Cinematic Era: 1979 Vintage

The box from the film strip becomes an arbitrary plot of action relating to the mysterious phenomena taking place in the Bermuda Triangle. Experimental short by Jerzy Kalina.

With a video camera, the filmmaker observes piece by piece her body, its forms, movements and sounds. In shots with the forcefulness of graphics, the viewer willing to do so can experience seeing and hearing anew and discover adventure in the everyday.

Directed by Ram Loevy.

Document of various attractions in the historic Canadian National Exhibition, which takes place every year in Toronto, filmed entirely at night, at one frame per second with one-second exposures. Two rolls of film recorded in two consecutive years were used, the first of which consists of close-ups of each attraction, edited in-camera. The second roll is a single long wide-angle shot of the entire “avenue” of attractions, seen from the top of the historic observation tower, which has since been torn down. This scene was filmed continuously over an eight-hour period that began before nightfall, with exposure times increasing as daylight decreased and even after nightfall, ultimately transforming the night scene into a blurry mass created by two-minute exposures per frame.

Pink film by Ichirô Kitami.

An account of the combats and popular participation in the struggle for the country’s liberation, from the exploits of General Augusto César Sandino (1895-1934) through to the Sandinista National Liberation Front’s entry into Managua on 19 July 1979.

Television is one of the themes in T.V.O., which tells the story of a lonely woman’s interaction with the contraption. “The dog is no longer man’s best friend; now it’s television,” Castillo said in a conversation with the author of this article. The character is played by Mimí Lazo, one of the country’s most prominent actresses and a Venezuelan sex symbol. The film toys with this stereotype as regards the vicarious satisfaction given by romance and sex on screen. The other theme, linked to loneliness, is developmentalism: the main character lives in Parque Central, a middle-class housing complex whose residential buildings were finished in 1972 and became a symbol of well-being on the brink of the oil boom. (Pablo Gamba)

UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. A modernized telling of Charlotte Perkins-Gillman's short story "The Yellow Wallpaper." As a writer forced to bedrest after the birth of her son dwells in a summer home, she begins to see a woman creeping through the wallpaper of the baby's room, descending into madness.

In a high-mountain Ossetian village where archaeological excavations were being carried out, a local schoolboy, Murat, worked part-time. Zaur, Murat's cousin, who was visiting them for the summer holidays, accidentally finds an ancient jug with gold coins at the excavation site and hides it from everyone. In the fall, Murat moved to the city, where he entered college to learn the profession of a mason. Once he stood up for the honor of Lena, a student of the same school...

Recovered Zulueta short.

Reflexive piece satirizing the formulaic structure of melodrama where the filmmaker and actors explain the cinematic techniques as they are happening (actually instead of them happening).

This sequel features the married life of Khun Chai Klang and Pojaman. They got married without the approval of his mother and sister. Pojaman has to prove and show everyone her good intentions before she can find true happiness.

This heterodox work draws on fiction resources and the register of documentary to denounce the phenomenon of rape in Mexico. With a complex essay-like structure, the film is a reflection on the various types of sexual violence, from the classist legal apparatus and the connivance of religious institutions, to rejection of and discrimination against victims. At the same time, it introduces community alternatives for victim support. A project by “Cine Mujer,” this film exemplifies the group’s motto and mode of production, and thus one of the maxims of feminism: no personal solutions; only collective action for collective solutions.

A documentary film composed of private photographs taken from prisoners of Auschwitz-Birkenau. The authors use them to build a story, full of carelessness but also growing tension, about the end of the 1930s, the last days before the outbreak of war.

Bráulio is a rich man, and the patriarch of the family. At one of the many boring dinner parties his family gives, he meets a guest that preferes to hide under the table.

This stylized narrative is the first in the Yonemotos' Soap Opera Series,in which they employ the traditional syntax and codes of melodrama to explore how mass media formulas manipulate desire and sexuality, fantasy and reality. Played out with the self-conscious acting and dialogue of a soap opera, this story of the dissolution of a contemporary romance is set in the context of the postmodern Southern California art scene. By emphasizing modes of representation — TV, movies, art — the Yonemotos reconstruct a narrative of melodrama itself, illustrating their assertion that personal dramas and romantic ideals are the result of media propaganda, a social fantasy that becomes reality.

Documentary by Ateyyat El-Abnoudy

Based on a poem by Blaise Cendrars.

German film.

A San Francisco soap opera

The loneness, the Other and the living together with himself.

A documentary about the most famous Brazilian jockey of all times, who remembers his glorious past in Rio's Jockey Club.

Exchanges investigates mechanisms by which meaning is produced in film, through the interaction of the process of construction of a text and the social context which determines and is represented by that text.

Composed frame by frame in the camera, Parcelle (fragment, particle or bit) rests upon the alternate appearance and variable duration of tiny colored squares or circles placed on black backgrounds and inserted in series between plain white or colored images, creating optical superimpositions on the screen.

Portraying Ayub Kalule, the boxer from Uganda who was "the most famous immigrant in Denmark" in the late 1970s.

An exploration of the musical and social origins of the blues, shot on location in Mississippi in 1978 by Alan Lomax, John Bishop, and Worth Long in association with the Mississippi Authority for Educational Television and broadcast on PBS in 1980. This re-release in 2009 includes two hours of additional music.

Directed by Daoud Abdel Sayed.

Bollywood 1984

Emily - Third Party Speculation is the second of a ‘domestic trilogy’ exploring the relationship between the restricted camera viewpoint and the construction of documentary narrative. The other two films in the series are Blackbird Descending - tense alignment and Finnegan's Chin - temporal economy. Constructed around the repetition of ‘neutral’ domestic scenes, this film attempts to address the problems of identification in cinema.

Fetos is an allegory of the process of life. What would happen if a fetus became conscious in its mother's womb? It would interpret its' surroundings as its only reality. If he found another fetus, his twin brother, he would explain to him what he has learned. If later a third fetus appeared who did not agree with the other two that the womb is the only reality, and it proposed a different possibility. The first two fetuses would reject it. Only the one that understood the process would be born. In order to be born it is necessary to die.

A film about the community in sports between mainly parents and children.

"Shlomo Artzi Sings and Tells Children About Jan Hagamd" is based on an album by the singer-songwriter, composer and musician Shlomo Artzi. The band that accompanies the film is the band Mrs. Tapuh. Among the writers of the songs and stories are Artzi and well-known poets such as Leah Goldberg, Yair Shargai, Dalia Rabikowitz, Michal Sanonit and Yitzhak Katznelson.

In 1925, Gao Fengchun and his girlfriend He Li returned from studying in the UK, determined to save the country through medicine. They came to Dingzhou, a mountain city in western Fujian, to open a poor relief clinic. In the Wangjiang Tower, Gao Fengchun, He Li and their young friend Wang Zhanfei and Fang Liang, a student movement leader who recently met, debated how to save the country. In the bloody storm of counter-revolution, Gao Fengchun’s religious enlightenment teacher Charlie took off his disguise, Wang Zhanfei betrayed the revolution, Gao Fengchun’s hospital was destroyed, and He Li was deceived back to Shanghai. After a series of changes, Gao Fengchun's ideal of saving the nation through medicine was completely shattered. In the baptism of blood and fire, he gained a new life and plunged into the torrent of revolution.

The evil wolf Kid kidnaps Hector the Rat, wanting to extract from him the secret of growing golden tulips. Colargol the Bear and Raven set off to help their friend. They are aided by a magical suitcase. Their journey takes them through the Netherlands, America, Australia, Siberia, Africa, and ends in their home forest.

Objects from the artist’s studio (hammer, cathode ray tube, circuit board rack, chair, clip light) constitute the subjects for a series of short sequences in which a single object moves through a series of overlapping transformations. These are electronically altered in such a way that their coloration and contours continuously morph. As the transparent images are superimposed one upon the other and faded in and out, they become slightly displaced, giving the impression that the objects are “wandering” across the image plane. In some sequences, the contours and colors of the objects dissociate, or newly arising color fields spread across the pictorial surface. The superimpositions and cross-dissolves result in a minimal amount of action, consistent with the ‘destinations’ implied in the work’s title.

A man and a woman meet by chance, have practically nothing in common, and, perhaps for that reason, weave a strange relationship.

Berlin 1978. The film tells the story of three women who live together and build a jamming transmitter, which they use to highjack the soundtrack of TV news broadcasts. Why they do this is explained through a polemic montage of archival TV footage, which shows how men in leadership positions talk about women and what they do.

Condensed from episodes of a proposed TV series that never materialized, character actor great Timothy Carey plays the unforgettable Tweet Twig, master of his local knitting circle and a home of talking animals.

Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (1539-1616), already an old man and writing the Royal Commentaries, recalls his childhood in the capital of the Inca empire, his stay with his mother, an Inca princess, and his departure from Cusco following his father, a Spanish conqueror.

An excursion to the Gaviota Islands in Lake Nahuel Huapi becomes a psychedelic trip: taking advantage of the very power of the natural landscape and its birds, a pair of mysterious characters seem to conjure up a spell.

A documentary about the children's area of the AFA (Active Leisure Activities Altona e. V.). For years, this leisure center was the fixed meeting place for children and young people. A meeting place in the Altona-Altstadt district, which is designated as a redevelopment area. The film describes the atmosphere and work in a sub-area of the AFA. The film is history, the AFA was dissolved in 1982.

After the fall of Ayudhya, Panruang and Lamduan swears to be lovers for all reincarnations later on. 200 years later, they met fleeing their hunters into a cave, then starts to recall their past lives.

Film profile of gay rock star/political activist Tom Robinson, intercut with the Tom Robinson Band in concert

Color UCLA Animation Workshop Film, preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. A handdrawn animation of a ghostly bman flying above the top of a cinema where "Man on Roof" is playing, only to be shot and killed by a police helicopter. An audience laughs at his dying body. The curtain falls and the audience begins asking to play the animation again, so the film reverses and plays again, only for two critics to speak over the film, debating whether the animation is a political statement.

“Mining an ironic vein by turning technology against itself, AlienNATION undercuts the sociological ramifications of modern living. It is an astounding compendium of sci-fi images, textbook diagrams, special effects, and studio props, which together build multiple readings of the alien, the mysterious, and the obscure in American culture. From spaceships to tinker toys, porno pin-ups to modern office furniture, AlienNATION uses expert editing and a wonderfully kitsch soundtrack to examine the dizzying effect of ‘the future’ on mankind, including the pressure toward corporate conformity placed upon the average worker adrift in the workplace of tomorrow."

A friday night in Stockholm.

A cinematic adventure into the world of Nazi refugees in South America during the late 70s.

Third match, NHL - USSR, Madison Square Garden, NY.

A series of objects are arranged beside a river. What will happen next? Sempliner was manager of the festival when he made this short.

Filmed in 16mm during 1978 - to highlight the sophisticated social, medical, educational infrastructure that the PLO built during the 70ies in the refugee camps in Lebanon. The documentary is a cinematographic testimony of the Palestinian effort to build a secular and pluralistic society, based on the participation of the people and thus strengthening their feeling of national identity and dignity. PRCS was shot in practically all the Camps in Lebanon, from Nahar el Bared in the North to Rashidiye in the South, from Nabatiye to Beirut - Sabra, Shatila and Burj-el-Barajneh. Among the personalities in the film are Abu Ammar (Yasser Arafat), Dr. Fathi Arafat (President of PRCS), Dr. Sait Dajani, Yusuf Iraki, Abdelaziz Labadi.