1979 Movies

Recovered Zulueta short.

Scrooge meets Stagflation in this adaptation of Charles Dickens’ beloved tale.

A seagull agent who infiltrated Japan from Pyongyang plans to smuggle a large amount of drugs into South Korea. The Korean Anti-Aircraft Investigation...

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...

“Super 8 mm full coloured movie with sound, which was recorded directly among grains of sand, stired up under the water surface. Flowing water and san...

In Susan Stein’s early film, G, her interest is language and work and how the two are connected. Experimenting with the conjunction of images and soun...

A documentary about lettercutting, in both monumental inscriptions and on gravestones. The filmmakers were given complete access over a two year perio...

When Maria returns to Puerto Rico to celebrate her 21st birthday, her Sesame Street neighbors arrive to surprise her at the party.

Kamal meets the wealthy widow Alyia and her brother-in-law Zaki. He also meets Saeed, who looks exactly like him and their relationship is strengthen...

In the mid to late '70s, over several visits to New York, Schönherr produced an astounding 107 hour super8 film, a "visual diary" that consists of imp...

An intimate discussion among three professional women active in the Gay Community. They share anecdotes of childhood, careers and many delights of bei...

Kuntzel describes this work: "Three people, or rather three silhouettes of rare objects — frames, windows perhaps, a[n] illustrated manuscript — and a...

As this title indicates, the rule of the game is random. The protagonist invites us to play rhythmic palpitations of radio parasites and broken images...

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...

Jagga, a labourer, loses both his wife and son after an attack by an evil zamindar. He abducts one of the zamindar's sons, raises him as a good person...

London is cut up and manipulated in this highly structured, emotionally compelling piece about the UK's capital city and its capacity to alienate and...

Hong Kong film

There are three characters in Circus Riders: the ventriloquist, the deaf-mute and the mime. They tell the story of story-making, which as they find ou...