Cinematic Era: 1978 Vintage

An insight into the culturally and historically significant region of Hadramaut.

Outtakes of Indian war movies are edited to show how the media shapes our minds, feelings, and dreams.

UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. A haunting film about the Jewish ritual of memorial lighting a candle on the anniversary of a loved one's death, which took on particular significance as Steve Nelson's mother passed away during the making of the film.

Live-action showcase of ice skating performances led by Snoopy.

Early stand-up television special starring Billy Connolly

After refusing the sexual advances of her village chief and her father's authority, a young woman runs away from home and goes to town. There she meets several members of her family and tries to start her life from scratch. She enrolls at a high school and makes new friends. However, she realizes that social relations in town also depend on sexual favors and that around her everyone has given in to that practice. When she loses the only man she loved, the girl returns to her village and in a fit of rage sets it on fire.

Hans-Peter Hochenrath and Birgit Hein made a documentary film about me for the Saarland Network and wanted me to make a self-portrait. Instead of pointing the camera lens away from myself, I pointed it toward myself. I rewound the film over and over again so that multiple exposures were produced, while I was repeatedly fading in and out.

Playful animated film which won first place at the Jacksonville Film Festival and second place at the Ottawa International Animation Festival in the late 1970s.

A sampler of the lives, places, and events which make up present-day Colombia, South America. Provides insights into the look and feel of Colombia, as well as Latin America as a whole.

The Mapuche tribe asks their Gods for help in difficult situations, including illness and drought. When the Spanish conquerers on their horses invade their country, the indigenous people think that they are aliens. The Spaniards capture and enslave many of the Mapuche tribe. Lautaro, a young captured native, realizes that these aliens are human beings without any divine power. He learns to use their weapons and organizes a resistance movement against the intruders.

Part 3 of the Wittstock series also shows the surroundings of the textile factory. Older gentlemen in a pub reveal that two factories produced fabrics for the military here during the Second World War. In 1945, only a handful of handlooms remained. The contemporary witness does not say why. It was probably too sensitive to reveal the reason on camera in 1978: The Soviet occupying power dismantled many production facilities in the GDR after the end of the war and transported them to the home of the victorious Red Army.

A revision of Bardo Follies, Diploteratology suggests that “death (destruction of the original image) is not an end but merely the next stage.” Preceded by longer versions entitled "Bardo Follies."

Whether the joke involved singing, dancing, playing the piano or doing impressions of popular celebrities, classic comedian George Kirby could do it all -- and audiences always repaid him with hearty laughter. In this installment of HBO's "On Location" series, filmed at Grossinger's Hotel in New York's Catskill Mountains in the late 1970s, Kirby unleashes his unique brand of humor, impersonating Sarah Vaughan, Marlon Brando and many more.

Second film on the experimental school of Bonneuil.

Short film.

This documentary shows how Icelanders maintain the salmon stock in their rivers. It includes scenes from salmon fishing in the river Laxá í Kjós, the release of parr in a river called Svartá in the Skagafjördur district and the netting of salmon in the rivers Blanda and Ölfusá.

Part of Sherwin's short film series. "...In the shuddering stasis of METRONOME– an illusion caused by the clash between the spring-wound mechanisms of the Bolex camera and of the metronome itself." -Film-Makers' Co-Op

Two groups of men from neighboring villages get into a clash after both of them shot one wolf for the upcoming local festivity called "vucarenje" (wolf assembly), a rural custom typical for Dalmatian Zagora. Their rivalry ends in a tragic way.

In the late seventies director Wolfgang Büld hits the Screen with his historic documentary "Punk in London." The follow up of this rough document in the annals of the youth culture and it's first steps to become a worldwide phenomenon was the production of "Bored Teenagers" for German TV Station ZDF, which showed it in the frame of "Das kleine Fernsehspiel". Filmed at Locations around London, Cologne, Wuppertal and Büld's Hometown Lüdenscheid, it's parted into rare recordings of Adverts Live-Gigs mixed up with a little Storyline of a young couple that supports the Band around TV Smith and Gaye Advert on their Tour across Germany.

Krishna, a gangster, searches aggressively for a rival gang that circulates fake currency after his family's reputation is ruined. Meanwhile, a police officer tries to stop his illegal activities. It is a remake of Dus Numbri (1976).

A candid portrait of the late Tennessee ballad singer, story-teller, and part-time moonshiner Hamper McBee.

Inspired by Franz Xaver Kroetz’s study of violence in the play “Michi’s Blood”, the film chronicles a lovers’ quarrel as a volley of insults are hurled across a domestic space that reflects the foul situation of its inhabitants.

A film by Michael New.

For yet another film, All Area (1978), Krell shot the shadow of a curtain on the floor of his New York loft for 30 minutes with ancient black and white Portapack ½” video equipment, then remastered the material on negative film stock with a professional film chain to achieve astonishing results in contrast, frame sizing, and the arbitrary duration of this reductive image.

Jon Alpert and Keiko Tsuno made headlines with a 1977 journalistic coup when they became the first American television crew allowed back into Vietnam after the U.S. withdrawal and were given unprecedented access to the ruined countryside and its people. The resulting "up-close" study of Vietnam's grim post war reality relies on the voices of the common people to tell their stories.

Pink film by Akira Fukamachi.

The film observes mentally handicapped children and young people and depicts learning and preparation for later activities and social life.

A man fights alone against the slum landlords.

Second documentary short by Peter Nestler about Iranian migration in Sweden.

As the long-awaited summer holidays begin, Candy and her friends go hiking in the mountains. However, a heavy rainstorm interrupts their leisure, making them hide in the forest. After the rain has stopped, the friends are ready to proceed, but Candy gets herself into some serious trouble when she encounters a cute bear cub.

Four Republican exiles of different political tendencies recall their stay after the spanish Civil War in the French refugee camps, especially in Argeles

Short footage about the illegal settlements issues and the struggle of the residents for the regularization of the land's possession.

Jan Decorte's second feature film is an adaptation of the play Hedda Gabler by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. Decorte moved the locus of action of Ibsen's realistic play from 1890 to 1950, twenty-eight years earlier than when the film was shot. The story begins when Hedda returns home from an overly long honeymoon with her newly wed but colourless husband Tesman. She is pregnant and will be courted by the writer Eljert Lövbor, an old lover who is about to break through with an exceptional novel of autobiographical quality [Avila].

The movie is about the complex relationship between two teenage classmates: Lukashov, striving to be the leader of the class, and the newcomer Alexandrov, who came to town with a circus shapito...

Art film part of the REWIND + PLAY, An Anthology of Early British Video Art box-set.

A series of interiors exploring the work of various businesses - presumably in Kirkwall.

This short film traces the story of a man from birth to old age. The magical dreams of his youth appear from time to time, but daily routine quickly takes over. His striving for material wealth – including a Trabant car, a shelving unit, a boat – leads him to betray his youthful ideals, and he ultimately becomes a slave to his possessions. In the final frames of the film, “LIVE” – written in large white letters – ironically reminds viewers not to forget to follow their dreams.

Two friends meet up to talk about themselves, about the violence perpetrated on women, the assaults they have suffered and rape as well as their own alienation. They talk about justice and repression with three lawyers.

Ken, a dithering aspirant to the counter culture, returns from an abortive trip to Bali only to find things worse in Melbourne. A tragi-comedy detailing a young man's humiliation and inability to communicate.

Shades of Silk is a film of mood and memory; two Chinese women, who had been friends in school, are caught between a longing for social stability and something much more fulfilling but frightening and vague in their relationship. A large part of the action takes place in the Shanghai of 1935 although the film was shot entirely on location in Paris.

Did you know that there are 100 trees for every Berliner or that West Berlin has the newest congress center in the world? This film shows the chocolate sides of the city in the areas of work, living, entertainment, sports and transport. He is one of several "recruitment films" with which the West Berlin Senate specifically wanted to convince new specialists from West Germany to work in West Berlin in the 1970s. Because of the island situation and politically unstable situation, West Berlin was particularly lacking in the influx of qualified workers.

Dave Jones prototype modules (keyers, color field generators, output amplifier), black-and-white camera, microphone and Serge audio modules (voltage controlled oscillators, filters, sequencer)

Short film by photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. A portrait of Patti Smith.

Following in the footsteps of pioneers like Émile Cohl, the brilliant inventor and self-taught artist Louis Van Maelder created a body of work of unparalleled richness and inventiveness by drawing directly onto the film strip.

In this award-winning children's adventure created by Ian Mune, Tony (Ian Templeton) and Suey (Julie Wilson) spend time on their uncle's farm and become country kids — riding horses to school and getting stick from mouthy classmate Harvey (Buddy Ruruku). The trio are fascinated by local drifter 'Rotten' Fred, whose dog Ratsguts is rumoured to be a sheep killer. They form the Mad Dog gang, uncovering Fred's history and protecting him from vindictive farmer Wilkie (John Bach). Directed by Ross Jennings, this telemovie combines three half-hour episodes. It was named Best Drama at the 1979 Feltex Television Awards.

“…a series of ellipses linked by a restless camera in search of diverse characters who appear not only as outsiders but as refugees from other films, from other constructs! An experimental musical/thriller. The body of the film is set in “Europe” and consists of a number of isolated passages using a variety of cast, locations and languages.” (from: http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b6d993b6a)