All Films

Who Is Poly Styrene?

1979 • 39 min • United Kingdom

A film portrait of the New Wave singer-songwriter Poly Styrene, which originally aired as part of the Arena series on BBC.

Infinite Horizons: Space Beyond Apollo

1979 • 60 min

For fans of science, both fact and fiction, this special provides a fascinating look into the future of space travel with topics ranging from lunar colonies to intergalactic travel. Hosted by acclaimed science fiction writer Ray Bradbury with an appearance from Isaac Asimov, the program presents a look at both the future of space exploration and what the U.S. of late seventies thought about that future.

Scène de ménage chez les gauchistes

1979 • 11 min • France

A realistic fiction. Characters: Laure Trouchet, Pierre Merejkowsky. They play their own roles. He, she. They talk about the community life. In one sequence shot they blame each other about politic and emotional failures.

Tās dullās Paulīnes dēļ

1979 • 23 min • Soviet Union

Cinématon n°56 : Marie-Noëlle Kauffmann

1979 • 4 min • France

Tytte Botfeldt - Aufs Sterben freu ich mich

1979 • 45 min • Germany

Documentary by Hans-Dieter Grabe.

Elvira

1979 • 8 min • Yugoslavia

Bosnian documentary film.

Certaines Observations

1979 • 14 min • France

A multi-projector, single-screen work superimposedshot a positive and negative print.

Ascent to Nanga Parbat

1979 • 29 min • France

A film about the 1979 expedition to Nanga Parbat in Pakistan, led by Lyon native Jean-Pierre Frésafond. After a city tour, they set off by bus and then on foot with Sherpas to base camp. Having set out to attempt the Rupal Pillar, the expedition was unable to reach its objective in time (torrential rain, blocked roads, scree, etc.) and lost precious time before choosing to attempt the Mazeno Ridge by default. The team theoretically had the means to do so, since it brought together no fewer than 21 strong climbers, with a large core from Lyon—a concentration of talent rarely seen. But the resulting group dynamic worked contrary to expectations, and they had to settle for the most modest of consolation prizes: the ascent of the First Peak (6,880 meters). Frésafond recounted this in a book-testimony "The Revenge of the Himalayas - The Human Adventure at Nanga-Parbat".

Roller Coaster/Reading

1979 • 3 min • United States of America

Meshing the visceral and the intellectual, "Sherman proposes, through editing and parallel camera movement, that the act of reading is exhilarating, like riding a roller coaster."

The Bugs Bunny Mother's Day Special 

1979 • 23 min • United States of America

Bugs has a "run-in" with a pixilated stork in the bridging sequence of this tribute to mothers.

Cree Way

1979 • 29 min

The principal and his wife at the Indian Affairs school in Waskaganish, James Bay, have initiated a curriculum development project with input from local people and resources from the community. The teaching materials are mainly in Cree and are drawn from Cree traditions.

Cold Journey

1979 • 29 min

Alanis Obomsawin shows children film clips about the struggle of a Cree boy who is caught between Indigenous and settler worlds. Following these clips, she has a discussion with the children about what they have seen.

Larn Yersel' Geordie

1979 • 11 min • United Kingdom

An animated interpretation of Scott Dobson’s comic guide to the Geordie dialect, Larn Yersel’ Geordie, presented in three lessons. With artwork by South Shields animator Sheila Graber and narrated by Scott himself, the film takes a humorous – and at times outrageous – look at Geordie culture and language.

Ich hasse, ich liebe Film

1979 • 6 min • Switzerland

A short film by Raphaela Schoenherr with HHK Schoenherr.

Christmas Around the World

1979 • 5 min • United Kingdom

A short Christmas animation produced by Sheila Graber in which Santa Claus and his three robin helpers deliver presents all over the world.

Somewhere in Hackney

1979 • 50 min • United Kingdom

A community-based documentary following four local arts projects in the London Borough of Hackney.

Relative Similarities

1979 • 5 min • Poland

Gustowska recorded the protagonists, three pairs of female twins, in different situations and in the course of the passing time. The camera registered the changes that gradually occurred in the young women, capturing the differences and similarities between the siblings.

Joy Division (A Film by Malcolm Whitehead)

1979 • 17 min • United Kingdom

The film begins with 'New Dawn Fades'. Audio of speeches of Hitler are played alongside interviews of Chief Constable of Manchester. Montages of photographs, adverts and Manchester street scenes. Part of a Joy Division performance at Bowdon Vale and a rehearsal are shown. (Film only available in fragments)

It Ain’t Half Racist, Mum

1979 • 30 min • United Kingdom

Academic and activist Stuart Hall and actor and activist Maggie Steed present a rigorous deconstruction of the racism - both explicit and more insidious in its subtlety - of the British media from within.

Asparagus

1979 • 20 min • United States of America

A symbolic reflection on issues of female sexuality, art and identity constructs.

Tukiki and His Search for a Merry Christmas

1979 • 30 min • Canada

Tukiki is a small Eskimo boy who sets out to discover the meaning of Christmas along with a magical character known as North Wind. He visits different places and learns about their customs of Christmas which brings about a turn of events when he arrives home.

AC/DC: World Series of Rock '79

1979 • 45 min

World Series Of Rock, Cleveland Stadium, Cleveland, OH 07/28/1979 1. Intro 2. Live Wire 3. Problem Child 4. Sin City 5. Bad Boy Boogie 6. The Jack 7. Rocker

The Man Who Digs for Fish

1979 • 13 min

Frank Jenkinson, eighty-two, has been digging for fish for twenty-five years. His unorthodox conservationist practices have increased the numbers of the salmon population in the Jarvis Inlet from a modest 500 to 25 000. Using a spade and accompanied by his dog, Frank wades up and down the stream, digging for the newly hatched salmon that lie buried in the gravel. Without his intervention they risk dying before reaching maturity.