1979 Movies

Eltayeb Mahdis film ARBA'A MARAT LIL ATFAL depicts the everyday life at that time in facilities and schools for children with physical or mental disab...

A singular cinematic figure, San Francisco’s Mike Henderson became one of the first independent African-American artists to make inroads into experime...

A feminist documentary about female relationships, especially between mother and daughter.

Four young men after university are sent to work as managers in a collective (kolkhoz). The film is about how these people try to achieve something be...

A teenager rebels against an oppressive ideology enforced by the authoritarian administration of his school and is committed to a mental institution.

Using the accoutrements of baseball, Sherman analyzes the magic of tv/film representation and offers a pun on the word "catch." "The camera catches th...

UCLA Animation Workshop Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Rotoscoped and painted animation of figures swimming in water melds w...

A pentacostal baptism service at a large church (former movie theater) in the South Bronx, shot 1977, edited 1979. Begun as a landscape film about the...

An award winning 45-minute film portrait of Al Neil’s life, music and art. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

A day in the life of one of Melbourne's television stations, as filmed off the screen, one frame in every 10 seconds in 1979. A powerful observation o...

A fairy flick of a lavishly lecherous and preternaturally avant-garde persuasion. A “sequel” to 1969’s La fée sanguinaire.

Live action short by animator Bruno Bozzetto.

For the 'Are'are people of the Solomon Islands, the most valued music is that of the four types of panpipe ensembles. With the exception of slit drums...

A document on the daily life of an ordinary collective farm of the U.S.S.R. in 1978 : the hard-working people who love their work just because they ar...

A 1979 Filipino sports comedy film starring Melanie Marquez

A portrait of a wiry, engaging street hustler, Sal Carulli, whose cocky patter breaks down at the end of the film, when he visits his father’s grave.

8mm film by Swiss artist Roman Signer.

Animated film made using the 'pen on paper' technique, with blown-up shapes forming the letters of the alphabet. A drawn man tangles with these letter...