All Films

Letters to Dad

1979 • 11 min

The almost lyrical Letters to Dad, is a meditation on authority that superimposes the spectre of Jonestown over the relatively fresh faces of the parapunk art world; the film takes on a musical form - like a 20th-century ballad composed of subliminal behavior cues, advertising testimonials, and the text of the National Enquirer

The Councillors

1979 • 59 min • Albania

Year 1943. All the members of an anti-fascist council are arrested by the Nazis during a wedding, along with the husband. They are pressured into signing a document against the council, but they refuse, and instead plan to help the husband escape in case of an execution.

Çekiç ve Titreşim

1979 • 50 min • Turkey

The story of Ahmet, who was given to a body shop by his father at a young age and years later went crazy from the sound of hammers and killed his boss.

Playboy's Roller Disco & Pajama Party

1979 • 49 min • United States of America

Hugh Hefner invites you to Playboy’s Roller Disco and Pajama Party! With your host, Richard Dawson!

Tomorrow Will Be Tomorrow

1979 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Elephant, Boa and Monkey decide that the future had already come.

Olympic Character

1979 • 8 min • Soviet Union

How Misha the bear became the Olympic mascot.

Lady and the Lamp

1979 • 4 min • United States of America

A lamp causes a ruckus in the shop while the shopkeeper is away.

Ferda The Ant In The Foreign Service

1979 • 11 min • Czechoslovakia

Everyone knows Ferda the Ant, who knows how to work with everyone and selflessly helps all small animals from the beetle empire. Everything with him is fun, but he can also punish stupidity and injustice.

Alla Ricerca Del Silenzio Perduto

1979 • 10 min

The happening Alla ricerca del silenzio perduto - Cage's Train has lingered in the memory of all the people who took part in it, and the echoes left behind by the American composer's “prepared train” have spread through time. This rare document, edited by Oderso Rubini and Massimo Simonini.

Canada Vignettes: Bluenose 1921-1946

1979 • 3 min • Canada

A short history of Canada's greatest sailing ship.

Listen to the Music

1979 • 60 min • Canada, Sweden

Swedish-Canadian television special hosted by Swedish artist Ted Gärdestad and Canadian artist Lisa Hartt, where they presented artists and groups from their respective countries, sang some of their own songs and performed a couple of duets.

About a Puppy

1979 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The puppy learns from animals and birds why you need to bite.

Ikuska 2: Gernika

1979 • 14 min • Spain

A memory to the victims and a tribute to the survivors of one of the most tragic episodes of the Spanish Civil War: the bombings suffered by the population of Gernika.

Naive Cinema

1979 • 39 min • Brazil

An essay film on the editing of erotic movies.

Dolly and Carol in Nashville

1979 • 60 min • United States of America

Variety special featuring songs and skits with Dolly Parton and Carol Burnett.

The Kites

1979 • 57 min • Albania

World War II. Even children contribute to the anti-fascist resistance. They write slogans on kites, so that the fascists cannot remove them.

The Hunt

1979 • 11 min • Soviet Union

Short Russian animated film. The boy comes to the hunting shop considers trophies and imagines that he is in the African savannah.

It's Dental Flossophy, Charlie Brown

1979 • 6 min • United States of America

Lucy van Pelt instructs Charlie Brown and Snoopy in the finer points of proper flossing technique for healthy teeth and gums.

Disaster Movie

1979 • 32 min • Brazil

Exchanges

1979 • 15 min • United States of America

Exchanges investigates mechanisms by which meaning is produced in film, through the interaction of the process of construction of a text and the social context which determines and is represented by that text.

Intergalactic Thanksgiving, or Please Don't Eat the Planet

1979 • 23 min • Canada

With a new twist on an old holiday, Intergalatic Thanksgiving or Please Don't Eat the Planet is a delightful animated special combining space age fantasy with the old and revered traditions that make Thanksgiving a great festive holiday.

Dá-lhe, Rigoni!

1979 • 14 min • Brazil

A documentary about the most famous Brazilian jockey of all times, who remembers his glorious past in Rio's Jockey Club.

The Visitor

1979 • 20 min • Soviet Union

Seven times seven Deaths come to earth to fulfill their mission - to take with them the souls of the people assigned to them. One of the novice Deaths is unable to complete the task, because he becomes more and more human after each person he meets.

Emmanuelle From Kasimpasa

1979 • 58 min