Cinematic Era: 1979 Vintage

Self portrait of psychiatrist, filmmaker, musician and art collector Ottomar Domnick.

Art film part of the REWIND + PLAY, An Anthology of Early British Video Art box-set.

1970s documentary about sex reassignment surgery.

Interview film with Peter Weiss

A group of people, blindfolded and fed distorted German dialogue through headphones, sit at a table and feel their way towards the food in the centre.

Part of BFI collection "On Yer Bike."

short film by Gordon Ball about the death of his mother

In a world growing ever shorter of energy, railways are well suited to satisfy the world's future transport needs. This is the story of the new railways in Japan, Britain, Germany, France, Poland and Italy.

A seagull agent who infiltrated Japan from Pyongyang plans to smuggle a large amount of drugs into South Korea. The Korean Anti-Aircraft Investigation Office, which has decrypted the radio, disguises an investigator as a foreign sailor and infiltrates Fukuoka. The undercover investigator meets the drug and detective head of the Japanese Metropolitan Police Agency, disguised as a detective named Kurogami. Keiko's father, Katsuo, who has finished serving his sentence as a smuggler, fights over the drug hidden between the Seagull and the investigator. In the place where everyone gathers around drugs, Japanese prisoners led by Chief Kurogami raid and arrest all of them, and the conspiracy on the Pyongyang side is destroyed.

Executive director Choi's family are bothered by their housemaid named Jeong-Ok. On the other hand, a taxi driver named Lee Ki-Dong is looking for a rich man's daughter to rise suddenly in the world. One day, the housemaid takes clothes of Choi's daughter without concession, and meet and loves the taxi driver who pretends to be an owner driver. Both persons, who are not intelligent, pretend to be wellborn. Thanks to excellent help of Choi's son, both can love more deeply. The housemaid understands what a human being's truth is, and finally becomes a top class singer. Being aware of his lover's identity, the taxi driver gets married to a girl who is in good harmony with his personal status. Thus, the housemaid also realizes that the truth and wellbeing of a human life exist near herself.

In-ho becomes paralyzed due to the cerebral paralysis but he is normal mentally. His mother puts him in a school for the disabled and is dedicated to him. School teaches to use the typewriter but he cannot even do that. As his father dies from the liver cancer, he types with his mouth and paints to cheer up his mother. He paints at a contest thinking of hardship that his mother has to go through. In-ho and his mother stride into the better tomorrow.

Gil-nyeo runs an inn with her young daughter Myeong-ah in a fishing village. However, her local wives agree to banish her, but she fails to convince her that it is her maiden's fault that her husbands spend her years on her drinking and gambling. One day, Jun-gi, a young man from the village, and Choi In-gyu, the owner of a salt farm, make a scheming offer to Gil-nyeo, who is collecting money like a scoundrel, to pay a large sum of money for her cockle farm. However, when it is approved as a common farm, Joon-gi frames her maiden and sends her to prison. One day, her long-daughter, who came out of her sentence, donates her belongings to the villagers who are frustrated by the failure of her cockle farming, and Joon-gi falls in love with her.

Scenes of crucifixion in Manila, Philippines, during the Holy Week.

The DVD will feature a concert from the Jazz Jamboree '79 International Jazz Music Festival, the "Multiwizja" ballet etude and the song "Brzegi Łagodne" with Halina Frąckowiak. Additionally, unique surprise bonuses.

Bollywood 1984

A collaborative faux documentary by then roommates Cara Perlman and Jane Sherry, tracing Jane’s activities as a topless dancer in a New York City nightclub–where she was in fact working at the time.

An Indian film

A story of an ambitious working couple's marital discord and the impact on their child.

A doctor tries to revive a dead corpse with his experiments. Thanks to his evil assistant, he creates a blood sucking devil. Can the protagonist stop this devil?

Historical vision of the city of Tacna, the fiftieth anniversary of its reincorporation, highlighting the patriotism of its people in the war with Chile (1879-1884), and during the captivity in the power of the neighboring country.

A Quechua and Christian peasant festival in the town of Ocongate, featuring purification in the snows of Mount Ausangate and before a crucifix. The film is spoken in Quechua and Spanish.

Restoration of colonial mansions in the cities of Arequipa and Trujillo.

Environment and customs of the Asháninka natives commonly called Campas.

Reduced cut of the feature film by Luis Figueroa Chiaraje.

Capture, homage and release of the condor in a ritual of Andean peasants, who consider this gigantic and majestic bird as a deity.

Life of a goat herder in the face of the city's advance into the countryside.

The potential of the inland regions and their need for communication routes.

Use of wastewater for agriculture and environmental health.

Report on the traditions of the Puno department.

A family of Peruvian Paso horses speaks and tells us their story from their arrival in Peru from Spain and their adaptation to the lands of northern Peru.

The sun tells the story of the town of Ayacucho as an important setting in events in Peru.

Comical presentation with documentary elements designed as a unique way to spread the word about futuristic environmentally friendly homes that are being built mostly underground using natural temperature from the earth.

Experimental short by Takashi Nakajima.

Colorful forms morph in and out of frame.

The filmmaker himself states that this work was inspired by René Magritte's "The Stone" (or "The Castle of the Pyrenees") and Toshio Matsumoto's "Atman". By re-filming several still photographs on 8mm film, he imbues these static images with movement; using zoom effects and other techniques, he draws the viewer into a surreal world.

BRIDGE FARM is a 2 screen film made on a farm in Suffolk in 1979. Two 16mm cameras are placed adjacent to each other and framed to create one continuous panoramic field of vision.

Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (1539-1616), already settled in Spain, recalls his life in ancient Cusco, defines his identity and his attachment to the land of his mother and where he was also born, incorporating into his name the title of his Inca lineage.

Experimental film on 16mm by Ioan Pleș as part of Kinema Ikon.

Pink film by Satoru Kobayashi.

With a group of Kukadja men, Malcolm travels into the remote Great Sandy Desert of Western Australia. The desert tribesmen teach him their skills of survival, hunting and collecting. The amazing wildlife in the film includes rare footage of the tiny marsupial mole.

Life and human relationships are becoming more like one big circus. In fact, it's not always a circus within a circus, or something more about relationships between people.

Through D'un roig encès: Miró and Mont-roig Joan Miro Explains the genesis of his work and the inspiration that came from spending long seasons, for 65 years, in Mont-roig (Baix Camp).

Bunkyo University Film Research Club 1979 8mm Film Production.

A man and a woman, including a high-ranking army officer, a prostitute, a fake doctor, and a drug smuggler who were active against the people before the revolution, lure the captain of the barge to let them cross the water border. A young worker is also with the passengers who are going to find work in Arab countries. Along the way, he becomes interested in the officer's daughter. The captain of the barge disembarks them on a deserted island. As the water rises, they find themselves facing death, and with great effort, they return to the barge and confront the captain and the workers. When a group of people from both sides starts to fight, they lose their lives. The officer's daughter and the young worker are the only people who survive this group. After a while, the two meet in a boat and, seeing the tricolor flag of Iran from afar, they realize that they are returning to their country.

A film about a distinguished industrial worker of the Lithuanian SSR, a weaver at the P. Ziberta Silk Factory in Kaunas.

Film by visual artist Ana Hatherly.

The film presents regular Stadsjournaal actor Gerard Thoolen as a rebellious cyclist gallivanting around the streets of Amsterdam performing anarchic stunts on his bicycle. He clumsily cuts up cars, kicks their wingmirrors off, generally torments motorists and takes part in a bicycle race on his heavy ride. When his black gentleman’s bike gets stuck in the tram rails, he angrily grabs a pneumatic drill.

An educational short which attempts to convince children not to trash their elementary school.