1979 Movies

An abstract compilation of found footage. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with National Film Preservation Foundation and Pacifi...

This is a film with a rich and expansive image based on an incredibly high technical level, with a mostly female crew, and careful attention to the co...

Narcisso Metal is a film for Narcissus, mirrors and windows where the look is the subject since it’s Narcissus’ toy. This isn’t without danger as we k...

A salacious (and unexpectedly stylizied) adaptation of Le Fanu's "Carmilla." Not shown in theatres, Blood List was produced for the 8mm home movie mar...

A film by Renata Breth

Kianoush Ayari’s film captures rare scenes of everyday life on the streets of Tehran in the months following the revolution of 1979.

Scar Tissue by Su Friedrich is a filmic version of a white canvas or a silent music piece.The fact that Friedrich never really shows the whole body, b...

A film on SFSU Master’s student Bob Lenz, who would go on to serve as director of Disabled Student Services at Merced College, and his then-girlfriend...

Spiral 5 is in the inaugural collection of Video Art at MOMA [Museum of Modern Art] in New York. It was the fifth in a series of performances of a pie...

The diagrammatic space first entered in Diagram Film becomes the stage for temporal, rhythmic, informational and spatial play with a single diagram (a...

A mundane trip to the country. A meditation on the metaphysics of the creative process, success, failure, and by extension, life, narrated by Dieter F...

In the old days, Park and Yang had a love affair with Jo Yong-hee, the daughter of a boarding house. The two old men meet in the same neighborhood for...

Film depicting the dramatic reconstruction of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour.

In this documentary, Lichtenstein revisits the empty loft that was his New York studio during the 1960s.

"This hand drawn animated film is a tribute to my hands. It was produced between 1977-79 with the assistance of a grant from the Sinking Creek Film Ce...

16mm film documenting Federica Marangoni's performance.

Experimental film by Gianni Bertini.

Ewa Partum’s work entitled Change. My problem is a problem of a woman (1979) is the culmination and the turning point of a process which began with Ch...