1979 Movies

The Diablada dance of Puno folklore.

Experimental short by Sakae Henmi.

"This documentary from local station KING-TV in Seattle, Washington, examines the history of Mount Rainier through narration, interviews, re-enactment...

Videodance by Lisa Nelson

In Santiago de Chile in 1979, at the height of General Augusto Pinochet’s military dictatorship, Leppe had a five-point star shaved into his hair, inv...

Professor Phosphate discovers that he has no sample of an unusual mineral called "Zubbolite". He travels a considerable distance and endures the deser...

Examines the life of B.F. Skinner and his scientific and philosophical contributions in the field of psychology

This episode from Histories of Love and Carnage, the first adult-oriented animated feature in Spain, offers a scatological, decidedly unsentimental vi...

A Harryhausen influenced short film by Woody Welch from 1979. Shot on 16 mm film, using motion analysis film projectors to combine live-action with st...

Noori spends her time doing "chilla-kashi" (meditation) in front of a candle, and fantasizing about a dream lover who comes to her on horseback.

A César award nominated short feature.

This film, which begins with the words "Be Peep 5" scratched into the film, is projected at 9 frames per second, twice the speed of the normal 8mm pro...

Part of BFI collection "On Yer Bike."

Shared shape, color or movement links each of these varied fragments of urban landscape with the next. Each sight has its own naturalistic ambient sou...

The film depcits the life of the orphans of Tel al-Zaatar Martyrs in “Bait el-Sumud”, the house which was set for them by the General Union of Palesti...

The diagrammatic space first entered in Diagram Film becomes the stage for temporal, rhythmic, informational and spatial play with a single diagram (a...