1979 Movies

This film (which is silent apart from a song from the Easter Uprising of 1916 that it illustrates) uses only techniques available at the time, thereby...

Children of the fourth grade take you through a typical lunch period - from washing hands to putting garbage in the trash barrel.

United States 1979, Super 8 transferred to digital, colour, silent, 3 min

Kianoush Ayari’s film captures rare scenes of everyday life on the streets of Tehran in the months following the revolution of 1979.

16mm film by George Kuchar.

The final days of the reign of the Shah: processions of mourning and jubilation, scenes after the fire in the Cinema Rex in Abadan, southern Iran, in...

A short documentary by Saad Nadim documenting the relocation of the Philae temple complex from its original island to Agilkia as part of the UNESCO-le...

Colorful forms morph in and out of frame.

“Mining an ironic vein by turning technology against itself, AlienNATION undercuts the sociological ramifications of modern living. It is an astoundin...

UCLA Animation Workshop Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Rotoscoped and painted animation of figures swimming in water melds w...

Game trains run on tracks, bridges. A man wades through a snowfield. Woman with girl in the nursery. Dancer practising, grimacing. Spiker buildings on...

Official entry to the first Metro Manila Film Festival in 1979 directed by Jun Gallardo and starred Lito Lapid, George Estregan, Dante Varona, David A...

With an audio track of children describing their dreams, Beams’s animation depicts them soaring above fields and through the clouds in scenes of youth...

This documentary follows Ruscha travelling around Los Angeles as he retrieves a damaged cardboard and papier-mâche ‘rock’ from its permanent site in t...

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

Short work.

Here is quite possibly one of the first squishy videos, filmed by me (with my sister Mimi) in 1979 [not ASMR, unfortunately, 'cause THERE IS NO SOUND....

A young Halifax architect withdraws from a promising partnership after experiencing events that lead him to question the ethics of his profession. Thi...