Cinematic Era: 1979 Vintage

A group of young friends give the only married couple in the group a waterbed that all the couples in the group want to try.

Documentary about film director Marta Meszaros featuring on-set interviews with the director and creative collaborators

A technical documentary on the development of improved railway brake materials to increase performance and durability.

South African Film

Erich Honecker visits the Republic of Zambia

Pink film by Kinya Ogawa.

This, the sixth film of the SINCERITY/DUPLICITY series, seems rooted in the earliest tradition of my work, Psycho-Drama, as well as in the most recent, Imagnostic, directions taken. It is remembrance as well as thought which fashions it in lonely hotel rooms, sincere return of the mind to that which is loved, ephemeral faces of children growing older, familiar objects interwoven with easy alien familiarity, the images of strangers in UNeasy identification, sexual posture and the lure of the Beloved as irreducible image.

"Every landscape, like every subject, ends up looking like the painter who paints it" A posthumous tribute to painter Lermite (1920-1977), whose real name was Jean-Pierre Schmid.

A filmmaker finds his brother who he has not seen for ten years and introduces him to the world of African musicians in Paris.

German film.

An unemployed youth decides to protest against the cruel world.

A young woman is accused of "Immorality" (aka prostitution) and she is sent for re-education to work on a construction site.

Made for Roger Reynolds's Voicescapes performance, containing elements from Emshwiller's previous film "Sunstone."

In sharp monochromatic tones, the slow and difficult hatching of an insect, followed by the discovery of the harsh nature of its new world.

Pravanjan Haldar was a professional matchmaker. He and his uncle Bhombal did this business together. One day Niladri's grandfather called Bhombal and asked him to find a perfect match for his grandson. Prabhanjan and Bhombal started to find the suitable girl. Unfortunately, a single misunderstanding totally changes the scenario. Subhra a modern, young girl who had the ability to become the perfect match with Niladri suddenly faced such a situation where she had to marry an old man. Her all friends and other associates protested against such a decision but Subhra stuck to her words. Oneday she met Niladri and they started to like each other from that very moment. Within few days there, relation became deeper and they wanted to start their life together. After a funny drama, everything solved and Niladri married to Subhra and led a happy life.

A man in his 30s visits a Soviet school to try to hook up with a young teacher there, and meets one of her students, whom he enlists to help introduce him to his romantic interest. While he waits for the student to free up, he observes the absurd Soviet culture, most evident within the school system, especially among the younger children.

Pink film by Banmei Takahashi.

The newlyweds, Fusun and her rich husband Ayhan, are rescued by a mysterious Mr. Ali after they survive a plane crash on their way to their honeymoon. Staying at Mr. Ali's cabin, in a valley surrounded by thick woods, away from civilization, Fusun will have the opportunity to reconsider her past decisions.

13-year old Jimmy has a lot of questions about his changing body. His often hilarious search for answers uncovers the facts about male sexual development, and raises important issues about peer pressure and readiness to date.

Metamorphoses, rites of passage, Eros and Thanatos, illusion and reality, and film within a film are the key themes and images in perpetual osmosis within this film.

About the figure skating competition for the prize of the Nouvelle de Moscoux newspaper

The personal stories of five lonely people who look for their ideal partner through a video-dating agency. They face a TV camera and make a commercial about themselves to be shown to prospective partners.

1979, Bangkok is a city of 5 million. The film instead focuses on the unhoused people on the streets; their daily lives, their struggles and their dreams.

The documentary covers the first phase of the brazilian metalworkers' strike in 1979. It was made to be shown to the workers during the truce between the two phases of the strike, with the aim of mobilizing them for the second phase. The film shows the large assemblies, with more than 100 thousand metalworkers, in the Vila Euclides field, in São Bernardo do Campo; the mobilization for a vigil at the Union; the resulting street conflicts and the triumphant return of the board, headed by Lula, in the great assembly in which the truce was proposed.

CHICANA traces the history of Chicana and Mexican women from pre-Columbian times to the present. It covers women's role in Aztec society, their participation in the 1810 struggle for Mexican independence, their involvement in the US labor strikes in 1872, their contributions to the 1910 Mexican revolution and their leadership in contemporary civil rights causes. Using murals, engravings and historical footage, CHICANA shows how women, despite their poverty, have become an active and vocal part of the political and work life in both Mexico and the United States.

Spiral 5 is in the inaugural collection of Video Art at MOMA [Museum of Modern Art] in New York. It was the fifth in a series of performances of a piece called Spiral. Most of the Spirals were performed live in front of audiences by people controlling digital computers and playing on the analog image processor (IP), with musicians jamming along. The GRASS digital system combined with the IP formed the digital visual instrument used in the performance. Spiral 5 was performed in front of a studio audience and the music was re-recorded later. It is an abstract, mathematical animation based on the linear spiral, in something you might call the visual music tradition.

Along with the growth and strengthening of agricultural collectives, it is said that there is a great evolution in the minds of the people, and it is shown that large collective farms are being established.

The film is ironic about the lack of actions for transforming city spaces; the few actions undertaken are almost always limited to the positioning of “poles and chains”: the temporary signs of a hypothetical transformation on the city. The film shows sequences of innumerable “pole and chain” barriers, commented on by architects, councillors, members of activity groups… who all underline the impermanence of these objects in view of some “elusive” transformations of the city.

A 1979 Telugu film

Based on the folklore of the peoples of the North.

The film is a poetic sketch cartoon about the friendship of a girl and a dolphin.

The film is a reportage of President Tito's last stay in the SR Macedonia. Special emphasis is given to his words expressed at the gala dinner in his honor, as well as his visit to Lake "Treska" and participation in the session of the Central Committee of the SKM. On the streets of Skopje, President Tito is warmly greeted by a huge number of Skopje residents.

Philippine Kung fu movie from 1979

Volcán captures a raised mound of earth set against a grassy riverbank. A white silhouette in the shape of a female body lies atop of the form. The same shot then cuts to a frame where the base of the white figure spontaneously starts smoking. It then quickly sets aflame. As it combusts, a deep cavity is revealed, even as it is cloaked in growing flames and smoke, evoking a volcanic eruption. Finally, the entire body is engulfed so that only ashes remain in the negative space, human remains. Mendieta short the work in 1975 at Old Man’s Creek in Sharon Center, Iowa, near where the artist was living at the time.

A TV drama about orphaned children.

In this Turkish Superman ripoff, Aydemir Akbas plays both hero "Super Selami" and hooked villain "Cengel"

This is a documentary about the situation of an indigenous Bribri family living near Salitre in Buenos Aires, Puntarenas. The film tells how this Bribri family has been losing the land that was theirs since time immemorial; it denounces the abuse suffered by the few indigenous people who still survive in Costa Rica.

Herbert von Karajan was a master of the fine blending of acoustic colours. This quality is shown to its best advantage in this programme of masterpieces of French Impressionism. Works include Debussy’s multifaceted La Mer, and his lascivious, dream-like Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, and Ravel’s Suite No. 2 from Daphnis et Chloé, a work which combines shimmering transience with uncompromising energy.

How animal friends taught a poacher a lesson.

Directed by Orlando Nadres.

The novohispanic equestrian statue of Charles IV of Spain is relocated in Mexico city.

Teo, a private detective, never decides to heed his fiancée Sonia's requests to abandon his dangerous profession and go work for her father, a wealthy industrialist. A new case always comes up, causing Teo to postpone his visit to his future father-in-law. However, one day he is hired under mysterious circumstances: he receives orders from a woman he doesn't know to do something that is still unclear. Nevertheless, the woman pays him handsomely and gives him a vague idea of the case. To his surprise, as soon as the woman leaves, Teo is attacked by four men. Recovering from his injuries, he begins to investigate his client...

A rich couple. He is obsessed with gadgets, she is a housewife growing more depressed and alcoholic by the day. Commercials on television form a cynic commentary on their lives. The neighborhood becomes the playground of youth gangs. A Ballardian commentary on and funny nightmare vision of modern life.

Two criminals decide to steal a rare postage stamp, but there is a man in the apartment who becomes their hostage.

This key work of the late 1970s, now digitally restored, is a unique attempt to combine contemporary debates around formalism, feminism and psychoanalysis in film. Implicitly engaged in a critical dialogue with filmmakers like Yvonne Rainer and Jean-Luc Godard, as well as the theorists of 'Screen' magazine, Sigmund Freud's Dora is a milestone in the evolution of structuralist film strategies into broader questions of representation.

A Z-grade superhero story in which the protagonist, a female university student who has been sexually assaulted, takes down despicable men, including a university professor who blackmails her.

The episode of the documentary series Paraskinio, produced in 1979, dedicates its first part to two great actors of theater and cinema, Dinos Iliopoulos and Mimis Fotopoulos. On the occasion of their collaboration in the stage production "Some Like It Hot" at the Akropol Theater (1978–79 season), directed by Alekos Alexandrakis and co-starring himself and Nonika Galinea, the show's camera meets the two actors in an Athenian bar. The documentary features short interviews with Alekos Alexandrakis and Nonika Galinea, who speak about their collaboration with Iliopoulos and Fotopoulos and the reasoning behind casting them in those specific roles. The program also includes clips from films starring Iliopoulos and Fotopoulos, as well as scenes from the play "Some Like It Hot" at the Akropol Theater, written by Peter Stone, translated by Pavlos Matesis, and directed by Alekos Alexandrakis.

Armen Davtyan, the head of a large enterprise, decides at the age of 40 to leave his job and move on to a more peaceful one. However, a chance encounter with a childhood friend changes his mind...