1979 Movies

A firefighter band wanders through the wasteland. Everyone marches cheerfully until they encounter various adventures.

A teenage girl is obsessed with the lead singer of a rock band, but is often mistaken for her idol by fellow fans.

This is a shortened version of a three-movement film made over a summer’s stay in Provincetown, MA (Cape Cod),first alone, then with family. A journa...

Shot on board a boat from the Westman Islands, this film covers a typical fishing trip. Follows the three-man crew of this small vessel at their work:...

Four abstracts that may have been inspired by the spirit of Arnhem Land's geomancy. I'll trade you a print of QUARTET for air-fare to Ayher's Rock. –D...

An abstract compilation of found footage. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with National Film Preservation Foundation and Pacifi...

Line animation of a birthday.

A naive look at Southern California by an outsider, and/or an essay on displacement through the disjunction of Californian images and off screen voice...

A ceremonial healing film, with footage shot by William Moritz, Harry Frazier, Robert Curtis, Amy Halpern, Phil Stuart and FuDing Cheng, with addition...

Protective Coloration shows Fisher seated at a mottled table. He wears short-sleeved hospital garb, surgical green ‘scrubs’. Nose-clips block his nost...

In a series of 13 images, Armatage here renders with great success a subjective approach to the woman's experience of abortion.

The film recounts a survivor's harrowing experience of being kidnapped and held hostage. He reflects on the moments leading up to his capture, the psy...

First transmitted in 1979, this programme looks at the Rainhill Locomotive Trials in Rainhill, Lancashire (now Merseyside) in 1829, a competition to f...

An animated miniature for children, affirming the principle of "Never give up!"

Early work of the celebrated director.

Szirtes's masterful experimental work is a dazzling composition of several years of filming within an industrial macro/microcosm, an abstract model of...