All Films

Spaceboy Cache

1979 • 60 min

A Korean animated film about an android boy and his struggle against the forces of evil.

Panda's Department Store

1979 • 16 min • China

Young panda of the department store fulfills requests of all special customers.

Hérésie pour Magritte I

1979 • 4 min • France

Itaúnas: Ecological Disaster

1979 • 8 min • Brazil

Artistic documentary that combines images of human beings and nature to achieve a highly significant aesthetic result. Irrational deforestation in Itaúnas (northern Espírito Santo, Brazil) makes the village vulnerable to sand blown by the intense winds. In 1968, the region becomes uninhabitable, producing a living example of ecological disaster.

Animation

1979 • 10 min • United States of America

a film about animation by Vince Collins

Būkite sveiki, ufonautai!

1979 • 9 min • Soviet Union

A film that ridicules alcoholics, comparing them to aliens from outer space, pigs, goats and so on.

Beaver Report

1979 • 17 min

Landscapes of drained marshes and reclaimed meadows, from where scientists from the Experimental Station of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Popielno relocate beavers to forest wetlands, secluded lakes, and rivers essential for the beavers' survival. With the film camera, we participate in this operation of capturing and transporting the animals, observing their first steps in the new environment, which they begin to organize for their needs. They fell trees they have gnawed, build dams, and create water expanses.

The Patient with the Bottle

1979 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A satirical story for adults about the harmful effects of alcohol not only on health, but also on personal life.

Hello, the Olympics!

1979 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Where is the Little Bear?

1979 • 8 min • Soviet Union

The adventures of Russian souvenirs on the eve of the opening of the 1980 Olympics. The main character of the film is Misha the mascot who greets the guests of the Olympics together with his souvenir friends.

Parto solar 5

1979 • 45 min • Mexico

Mexican feature film

16 Millimeter Earrings

1979 • 25 min

A re-creation for film of Meredith Monk's seminal dance/theater work incorporating film and original music, voice, guitar, and audiotapes. Originally performed in 1966, Judson Memorial Church, New York.

A Film on Family Planning

1979 • 2 min • Indonesia

The letters KB refer to the official term `Keluarga Berencana’, i.e. `Family Planning’. This is a “Non KB” film. A spontaneous vision on the introduction of family planning.

Roundtable

1979 • 18 min

Early student film by composer and director Mikel Rouse.

Frammento Catanese

1979 • 13 min • Italy

16mm short by Massimo Bacigalupo.

Tortoise and the Hare

1979 • 15 min • United States of America

The short is described as a "Road Runner film" adaptation of the fable, with the tortoise being a villain trying to capture the hare. It also introduces new characters along the way, such as a donkey, a bird, and fly. The short concludes with the race ending in a five-way tie. (Lost media)

O M da Minha Mão

1979 • 9 min • Brazil

A documentary on Brazilian musician Mario Gennari and the bond between his music's sonority and the public space of the streets of São Paulo.

The Land Where the Blues Began

1979 • 58 min • United States of America

An exploration of the musical and social origins of the blues, shot on location in Mississippi in 1978 by Alan Lomax, John Bishop, and Worth Long in association with the Mississippi Authority for Educational Television and broadcast on PBS in 1980. This re-release in 2009 includes two hours of additional music.

William Blake and the Poet's Journey

1979 • 5 min

A short animated history of the works of William Blake.

How the Table Was Carried

1979 • 8 min • Soviet Union

The animals did not know how to properly carry the table, then they asked a little girl, to whom her parents gave colored pencils. She began to draw and explain everything perfectly to them in pictures.

Почему ослик заупрямился?

1979 • 8 min • Soviet Union

Welcome Back, Norman

1979 • 9 min • United States of America

Another disturbing glimpse at a day in the life of pitiful bumbler Norman Krasner. Returning home from a business trip, a visibly weary Norman must negotiate the baggage check and an airport parking lot. Mundane tasks for most, but for Norman a blank canvas soon to be smeared with failure. This time Norman does rate his own theme song, in the form of a bored singer-songwriter droning out the humdrum details of Norman's life.

Ocana, der Engel der in der Qual singt

1979 • 10 min • France

Legendary drag performer Ocaña in performance with a cardboard Marilyn on the west side of the Berlin Wall.

Ef

1979 • 4 min • United States of America

An eternal flame.