1979 Movies

The silence capturing all the surroundings of Mt. Buko. Documentary directed by Minoru Shinojima 1979, 8mm.

Fishermen of pearls and killer fishes. Beauty and tragedy in the seven seas.

Drawing from Ayi Kwei Armah’s novel, "Two Thousand Seasons," Caldwell meditates on reciprocity and on the concept of “I and I” which postulates no div...

A shearer, his wife and six children leave their farmhouse at daybreak for the week's big event - a Saturday visit to the nearest town, Lake Cargellig...

A single thread of 16mm film runs through three side-by-side projectors, all aimed at the same wall. Twenty-two and a half second elapse between the t...

A wildlife adventure about a fox cub who teams with a badger to survive wilderness dangers.

In L’operatore perforato (1979) that plump sprocket hole comes into its own. It multiplies like a virus, riding serenely on the surface, nearly oblite...

The poet Basil Bunting talks briefly about his long, autobiographical poem "Briggflats", published in 1968, and about the craft of poetry, but the maj...

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...

An animated interpretation of Scott Dobson’s comic guide to the Geordie dialect, Larn Yersel’ Geordie, presented in three lessons. With artwork by Sou...

Follow the different attitudes to life - creative and consumer.

At the documentary film seminar given by Gisela Tuchtenhagen at the dffb in 1979, three documentary portraits of women were made that were combined un...

Short film from director J.R. Bookwalter set in Salem.

This John Dexter production, designed by Desmond Heeley, was a parting gift to the great American soprano Beverly Sills, who bid farewell to the Met a...

"A virtuoso display of all the Hodgdon concerns: language, film politics, and the demystification of the film illusion through jest." - Picture Start...

A girl that lost her life after being gang-raped by gang members revives as a ghost wearing a fox mask in white clothes, and while chanting mysterious...