All Films

Kaju

1979 • 52 min • Japan

16mm film by Teiji Aoyama and Izumi Suzuki's last acting performance. Completed shortly before the director's death. The film has not been screened since the 1980s, however, and may be lost

Thomas Munzer

1979 • 40 min • Soviet Union

A play about the Reformation in Germany, a broad religious and socio-political movement in Western and Central Europe of the XVI - early XVII century, aimed at the transformation of Catholic Christianity in accordance with the Bible; about the main ideologists of the Reformation - the leader of the peasant-plebeian masses Thomas Munzer and the representative of the interests of the conservative part of the German burghers Martin Luther.

Dir muss er ja nicht gefallen

1979 • 22 min • Germany

Love and jealousy within a group of teenage friends.

San Francisco Diary ’79

1979 • 9 min • United States of America

One week in November 1979, passing the time in Carmen Virgil's house. Probably the last in this series of diaries.

Heliography

1979 • 6 min • Japan

An experimental short through which Yamazaki brings his preoccupations and inquiries about time and light from conceptual photography into moving images.

Flashes rouges

1979 • 15 min

Filmed excerpts from the Flashes Rouges rock opera starring Catherine Ringer, future singer of Les Rita Mitsouko. Made for French television.

O Ladrão do Pão

1979 • 29 min

A fiction from the series "Contos Tradições Portugueses", based on a poem by Alexandre O'Neil, telling the story of a fisherman tired of the sea, who departs to conquer a new life on land.

Digit

1979 • 3 min • United States of America

Abstract animation set to music

Harlem Nocturne

1979 • 4 min • France

A French animated short film delves into a family living in Harlem's black ghetto, where a girl faces the choice between freedom and death. Features music by Johnny Otis.

Geo-Illogical Junket

1979 • 3 min • United States of America

Professor Phosphate discovers that he has no sample of an unusual mineral called "Zubbolite". He travels a considerable distance and endures the desert heat in his pursuit of the illusive mineral.

Fantasy

1979 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A lyrical, musical story about flowers.

Hugues le Loup

1979 • 52 min • France

Gédéon, the Count of Niedeck's gamekeeper, visits Dr. François to invite him to the chateau. He explains that his master has suddenly gone mad during a change of moon. En route, the two men meet a strange old woman who lives in the woods. Gédéon explains to the doctor that whenever this woman prowls around, the Count is plagued by dementia. Once there, the doctor treats the Count and calms him down. The Count has a daughter, Odile, whom he clearly hates. One evening, a mysterious traveler arrives.

Escura Maravilha

1979 • 8 min

(1979, Super 8, Color, Experimental)

The Greatest Adventure--The Story of Man's Voyage to the Moon

1979 • 55 min

The planning and implementation of the first flight to the moon, narrated by Orson Welles.

I & I: An African Allegory

1979 • 32 min

Drawing from Ayi Kwei Armah’s novel, "Two Thousand Seasons," Caldwell meditates on reciprocity and on the concept of “I and I” which postulates no division between people, whereas the splitting of “you” from “I” is an invention of the devil designed to brew trouble in the world.

Trompe l’oeil

1979 • 6 min • France

In Fellini's film Amarcord, an ocean liner emerges from the night and the mists of the water, appears like a mysterious monster, passes like a dream. This video takes up the idea of ​​an unreal "passage" and plays the effect of spectacular surprise that it reveals.

Syvilla: They Dance To Her Drum

1979 • 22 min

Chenzira's 1979 tribute to dancer-choreographer Syvilla Fort.

Bacho Is Going to His Grandmother

1979 • 17 min • Soviet Union

About how Bacho and his animal friends re-educated the lazy and sloppy little goblin.

Mardi Gras

1979 • 9 min

Based on a poem by Blaise Cendrars.

Tropical Fabulário

1979 • 5 min • Brazil

Bittersweet tourist film through the streets of Recife, focusing on the historical barbarism that monuments and postcards hide.

Notes #1

1979 • 3 min • United Kingdom

Optical sound film by Guy Sherwin

Scharnhorst Women’s Initiative

1979 • 13 min • Germany

Women counselling women. Five thousand renters live in the satellite settlement of Scharnhorst near Dortmund. More than thousand of them are women living alone or with their children. A large percentage of them are on welfare. They need help in asserting their rights vis-à-vis the social welfare authorities. This documentary uses the point of view of a 26-year-old single mother of two to document the commitment of the women’s initiative. “In the group, I realised that I am not the isolated case I always thought I was.”

Peasant Poets

1979 • 47 min • Mexico

Housewarming

1979 • 28 min • Soviet Union

A young family takes their grandmother. After all, the city apartment needs to be furnished with new furniture, which they buy with the proceeds from the sale of the village house. But the son and daughter-in-law cannot find a suitable place for their grandmother in their spacious apartment ...