1979 Movies

Program of biographical character, about Camilo Castelo Branco. Poetically, it recreates the passage of the melancholy presence of the writer, lonely...

Unarius’ most controversial video work: the banned, pre-Civil War-era yarn The Ballad of Annabelle Lee! Whilst reliving one of her many past life exp...

The sculptor Mahmud, an art student comes to his grandmother's village for vacation. He chooses his cousin Zumrad as a living model for his diploma wo...

A mundane trip to the country. A meditation on the metaphysics of the creative process, success, failure, and by extension, life, narrated by Dieter F...

Details, fragments, transformations and shadows of a confined space.

The densest film of the divided-frame group is the aptly titled 1978 Networks, which includes as many as 20 exposures of the same roll of film. Here o...

Two meetings in 1978 with Kimbanda Kambia, a traditional healer in rural southern Angola. Kimbanda shows the place where he treats and prepares medici...

The loneness, the Other and the living together with himself.

Eugenia Balcells presents an interesting reflection on the relationship between image, space and time.

A day in the life of rock star Lincoln Sludd, and his troubles with nemesis Bad Seed.

“It came from 1979! A paranoid tale of the myths and misconceptions surrounding body changes in adolescence. Found footage with hand drawn flourishes....

A film by Coni Beeson.

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...