Cinematic Era: 1979 Vintage

An adolescent boy feels betrayed by his friends and family when plans are made to drain his beloved marshlands and build a factory.

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

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

Japanese Experimental Animation | Directed by: Furukawa Taku

There are essentially two versions of the same film, both of which look at pub makers who create olde world pubs inside new ones using fibreglass mouldings of ancient wooden beams and the like. Basically these are news items from the television show ‘This Week In Britain’, which reported on a company called The Pub Makers who, back in the seventies saw a gap in the market refurbishing new pubs to look like old ones.

Lee Chang-Min, a fifth grade primary school boy, moves to Seoul from Andong city, North Kyungsang Province. He makes friends with Yong-Nam, who is the boss of the kids and will emigrate to USA, Young-Cheol who has a distorted nature owing to his disabled body, and Eoksun who is a chatterbox. Chang-Min can comfort and encourage his friends so that every kids in the village likes him to let Yongnam be left alone. The kids grow their dreams, clean the village, collect the waste goods, and practice playing soccer and Taekwondo. One day when Yongnam soon leaves for USA for emigration, a soccer game competition is held to commemorate the farewell of Yongnam, in which all of the residents in the village join to promise brighter future.

Two young men with high ideals and unrealistic expectations of life quickly learn that they need to lower their standards.

Kim Deok-pal becomes a knave at a young age because of his father's indulgence. While living such a life, he gets to know Ko Seon-mi and tries to become a new person, but fails and is assaulted. After his father dies, Deok-pal starts his thug life for his stepmother and half-brothers. One day, while fighting with those who assaulted him, he is chased by the police and flees to the church. However, the pastor hands over Deokpal to his detective, and Deokpal hates religious people.

Iranian amateur documentary.

SBB: Follow My Dream

Valley Fever shares certain concerns with Beroes' earlier film Recital. Again, she is interested in the locus of individual perception, but is less concerned with emotion than with the bounds of human consciousness. Like Recital, the film is also highly structured and revolves around the reading of various texts. It involves two 'characters', a woman and a man, who, according to Beroes, carry on a 'disjunctive conversation about the effects of illness on perception. While the man reads from a scientific treatise on the syndrome of fever, the woman chooses the words of Merleau-Ponty, explaining her experience in phenomenological terms. They show each other film footage in an attempt to visualise/exchange their perceptions. But ultimately the film confirms their inability to 'see eye to eye'.' In her choice of cinema as a medium of 'exchange' within the film, Beroes also points to the dilemma of the artist and the problematics of communicating one's singular vision to the larger world.

1979 Indian Film

A film of three abstract kinetic visual-musical compositions, entitled Pulse, Cadenza, and Close Harmony. They were produced visually with a Moog synthesizer connected to an oscilloscope and musically with synthesizers and recordings of acoustic sounds.

Bollywood 1983

Bollywood 1979

1979 Bollywood film from director Kishor Vyas. Featuring the music of Avinash Vyas.

A stepmother who leaves no step unturned to plot against her stepson to usurp the family property. But Lord Ganesha, the protector of mankind takes care of him.

Film with a soundtrack featuring Jaywant Kulkarni and others.

Focusing on three residents of Cape Canaveral, Florida this film puts forward the thesis that a decline in NASA's space program after the moon landings has left the local community impoverished.

This documentary follows Ruscha travelling around Los Angeles as he retrieves a damaged cardboard and papier-mâche ‘rock’ from its permanent site in the Californian desert.

In this documentary, Lichtenstein revisits the empty loft that was his New York studio during the 1960s.

Directed by Djingareye Maiga.

Described in the 70’s as "A Chorus Line for gay people," Crimes Against Nature remains vital today as a communal disclosure of roles that gay people adopt in order to survive in a world that devalues homosexual feelings. It features individual actors delivering revealing monologues, during which the other members of the collective play background roles (parents, schoolmates, etc.). One by one, the actors detail the ways in which they have buried their true selves in order to survive and be accepted in the world: repression, drug use, shyness, being agreeable, putting experiences into "little boxes," acting "butch," and so on.

Bonus disc from Kissology II. Kiss live at Capital Center, Landover, MI, July 8, 1979

Alvin "Street Smarts" Axoltl (Peter Occipinti) and his cronies Boris " Dr. Weird" Cowznofsky (writer/director Neil Ayers) and Chuck "Brain Damage" Potrzebie ("Big" Al Boyd) are The Death Lords, grimy hawg jockeys who describe themselves as "the meanest motherfuckers on the planet." In truth, they're barely competent, even by biker gang standards, spending their days beating up little girls and trying to dissuade bespectacled, scooter-riding Harvey (Tom Nursell) from his dream of joining their not-so-vicious ranks.

A documentary about lettercutting, in both monumental inscriptions and on gravestones. The filmmakers were given complete access over a two year period to the work of the craftsmen of the John Stevens Shop in Newport, Rhode Island, the oldest business in the United States still in continuous operation in the same colonial building. It chronicles the work of John ‘Fud’ Benson, then the owner and principal designer, and, arguably, one of the most accomplished letter cutters in the world, as he and his colleagues lay out and then execute the inscriptions on the then unfinished East Building of the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., designed by I.M. Pei.

Importance of the role of the Peruvian university in supporting agriculture and reforestation.

Consequences of the 1970 earthquake in Huaraz and the reconstruction of the city.

Learning of peasant children in their Basic Labor Education classes - EBL.

The Diablada dance of Puno folklore.

It revives various Peruvian traditions such as bullfighting, cockfighting, the marinera dance, among others.

Pilgrimage to the Christ of the Ausangate snow-capped mountain.

A beekeeper from the region shows the life and production of his bee hives.

The work of the ice harvesters of the Huascarán mountain collecting ice for the tasty fruit shaved ice.

A look at the ceramics of the ancient Peruvians and cinema today.

A visionary pioneer of Mexican video art and videodance, Pola Weiss transforms the boundaries between body, camera, and television into a deeply autobiographical exploration of identity, urban life, and emotional fragmentation.

The film introduces the city of Kursk, its military history, culture, and developed industry, as well as its famous natives.

Abstract compositions of pulsating and shifting frames within frames, scored by “A Rainbow in Curved Air.”

Colors in shifting patterns of squares, scored by Terry Riley’s “A Rainbow in Curved Air”

The film tells about the celebrations held in Moscow in May 1978 to mark the 60th anniversary of the restoration of the Patriarchate in Russia. It describes the journey of the Russian Orthodox Church over these decades and its life during this challenging period.

Documentary film about the construction of the second track of the Šamac-Sarajevo Railway in 1978.

Documentary on the 1976 Tiananmen incident produced by the official China Central Newsreel and Documentary Film Studio.

Neil (Barry Spinello) turns to the camera and says: "Film everything for the next 24 hours, 'cause I've come to a strong, positive decision - namely, to commit suicide." We then see the last 24 hours of Neil's life: his mother rushed in from NY; an ex-girlfriend; a current girlfriend; a former film professor. We see Neil direct the film from inside the film, and only learn that it is a total fiction as the final credits roll. "For all its excesses ... the film works. It keeps you not only enthralled for an hour, but also entirely involved. Appalled, fearful, saddened, horrified, one finds it impossible not to want to intervene, to interject one's own sensitivity and humanity into the process and guide it to a different finale. RUSHES is an excellent film for a preliminary to a discussion on suicide." - Ruth Backes, "The Filmshelf," New England Journal of Human Services

Composições nos Fios - Partituras Mutantes (Compositions in the wires - Mutant Partitions). The plant nests added to the electric wires of the city of Gravatá - (Brazil) are transformed into musical scores.

Bunkyo University Film Research Club 1979 8mm Film Production.

A portrait of the famous actor Roman Kłosowski.

8mm film work from 1979 by the Film Studies Department of Bunkyō University. Directed by Mikage Sagisu. It is a feature film depicting the emotional journey of two women through love and romance. The film overflows with a vivid sensitivity characteristic of a female director. The French title means something like “Look at the end.” (It seems that there is a typographical error in the actual title.) The original film print does not have a magnetic sound track, so it is likely that the audio was played from a cassette tape in sync during screenings. Unfortunately, the audio tape has been lost, and it is now impossible to know what lines the characters were speaking in the film. The condition of the film itself is relatively good, and it appears it has rarely been screened since it was made, but it strongly conveys the atmosphere of the late 1970s. It would be a real shame not to watch it solely because it is now silent.

If one does not approach every problem carefully and patiently, the failure is inevitable. The view through the window that offers nothing, if one does not wait, is another story about a man who does not have the patience to study the problem in detail and calmly for which there was a real solution. Because after a hasty step, of course wrong, that same window offers a different view. The blank wall is no longer there, of course only the one who knows how to approach things studiously and who knows how to be patient and calm can see that.

Film by visual artist Ana Hatherly.

An avant-garde home movie featuring Chicago monuments and activities at night and the lyrical rural beauty and architecture of Ithaca, New York.