1979 Movies

"Images, voices, and attitudes of Black Residents of New Haven" (Monaco, How to Read A Film: Revised Edition, 1981)

Short about families working together

Experimental docufiction concerns itself with the future of the Ryuku islands, as the United States turns control over to Japan in the late 1970s.

Dr. Hubert Fez is looking for an assistant for his transportation company, and strikes a deal with young petty criminals

Two men climb out of a pit in the earth and dissolve into a wild collage of patterns, images and bodies. Barysas’ most experimental film.

Presents three segments--two shot outdoors and one inside--entitled "Ossabaw Island," "Waterpick," and "Andalusia." Emphasizes the unexpected transfor...

A man peels a banana in stop-motion by putting it through his head.

Complicated relationship between mother and daughter. An elderly woman, disappointed in her dreams of a career as a pianist, ruthlessly dominates her...

Two young men with high ideals and unrealistic expectations of life quickly learn that they need to lower their standards.

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...

The sacrificial well is said to have magical healing powers and money, silver, jewellery or other items are sacrificed there. The water of the sacrifi...

Two young men, one married and the other an “out” seventies clone, meet in a public toilet and have hot sex, but they’re caught through video surveill...

Footage documenting Chicago's famed "Blizzard of '79," including some early examples of parking "dibs," people digging out their cars, and postal carr...

The tenants at 5117 N. Kenmore describe the appalling living conditions of their apartments. A new edit of footage shot in Chicago in 1979.

A human figure - the artist herself - first gestures the word behind a scenery paper that functions as a membrane. After successive approaches of the...

A short industrial experimental film