1979 Movies

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

The third part of Willie Varela's Moon trilogy.

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

A model is photographed, but the film camera also comes close to her skin.

This short documentary produced by Australia’s national science agency CSIRO in 1979 traces the introduction of the European rabbit to Australia and s...

The subject of the first essay is cinema itself: an apparatus of representation wherein fact and fiction are recreated. As such, the pro-filmic facts...

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

In 1976, Ian Dunlop was invited by Dundiwuy Wanambi, a leader of the Marrakulu clan, to Gurka’wuy on Trial Bay in the Gulf of Carpentaria. He wanted F...

The filmmaker's waving hand, its wooden facsimile, a steamship, a rowboat, the ocean and a bowl of water are the main elements in this visual pun that...

Sug-i, a poor North Korean girl is ordered by the communists to go into the mountains and bring wild ginseng for the Red Chief. She wanders around in...

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

A mosaic film with "the division of the screen into six fields already attended to in the camera.... The real landscape simply becomes the experience...

Dedicated Dutch graphic designer Piet Schreuders visits Los Angeles to investigate all kinds of typeface as used in title-credits for movies and TV-se...

A mute mysterious image: hands that multiply leaving their mark over time. In seconds see the years go by. The same actions are repeated and multiplie...

A free form film poem. Moving through inside and outside spaces Luisa Cividin unties a knot made with two curtains. Followed by Roberto Taroni smoking...

The 3rd edition of the Sid Davis original, now in colour and with an expanded script.

This program depicts the lives of Joe who was overweight, stressed and a lover of high fat, high cholesterol foods, and Ann who was a workaholic smoke...