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A 1972 Portuguese language drama/adventure film written and directed by Júlio Bressane, starring Rosa Dias and Elyseu Visconti.

Pinku from 1973.

A murderer strikes at a secret gathering of top law enforcement agents, brought together by a millionaire seeking their endorsement of his candidate for governor.

In this sports-oriented drama from South Africa, a former Olympic marathon champion pushes his sons to be as successful in competition as he was and emphasizes victory above all else.

KPIX's Emmy Award winning People's 5 report with Don Knapp from November 24th 1979, on the lifestyle and and political ambitions of the gay community in San Francisco.

A short animated PSA, starring the Tin Woodman and Scarecrow from the land of Oz. They stop woodland animals from smoking a cigarette.

A short film by Kenneth Anger, only available to private collectors and never publicly released.

Home movie documenting birthday celebrations for Palazzolo's daughter, Amy Louise, who was born in 1974. The footage captured here is most likely of her fifth birthday in 1979. She is shown surrounded by friends, excitedly opening her presents.

Three world-class sharpshooters team up and raise hell together. Then, three girlfriends.

A 1976 Filipino film starring Nida Blanca and Eddie Rodriguez.

From backstage magic to applause in the spotlight! Young talent Marlene Ricci shares the stage with entertainment's biggest stars in her chance of a life time, taped at the Caesar's Palace casino in Las Vegas.

Concert in 21/11/77 Capital Center Landover, Md. USA Live at the Capital Centre Landover, Maryland, United States (November 21, 1977) [01]. Wond'ring Aloud [02]. Skating Away On The Thin Ice Of The New Day [03]. Jack-In-The-Green [04]. Thick As A Brick [05]. Songs From The Wood [06]. Instrumental/ Drum Solo Improvisation [07]. To Cry You A Song [08]. A New Day Yesterday [09]. Flute Solo Improvisation / God Rest Ye Gentlemen / Bouree [10]. Living In The Past / A New Day Yesterday (Reprise) [11]. Second Half Of The Concert - Opening [12]. Velvet Green [13]. Hunting Girl [14]. Too Old To Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young To Die [15]. Minstrel In The Gallery [16]. Cross-Eyed Mary [17]. Aqualung [18]. Instrumental Improvisation [19]. Wind-Up [20]. Back Door Angels / Guitar Improvisation / Wind Up (Reprise) [21]. Locomotive Breath [22]. Land Of Hope And Glory/ Improvisation / Back Door Angels (Reprise) Bonus Videos: [23]. Beethoven's Ninth [24]. The Whistler

A college student is raped by an acquaintance, and struggles with reporting the incident.

Bluff Jackson is a smooth talking drifter with a questionable past. His travels take him to an isolated backwoods station where two sisters, totally ignorant of the modern world, are caring for their elderly civil war veteran grandfather.

Short film based on a real news item in which a student from Ohio was sentenced to spend three hours in a pigsty to learn to differentiate between a pig and a policeman. It shows a group of friends which make up a surreal symphony of people counting pigs and the actress Rosa Morata, dressed like a decadent cabaret performer, who unsuccessfully tries to escape from a runaway herd of men.

All the members of an old men's club are large phalluses.

Interview film with Peter Weiss

A woman from a bourgeois family marries a loveless man. She remembers (or dreams?) a life of adventure and smuggling, hijacking ships at night. She is kidnapped by the leader of the enemy gang, with whom she falls in love.

Raindance's Media Primers reflect the group's iconoclastic theories of television and video, and their engagement with alternative and mass media, pop culture and the counter-culture. The themes addressed - media manipulation, the camera's role in modifying individual behavior - illustrate their experiments with the technological and conceptual underpinnings of 1/2-inch portable video.

A collection of performance works enacted for the camera. The performances focus on interventions on the human body, using feathers, hair and garment-like sculptures worn by a performer, and are set against a neutral background or an otherwise deserted outdoor location.

Various unrelated vignettes, often juxtaposing sound and image.

Skip Norman shot ‘On Africa’ after graduating from the German Film and Television Academy (DFFB). On the level of the image, we see tracking shots through West Berlin, information detailing the economic gains of colonialist exploitations, and photographs from West Africa, while the soundtrack shares facts about the continent’s conquest and decolonization. As Norman himself put it: “The starting point is the relationship between Europe’s prosperity and Africa’s poverty; Europe’s destruction of societies and cultures, and the simultaneous use of Christianity and racial theories as justification for a massive exploitation of the colonized.” ‘On Africa’ was first shown in 1970 and then broadcast on television by WDR in 1972. In 2020, the Harun Farocki Institut was able to digitize a 16mm print from the archive at the WDR.

The story of two itinerant con men, the Wild Man and the Colonel, who operate on the West Coast gold mining towns of the New Zealand South Island during the latter part of the last century.

Poisoned and wounded, Lung Ta Chien (Chiang Nan) tries to atone for his evil past deeds by caring for an orphaned child and protecting a book of powerful swordfighting techniques. Accompanied by Yen Nan Fei (Nancy Yen) the trio are beset by fighters wielding a myriad of weapons such as books, pipes, hats, chopsticks, oars and more. Everyone in the jianghu is out for Lung and the book he carries!

The story deals with the situation of a mature man, his mistress, his daughter and a young girl who comes into their lives.

Based on the psychobabble of Reverend Estus W. Pirkle; what would happen to America if its citizens do not give up their depraved ways and turn to the light for salvation? Communist infiltrators, the 'footmen', will pave the way for an all-out invasion by weakening our will through television, dance, rock music, and alcohol. Once the invasion begins, the new Communist government will round up all Christians, and either execute them or force them to undergo reeducation. Only by putting their faith in the Bible where it belongs, says Pirkle, can America resist the coming Red Menace.

A documentary about the New Zealand theatre troupe "Red Mole".

This documentary, directed by Boaz Davidson, was originally intended to warn youth against drug abuse. The film offers an intimate portrait of Shmuel Adi, known as Handsome Jimmy, a 29-year-old man who lives in Tel Aviv and is addicted to opiates and other drugs. In his unique speaking style, Jimmy talks candidly about his struggles and the loneliness of being an addict. The soundtrack features Shalom Hanoch’s song “Children of Life,” written especially for the film.

In Flesh Flows we see a balance of Beckett’s keen drawing ability, in the probing erotic forms, and his technical acuity, which transforms the carnal images into a compelling, transcendent experience. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with iotaCenter and National Film Preservation Foundation in 2007.

taiwan films

The conceptual artist John Baldessari performs an amateur magician’s rendition of the holy miracle.

In 1970, a group of Vietnam veterans set out on a long march. They want to confront the local population with the shocking injustices that have been going on in Vietnam for years.

Canadian reporter Patrick Watson interviews 72-year-old Albert Speer, Hitler's architect and later, his Minister of Armaments. Speer, the only high-ranking Nazi official to plead guilty at the Nuremberg trials, served 20 years in Spandau prison for war crimes. Includes a discussion of Speer's memoirs, Inside the Third Reich and rare footage of Adolf Hitler.

A young criminal comes up with a scheme to make a big score. He hides $100,000 worth of heroin in his friend's Porsche and smuggles it from Mexico into the US. His plan succeeds, but then the other members of his gang start getting greedy. Complications ensue.

Roland and Rattfink compete against each other in a 1901 car race.

Bart, a gunslinger, dominates the territory. Then Willy wanders into town and falls in love with a prostitute named Rose. Bart chases Willy out of town but he returns with a group of men and shoot it out with Bart and his gang.

Anti-shoplifting film co-produced by Sid Davis and Motorola.

People talk about what they are feeling. Ranging from the literal to the emotional.

This performance consists of ten songs in which music, language and images are equally important. In most of these songs, Anderson plays the violin, accompanied by her own singing and an audiotape (with spoken text, more singing or more violin music). Her songs are often combined with a film projection: she is framed by the light from the projection, and is playing with the shadows cast by her body and her violin. Anderson makes experimental music, and she often find solutions in technological inventions, as with the song 'a man, a woman, a house and a tree'. The music for this piece is created with the help of a ‘slow-scan’ machine, which registers visual information and transforms this into sound. These experiments are not only about music, but also abou language: anagrams, play on words and poetic stories. The introductory anecdotes that Anderson tells are just as important as the song itself.

George Foreman vs. Ron Lyle was a boxing match that took place on January 24, 1976 in Caesars Palace, Paradise, Nevada, U.S.

First performed in 1966, Trio A consists of an approximately five-minute sequence of discrete movements that, with the exception of walking, are never repeated. Although it appears effortless, the dance is painstaking to learn in its precise articulation of the body.

In X-Ray, Ana Mendieta uses a Cinefluorography unit, a medical tool usually employed for diagnostic and research procedures. In Mendieta’s hands, she takes us inside her own head, filming her own X-Rayed skull while talking.

Fictionalized news documentary portraying the US in the midst of a worldwide environmental crisis.

Special introducing William Shakespeare to young people through sketches, readings and music.

A group of high school students on an archaeological dig discover a centuries old mummified body in a sealed cave. Removing the mummy, it soon comes back to life, revealing itself to be an inhuman beast that terrorizes a small California town.

Su-Jeong, a daughter of the lord of a castle in a beautiful country, Star, loves Ho-Dong, a brave man. The lord declares that the person who brings the most valuable treasure will be the husband of his daughter. Then, with a magic box, Ho-Dong takes part in the contest but Wang Bang Wul wins the victory with an evil plot. Frustrated Ho-Dong and Su-Jeong go in the magic box where the age is modern times. They experience there a variety of happy events, appearing on TV and winning a prize. Ho-Dong and Su-Jeong returning to Star under Wang Bang Wul's occupation rescue the lord and restore peace.

Documentary on the extreme conditions of the Namib Desert in the southwest of Africa, and on the extraordinary creatures who thrive there. With temperatures at nearly double that of the warmest temperate climes, it seems nothing could survive. Yet life flourishes, miraculously.

An anonymous narrator outlines a bizarre journey taken through "H", aided by a series of extraordinary maps, and his previous dealings with the mysterious Tulse Luper and the keeper of the bird house at the Amsterdam Zoo.

Rogers and Anders are an inseparable pair of con men who pay off a wealthy industrialist by providing him with dim, beautiful women. These lovelies are easily scored off the street and outfitted with elegant gowns from a high-class boutique the duo has an arrangement with. There's one thing that Rogers and Anders haven't expected, though, and that's for their Hong Kong nemeses to dispatch a vicious assassin to the States for revenge! Luckily, they meet up with Felicity Fox a "gorgeous and naïve metermaid" who flunked out of the police academy, but can still hold her own when it comes to kung-fu fighting!!!

James Whitmore gives a rousing performance as Teddy Roosevelt, in a one-man show before a live audience similar to his previous performances in Give 'em Hell, Harry! and Will Rogers' USA.

An unknown observer is seen traveling through a bleak corridor. At the end of the corridor they see a naked woman, whom they are unable to reach as their trip seems to become increasingly twisted and looped.

A black high school student is caught dating a white girl by the girl's brother. He and his biker gang beat the boy to death. The boy's brother, who is a member of a black biker gang, hears about it and comes to town to avenge his brother's death.

This film points out the risks of being a heroin addict. Explains that addicts cannot be identified solely with one particular socio-economic level and cannot always be detected by appearance. Addicts and ex-addicts describe the first and subsequent drugs they used.

A group therapy session takes place involving a drummer from a suddenly defunct jazz band, an athlete and a pregnant junkie.

Mendieta, Ana: Burial Pyramide, Yagul, Mexico.

Papa Bear and the cubs search the woods for the perfect Christmas tree, but run afoul of the woodland animals who live in the trees they aim to cut down.

Dramatization of the trial of General Yamashita.

Weird Harold and Fat Albert plan a potentially dangerous go-cart race. After hitting a police squad car after an out-of-control slapstick race, the kids find themselves arrested and in trouble with their parents.

When Ebon Lundin slams headfirst into his mid-life crisis, he quits his job and explores life’s meaning through a series of fantasies and surreal encounters.

During this critical decade in American life, artists built on the styles of the 1950s. An explosion of artistic energy produced Pop Art, Minimalism, color-field painting, and hard-edged abstraction. Sculptors and painters on both coasts explored new methods and new subject matter. American Art in the Sixties examines the key figures of that decade including Rauschenberg and Johns, two crucial transitional figures between Abstract Expressionism and the sensibilities of the new decade. The art of that time mirrors the optimism and the affluence, and the technology and the vulgarity of those boom years.