Cinematic Era: 1979 Vintage

Staging of the battle. Scenes of extras running through the fields.

UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Dramatization of the aftermath of the military coup d'état in Chile on September 11, 1973 led by Augusto Pinochet and the story of the desaparecidos (the disappeared), those were imprisoned and killed by the Pinochet regime. The story follows the kidnapping and murder of Manuel, a filmmaker and teacher, Maria, artist, and their daughter Fabiana.

A boy and a girl play building sand castles. Suddenly, a bully came running, destroyed all the locks and took away the children's toys. The children couldn't resist the bully. Suddenly it starts to rain heavily with a thunderstorm, and after the rain a beautiful rainbow appears.

A short film by Peter Bundy

This short film was filmed in 16 mm, in the city of Colón, between 1976 and 1979 and released in 1980. It narrates the turn that a man's life takes when he becomes the suspect of a crime. Isolated and under pressure, he begins to question his own identity and the boundaries between reality and paranoia. Thus, your mind becomes a battlefield.

Unemployment at an early age and the problems that arise from it.

A mother and father’s grief following the loss of their daughter in a road accident is mapped alongside the changing seasons in this contemplative short film written by John McCullagh and produced and directed by Terence McDonald.

Claymation Animation Workshop Student Film of an absurd chorus of dancing fruits, ending with one banana "splitting" from the scene.

UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Most of the story is told without words. A man is shown climbing into and then trapped inside an abandoned zoo cage. At the end of the film, the man's wife's voice is heard over a loudspeaker, asking him how it feels to be treated like someone who doesn't count, the way he treated her and his ex business partner, her accomplice. He falls to his death, and the wife and the accomplice are shown removing all evidence of their complicity.

Kitsch style portrait. Family movie. Improvised on a spring day, with the exceptional participation of Raphaële and Suzy Tromelin and the involuntary participation of Fernandel.

Self-observation of the sleeper in an elliptical time ordered according to the rhythm of the shots. Revelation of a gesture that cinema does not usually take into account.

An analysis of black comedy and entertainment in the context of white production.

Based on the novel "Shepherd Naidan" by writer Dondo Tsevegmid, this film shows the hardships of Mongolia before the People's Revolution of 1921 through the life of a little boy Naidang, how he experiences great hardships and the beginning of good times.

A recording of a fabric play proposed to children in Łódź by visual artist Wiesław Karolak. The simple titular play encourages everyone to jump, run, climb, and explore the possibilities of the fabric.

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...

An experiment from the video lab of Hervé Huitric and Monique Nahas.

A beginners look at herbs, their history, uses, and suggested ideas for today's homemakers. Illustrates the various ways in which herbs are used in cooking and as homemade remedies and cosmetics. Describes the mystical powers once attributed to herbs and offers advice on their cultivation. Describes superstitions, medical potions, and fragrant bouquets. Shows uses in salads, herb tea, stews, lavender sachets, pomander and potpourri.

The late Dr. Frankenstein's son returns to the ancestral estate in Germany, where he revives his father's infamous creation. Mayhem ensues.

The American president Jimmy Carter and the Chinese statesman Teng-Hsiao Ping sing together Alle Menschen werden Brüder. In the background is a poster by Mao Zedong, on which the Great Helmsman advertises Coca-Cola, Levi’s and Ford.

“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 César award nominated short feature.

A César award nominated short documentary.

Using the strangest objects collected from the trash, Mr. Gabriel dos Santos built his house in São Pedro D'Aldeia, on the north coast of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The film shows the interior and exterior of the house and reveals the simplicity and ingenuity of its builder.

A veteran suffering from PTSD imagines that he is a combatant in the European theater during World War II. Although he is subdued and admitted to a mental health facility, he escapes and continues his rampage.

In August 1979, during the military dictatorship in Brazil, a hunger strike that began at the Frei Caneca prison in Rio de Janeiro spread across the country, demanding the expansion of the Amnesty Law, which initially did not intend to include political prisoners who had committed homicides. To document this moment and strengthen the strike, the prisoners conceived and clandestinely produced the short film "Água, Açúcar e Sal".

A haunting love story using rotoscope and several fascinating optical techniques.

At the documentary film seminar given by Gisela Tuchtenhagen at the dffb in 1979, three documentary portraits of women were made that were combined under the title “Küche, Theater, Krankenhaus” (Kitchen, Theatre, Krankenhaus). Students Lilly Grote, Irina Hoppe and Christine Domkowski took turns at doing the camerawork, sound and editing, supported by film editing lecturer Heide Breitel. In Mulle, Heide Breitel and Christine Domkowski craft a portrait of a passionate cook who after decades of being a housewife finds fulfillment by cooking for campsites, youth workshops and the film team. [...] (Frederik Lang)

Frank Jenkinson, eighty-two, has been digging for fish for twenty-five years. His unorthodox conservationist practices have increased the numbers of the salmon population in the Jarvis Inlet from a modest 500 to 25 000. Using a spade and accompanied by his dog, Frank wades up and down the stream, digging for the newly hatched salmon that lie buried in the gravel. Without his intervention they risk dying before reaching maturity.

The film looks at the problems of high school students in an 11th grade class in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg. The focus is on interpersonal relationships. The school, the circle of friends, the parental home, the social milieu, the housing situation and leisure activities form the environment in which the young people find themselves on the threshold to adulthood. The film explores their wishes, thoughts, fears, dreams, hopes and conflicts. Opportunities and offers that go beyond school and can be helpful in resolving problems are also shown. It is up to the viewer to weigh up the different views of the interviewees and form their own opinion.

The hero watches as people honor the monuments of great people. He is obsessed with becoming great. He takes out one eye, like Admiral Nelson. He cut off his ear to look like a Van Gogh. He knocks out the other eye to be blind like Homer. In the end, he sets himself on fire, like Giordano Bruno. But people don't notice him. . .

Scrooge meets Stagflation in this adaptation of Charles Dickens’ beloved tale.

The anatomy and function of the forestomachs of goats and sheep are explained. Ruminating is illustrated using animation, radiography and endoscopy.

A documentary portrait of the everyday life of teenagers in Mecklenburg.

Short film about Berlin

During the 1980s, Hirsch made a series of documentary films about various events in the city, like the appropriation of a monument in PICHÓN EN LE OBILISCO.

A shortened recording of the theater program of the same name by Kabaret Ivo de Wijs (Ivo de Wijs, Pieter Nieuwint and Marnix Kappers).

Sug-i, a poor North Korean girl is ordered by the communists to go into the mountains and bring wild ginseng for the Red Chief. She wanders around in Mountain Geumgang, where she slips over a rock. Ttoli lives in the mountains with the wild animals and is also called Jang-gun. He saves Sug-i with his animal friends. Through Sug-i, he comes out into the world and comes to learn of his past. His parents had tried to escape from North Korea but had been arrested, and Ttoli had been abandoned. Meanwhile, with the Red Chief’s birthday approaching, communists force workers to “dig the tunnel faster,” “make a trench,” and “bring wild ginseng.” Ttoli, catches on to the communists’ plans. Together with his friends, he defeats the North Koreans who were digging the third tunnel, saves his father who was among the prisoners, and finally comes face to face with the Red Chief.

About a boy whom the fabulous old man Kanbak-shal introduced to a fascinating and interesting land of fairy tales.

Short film about presents.

A merchant from the Amazon River arrives at a village located on its banks, and in the purchase-sale manipulations with a couple of riverside peasants, he manages to sell them utensils that they do not need and increase the debt they have with him.

Counterintelligence film from communist Romania. Also known as "Stația pilot"

An album-like collection of nine personal reflections on various aspects of the French Acadian region of Louisiana. Each of these reflections, or what I term “Ektachrome Sketches," consists of a single subject which undergoes a series of ongoing structural transformations. These transformations substantially alter the field of vision by adding a subjective layer of meaning to the dramatic content of recorded reality. —Robert Russett

Recovered Zulueta short.

Isang araw isang buhay: Directed by Leroy Salvador. With Rudy Fernandez, Elizabeth Oropesa, Alma Moreno, Daria Ramirez.

At The Apollo is Tina’s very first solo home video with a concert from London’s Apollo Theatre, recorded on March 25, 1979. Dressed in Bob Mackie costumes and supported by four dancers, Tina performed several cover versions of popular songs, some old ones from Ike & Tina and some new tracks from her solo records Rough and Love Explosion. The video was first released in short form with a selection of the original setlist in 1979 under the title "At The Apollo,“ but was later also released as an one hour concert under the title Wild Lady of Rock in 1984.

A human figure - the artist herself - first gestures the word behind a scenery paper that functions as a membrane. After successive approaches of the mouth to the paper in which we deduce that the artist shouts the word "ouve-me", she then writes it with her finger, and finally with a pen she scratches the word.

Documentary about the vital, intellectual and political trajectory of the poet and grammarian Carles Salvador, one of the main promoters of the linguistic normalization of Valencian.

A short film by André Lehmann

Evidence by Caroline Champetier, a director who skilfully illuminates the great filmmakers (Jacques Rivette’s La bande des quatre , Philippe Garrel’s J’entends plus la guitare , Jean-Luc Godard’s Soigne ta droite, and Leos Carax’s Holy Motors ), directs and highlights in a sequence shot, in sumptuous black and white, a pregnant woman in the prosaic ritual of bathing. This "ingenious photographer", according to Agnès Varda, films the obviousness of the body, of gestures and lingers on the little things to take hold of a whole, as in the false triviality of Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles by Chantal Akerman with whom she also collaborates in Toute une nuit.