1979 Movies

Soji-ji (1979) is a video work documenting a chant recitation at a Zen temple. The chant recited by many monks does not proceed in unison like group s...

Sentiment was made as an homage to my mother who died in 1964. It is composed of footage of myself and my mother recorded between 1950-52.

This evocative film is a kind of dossier on San Francisco’s Survival House, which served homeless gay and transgendered people during the late 1970s....

A Brazilian avant-garde film matching the image of John Wayne on horseback to incongruous discourse in Portuguese.

A short film by Vladimir Kobrin.

A mosaic film with "the division of the screen into six fields already attended to in the camera.... The real landscape simply becomes the experience...

Whale Songs, the ambitious final film in the period of Beams’s personal 16mm filmmaking, combines whale watching with depictions of the animation proc...

A doctor tries to revive a dead corpse with his experiments. Thanks to his evil assistant, he creates a blood sucking devil. Can the protagonist stop...

Bunkyo University Film Research Club 1979 8mm Film Production.

“JoAnn & Susan x2” begins with a female protagonist, JoAnn Elam, playfully modeling a red, knit blanket, superimposed by a rider, JoAnn's sister Susan...

A film by Jean Sousa.

A Letraset composition quickly giving brief voice to varieties of synchronization. Hand made image, hand made sound.

Isang araw isang buhay: Directed by Leroy Salvador. With Rudy Fernandez, Elizabeth Oropesa, Alma Moreno, Daria Ramirez.

Early student film by composer and director Mikel Rouse.

Picture of a fight between two women in which the victim is a judge - a man. 'Re-discovered' film by Jadwiga Singer.

This documentary follows Ruscha travelling around Los Angeles as he retrieves a damaged cardboard and papier-mâche ‘rock’ from its permanent site in t...

Accompanied by an excerpt from Paganini's 24th Caprice, this short animation was made by colouring sheets of paper with a variety of oil pastels which...

Colored rectangles forming on top of each other, creating constantly-shifting abstract compositions. Scored by “A Rainbow in Curved Air.”