Cinematic Era: 1979 Vintage

Two young men, one married and the other an “out” seventies clone, meet in a public toilet and have hot sex, but they’re caught through video surveillance.

An unnamed city's angular composition is highlighted in this short by Jim Jennings; Inky black and red geometry betrayed by a beautiful blue sky.

Abstract animation set to music

Jocelyne Saab, a young Lebanese journalist and director, interviews the director and the film crew while filming Nahla in Beirut.

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.

Moving Stillness: Mount Rainier 1979, by incorporating a large body of water, with video and sound recordings of nature, was pioneering in its use of mixed media. It is a meditation on the fragility of nature and our perception of its changes over time. A screen is suspended above a large shallow pool of water. A projector with three separate beams (one each for red, green and blue light) sends an image of Mount Rainier to the surface of the water that then bounces up to reach the rear projection screen. At periodic intervals, the water’s surface is manually disturbed causing the three beams of color to separate, until finally becoming an unrecognizable pattern of form and color. Slowly the water settles, to once more form a coherent image after the surface vibrations subside.

Documentary by Hans-Dieter Grabe.

An animated interpretation of Scott Dobson’s comic guide to the Geordie dialect, Larn Yersel’ Geordie, presented in three lessons. With artwork by South Shields animator Sheila Graber and narrated by Scott himself, the film takes a humorous – and at times outrageous – look at Geordie culture and language.

A sophisticated bookish blonde proves to be a murderer’s nemesis in this atmospheric thriller-with-a-twist from the Eastbourne Cine Group This thriller starts with an off-screen bank robbery and murder followed by a man walking through streets and woods wearing distinctive shoes. A newsagent's poster reads 'Bank Murder' and the story also appears in the Stop Press. The killer enters a train compartment occupied by a blonde woman reading a book. He hands her a threatening note. She, however, manages to remove the killer’s gun from his pocket. The title of her book is revealed to be The Gunman and the Pickpocket.

Educational shorts intended to prevent teenagers from getting bombed and killing themselves or wrecking the family car.

A silent film

A summer-in-the-city travelogue that mixes verité of Lower East Side Bikers, Times Square topless dancers, and Coney Island crowds to achieve an atmosphere of manic exhibitionism and sexual raunch.

The letters KB refer to the official term `Keluarga Berencana’, i.e. `Family Planning’. This is a “Non KB” film. A spontaneous vision on the introduction of family planning.

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 German super 8 short work

An animated short film by Taku Furukawa.

Official entry to the first Metro Manila Film Festival in 1979 directed by Cirio H. Santiago and starred Charito Solis and Vilma Santos.

Based on the story of the same name by L. Davydychev.

Action and animation are pushed to the extreme in this frenetic film. Keen makes references to the God-like status of the director, the framed world of the cinema and the history of popular entertainment.

A stern matron lives together in a luxurious home with her three married children. The eldest son's wife is not popular with the family because of her cross temper and foolishness. She invests all her husband's fortune in paintings that turn out to be forgeries. Her husband brings his mistress into the household as a maid. His mother is aware of their relationship and it has her approval.

Short documentary about Santa Cruz motorcycle culture in the mid to late 70s.

When they released their hit single "Rock Around the Clock" in 1955, Bill Haley and his band of Comets forever changed the face of rock 'n' roll. This rare live concert captured more than 20 years later at the Birmingham Odeon showcases the band's boundless passion for performing, featuring tracks such as "Shake, Rattle and Roll," "Razzle Dazzle," "Rudy's Rock," "See You Later, Alligator," "Rock This Joint" and "Rock-A-Beatin' Boogie."

A bewitching, mysterious work of enveloping beauty, the film’s ominous title and a dedication to Anne Frank deeply inform our reading of its haunting subtext. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in partnership with the National Film Preservation Foundation, in 2009.

A gang of Missisipi good-old-boys visit Steven Wolfe's "played by Ronnie Elder" late departed father's cottage that was unbeknownst to the son until passed down to him in a will. Wolfe and his friends experience a series of disillusionments that question the Wolfe family honour and test loyalties.

Pink film by Satoru Kobayashi.

Coachman Bego, continuing the tradition of his ancestors, transports occasional passengers in his carriage. He hopes that his son will continue to drive a carriage, but times are changing, and a new bus route is introduced.

A collection of film clips of what would become Curtis Choy’s seminal documentary The Fall of the I-Hotel. This work-in-progress documentary includes In-depth interviews with Manongs – an Illocano term of respect for elders – and community leaders as they fought to stop the mass eviction of Asian American elders from the International Hotel and the destruction of San Francisco’s Manilatown.

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 on the Russian Winter Art Festival, which took place in Moscow every winter since 1964.

​A young woman named Zeenat marries the arrogant and controlling businessman, Amjad, after he seeks revenge for a past humiliation. Amjad imprisons her within their home, subjecting her to disrespect and emotional cruelty. ​Determined to teach him a painful lesson and reclaim her dignity, Zeenat devises a daring plan that results in an unexpected pregnancy. When Amjad throws her out, she vows to raise her child to avenge the injustice done to her. ​Years later, Zeenat's daughter, Sitara, who bears a striking resemblance to Amjad's other daughter, infiltrates his life under a false identity. She begins a subtle campaign of retribution, hoping to reform her estranged father and finally secure the respect her mother was denied.

This short documentary looks at Azzel, one of the Niger Department of National Education’s first schools for nomads. The film describes the traditional nomadic lifestyle of the Tuareg and the changes brought about by these government-run boarding schools.

A German Film Award winning short documentary.

The film is about the contribution of Leningrad shipbuilders to the development of the Arctic.

The orphan mouse can't sleep, there's no one to sing him a lullaby. He goes wandering around the world.…

A play about the Reformation in Germany, a broad religious and socio-political movement in Western and Central Europe of the XVI - early XVII century, aimed at the transformation of Catholic Christianity in accordance with the Bible; about the main ideologists of the Reformation - the leader of the peasant-plebeian masses Thomas Munzer and the representative of the interests of the conservative part of the German burghers Martin Luther.

Part 2 of a trio of pieces titled Lives. "Lives" documents how mothers and their children move similarly.

Follow the different attitudes to life - creative and consumer.

UCLA Animation Workshop and University of Chicago Color Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. "An animated experimental film which is a comment on the perils of absorbed devotion. The main character, who enjoys creating shadow figures, becomes absorbed in the fantasy of a shapely female who assumes a reality for him, only to turn him into a shadowy substance that disappears"--OCLC worldcat.

Film by Tanaami Keiichi.

Éraste, Madame Amelin's nephew, is about to marry Angélique. To thank his aunt for her consent, the young man asks his valet, Merlin, to orchestrate an entertaining comedy. In the midst of the rehearsal, the real feelings of the actors and the servants soon mingle with the comedy.

Video by Amy Greenfield

A man returns to his hometown and waits for a woman at the train station, and the dialogue between the man and the woman is interwoven. The film stars Yamakawa regulars Muroi Shigeru and Sato Akihiro in the lead roles.

Protective Coloration shows Fisher seated at a mottled table. He wears short-sleeved hospital garb, surgical green ‘scrubs’. Nose-clips block his nostrils while a mouth-guard that looks like fake lips covers his mouth. Over the course of 11 minutes he masks his face and covers his hands with bright gear in colours that accumulate to resemble those of the standard reference chart: he puts on orange eye-caps, then a yellow bathing cap; covering his nose and mouth and the gear already there, he dons a black gas mask; a silky black sleeping mask voids his already covered eyes, a cyan blue bathing cap caps the yellow; yellow rubber gloves snap on his hands and forearms; puts on cyan eye goggles, then struggles with yet another bathing cap, hazmat orange, over the other two. A silvery transparent shower cap tops the caps, itself topped by a plastic green helmet. Finally heavy-duty magenta gloves hide most of the yellow rubber. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2008.

One week in November 1979, passing the time in Carmen Virgil's house. Probably the last in this series of diaries.

Gepetto is a wooden doll maker who longs to have a child. The Blue Fairy magically transforms one his dolls, Pinokio into life. Gepetto raises him as his own son. Pinokio grows to be a naughty boy, so the Blue Fairy assigns Jimmy, the Cricket, to supervise him. Pinokio goes through several adventures: being transformed into a donkey because of his mischief, and saving his father from inside a whale.

Short piece for the TV series Aujourd'hui en France [Today in France]. Reporting on a Joan Miró exhibition at the Maeght Foundation, Sarah Maldoror enjoys filming the Spanish painter and sculptor engaging with children during a theatre piece. The filmmaker's central themes are in full bloom here: the theatre, the interrelationship between the arts and the transformation of the childhood experience through art. The ensemble is like a work by Joan Miró translated into real life.

A documentary of the familiar patchwork of more populous districts of Rio de Janeiro.

An experiment with color fields.