Trenches

1979 • 3 min • United Kingdom

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 giving the impression of what a Republican propaganda movie would have looked like had they the access to film making resources. Shot in black and white it has a hand-tinted section at the end which was quite common during this period.

Three Blue Songs

1979 • 7 min • United States of America

Conciseness, lightness and popular themes make these aquatic entertainment (on fresh or salt water) as many songs for the eyes and ears. An atmosphere of happy memory is evoked by the play of double exposure. This process is enhanced by the colorful treatment. Through family or individual times, the film sings for these moments lived without ostentation.

Basil Bunting

1979 • 40 min

The poet Basil Bunting talks briefly about his long, autobiographical poem "Briggflats", published in 1968, and about the craft of poetry, but the majority of the film is devoted to his reading of extracts from the poem itself. The film also observes Bunting's daily routine, his return to Briggflats and the Quaker Meeting House, and shows the Northern landscapes so crucial to his work.

Jari

1979 • 59 min • Brazil

Documentary filmed in the Jari Project area – multinational enclave, located between Pará and the then Federal Territory of Amapá, on the occasion of the visit made to the Project by the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry about the devastation of the Amazon. Jari is the largest known land occupation in the Amazon, and probably the largest in the world, to belong to a single owner, the American millionaire Daniel Keith Ludwig.