Cinematic Era: 1979 Vintage

When two humble farmers are poisoned by the chemicals they used to fumigate their crops, their families get in action to help them survive despite not being heard by the authorities.

The movie about Be Stiff Route '78 Tour

About the military pilot twice Hero of the Soviet Union Talgat Begeldinov

On the necessity of safety measures on the workplace.

The Queen's Birthday remains the most important day in all present and former Commonwealth countries. This instructional film explains why.

Among the protagonists of this film, made for the sixteenth Milan Triennial exhibition “Lo spazio audiovisivo”, were Gau Aulenti, Vittorio Gregotti, Andrea Branzi, Bruno Munari, Nanda Vigo, Virgilio Vercelloni, Enzo Mari, Gianfranco Bettetini, Aldo Grassi, Costantino Bardi, Alessandro Mendini, Pierluigi Nicolin, Gillo Dorfles, Davide Mosconi… interviewed by Ugo La Pietra, who then transferred their statements onto a large “diagram of objectives”.

Sentiment was made as an homage to my mother who died in 1964. It is composed of footage of myself and my mother recorded between 1950-52.

Shows the abject poverty and miserable life style still endured by Peruvian peasant farmers, and notes how the changes to the land tenure system brought about by the 1968 revolution have failed to bring any change in the deplorable living standards of the Peruvian peasant farmer

In "PREGNANCY DREAMS" Barbara Rosenthal, nude and nine months pregnant, reads from her Journal dreams of filthy bathrooms, impeccably clothed men, and other parallels. Originally shot in Super-8 film by Bill Creston (seen nude in the mirror with his camera on this very hot August day) as tests of filmstocks for his recording of the birth and subsequent film "OLA: A FILM BY HER FATHER", "PREGNANCY DREAMS" was greeted by calls of outrage when premiered at BACA (The Brooklyn Arts and Cultural Association) in 1979, but digitally remastered in 2005, it has gained an increasingly receptive audience through the years. By Barbara Rosenthal (1975, Super-8/DVD NTSC, 4 mins., color & B&W, sound)

The "Gang of Four" wants to stop a troup from performing the "Yellow River Cantata".

In an exotic bright and clean apartment, an oriental woman is dreaming at dawn. In the dream, she meets a western-looking man in a park. She wakes up to find him packing up in the apartment. On the spur of the moment, she stabs him with a knife. The clock tick-tocks, but time stands still.

An exploration of three different approaches to filmic looking which plays off the audience's expectations of the narrative, documentary, and experimental genres of cinema.

Short film by Teruo Koike. 18fps/8mmfilm/silent

Years later, Paweł Sarnawski returns from Switzerland to an estate in Greater Poland, where he intends to modernize a run-down farm.

A meeting between a girl with magical powers and a seaman who is attracted by her, and the sea as well.

A movie about giving birth.

“With his camera, Sejn not only made detailed studies of nature or landscape photographs, but he also thematized his movement through the landscape. ‘Ravine’ is the title of a film that Sejn made as a direct recording of his hike through rocks in 1979. He showed the constant change of the dynamic and calm moments of walking and the alternation of light and dark in the rocky landscape.” (Simona Mehnert)

Six o'clock in the morning was the time when Taiwan's executions of death row criminals was executed in the early years

Dóra Maurer once said that the central theme of her work is "movement and the conceptual and factual effects of shifts". As her extensive oeuvre since the late 1960s shows, movement and displacement are always related to systemicity and structurality. The starting point of a certain, previously established system and the subsequent discovery of unforeseen deviations and breaks in this double characterizes the process that Maurer has realized in a variety of ways from her early graphic works to what she calls shifts to the "quasi-pictures" of the 1980s and 90s, developed from spatial painting.

Digital TV Dinner is a video art clip from 1979 created using the Bally Astrocade console game to generate unusual patterns. The Bally Astrocade was unique among cartridge games in that it was designed to allow users to change game cartridges with power-on. When pressing the reset button, it was possible to remove the cartridge from the system and induce various memory dump pattern sequences. Digital TV Dinner is a collection of these curious states of silicon epilepsy set to music composed and generated upon this same platform.

A patient, a nurse, a whip ... But where is the ghost?

Elvis is dead. But can Elvis Exploitation Industries still squeeze one last new album out of him?

Poema (Poem): Visual poetry. A film where the corner is the film and the film is the corner.

A series of sketches.

A film by Toney W. Merritt

A young prostitute on the run poses for an art class and gets involved with an older man, while her pimp continues to search for her.

Women counselling women. Five thousand renters live in the satellite settlement of Scharnhorst near Dortmund. More than thousand of them are women living alone or with their children. A large percentage of them are on welfare. They need help in asserting their rights vis-à-vis the social welfare authorities. This documentary uses the point of view of a 26-year-old single mother of two to document the commitment of the women’s initiative. “In the group, I realised that I am not the isolated case I always thought I was.”

Rare recording of the 1979 San Francisco performance of La Gioconda by Ponchielli

A short film.

The densest film of the divided-frame group is the aptly titled 1978 Networks, which includes as many as 20 exposures of the same roll of film. Here only one slit was used, but Lebrat combines within one image many narrow strips taken at diverse Paris locations, sometimes seen through colored filters. The enclosed, even claustrophobic space of the strips contrasts with Lebrat’s superimposition of them and with the movement within the strips and by the strips within the frame... (Fred Camper)

Adopted from an American model into a Finnish version of the candid camera programs.

An eternal flame.

The third in this series of Imagnostic Films seems particularly magic to me in as much as I cannot even remember the photographic source of these images or, thus, having taken them. – S.B.

A character, played by Jean-Yves André, is caught in the trap of a "closed room". After his disappearance, the voice of Nico is heard. "Fiction" is parasitized by the structure of the film and by the accumulation of references to Bataille, Burroughs, Calder, Lovecraft, Michaux, Warhol.

A Young Woman seduce a priest and curse him, Killing everyone around him.

The young man helps the old woman he meets get home. It turns out to be Death. She teaches him the secrets of healing, but makes him promise to abide by the agreement - if he sees her at the feet of a patient, he can treat him, but if she stands at his head, this person is hers. But circumstances are such that the doctor violates the agreement.

Something of a formal and thematic template for his subsequent work, Frank Cole’s first short film brings a terrifying mixture of intimacy and distance to bear on his aging grandparents.

EPH 4/27/16 casually chronicles Horowitz's life and family history, his proclivities as a collector of knickknacks, of Super-8 memories and his common-sense philosophy.

1979 Spanish experimental short

Official entry to the first Metro Manila Film Festival in 1979 directed by Dr. Antonio C. Martinez and starred Roel Vergel de Dios, Veronica Jones, Allan Valenzuela, Anita Linda, Ruben Rustia, Renato Del Prado, and Joe Garcia.

Headmaster Yoon at Neungkol has four sons. The eldest son named Dong-Cheol dies at the war. Yoon adopts Yuriko, a Japanese orphan, as his daughter at 1945 Liberation. The second son named Dong-Min devotes himself to the communist ideology to quarrel with his father with the help of Won-Kyu. One day Yoon is killed with rifles by Won-Kyu, and Yun's wife adopts Keun-Shik, Won-Kyu's son, as her son. At the occurrence of 1950 Korean War, the third son named Dong-Seok becomes a policeman. The youngest son named Dong-Kuk and Keun-Shik escape to Pusan. Dong-Kuk becomes a South Korea Army's soldier, while Keun-Shik becomes a smuggler. Dong-Min is killed on the charge of a communist, while Keun-Shik becomes a millionaire. Dong-Seok kills himself at 1961 students revolution, while Keun-Shik is put in jail in 1962 military revolution.

Four centres for autistic children in Victoria show how they deal with this problem. Details how they are able to teach the children to eventually integrate into the community. Photographer: Leigh Tilson; Music: Franciscus Henri, Philip Gardner, Audrey Klein.

A girl and the peculiar interaction with her doll.

Documentary about German leftist terrorists.

"The ecstatic, mythic montage of Alaskan landscapes" is also "about the act of making" and an antidote to the stodgy notion that life crawled forth from a warm primordial soup.

Although he spent a relatively short period of his life in Austria, Canadian-born John Cook (1935–2001) remained, in his own words, "Viennese by choice.” Having worked as a commercial photographer in Paris, Cook’s […] first “regular” production was Schwitzkasten, based on a novel by the leftist writer Helmut Zenker. Today, the film is considered one of the few undisputed masterpieces of the New Austrian Cinema: a freewheeling, tender, and strangely humorous portrait of working-class (and out-of-work) lives.

A documentary about "The Fools Festival" in the netherlands.

Fantasy and reality are mixed in the monologue of a proud and sexist male convict.