Cinematic Era: 1979 Vintage

A film by Barbara Lattanzi

A spoof on the classic Oil of Olay commericals of the 1970's as portrayed by the international star Rula Lenska. Iconic drag perfomer Codina Disposa gives tidbits to the smart women of Britian on how to keep their youthful beauty.

With its loose narrative framework embroidered with an evocative and metaphorical montage, Doug Haynes' Common Loss recalls the poetic strain of the avant-garde. The film marshals thousands of individual pictures, each of which is meticulously cut out and painstakingly animated, into an allegory about growing up.

Documentary about the Norwegian women's movement

In 1976, Ian Dunlop was invited by Dundiwuy Wanambi, a leader of the Marrakulu clan, to Gurka’wuy on Trial Bay in the Gulf of Carpentaria. He wanted Film Australia to record the first major Marrakulu ceremony to be held at Gurka’wuy since its recent establishment as a clan settlement. While they were there, a baby boy died. The Madarrpa men, including the child’s father and Dundiwuy, asked for the funeral to be filmed.Mortuary rites of the Yolngu are extremely complex. Despite some practical modifications to traditional ceremonies as a result of life on mission stations, ritual remains extremely strong.

Short film by Teruo Koike. 18fps/8mmfilm/silent

Pierre Dubreuil dreams of a young lady whom he names Amandine and whom he imagines to be the ideal woman. But his fantasy adventures will make him meet a young man in a strange castle. When he wakes up in a hospital room after an appendicitis attack, another surprise awaits him

By testifying to living and working conditions in working-class areas, this militant documentary already denounced rampant urbanism while proposing alternatives for better living in the city.

A teenager suffering from scoliosis goes to the hospital in Konstancin.

Marta proposes to a writer experiencing a creative crisis to live in a house that she rents to his current lover.

A BAFTA award nominated documentary film looking at Sunday morning football.

Black and White Video Installation | Silent

This film, which begins with the words "Be Peep 5" scratched into the film, is projected at 9 frames per second, twice the speed of the normal 8mm projection, 18 frames per second. By doing so, the object filmed frame by frame is exposed to the viewer's eyes for a longer period of time, creating an effect that is different from that of normal slow motion, where the object filmed at high speed is projected at a normal number of frames. This creates a strange sense of rhythm that strongly stimulates the viewer's sensibilities. 6 shows the overlapping of colors, and 7 shows the development of an image centered on silhouettes as the mind moves.

Memory is an attempt to reconstruct the functioning of the memory process and, in particular, the phenomenon of triggering a memory from elements perceived in the outside world. The lens of the camera corresponds to the gaze of a single subject - the one who records and then remembers. This translates into an alternation of "real" sequences and "faked" souvenir sequences.

A series of dramatizations of famous Bible stories.

Lines of Force opens with footage of a dramatic explosion. The screen is divided, into a triptych at first, and slowly into horizontal and vertical bars. Electronically manipulated footage from a variety of sources mingle and collide. Naturally occurring lines in the array of images presented mirror the electronically created bars and lines the artist uses to divide the screen; A piece as neon and free-jazz as it is meticulous and concrete.

Dominique Belloir and Rainer Werbitz experimenting with the use of the video synthesizer which, by various processing, explores the fascination of an apparently harmless game, pinball-- The artificial quickly becomes pulsating, violent and sexualized in a frenzy.

Utilising the Videokalos synthesiser, Donebauer founded the Video And Music Performers (VAMP) delivering live interactive performances created between video and music performers. VAMP toured the UK in 1978-79 and had a retrospective performance at Tate Britain in 2006.

Amazing Maze is based on the stories of different people's passion for pinball. Cherry, the company that owned the pinball arcade Alexander Lucas, located in Hötorget subway station in Stockholm, lended their machines for the shooting of this film. The stories are taken from Cherry's ads. Olle Hedman reacted to warnings in the media about how damaging pinball could be for children and youth. (Filmform)

"A one-minute split-screen goof" from Yugoslavian artist Ivan Ladislav Galeta.

My good friend Mr. E had to walk out. Was Rangda ringing too many changes for even this fearless dreamer? My only rock 'n roll film. –D. L. "I want to see, er, hear it again." –Mr. E.

This stunning video introduces viewers to the ennobling example of Roerich's life, the beauty of his paintings, and the wisdom of his spiritual philosophy.

Super 8mm. Colour. Silent. 13 minutes.

Stark black and white photographs of faces airbrushed with color.

An ‘educational’ documentary on the evils of shoplifting is itself shoplifted, mocked, and then remade or extrapolated on the Proudhonian principle that ‘property is theft,’ with the figure of the shoplifter freed from the zone of morality and re-situated as a vital part of an alternative economy. The dual aim is to shake up the disciplinary role of the educational doc as well as conventional definitions of criminality.

A remake of Abram Room's 1927 silent Russian feature, "Bed and Sofa". Heralded as a revolutionary feminist film, Room's version was suppressed for its radical treatment of sexual freedom, women's rights, and abortion. Armatage's version shifts the emphasis to the woman's point of view and stylizes the narrative. A comedy.

The daily lives of children with double disabilities (hearing and visual) and the treatment given to them by teachers are presented in order to relate moments of leisure and directed instruction. The film also addresses the behavior of these children through dramatic games.

In the mid to late '70s, over several visits to New York, Schönherr produced an astounding 107 hour super8 film, a "visual diary" that consists of impressions of the city, its inhabitants, and its television culture.

Austrian experimental short film.

Gustowska recorded the protagonists, three pairs of female twins, in different situations and in the course of the passing time. The camera registered the changes that gradually occurred in the young women, capturing the differences and similarities between the siblings.

“The End The End” shows an interest in the film-making process as a subject. The motif of closed composition is of a circular nature, in which the end signifies the return to the point of departure, and is frequently employed by the artist.

Picture of a fight between two women in which the victim is a judge - a man. 'Re-discovered' film by Jadwiga Singer.

Gorewitz abstracts footage of highway traffic, gradually transforming the ordinary into a multi-layered world of shifting colors and sounds.

Mexican feature film

Mexican feature film

The third part of Willie Varela's Moon trilogy.

a super 8 movie realized by Jomard Muniz de Britto, a brazillian director

Experimental film on 16mm by Alexandru Pecican as part of Kinema Ikon.

Shared shape, color or movement links each of these varied fragments of urban landscape with the next. Each sight has its own naturalistic ambient sound, as the film yanks you from spot to spot and moment to moment.

Video and language artwork by Keith Haring

A film by Toney W. Merritt

Another series of self portraits where I poke fun at myself in some manner or other.

Excavations was shot in Israel, and portrays a culture concerned with rediscovery and renewal. -ETC

Rolling Coca Cola bottles and industry sounds. This is part of a series of anti-commercial films. (Filmform)