All Films

Rostik and Kesha

1979 • 16 min • Soviet Union

About the friendship between the boy Rostik and the puppy Kesha.

Ellis Island

1979 • 7 min

Not to be confused with her longer film from 1981, this is an earlier film about Ellis Island made by Meredith Monk.

Who Will Get the Prize

1979 • 10 min • Soviet Union

About forest competitions in which Misha wins and becomes a symbol of the Olympics.

Miserere

1979 • 12 min • France

In Miserere by Miralda and Rossell, pathos and comedy are closely linked to one another. The liturgical songs that they use for long stretches of this short film refer to human suffering and repentance, while the images counter this by referring to industrial animal breeding and lab experiments. The Franco dictatorship in Spain is contrasted with a subversive/surreal series of images using video footage.

The House of the Plague

1979 • 11 min • Yugoslavia

On its quest of death and terror, plague approaches a small village. The village knows nothing and lives its normal life…

Action erotico patriotique

1979 • 4 min • France

Action for Michel Journiac.

Panic

1979 • 9 min • Hungary

A technological civilization takes three intelligent salamander creatures captive to conduct experiments on them. The experiments go awry and the salamander creatures wreak havoc in the city of humans.

Equal Time

1979 • 4 min

In this work, the field of Hill’s experimentation is the synchronization of visual and linguistic elements. For Equal Time, he sets up a minimalist arrangement, whereby two identical panels with grid patterns, starting respectively on the left and right side of the monitor, slowly move across the screen against a black background to the opposite side. As the panels overlap they produce moiré patterns. Each is associated with the voice of a different speaker, whose voices emerge from the left or right stereo channel. As soon as the panels completely overlap, the words of the two texts merge and the two voices, now in unison, produce a phasing sound similar to the visual moiré pattern of the panels.

After Dark

1979 • 14 min • United Kingdom

Colin Welland presents this public information film about the hazards of nighttime driving.

Picture Story

1979 • 7 min

“A structural work (with humor) that uses indeterminacy to forge an abstract landscape upon which the ‘vision’ of an ox appears. A sequence of words—hierarchically ordered from the utilitarian (functions and processes of the tools being used to make the piece) to the more abstract and conceptual, ‘content,’ ‘concept,’ and ‘vision’—become the building blocks of a linguistic picture story.”

The Reef

1979 • 60 min

This is the story of the Great Barrier Reef, from man's ancient awareness of it, to his realisation that it is a major world wonder of great value to mankind. Beautiful, dangerous and diverse, the Reef provides escape and recreation, a vast resource and limitless retreat for the fisherman, tourist, adventurer, industrialist, scientist, artist and sportsman. But — a small increment of pollution or a slight deprivation of sunlight may set in motion a chain of events that could precipitate a decline and decay of the Reef on which little coral polyps have been working for some six hundred thousand years.

Ski Peru!

1979 • 28 min • Canada

Ski Peru is the story of two skiers’ dream of descending the untamed slopes of Huascaran, although maybe 'Ski Peru and die' would be a more appropriate title given the tragic climax to Peter Chrzanowski’s Peruvian odyssey. Filmed long before today’s adrenaline charged ski videos on heavy 16mm movie cameras there is no heavy rock soundtrack, no helicopters, no roboskiers mainlining powder at Mach 5.0. It is a slow moving film that explores man’s relationship with the mountain and what it is to ski into the unknown.

Generation on the Wind

1979 • 58 min

The film is a character study centered on a rag tag group of young artists, mechanics and environmental activists who successfully built the largest electrical generating windmill in the world.

White Hole

1979 • 6 min • Japan

A mesmerizing trip through the psychedelic vastness of space.

When Léon M.’s Boat Went Down the Meuse for the First Time

1979 • 38 min • Belgium

Documentary about a man remembering his struggles while floating on a boat down a river.

The Lost Capital of Atlantis

1979 • 55 min • United Kingdom

This documentary examines the way of life and the cataclysmic end of the Minoan people who lived in Knossos, an ancient city on the island of Crete.

Downhill

1979 • 6 min • Poland

Penis-shaped men make a joint attempt to push an old carriage down the hill. They manage to remove all the wheels of the carriage, one by one. Then, collectively, they lift the wheelless vehicle and carry it down. The year of the film's production – 1979 suggests that the director wanted to mock the decline of real socialism. The system was weakened by the political and economic crisis. The collective effort of the men was a reference to the growing opposition.

Kyläkauppa

1979 • 27 min • Finland

A dramatized documentary about the importance of a village shop to the village community.

Golden Hair

1979 • 16 min • Soviet Union

Once upon a time, when the forest was almost impassable it there were only hunters. One day a young hunter saw on the shore of lake beauty with golden hair. Will now have to fight the man for his love, because her hair woven into an asset, which does not want to say goodbye to her father, the mighty Snake.

Cinématon n°42 : Noël Simsolo

1979 • 3 min • France

Eunice, Clarice, Thereza

1979 • 16 min • Brazil

Three widows of political prisoners united against the dictatorship in Brazil and the repression of the military regime.

One of the Missing

1979 • 53 min • United States of America

An adaptation of the short story by Ambrose Bierce, follows the grim fortunes of a rebel sniper who becomes trapped in the rubble of a bombed-out house.

Imants Ziedonis. Portrets locījumos

1979 • 20 min • Soviet Union

A cinematic portrait of poet Imants Ziedonis.

The Lion in Love

1979 • 6 min • Spain

Based on Esopus' fable "The lion in love".