Cinematic Era: 1979 Vintage

The last 24 hours of a death row prisoner.

When his father is killed by bandits, a young man turns vigilante with the aid of a magical talisman.

A Hungarian Jew is forced to give a false testimony on his relatives in WW2 Hungary.

Sometimes a Taste of Infidelity Can Save a Relationship

A claymation adaptation of Arlo Guthrie's classic "The Motorcycle Song."

Obscure Italian mondo film never released in it's home country, only receiving a home video run in Japan and a theatrical release in Hong Kong. Featuring the usual 70's mondo juxtaposition of sex, violence and cultural curiosities.

Short documentary.

The sacrificial well is said to have magical healing powers and money, silver, jewellery or other items are sacrificed there. The water of the sacrificial spring has been used to cure eye and skin diseases, to wash away evil spirits and to wash away crimes. This playful documentary, with its dramatic overtones, celebrates the folklore and warns against the desecration of the source and of nature as a whole.

A taiwan short film. Golden Harvest Award Winner.

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 nature museum will be built there.

The film is about the work of an amateur artist from the village Bolotnya, Ivankiv district, Kyiv region, Fedir Prymachenko, the son of the artist Maria Prymachenko. The artist's works from the series "Man on Earth" are demonstrated.

Brief history and profile of Inuit communities in Northern Labrador and the role of the Moravian missionaries in the region. Warning for outdated and offensive term used.

A documentary about the most discussed working conflict in modern Norwegian history. In 1975 Geir Sundet was fired with no given reason. Could it be that he was a Marxist-Leninist? His colleagues lays down the work in protest.

On the southern shores of Lake Chambri (Middle Sepik River) live 1500 Pondo-speaking villagers. The Chambris trade fish, mosquito nets and baskets for sago, pottery, and other goods. All elements of the natural world are associated with spirits which have individual personalities and powers, characterized in legend, art, and music. A constant dialog between man and spirits is carried on through various communicative media, including invocations, dreams, and music. As this film beautifully reveals, there is a wealth of musical tradition in Lake Chambri: carved wooden drums whose lively vibrations are said to shake loose ripened fruits for harvest; pairs of sacred bamboo flutes used in boys' initiations and concealed from women; orchestras of flutes identified with dogs or turkeys; flutes captured in warfare used with dance masks to invoke fish; and the panpipe with its melodies of mourning.

1979 Angolan documentary.

A re-creation for film of Meredith Monk's seminal dance/theater work incorporating film and original music, voice, guitar, and audiotapes. Originally performed in 1966, Judson Memorial Church, New York.

Simpson Street is a portrait of a neighborhood in New York's South Bronx shot during the 'Summer of Sam', 1977. It opens with a brief history of the neighborhood and a description of the causes of the fire storm that destroyed an area of New York the size of the city of Boston. The focus though is on the life that remains. Watch for a brief glimpse of DJ Flash (now better known as Grandmaster Flash) running the turntables at a party on the roof of a settlement house called the Casita Maria on .... Simpson Street.

An intimate, hands on encounter with a maximum security juvenile correctional facility in Chino California.

A diary-style triptych about the struggle against apartheid, filmed secretly in South Africa under dangerous circumstances with the support of the then-underground African National Congress.

A salacious (and unexpectedly stylizied) adaptation of Le Fanu's "Carmilla." Not shown in theatres, Blood List was produced for the 8mm home movie market, and sold direct to consumers via advertisements in adult magazines.

Trouble at the ATM

In 1765, at the end of the Ayutthaya period, at a village in Suphan Buri. The villagers live in peace. Despite the news of the war from Angwa, they thought that the Burmese army is not convenient for marching and make a war in flood season. With Unawareness of the Thai people, the Burmese army was able to easily invade Suphan Buri. The moon survives by disguising himself as a man, while many village women have been raped by the Burmese army. Duangjan's friend is dragged to Mangratho (Suthat Intranupakorn), a right-wing commander, but is saved by Mangrai (Pairoj Sangwaributr), a left-wing commander who is the son of Mang Mahasuranat (S. Asan Chinda), the general who commanded the army this time. Mangratho fights with Mangrai and is defeated, therefore he have a great malice toward Mangrai.

A document on the daily life of an ordinary collective farm of the U.S.S.R. in 1978 : the hard-working people who love their work just because they are brought up to do so, almost with no rewards from life, in an atmosphere contaminated with official rhetoric.

Dell, a struggling singer is left heartbroken after his lover gets married with someone else. With this he brings his broken heart to Kuala Lumpur and gambles his future to be a real big time recording singer. His road was a very bumpy one but in the end he managed to record an album and became famous. In all this fame his ex girlfriend comes back into his life.

A short 1979 sand animation celebrating women's spirituality with 80-year-old lesbian poet Elsa Gidlow reading her work "What If."

Fede is a theater actress who, while putting on clown make-up for a show, thinks back to her relationship with her father: a relationship of tenderness, desire and hatred.

A filming of the revue Vi spillopper.

The twenty-year-old young man Sz. László is a lorry guard employed by an agricultural co-operative located in the vicinity of the capital. One day he neither posts the money officially entrusted to him nor goes to work, spending time and money as he likes on things he otherwise cannot afford, such as hanging around, sweets, driving in taxis, restaurants, Lake Balaton, girls, etc.

In 1979 Roberto Nanni began burying some 8mm footage underground and then unearthed it.

Pink film by Satoru Kobayashi.

A film consisting of two short stories. The protagonist of the first one is a polytechnic graduate who works in a factory. The second short story is about a shy boy who doesn't have a girlfriend.

Unarius’ most controversial video work: the banned, pre-Civil War-era yarn The Ballad of Annabelle Lee! Whilst reliving one of her many past life experiences, Uriel becomes the Southern belle, Annabelle Lee. Meanwhile her nice white boy assistant gets demoted to her black mammy and is forced to wear black face and drag. Racial strife ensues on the riverboat, The Robert E. Lee, resulting in the tragic demise of all concerned. Of course, dems gots plenty mo’ lives t’ live. The ultimate in New Age logic, complete with blackface.

In a poor village, a farmer who goes to the field becomes ill and is brought home unconscious. Relatives and villagers come to visit him, to express compassion to his mother. But sympathy is accompanied by the fear that this illness will spread in their families as well.

Reflections on television debate and rhetoric through impromptu discussions.

8mm film by Swiss artist Roman Signer.

This satire on the behavioral modification technique of toilet training should be required watching for every prospective parent.

Merging the subjective and the objective, the autobiographical and the anthropological, The Laughing Alligator is a highly personal observation of an indigenous South American culture. Recorded while he and his family were living among the Yanomami of Venezuela, this compelling work distills Downey's search for his own cultural identity and heritage through the encounter between the Western family and the so-called "primitive" tribe. Challenging the anthropological view of the Yanomami as violent cannibals, Downey focuses on the tribe's myths, rituals and ceremonies, documenting funerary rites in which tribal members eat the pulverized ashes of their dead to insure their immortality. Subverting conventional modes of ethnographic documentary, Downey participates as an active presence, "shooting" with his video camera as a means of creating an interactive dialogue between artist and subject and addressing his own "yearning for a purer existence."

An intimate discussion among three professional women active in the Gay Community. They share anecdotes of childhood, careers and many delights of being lesbian women.

Una sombra en la oscuridad is a creepy story in which a woman and her lover murders her husband, who returns from beyond the grave to get revenge.

Television documentary about German-born American director Douglas Sirk.

A Filipino spoof movie of Voltes V.

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 is also a study of scale.

Documentary about the German railroad system and it's trains

Presents a documentary on Varnette Honeywood, a painter who honors her ancestral heritage while searching for alternative skills for economic survival

Mathematician Mauno Mutikainen is accidentally pronounced dead as a result of an operation where a splinter is being removed from his finger. He is then cloned into a test-tube adult named Richard Ilyevitch Jyrä by his creator Dr. Jyrä.

The village of Old Crow and the people from the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation are located on the banks of the Porcupine River 80 miles inside the Arctic Circle. The film shows the lifestyles and spirit of the people of Old Crow, reflected in the writings of Gwich'in Edith Josie and the stories told by Elder Kenneth Nukon. Alanis Obomsawin wanted to document life in the community before the proposed Mackenzie Valley Pipe line was to go through. "Everything will be changed -- it will never be the same again".

The film begins with 'New Dawn Fades'. Audio of speeches of Hitler are played alongside interviews of Chief Constable of Manchester. Montages of photographs, adverts and Manchester street scenes. Part of a Joy Division performance at Bowdon Vale and a rehearsal are shown. (Film only available in fragments)

Against the background of a white wall, Luyken films two performances. The images are interspersed with one another: a man and a woman are painted with white paint, while another couple is wrapped in paper and coloured with paint. The second part of the film also consists of a performance. This time, Luyken works with life-sized, cartoon-like fantasy figures. Eventually they are numbered and wrapped in white paper.