All Films

Happy Birthday, Charlie Brown

1979 • 60 min • United States of America

A television special celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Peanuts comic strip and the 15th anniversary of animated Peanuts specials on CBS.

絵里子

1979 • 45 min • Japan

Through Eriko's self-imposed life cycle, the meticulous camera captures the everyday sense of life in the city of Osaka, which should be the center of the story. The tasteful direction shows us the interaction between the rational discipline of the young man who happens to meet Eriko and her intuitive senses. The composition of the film is brilliant, as if a casual description can be traced back and brought to life when it is related to a later scene.

Canada Vignettes: December Lights

1979 • 3 min • Canada

Animated film of a traditional Franco-Manitoban tale that resembles the story of the first Christmas.

Kaiserschnitt

1979 • 59 min

The starting point of Kaiserschnitt is a triangular construction. A horse stands in the centre of a large space, tied to a rope. Ulay and Abramovic are connected to the horse by means of the rope, which runs through two rings fastened to opposite walls.

Meta Morfoss

1979 • 15 min • East Germany, Germany

Meta Morfoss is not only a child with fantasy, she can also transform herself into an angel or crocodile. Often, she gets into strange situations and people around Meta react both negatively and positively.

La Grâce

1979 • 56 min • France

Duperrier, a model of piety, justice and charity, wakes up one day with a halo over his head, to the great despair of his wife who fears the gossip of the neighborhood. He's obliged to do everything possible to lose this gift from heaven.

Smile for Auntie

1979 • 5 min • Czechoslovakia, United States of America

Auntie tries to make her Nephew smile by doing goofy things, but none of it seems to work.

Carnival in the Sahel

1979 • 28 min • Cape Verde

Sarah Maldoror uses Carnival as her approach to the history of colonization and black culture. Carnival is understood here as a festivity during which the limits are transgressed, the world is circumnavigated, and the dominator becomes the dominated, in addition to being an explosion of music and sensations, a great collective performance in which the characteristics of négritude-identity comes forth.

The Stage is Yours

1979 • 12 min • United Kingdom

Promotional tourist film, presenting a history of Britain concentrating on landscape and Inter-City travel.

Foreign-Inspired Architecture in Paris

1979 • 3 min • France

Sarah Maldoror finds inspiration in the hidden corners of Paris, where architecture was shaped by foreign styles and influences.

Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist

1979 • 30 min • United States of America

This Academy Award-winning documentary short Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist, narrated by Sidney Poitier, traces the career of Paul Robeson through his activism and his socially charged performances of his signature song, “Ol’ Man River.”

Şıllık

1979 • 56 min

Horse Drawn Magic

1979 • 27 min • Canada

This documentary short introduces us to the Caravan Stage Company, the world's only horse-drawn open-air theater. Every summer it tours British Columbia and Alberta, bringing live entertainment to communities where television is often the main diversion. In a montage of short sketches, the film shows the troupe on the road and in performance. Hard work and laughter are basic ingredients of this unconventional lifestyle.

Bugs Bunny's Thanksgiving Diet

1979 • 30 min • United States of America

Bugs Bunny's Thanksgiving Diet is a 1979 Looney Tunes Thanksgiving television special. It premiered on CBS on November 15th, 1979.

Cloud Dance

1979 • 13 min

Andy De Groat dances inside "The Four Armed Cloud"--A sculpture by Leonore Tawney. Poetry by Christopher Knowles and "Sun Music" by Michael Galasso accompany the piece. 1979.

自己と他者

1979 • 50 min • Japan

A man returns to his hometown and waits for a woman at the train station, and the dialogue between the man and the woman is interwoven. The film stars Yamakawa regulars Muroi Shigeru and Sato Akihiro in the lead roles.

Behind

1979 • 60 min • Japan

The film begins with a morning scene in an apartment, which one might expect to be a drama about a college student living with a man and a woman, but the style takes a turn when the man and the woman, who had left for school one step ahead of the others, suddenly return home by train. What lies behind, what has passed, passes by with an indifferent face. The author's method of daring to focus on the behind is not only to tell the story through the image of the protagonist, but also through the people in the image, or through the author's own image. It is told not only through the image of the protagonist, but also through the people in the image, or through the artist's own image.

Loose Ends

1979 • 25 min • United States of America

Loose Ends is a collage film about the process of internalizing the information that bombards us through a combination of personal experience and media in all forms. Speeding through our senses in ever-increasing numbers and complicated mixtures of fantasy, dream and reality from both outside and in, these fragmented images of life, sometimes shared by all, sometimes isolated and obscure, but with common threads, lead us to a state of psychological entropy tending toward a uniform inertness… an insensitive un-involvement in the human condition and our own humanity. —Chick Strand

Wide World of Sports: 1970's A Decade in Review

1979 • 60 min • United States of America

ABC's Wide World of Sports hosts Jim McKay and Howard Cossell take a look back on the decade in this wrap-up of the top sports stories of the 1970s.

Yours Truly, Andrea G. Stern

1979 • 38 min • United States of America

A young girl chronicles her divorced mother's relationship with a new boyfriend who has just moved into the house.

Cecilia Roth: Material for Rapture

1979 • 5 min

Recovered Zulueta short.

Legacy: A Very Short History of Natural Resources

1979 • 7 min • United States of America

Legacy takes the audience on a rapid-fire journey through the evolution of the world, starting with a cosmic bang, evolving through billions of years of plants, animals and the creation of natural resources, ending with man and his bounty – “sitting on his world contemplating his coconut”. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

(Sin título) Descartes Arrebato

1979 • 19 min

Recovered Zulueta short.

Available Space

1979 • 20 min • United States of America

"Available Space is a film made for performance on a 360 degree rotary projection table. A woman breaks through confining architectural space, the limited space of a film frame, and the boundaries of a movie screen. Unexpected angles, corners, slants, floor and ceiling are engaged in unexpected play and projection. The film can also be shown as a single channel without live performance." — Barbara Hammer