1979 Movies

As this title indicates, the rule of the game is random. The protagonist invites us to play rhythmic palpitations of radio parasites and broken images...

A profoundly empathetic, unpretentious and droll account of a how a swarthy, Hemingway-like sailor upends the droning routines of a nursing home when...

A man gets stuck in a deep hole, unable to escape. From The Bristol University RFT course 1979.

He is not interested in all the beautiful flowers around him and would give anything for only one star from the sky. And what about the man in the sky...

Much of Juan Downey’s pioneering video work critiques the purported objectivity of ethnographic observation and documentation. To produce The Circle o...

Moving Stillness: Mount Rainier 1979, by incorporating a large body of water, with video and sound recordings of nature, was pioneering in its use of...

An escaped homicidal maniac rummages through a garage, picking up an old garden scythe. Venturing out only in the evenings, the killer resembles the G...

The linear inspector of water protection Ivan Karnavin enters into a confrontation with the leadership of a large industrial enterprise...

Views from Here tells the story of Annie, a housewife and mother of three who begins to suffer from her cloistered, family-centered life. The only dre...

A working day in the life a miller’s family and a modern process of flour grinding in Žito industrial combine.

A look at the city of Edinburgh, Scotland with a particular focus on its famous castle.

Well Done, Daddy

A 1979 short by Rosario Hernández.

Santo falls in love with Michiko, his best friend's sister, Akira, who comes to Jogja to meet Akira. However, her mother obstructed her wishes, becaus...

While all the country's agriculture was conducted by collective and state farms, and this way seemed to be the only correct one, the director M. Litvy...

South African Film

A feature-lengh documentary, shoot on super-8-footage, about the "Umweltfest", a six week long, alternative environmental festival in West Berlin in 1...

Pink film from Toei Central.

Sarah Maldoror uses Carnival as her approach to the history of colonization and black culture. Carnival is understood here as a festivity during which...