All Films

Mt. Buko

1979 • 32 min • Japan

The silence capturing all the surroundings of Mt. Buko. Documentary directed by Minoru Shinojima 1979, 8mm.

قناديل الأمل

1979 • 15 min • Kuwait

Ya soy Rosca

1979 • 15 min

Fantasy and reality are mixed in the monologue of a proud and sexist male convict.

Feu l'objectivité

1979 • 27 min

Investigation into political journalism in Quebec. Mainly focusing on English-speaking journalists in the press gallery at the National Assembly and their perception of current events, Godbout argues that the sense of objectivity in journalism is above all a question of culture.

Cat

1979 • 2 min • Switzerland

8mm film by Swiss artist Roman Signer.

Nihon Meisaku Kaidan Gekijō: Kaidan Saga no Kaibyō

1979 • 45 min • Japan

In the Nabeshima clan’s castle town, lord Tango-no-kami kills his chief retainer Mataichirō for refusing to offer his sister as a concubine. To cover up the crime, the scheming retainer Buzen buries Mataichirō’s body in the armory walls and offers his own daughter instead. But Mataichirō’s vengeful cat, Koma, possesses Buzen, seeking revenge.

The Buenoromeros

1979 • 29 min

Three sisters living together are tied to the memory of their father. They welcome their suitors into their home and then repeat a ritual that seems to come from times past.

The Passenger

1979 • 7 min

L'Abécédaire du Maréchal

1979 • 21 min • France

This film shows the instruments of the Vichy government's propaganda among young people and, more specifically, the images distributed in the form of ABC books, posters, newsreels or propaganda. It shows the speech of Pétain, Georges Lamirand, general secretary for youth, Marcel Déat, founder of the National Popular Rally and Jacques Doriot, founder of the French Popular Party.

Abyss

1979 • 25 min • Soviet Union

The film begins in 1922 in Georgia. A strange event occurs near seven comrades. One of them, who knows the secret of horse riding, miraculously remains alive. Captivated by a sense of duty, the comrades decide to go to Gori to find this man, and if possible, then stop his crime, which will cost the lives of many innocents. With the light hand of the leader, a civil war breaks out in Georgia, which will claim the lives of everyone they found, but will have time to reveal many more deaths.

Aluminosa Espera do Apocalipse

1979 • 12 min

(1979, Super 8, Color, Experimental Documentary)

Recess II

1979 • 10 min • Soviet Union

About how bosom friends ate ice cream, got a signature in a diary, published a wall newspaper and launched a balloon.

Koryo Celadon

1979 • 25 min • South Korea

Koryo Celadon remains one of the high points of world art. This Korean pottery style, which was at its peak in the 12th Century A.D., and called by the Chinese "one of the ten most wonderful things in the world," was a truly major achievement in the field of ceramics. Its most important element was its delicate green glaze, a secret formula now lost. As simple and elegant as Koryo Celadons appear, they were the result of intricate craftsmanship that often employed up to four inlays.

Fatma of the Forest

1979 • 28 min • Turkey

Reflects life, longings and a major “fear” in the subconscious of a 12-years old “woodcutter” girl living under very hard conditions in the forest of Toros Mountains at an altitude of approximately 2000 m. The documentary, aiming to symbolize a little-known but common practice of child labour, accomplishes a dramatic portrayal of laborers who work for Ministery of Forestry totally deprived of social security.

T.z.

1979 • 9 min

An elegant home movie, its subject is Breer's apartment which faces the Tappan Zee (T.Z.) Bridge. It is permeated, as are all his films, with subtle humor, eroticism and a sense of imminent chaos and catastrophe.

Sweet Career Girl

1979 • 50 min • Japan

The comical live-in life of Yuki, a stylist, and Dodoichi, a first-year college student who has come to Tokyo to visit his senior. The film is full of dark episodes such as infertility, prostitution, suicide, etc., but the filmmakers are careful not to lose the light touch, and how to make the best use of the characters in each situation is enclosed in a scene setting like a scene in a famous movie. The film is full of enthusiasm to show us the setting and storyline that could easily become a pattern of a cheap melodrama.

Scar Tissue

1979 • 7 min • United States of America

Scar Tissue by Su Friedrich is a filmic version of a white canvas or a silent music piece.The fact that Friedrich never really shows the whole body, but rather plays off of body parts could be read as a desire to show less of the people on the screen, so that the viewer's reading can be generalized. If the "characters" existed as people, the images would inevitably read to be telling a story about these people. The legs and torsos do not signify people; it is the experience of these body parts and the rhythm with which they are portrayed that constitute the work.

Yellow Elephant

1979 • 7 min • Soviet Union

A good story about how important it is to be able to negotiate and give in to each other. All the guys are looking forward to the New Year's carnival, choosing costumes for themselves. Bunnies, squirrels, bears, snowflakes and snowmen gathered at the Christmas tree. Two girlfriends sewed a yellow elephant costume for the celebration. They could become the most original and bright at the carnival, if they did not quarrel constantly. Each thought only of herself, not wanting to yield in anything. Really girlfriends, having quarreled seriously, will be left without a holiday?

Bugs Bunny's Valentine

1979 • 24 min • United States of America

Watch out as Elmer Fudd lays down his rifle in favor of a bow and "love arrows". None of the Loony Tunes favorites are safe from klutzy Elmer "Cupid" Fudd: Forhorn Leghorn and Daffy Duck are chased by love-crazed females and Bugs Bunny winds up getting hitched to Yosemite Sam!

In the Name of Reason

1979 • 24 min • Brazil

The infamous Hospital Colonia de Barbacena (Barbacena Colony Hospital), biggest mental institution of Brazil, once compared to concentration camps of Auschwitz ,opens its gates to a production crew during the country's dictatorship period. This short documentary depicts how mental patients were treated inside the institution and how anyone could end up an intern there for no plausible reason.

Erich Von Stroheim

1979 • 50 min

Documentary about notorious actor/director Erich Von Stroheim.

Keskidee Aroha

1979 • 54 min • New Zealand

Keskidee, a small Jamaican bird resilient in the face of hardship, is also the name of a self-help black arts centre in London, and the theatre group who work there. Keskidee's actors and musicians were brought to New Zealand to work with communities who face similar day-to-day dilemmas and who might be encouraged to express their frustrations and anger in drama, poetry and music. Keskidee were to act as a catalyst. the film shows some of their work and their response to the people they met. Tribal elders try to show keskidee the depth of Maori roots in the land, and the complexity and pain of their present struggles: against the loss of Aroha; against the laws of pen and paper; the alienation of their land; the suppression of their language; the devaluation of their people and culture.

Four Search for a Million

1979 • 50 min • Soviet Union

Four young men after university are sent to work as managers in a collective (kolkhoz). The film is about how these people try to achieve something better in the Soviet system.

Black Dawn

1979 • 20 min • Haiti, United States of America

Recounts the founding of Haiti through the eyes of two captured African tribespeople, Sili and Simba. Starting with their capture in Africa, the story follows their trans-Atlantic journey on a slave ship to Haiti. There they escape their slavery on a French plantation and join the fight for independence led by Toussaint L'Ouverture and Dessaline, ultimately joining in the celebration of the first raising of the Haitian flag.