1979 Movies

The procedure of separating and extracting certain aspects of a scene by adjusting the focus of a series of frames in succession according to various...

Black and white UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Edgar, a Jamaican American who is smoking marijuana, drinking wh...

A handicapped woman talks about her decision to give birth to a girl despite her harsh living conditions and pressures from the surroundings to give u...

Experimental short by Tetsuo Furudate.

This mythological tale of arrogance and downfall was adapted from the "Ramayan" myth. Lord Shiva, the omnipresent god who represents destruction, is d...

“Shot at a Bohemian crematorium outside Chicago, this self-viewing at work makes metaphoric reference to the location and process of cremation. Still...

A film by Joseph Bernard

After the fall of France, Hitler occupied the whole of the Western European coastline and his forces were massed across the channel, facing the southe...

This film is a scrambled narrative that illustrates, in soap opera fashion, life of artists in Lower Manhattan and at the same time dramatizes questio...

This is the story of John Andrews, world-famous Australian architect. In the mid-1960s, when only 29, Andrews was commissioned to design Scarborough C...

The filmmaker himself states that this work was inspired by René Magritte's "The Stone" (or "The Castle of the Pyrenees") and Toshio Matsumoto's "Atma...

Poor James Harrison! Everyone is upset with him - his parents, the next-door neighbor, even the town sheriff - but he didn't do anything wrong! The re...

A film by Coni Beeson.

A model is photographed, but the film camera also comes close to her skin.

Evocations of a space in the mind – limitless, soundless. Blackness punctuated by bursting water bubbles ascending and descending into the unknown. Th...

If you muff this job...your boss will love you!

8mm film made in 1979 by the Bunkyo University Film Research Club.

Film shot by a delegation of the Canadian Communist League (Marxist-Leninist) about the ways in which the people of the state of Democratic Kampuchea...