All Films

In Memoriam, or The Ballad of Reading Gaol

1979 • 30 min

A man in a Liverpool office conjures up the last hours of a condemned prisoner, in this reimagining of Oscar Wilde’s poem, given a non-naturalistic treatment using electronic effects and voiceover narration.

Oranging'79

1979 • 25 min • Japan

With the camera in love between them, the real Mayumi Mitome and the Mayumi in the film are in honest agreement, and there is a freshness to the film that leaves no room for the viewer to question or feel any directorial intent. In the last part of the film, Mayumi arrives at the beach of Enoshima and says, "I'm going to America to swim in this film," and as she changes into a bathing suit and jumps into the sea, she says, "She really went to America. When she changed into her bathing suit and jumped into the sea, the narrator said, "She really went to America, don't you believe me? The film is symbolized by her reply to the camera, "Yes!

Boys and Girls Together

1979 • 57 min • United Kingdom

Six members of a multi-cultural household in Hampstead, north London, explore their innermost fantasies

Cinématon n°44 : Michael Snow

1979 • 3 min • France

Portrait of Michael Snow

Version

1979 • 51 min • Hungary

A Hungarian Jew is forced to give a false testimony on his relatives in WW2 Hungary.

Follia come poesia

1979 • 40 min

Two years together by Le Nemesiache with the psychiatric patients of the former 'Frullone' hospital in Naples. This experience of music and dance had a profound impact on those who took part in it. This film is a testimony that indicates possible alternatives to the inhuman marginalization of the mental hospital institution. The director of the hospital Sergio Piro, operators and nurses from the 6th women's division and the Department for Youth Problems of Naples collaborated in the making of the film.

Good Humor

1979 • 7 min • United States of America

a Joe Ranft Cartoon

ABBA in Switzerland

1979 • 59 min • United Kingdom

ABBA star in their first European TV special, recorded on location in the Swiss Alps. Also featuring special guests Kate Bush and Roxy Music.

Life on the Line

1979 • 16 min • United Kingdom

Covers safety procedures in track maintenance work. Intended primarily for track maintenance staff and use on induction courses.

Zbigniew in Love

1979 • 4 min

UCLA Animation Workshop and University of Chicago Color Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. "An animated experimental film which is a comment on the perils of absorbed devotion. The main character, who enjoys creating shadow figures, becomes absorbed in the fantasy of a shapely female who assumes a reality for him, only to turn him into a shadowy substance that disappears"--OCLC worldcat.

Giufa

1979 • 8 min • Soviet Union

Film about Giufa, the spoon, who is lucky to find a great treasure.

Planet Mars

1979 • 29 min • United States of America

Something with the Telephone

1979 • 19 min • Soviet Union

Based on the fantastic story by Kir Bulychyov "Can You Ask for Nina?". Guests gathered in Vadim Nikolayevich’s apartment to celebrate the 1979's New Year with a cheerful company. The landlord unsuccessfully tries to reach his friend Nina. He, dialing a number, gets to a girl who is also called Nina. Her answers seem strange to Vadim Nikolayevich until he realizes that he is in some unusual way talking with a child from Moscow in 1942.

Dread Beat and Blood

1979 • 45 min • United Kingdom

Follows dub poet master Linton Kwesi Johnson out of the recording studio onto the Brixton streets.

Nightmare at Midsummer

1979 • 53 min • Norway

Businessman Henrik Lehmann and his wife Tove are spending the summer at their country house near Risør. The idyll is shattered by a sinister incident. An accident, or perhaps a crime? Police officer Sigurdson, who happens to be holidaying in the same place with colleague Mette, has a mystery to solve

November Eleven

1979 • 18 min

Peter Kennedy's collaborative video 'November Eleven' (1979), made with filmmaker John Hughes, portrays media coverage of the dismissal of the Whitlam Government in 1975 in Australia and the political and social upheavals that ensued.

Oriana Fallaci intervista Ayatollah Khomeini

1979 • 45 min • Italy

Oriana Fallaci, the Italian journalist who is noted for her provocative interviews, interviews the leader of the Islamic Revolution, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, on Sept 12, 1979. For 10 days Oriana Fallaci waited in the holy city of Qum for her interview with the 79 year old Ayatollah, who is the de facto ruler of Iran. On Sept. 12, she was led into the Faizeyah religious school, where Khomeini holds his audiences. She was accompanied by two Iranians Nyho and Iran prime minster Banisadr who had helped set up the interview and who served as translators. Oriana Fallaci, barefoot, enveloped in a chador, the head to toe veil of the Moslem woman, was seated on a carpet, when the Ayatollah entered, and the recorded interview could begin.

Follow You Follow Me

1979 • 33 min • United Kingdom

When a work-related dispute erupts between their fathers, the friendship of teenagers Joseph and Peter is put under strain.

An Impotent Metaphor

1979 • 43 min

Created as part of the Yonemotos’ Soap Opera Series (together with Green Card: American Romance), this postmodern tale navigates artistic and sexual crises in Southern California. Boredom and alienation, the banality of fantasies and reality and the need for idealised romance afflict the characters that wander through this narrative representation of the LA art scene. The pervasive cultural malaise is seen as conditioned behaviour — conscious psychological manipulation by the mass media. Against this dominant ideology, the film’s central figure Norman, played by Norman Yonemoto, approaches art as a means to ‘expose the derivative nature of the romantic ideal’ and ‘promote the examination of our personal contexts.’

Günahkâr Kadın

1979 • 58 min • Turkey

Miró, The Painter

1979 • 5 min • France

Short piece for the TV series Aujourd'hui en France [Today in France]. The review of an exhibition by Miró at the Maeght Foundation offers the opportunity to approach the surrealist artist from the filmmaker's central themes: the theatre, the interrelationship between the arts and the transformation of the childhood experience through art. The ensemble is like a work by Joan Miró translated into real life. This is its first screening after its television premiere in 1980. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

Exekution: A Study of Mary

1979 • 28 min • Germany

This film is in effect a slideshow of exquisite single photographic images in sparkling black and white, representing Mikesch’s own version of Mary Stuart. “The drama of a woman who attempted a kind of liberal emancipation in a time of upheaval, but got caught in the snares of men,” in her words. Confronted with layers and layers of conflicting information about “how it really was” Mikesch decided not to try to be a historian, but to radicalise the narrative and condense it into striking images of passion, power, love, pain and death.

Red Italy

1979 • 53 min • United States of America

Second feature film by the French-born director is a Bertolucci-style story of a bored, rich woman looking for romance and adventure. She meets an American G.I., dumps him, then falls for a Communist worker.

Kate Bush: On Tour

1979 • 30 min • United Kingdom

Aired as part of BBC's 'Nationwide' programming, this documentary captures the leadup to 'The Tour of Life'.