All Films

Dreams in Life

1979 • 11 min

Two factory workers from the outskirts of São Paulo make a trip to a bathhouse close to the city.

Zealous Piglet

1979 • 45 min • Soviet Union

The piglet became famous throughout the village for his tricks. Having spent time with him, the owners, Marta and her son Kukuri, took the prankster to Tbilisi to the bazaar.

Canada Vignettes: McIntosh

1979 • 2 min • Canada

A vignette based on the story of John McIntosh, the Ontario developer of the McIntosh apple.

Little Hares' Bath

1979 • 8 min • Soviet Union

On Saturday night Mother Rabbit takes her children to the bathhouse in the forest, but their happy bathtime ritual is disturbed when a dog dashing through the mist accidentally runs into the bathhouse. The little rabbits scatter in different directions, but in the end everyone falls asleep in their own cradles.

Gary Numan - The Touring Principle

1979 • 48 min • United Kingdom

Recorded live at Hammersmith Odeon, London - September 28, 1979

The Cartoon Theatre of Dr Gaz

1979 • 14 min

Action and animation are pushed to the extreme in this frenetic film. Keen makes references to the God-like status of the director, the framed world of the cinema and the history of popular entertainment.

Denúncia Vazia

1979 • 7 min • Brazil

An elderly couple decides to commit suicide after receive a eviction order. The first short-film of Adélia Sampaio, the first black woman in Brazil to direct a feature film.

Petty-Bourgeois Dracula Idyll at the Family Table

1979 • 8 min • Switzerland

"This idyll was made for a Dracula film project by Ernst Schmidt of Vienna, who wrote to various European filmmakers in order to produce a bigger film with their participation." (HHK)

Ramones: It's Alive - The Rainbow

1979 • 30 min

The Ramones played the Rainbow Theater in London on December 31, 1977. The show became It's Alive, which was released in April 1979.

Freedom of Inês Etienne Romeu

1979 • 11 min • Brazil

August 29, 1979, Talavera Bruce Penal Institute, Bangu, Rio de Janeiro. After serving eight years in prison, Inês Etienne Romeu, the only survivor of the "House of Death" in Petrópolis and the first political prisoner sentenced to life in prison in Brazil, left prison benefiting from Amnesty. Norma Bengell filmed this moment: from the prison door to her home with her family, Inês was welcomed by family, friends and members of the Brazilian Amnesty Committee, in what marked the first act of the historic denunciation that Inês would carry out against her tormentors and the Military Regime.

From a Night Porter's Point of View

1979 • 17 min • Poland

At the time of the Polish social regime, a security officer is promoted to work at a prison yard. Introducing concurrently with the narrator; he speaks of himself, his thoughts, his point of view.

Mission Mind Control

1979 • 59 min • United States of America

Uncovering government agencies (especially the CIA) that secretly tested the effects of LSD on humans.

Merchant and Monkeys

1979 • 5 min • Soviet Union

Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang

1979 • 58 min • United States of America

Documentary about the atomic testing done in the desert of Nevada, the health risks it posed to closely involved military personnel, and the lack of transparency from US administrations about its effects on the public at large.

The Dumb Waiter

1979 • 18 min • United Kingdom

A woman on her way home notices a car following her.

The Pythons: Somewhere in Tunisia, Circa A.D. 1979

1979 • 50 min • Tunisia, United Kingdom

Ten years ago exactly, more or less, give or take a day or two, six young men sat down, or maybe stood, or perhaps some of them just lounged, and wrote the first episode of a new series called Owl Stretching Time. They were called Graham Chapman , John Cleese, Terry Gilliam , Eric Idle,Terry Jones and Michael Palin and later both they and the series became known as Monty Python 's Flying Circus . Today they are the best known British comedy group in the world, famous from Cathay to Kathmandu, from Sydney to Sidcup (except in Japan where the programme is called The Gay Boys' Dragon Show ... say no more). To commemorate their tenth anniversary a BBC team tracked them down in the deserts of Tunisia where they were filming their Life of Brian and almost persuaded them to examine the genesis, the genius and the gender of Monty Python.

On Your Mark!

1979 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Nem Verdade Nem Mentira

1979 • 10 min • Brazil

A mockumentary (or is it a fake fiction?) about journalism.

Cars

1979 • 15 min • Australia

“I don’t drive, but I know people who’ll drive 100 metres to go to the shops. Our society is obsessed with the car, with coming and going, getting somewhere. I used very intricate matting, some shaped like knives. I wanted the cars to slice each other in two, creating a kind of hurdy gurdy atmosphere…an abstract rushing to and fro, going nowhere. The first half of the film is silent. The second half, a grainy dupe of the same images, has sound and is far more urgent and aggressive.” (Paul Winkler)

Canada Vignettes: Don Messer - His Land and His Music - Marg Osburne 1927-1977 Pt. 1

1979 • 2 min

One of six Canada Vignettes from the NFB production Don Messer - His Land and His Music, featuring one of the principal performers, Marg Osburne, who has since passed away.

Kate Bush Christmas Special

1979 • 44 min • United Kingdom

Kate Bush presents her Christmas Special in which she performs songs from her first three albums, along with “December Will be Magic Again.” Peter Gabriel is her special guest.

Guest

1979 • 30 min • Soviet Union

Mikhail comes to the village to see his school sweetheart. Galina has a family - a husband and a little daughter. Nothing could bring back the old happiness...

Come and Be Our Guest

1979 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A Squirrel, a Bear cub and a Hare were sitting under a tree and looked at the pictures in the book. Suddenly a Squirrel saw an unusual beast on one of them and asked who it was. Misha replied that this is elephant and friends decided to invite him to visit a New Year tree. All their conversation was heard by a Wolf cub, who was skeptical about the fact that someone would come to them. But the kids did not listen to him and decided to write a letter. In the forest came a snowy winter, and the elephant really arrived to them.

Farewell to Charms

1979 • 13 min • Australia

An experimental feminist film which questions the goals of love and romance as a woman’s ultimate fulfillment. Emma, vivacious but suicidal terrorist is reunited with Cecily, her old school chum. They meet a ‘bionic bike dyke’ called stretch and break open the jelly beans. Will they stretch a point over the pool table? Will tap-dancing and vaginal exercises be enough for Cecily? Will Emma metamorphose into Esther Williams?