Cinematic Era: 1979 Vintage

Pink film by Satoru Kobayashi.

Pink film by Satoru Kobayashi.

Documentary about the building of a railway.

Portrait of French filmmaker Lionel Soukaz shot in Paris (France) on January 13, 1979 at 5:00 PM.

A short documentary about a folk artist who carves apples to make heads for dolls.

The New York Goats cannot seem to win a single game of baseball. That is, until Oscar the Horse joins their team.

The words "My beloved Anna..." appear on a piece of paper. Later, only a flickering flame of a candle is visible. The subtle vocals of Ola Maurer can be heard. This music constitutes a background for the reading of an affectionate love letter to a beloved person. All of a sudden, cracks the noise of a post-office clerk stamping documents. When it is taken away from the paper, the circumstances in which the letter was written become clear: the stamp has a form of the characteristic Nazi eagle with a swastika in its talons and the sign below says - Konzentrationslager Auschwitz.

Pink film by Jun Enatsu.

In a motel room a TV plays the live broadcast of an eclipse. In the background, out the window, the street scene is dingy and dark. On the TV the eclipse passes. Outside, the street brightens slightly. Part landscape and documentary, Eclipse illuminates the improvisational nature where chance meets design and creates a great moment.

Bunkyo University Film Study Club 1979 8mm Film Production.

Antique music machines.

Film shot by a delegation of the Canadian Communist League (Marxist-Leninist) about the ways in which the people of the state of Democratic Kampuchea (1975-1979) were rebuilding their society through farming cooperatives and education while resisting United States, Soviet, and Vietnamese threats to their sovereignty.

After waiting for a bus at Fern Tree that never arrives, a clown takes refuge under the snowy rocks of Mount Wellington and frolics on the wintery beach at Kingston with a black dog. Throughout the film, the footage cuts to a psychedelic Hobart house party where the clown is both present and absent, joyful and sad.

A portrait of Turkish artists living and working in Berlin.

This is the story of John Andrews, world-famous Australian architect. In the mid-1960s, when only 29, Andrews was commissioned to design Scarborough College at Toronto University. One of the world’s first ‘megastructures’, it was an important experiment in urban and educational planning. Andrews also designed the Canadian National Tower in Toronto, which was the tallest freestanding structure in the world at the time it was built.

In a satirical tone, multiple unexpected actions during a ball game and the reactions of the public are captured. In search of the unusual, the documentary ventures outside the field of this sport.

Guatemala has become one of the largest cotton producers in the world, but pesticides such as DDT, used to increase production, has brought serious health problems for those who work on its crop, as it is shown in this film.

A documentary produced by Blackside, Inc. as part of an effort to recruit minority youth into the health care fields.

A visually stimulating work about modern dance.

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A missing line of information, a hole in a field.

A German Film Award winning short documentary.

While making a hot dog in a restaurant, David Obermeyer reflects on class and labor.

UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. A documentary about people reclaiming control of investment funds through union organizing. The story of the Long-Shoreman's Union organizing to force pension fund investments to represent their interests, particularly to divest pension fund investments from South African companies to protest apartheid.

Confrontation between father and son. Over the course of a night of drinking, they communicate on topics such as politics, love, and freedom.

The medieval Norse claimed in their sagas to have reached Vinland. Could this extremely significant archaeological find substantiate the Norse claim? Far to the north, on Baffin Island, a tiny carved wooden figure is discovered. The figure is clothed in a long, pleated and hooded robe, and, incised on the chest of this small mysterious artifact is a Christian cross.

Adaptation of Albert Henrik Mohn's novella about child abuse.

Writer Colin Ward sets out to discover the truth about Britain’s New Towns. He visits Harlow, Letchworth, Peterlee, Runcorn and the youngest and biggest New Town, Milton Keynes, hearing from their architects and residents, and examining their reputation.

An independent young woman lives in her home with an unexpected companion: a large rectangular mirror that has a life of its own. The mirror is in love with her and does everything it can to stop its mistress's amorous dalliances.

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.

One of the primitive people discovered an apple tree but there is a condition: he can pluck apples from it, but only keep every third.

A look at the process of distilling whisky in various Scottish distilleries.

A deliciously indecipherable autobiography of important dates in McLaren’s life, set against the richly coloured head and tail frames cut from other (unknown) films; film stock garbage acting as diary.

A collection of celebrity home movies from stars like Gregory Peck and Jack Lemmon.

Positive and negative images are combined to evoke the Windy City in springtime.

Traces Korea's cultural heritage through its ancient dynasties, religions, language, art, and customs.

A comical exploration of the world by a tiny pair of fingers.

On the necessity of safety measures on the workplace.

Super-8 short film made in Recife and Olinda, Brazil.

A film by Jean-André Fieschi.

A bloody duel between two knights takes place at a medieval court, which becomes the beginning of a cruel war. Soon it turns out that the battlefield was a chessboard, and the participants of the battle are chess figures.

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

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.

Documentary about the metallurgical artist

Macedonian TV drama.

"The performer describes how to shrink a head, using an avocado and its pit that is recorded on one audio channel. The other props include a table cloth a pan of water and a wine cork. The second audio channel plays a tape made by Tamara Rand, a sex therapist and psychic who describes how to maintain an erection and how to get away from poor self-image by placing that image in a 'black box' and throwing it away." - Askevold

A particular shot, made with a lens that breaks up the image field into fragments and reproduces the optics of a fly, explores a room where there is a girl with a guitar. The shot, back to normal, shows a container with the fly and a jar of honey. The girl than performs various actions: she plays the guitar, collects honey from the jar with a finger, reads a book while the buzzing becomes insistent. In this way, an ambiguous and unusual relationship with the insect arises.