1979 Movies

Recounts the founding of Haiti through the eyes of two captured African tribespeople, Sili and Simba. Starting with their capture in Africa, the story...

A film by Renata Breth

Hand-drawn cartoon in which two characters constantly break out of one another and kill one another. “Freedom is a constant struggle.

A film by Toney W. Merritt

"SAVING THE PROOF is a complex transformation of an ordinary action: a woman walking. The rhythm of her gait and the pulsating, repetitive sounds coun...

A remake of Abram Room's 1927 silent Russian feature, "Bed and Sofa". Heralded as a revolutionary feminist film, Room's version was suppressed for its...

Unarius’ most controversial video work: the banned, pre-Civil War-era yarn The Ballad of Annabelle Lee! Whilst reliving one of her many past life exp...

Using sharp glancing blows, it demonstrates how we are now able to effect an energy transference from one American gas guzzler to another.

A program in which David Wilkie demonstrates various winter sports, like alpine climbing and skiing in the Cairngorms. In one of the segments, John Cu...

Surfing documentary.

Whale Songs, the ambitious final film in the period of Beams’s personal 16mm filmmaking, combines whale watching with depictions of the animation proc...

Rock art (petroglyphs) in Peru.

A visit to the island of Drangey in Skagafjörður. The film shows the traditional egg collecting in the cliffs of Drangey and shows some historical sit...

A young court official (David Chiang) is sent by the government to spy on a prominent family who are believed to be rebels. Once inside, he falls in l...

"Currents" investigates the procedures of spinal stimulation which aim to improve condition of patients suffering from serious nervous diseases. A sma...

A César award nominated short documentary.

This is a very well-done, classic older National Park Service Museum film, and featuring the excellent mounted artillery crew at Petersburg National B...

UCLA Animation Workshop Student Film. A short animated film critiquing Cold War global politics.

The film is built around the idea that showing care and attention to the living nature around us is a sacred duty for everyone. It also emphasizes the...