1979 Movies

Latin American children, children of exiles and political prisoners, tell of their experiences of integration in Cuba, sharing their memories from exi...

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

Narcisso Metal is a film for Narcissus, mirrors and windows where the look is the subject since it’s Narcissus’ toy. This isn’t without danger as we k...

The window serves as a metaphor for looking and watching. The cinematic illusion is redoubled by the uncertainty of the iconic referent. It is a query...

Rapid rhythms due to a geometrical treatment of the images, of which most of the chisellings are oblique lines. Insertion were made with film scraps i...

Discovery of the body in the state of matter which moves and takes shape. Two bodies thus evolve by confronting their own anatomical space. Their comm...

Conciseness, lightness and popular themes make these aquatic entertainment (on fresh or salt water) as many songs for the eyes and ears. An atmosphere...

Gulls usually don't fly in movie theaters, but in this case... A scatterbrained camera observes seagulls. See breeze and editing league in order to t...

A short fantasy-mystery film spoof that was part of the educational film "Meadowlark Lemon Presents The World" (1979)

Moving Stillness: Mount Rainier 1979, by incorporating a large body of water, with video and sound recordings of nature, was pioneering in its use of...

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

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...

Documentary by Hans-Dieter Grabe.