1979 Movies

An overweight sports fan runs a race to the finish...

Louise Lawler's 'A Movie Will Be Shown Without the Picture' (1979) presents a movie in a regular cinema environment, but without any moving images

The operetta Memoirs of a Seafarer is a musical theater work presented in 1979 on the occasion of the Kuwaiti National Day, written by the poet Mohamm...

At the documentary film seminar given by Gisela Tuchtenhagen at the dffb in 1979, three documentary portraits of women were made that were combined un...

16mm film, optical color. Uses the camera with deliberate technique to record Japan's leading punk band In a style that imbeds the music in a filmic t...

Here the codes are both amplified and distanced by an expressionist plastic that for the first time perhaps in Expressionism, takes humor into account...

This film documents the activities of the Stars Group, an underground collective of artists who pursued freedom of expression in China in the late 197...

An attempt to conjure pictorially, from the mind, an image that isn't referential: "...I'd like to give something back, not a picture of a flower, but...

Served as the inspiration for Jerry O'Sullivan's 'Gut Pile'.

An animated interpretation of Scott Dobson’s comic guide to the Geordie dialect, Larn Yersel’ Geordie, presented in three lessons. With artwork by Sou...

Choi, Mun-oh decides to become a police officer over the objections of his girlfriend. He hopes to serve his country and is determined to fight the pr...

Hong Kong film

Arena profiles John Hoyland, seen by many as England's finest abstract painter. As a major retrospective of his work opens in London, Hoyland faces h...

The procedure of separating and extracting certain aspects of a scene by adjusting the focus of a series of frames in succession according to various...

Experimental short by Igor Kopystiansky and Svetlana Kopystiansky.

The stars are cast as a gorgeous woman, a mystic and a kung-fu expert. They team up to form a united front when an insidious empire threatens the wel...