1979 Movies

Colored rectangles forming on top of each other, creating constantly-shifting abstract compositions. Scored by “A Rainbow in Curved Air.”

In a motel room a TV plays the live broadcast of an eclipse. In the background, out the window, the street scene is dingy and dark. On the TV the ecli...

A woman tells stories and smokes in a pinball arcade photo booth. The interchange between photography and film is explored in this experimental short...

How we destroy the site of Lake Trémelin in Iffendic, in the name of tourism of course. The lake becomes the prey of promoters for a "marina"! A natur...

A woman reminisces about her childhood on a Prairie farm during the Depression. Her memory album is a collection of watercolours by artist/filmmaker B...

Made using a super 8 sound camera. The microphone is attached to a stick protruding from the camera, and kept just out of sight. This image-and-sound-...

Gorewitz abstracts footage of highway traffic, gradually transforming the ordinary into a multi-layered world of shifting colors and sounds.

Use of wastewater for agriculture and environmental health.

An album-like collection of nine personal reflections on various aspects of the French Acadian region of Louisiana. Each of these reflections, or what...

Indigenous elders of Alberta explain the history and necessity for controlled burns in this 1979 documentary by H.T. Lewis, Professor of Anthropology...

A sunset scene with a fragment of the sun about to disappear at the edge of a mountain, children conveying a message against the background of a faint...

In 1977, some teenagers from Alfortville, Vitry-sur-Seine and Val-de-Marne estates created the Collectif Mohamed and made three shorts. They wanted to...

Documentary and concert film of sorts showing the Tokyo rock music scene in 1978, just as punk began to emerge. Featuring performances from bands Fric...

Film starring Rita Bhaduri, Giresh Desai and Leela Jariwala

This film is a good example of 'wrong' picture/sound juxtapositions. Uncanny collisions and combinations of sound and picture make this film one of my...