1979 Movies

A documentary about a feminist run abortion clinic. Counselling is shown to be an important part of the procedure, which is carried out using local an...

A 14-year-old Nicaraguan girl recounts an incredible story: from her involvement in the ght against the dictatorship via imprisonment and torture to h...

A tribute to Virginia, a 23-year-old girl who apparently committed suicide in Ibiza. Excerpts from her letters to Narcisa, written on the walls, appea...

Something of a formal and thematic template for his subsequent work, Frank Cole’s first short film brings a terrifying mixture of intimacy and distanc...

Two versions of this performance are documented in the collection of the Netherlands Media Art Institute. This particular version was filmed in the ar...

Current Autobiography According to Bargain Basement Sinatra chronicles Natalka Voslakov's efforts to secure a boyfriend worthy enough to be the leadin...

An attempt to conjure pictorially, from the mind, an image that isn't referential: "...I'd like to give something back, not a picture of a flower, but...

Arena profiles John Hoyland, seen by many as England's finest abstract painter. As a major retrospective of his work opens in London, Hoyland faces h...

An outdoor gathering.

A ship full of scientists and psychics travels to the Bermuda Triangle to try to document the strange goings-on that are reported there.

Short university film.

Game trains run on tracks, bridges. A man wades through a snowfield. Woman with girl in the nursery. Dancer practising, grimacing. Spiker buildings on...

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...

Lines of Force opens with footage of a dramatic explosion. The screen is divided, into a triptych at first, and slowly into horizontal and vertical ba...