Cinematic Era: 1979 Vintage

Features pregnant mothers Marsha Baker, Shaheera Bieber and pregnant couple Claire Prieto and Roger McTair. Also included in the footage are interviews with Dr. J.E. Milligan of the Toronto Women College Hospital and a fitness classes for pregnant women at the Toronto Women's Club.

Punk rock group FLESHTONES perform the song "Soul City," as tiny black & white cut-out figures, (with hand-tinted flesh tones), against a flickering background of brilliant color. In the film, Jones 'recycled' the same basic movements of his subjects by reconstructing totally new motions from the same severely limited amount of footage. This was done through alteration of perspective, and reversal of selected movements at varying intervals. The number of movements a subject can make, artificially created from a few basics, becomes almost limitless once an understanding of what motivates activity in that subject from the beginning is achieved.

One of Jadwiga Singer's analitical, conceptual films, showing how, using the simple tool of a 16 mm film camera, we are able to manipulate the conception of reality.

The beetle travels through the remnants of pop culture left in space to the Earth.

In Hearts, I am trying to express the integration of emotional energy over a period of time. It is a cycle that continues, beginning slowly, climaxing, and then transforming. So perhaps because of the subject matter it had to be developed as one single piece. The heart is this generalized icon not only of emotional energy but also the seat of consciousness, the heart-center that informs the whole psyche, which I depicted as a magnetic landscape. The heart issues forth many kinds of energies within the landscape. -BB

Documentary on the First District of Mexico City, covering daily life in Tepito, La Merced, and Colonia Morelos.

Mexican feature film

A young sociology student has an unintended pregnancy and is subjected to the terrible humiliation of an incompetent doctor. The girl falls ill from the poorly performed abortion and is taken by a friend to the General Hospital. Film that reports clandestine abortion in Mexico, with interviews with women who have had abortions in that hospital and shocking maternal death statistics from procedures carried out under unsafe conditions.

A short film by Ahmed Zir

A grating film whose conception was inspired by equally grating relationships. The soundtrack alone is enough to make you feel as bad as I did. --TW

Bosnian documentary film.

A mosaic film with "the division of the screen into six fields already attended to in the camera.... The real landscape simply becomes the experience of landscape, as the boundaries between perception, imagination and creation become indistinct" (C.J.).

"Available Space is a film made for performance on a 360 degree rotary projection table. A woman breaks through confining architectural space, the limited space of a film frame, and the boundaries of a movie screen. Unexpected angles, corners, slants, floor and ceiling are engaged in unexpected play and projection. The film can also be shown as a single channel without live performance." — Barbara Hammer

In Ornamentals (1979), Abigail Child explores rhythm and the poetry of the repetitive image form.

In Fuerabamba, according to the myth, the land dried up since, in ancient times, the world of the community was captured by the Iberian conquerors and taken prisoner in the Pamparqui ranch. For this reason, the Fuerabambinos lost their status as farmers and became rustlers. During all the stages of the hacienda to free the prisoner god and recover their status as farmers, they were always rejected. Laúlico, head of the community, makes decisions at the hacienda but then finds himself and his people once again.

The film was realized according to the formulaic concept "TAM 4/71."

Documentary film.

Using the sixth century B.C. lyricist's poetry, a group of women unwrap the papyrus gauze of the lesbian goddess and bring her to life. Made by Barbara and six students, together at the Women's Building in Los Angeles.

The window serves as a metaphor for looking and watching. The cinematic illusion is redoubled by the uncertainty of the iconic referent. It is a query on the status of the visible. Games and multiplications of the framework generate an impalpable architecture. In a film which is limited by black and white.

Gulls usually don't fly in movie theaters, but in this case... A scatterbrained camera observes seagulls. See breeze and editing league in order to transform this moment into choreography. The camera and the pair of wings finds themselves, escape from each other, brush against and let themselves passing through or levitate together a short indecisive moment before eclipsing, sometimes literally, until abstraction.

"THE WEST VILLAGE MEAT MARKET is an autodidactic debut film documenting a New York neighborhood, a meat market, which combines documentary and metaphorical overtones, as well as exploring certain aspects of the medium of film: in hand camerawork, motionless to moving objects or minimal movements, black and white material to color, flatness to depth effect.These formal contrasts emphasize textures and spatial conditions that are of particular importance for the area of ​​the meat market. " (Christine Noll Brinckmann)

The visual artist Luyken in his studio (in New York), in a stop-motion film in which he creates ephemeral works of art on a white wall, using paint, wood, string, and similar items. The image is always framed in the same way, and the soundtrack is looped.

The first film of mine which is so very much there where it's at THAT it deserves visual symbol as title and no further explanation from me at/et? all.

The sea and the beach of Ostend. A gentleman walks along the water and scans the horizon with his binoculars. He meets a lady who is paddling. She notices a strange object floating on the waves. Intrigued they will try to fish it out of the water ...

The diagrammatic space first entered in Diagram Film becomes the stage for temporal, rhythmic, informational and spatial play with a single diagram (a 144-drawing cycle) that refers to the film and animation process, animation history, specific filmmakers and other encoded data. The arrangement of the drawings for each of the five sequences was improvised on the animation during the act of shooting, creating five variations and possible readings of the animated composition.

A mundane trip to the country. A meditation on the metaphysics of the creative process, success, failure, and by extension, life, narrated by Dieter Froese.

A young Antillean couple relocates to metropolitan France, confronting everyday racism and straining to preserve their identity. As they settle into an unwelcoming environment, they wrestle with alienation, belonging, and the trauma of cultural displacement.

"SAVING THE PROOF is a complex transformation of an ordinary action: a woman walking. The rhythm of her gait and the pulsating, repetitive sounds counterpoint with alternating images of her transversing city streets, passing windows and fences, descending stairs. As the images repeat and vary with mathematical precision, one becomes more interested in the process itself than in her destination. What appears to have been simple breaks down into a complex system of dichotomies, both in form and in content: city/country, completeness/fragmentation, presence/absence, illusion/reality, light/shadow, negative/positive, fiction/documentation. The film climaxes in a spectacular burst, as one feels that the film is literally coming apart. It ends as it began, as one long chain that can be interrupted at any point, and yet can only be seen as a whole piece." - Margaret Ganahl, Camera Obscura

A day in the life of rock star Lincoln Sludd, and his troubles with nemesis Bad Seed.

“In a wry exploration of women’s sexuality, the character Pussy demonstrates the play between the masculine and the feminine, the strong and the passive, the observer and the observed, as she metamorphoses between female, feline and male figures. As the film demonstrates, animation is a form ideally suited to render the process of metamorphosis.” —Dr. Marian Quigley

A film by Coni Beeson.

o Jorge Cedrón this was an act of wistful and political affirmation. He could not explain why he made it, but stated: «It necessary to make it». The outcome, never screened publicly in Argentina, is of a joyous creative freedom, a musical collage here the history of tango and its roots get interwoven with Argentine political history. A Buenos Aires street reconstructed in Ariane Mnouchkine 's theatre, a European old man who can play the tunes the bandoneón was made for, but who does not know the tango, a friends gathering at Antonio Seguí's studio, the music of Cuarteto Cedrón, hobbyhorses and a disconcerted Indian are some of the many elements combined by the film-maker in this singular, unique work.

Arena profiles John Hoyland, seen by many as England's finest abstract painter. As a major retrospective of his work opens in London, Hoyland faces hostile criticism, starts a new painting and explains why, in his bleaker moments, painting can seem little more than ' flicking away in a corner with a feather duster '.

In Ervin Lázár's story, which combines elements of fairy tale and reality, Peti moves the old lion, who goes by the name of Szigfrid Bruckner, into the abandoned barn. Peti later takes pity on the lonely lion and, with Viktor's help, sets out to free Szilvia, Szigfrid's partner, who is imprisoned in a circus. The operation is a success, but Peti's father decides to demolish the barn. Viktor and Gabriella do everything they can to stop the plan, but eventually Peti's father changes his mind and the inhabitants of the boy's imagination can live happily ever after in the abandoned barn.

The Schleyer Tape is a compilation of television and news footage comprising two hours of media accounts regarding the infamous Baader-Meinhof gang. Klaus vom Bruch's material begins with the September 1977 kidnapping of Hanns-Martin Schleyer and the dramatic news reportage from the scene of the car accident in Cologne where Schleyer was abducted.Vom Bruch then proceeds to chronologically relay footage from official press conferences, talkshow speculation, public interviews and the news, giving a broad and detailed account of the events leading up to the final downfall of the left-wing terrorist Red Army Faction and group suicide of Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof and other RAF leaders.

One of the many films Monica Maurer and Samir Nimer made for the PLO.

A singular cinematic figure, San Francisco’s Mike Henderson became one of the first independent African-American artists to make inroads into experimental filmmaking in the 1960s. Henderson’s work throughout the 1970s and 1980s, from which this program of 16mm films is culled, thrums with a sociopolitical, humorous sensibility that lends his small-scale, often musically kissed portraits (which he later dubbed “blues cinema”) a personal, artisanal quality. - Film Society of Lincoln Center. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.

That which changes and that which remains.

1979 Czech experimental short by Petr Skala

1979 Mexican experimental film

A self-portrait of Merritt's "cowboy" phase, tongue firmly planted in cheek.

A film by Joseph Bernard

The first two in a series of in-camera edited films by Marjorie Keller. ANCIENT PARTS portrays the symbolic differentiation and mock conquest of a boy and his mother. FOREIGN PARTS portrays the poetics of family life in an unfamiliar context. Two joined together as one.

Nagna Sathyam is a 1979 Telugu, drama film. The film was directed by U. Visweswar Rao.[