All Films

Virgin Rope Makeover

1979 • 60 min • Japan

Pink film from 1979

Savaged and Ravaged

1979 • 60 min • Japan

A beautiful bride came to the old house. No one knew her past. Life with Husou Genzo was happiness itself... The younger brother, who had returned home, was once the bride's lover. She seems to keep in touch with her brother-in-law... However, they are discovered by the villagers.

Deasey (Desperate)

1979 • 30 min

Deasey is a dreamer - torn between earning his precarious living as reporter on the London end of a Dublin paper, and writing the 'Great Irish Novel'. Perhaps a meeting with old friend, pop-star Noel, will clarify things in his unclear mind? But then again, perhaps it won't.

Nihon Meisaku Kaidan Gekijō: Kaidan Kajikazawa

1979 • 45 min • Japan

On the Kōshū Kaidō road, merchant Sōjirō is poisoned, robbed, and pushed off a cliff by former courtesan Okuma and her lover. A year later, a fugitive named Shinsuke, on the run after killing his wife, encounters a sinister, heavily made-up man. He soon realizes this man is the vengeful spirit of Sōjirō…

Det hender ikke meg

1979 • 30 min • Norway

Interviews with Kjell who is a cancer patient, children who smoke and various celebrities on their views and experiences on smoking.

Weekend

1979 • 30 min

A weekend at a winter seaside hotel, which includes a chance meeting with the elegant Liz Perrin, could help playwright David Austin to recharge his creative batteries. Maybe there are other things in his life that need recharging, or indeed rethinking.

Nihon Meisaku Kaidan Gekijō: Kaidan Ōoku (Hi) Akazu no Ma

1979 • 45 min • Japan

In the final days of the Edo shogunate, a government commander enters Edo Castle to inspect the Ōoku. Ignoring warnings, he steps into a forbidden room where, 200 years before, Lady Oyuki, a favored concubine, was forced to commit suicide by Tokugawa Tsunayoshi over a suspected affair. Consumed by vengeance, her spirit continues to haunt all those involved in the tragedy.

Miss Nelson Is Missing

1979 • 14 min • United States of America

Ignored by her class, Miss Nelson mysteriously disappears one day, and the poisonous "Miss Swamp" takes over the class. The students suddenly realize they really like Miss Nelson and a search begins to find her.

Doctor Pink

1979 • 6 min • United States of America

As a hospital janitor the Pink Panther takes up first aid, to the disgust of the duty doctor.

Grass Labyrinth

1979 • 42 min • Japan

Akira is haunted by a "bouncing ball" song that he remembers his mother singing when he was a small child, and now on the verge of a sexually active adulthood, he wants to find the origins of the song. The young man ostensibly wanders into a time-warp in which aspects from his childhood and adulthood mix together. In this never-never land he comes across a beautiful woman/witch who is lost inside the labyrinth of her mansion, just as the young man is lost in the labyrinth of time — and on some levels, perhaps the labyrinth of his subconscious.

Ağa Düşen Kadın

1979 • 60 min • Turkey

Kezban is a fellow living in the village. Her husband left her and her daughter and ran away. In the village, the young boy named Ali is interested in the Kezban and wants to marry him. They will be married anyway. Kezban is also a widow. So they do not hesitate to be together. They meet secretly and make love in the village straw. The daughter, who is quite old, is also aware of this relationship.

Unico: Black Cloud and White Feathers

1979 • 26 min • Japan

The Goddess Venus is jealous of the beautiful human girl Psyche and blames her pet unicorn, Unico, as Psyche's source of good luck that keeps her from the harm of the goddess' cruel intentions. Unico has the amazing power to make anyone he meets happy. Whether it's because of his personality or the powers of his horn, no one knows. Venus has Unico banished, and the West Wind now takes Unico from one place and time to the next. Taken to a heavily polluted city, Unico meets a sickly girl named Chiko who is suffering because of the pollution of a nearby factory that darkens the entire sky. Unico then is determined to cheer her up, cure her, and destroy the nearby factory.

Fata Morgana

1979 • 40 min • Sweden

Fata Morgana - a mirage, a vision that's become a film. A fantastical space journey through technical spheres.

Split Decision

1979 • 15 min • United States of America

This film is a scrambled narrative that illustrates, in soap opera fashion, life of artists in Lower Manhattan and at the same time dramatizes questions about the nature of filmic representation. Split decision is a boxing term used when the judges divide their votes in finding a winner. In this case the fight is between the two heroes of the film who are seen intermittently in a bar, negotiating a pick-up, and at home, breaking up in a domestic quarrel. The fight is also in the telling, between modes of conventional representation and modes of radical representation - between conventional continuity editing, and abstraction created through computer generated grids. The film features an appearance by Carolee Schneemann and digital imaging from before the era of personal computers.

Getting Started

1979 • 12 min • Canada

A concert pianist prepares to begin his practising for a major concert coming up. Unfortunately, he has this procrastination problem that prevents him from getting any serious time done, even when his frustration with it literally driving him into a frenzy.

My Way

1979 • 37 min • United Kingdom

Arena documentary investigating the history and influence of iconic song 'My Way'

Britannia

1979 • 26 min • United Kingdom

A study of train enthusiasts.

Double Shutter

1979 • 7 min

A reworking of material from the 16mm film ‘Blue Bathroom’, a distillation of ideas concerning the tension between representation and materiality. By superimposing and alternating identical framings of two windows filmed by day and by night the film uses their positive/negative aspect to construct and break down representational images and sounds.

Toro Pink

1979 • 7 min • United States of America

Pink Panther once again becomes a toreador once the first one chickens out.

Electric Eskimo

1979 • 57 min • United Kingdom

A young Eskimo boy accidentally gets hit by a mysterious ray during a secret British experiment and finds that he is now electrified.

Pearl Barley

1979 • 44 min • Yugoslavia

A TV drama about orphaned children.

Over There

1979 • 34 min

'It's like the Sealed Knot innit, it's historical.' A group of World War II enthusiasts forgather in the Lake District to do battle with a similarly devoted group of Waffen SS, especially imported from Gravesend. Of course, Windermere 1979 is not Normandy 1944, but for some, perhaps wishing will make it so?

Pink Suds

1979 • 7 min • United States of America

The Pink Panther goes to the launderette, and causes mishaps to a customer there.

Sleepless Nights

1979 • 49 min • United States of America

New Cinema cofounder Becky Johnston recently described this little-seen feature as “an East Village reinvention of the Otto Preminger movie *Laura*” that plays “fast and loose with the noir detective genre.”