All Films

Phaeton

1978 • 7 min • France

Don't Be a Bloody Idiot

1978 • 16 min • Australia

Discusses bush walking and camping safety procedures using humorous sketches and common sense sequences.

Canción al viejo fisga que acecha en los lagos amazónicos

1978 • 10 min • Peru

Following the Fisga in the solitary journey through the waters and exuberant nature of the Amazon, we witness the patient search for the fish that will feed his family, and his struggle to catch it.

Optocht

1978 • 30 min • Netherlands

Four persons travel by rail to visit a city. On arrival they take a bicycle to continue their tour and join occasionally a passing protest manifestation. The camera is never far off their trail.

O Ritmo do N'Gola Ritmos

1978 • 60 min • Angola

1978 Angolan documentary.

Carnival of Victory

1978 • 40 min • Angola

1978 Angolan documentary

Organisation I

1978 • 5 min • France

First works with pure color. The slits are organized into vertical Yellow-Red-Blue strips which move laterally across the screen according to a pre-calculated order.

The Following Instructions Game

1978 • 11 min

In this educational short, a boy learns the steps necessary for following incredibly simple instructions.

The Officer's Conduct

1978 • 25 min • Yugoslavia

Educational film that deals with proper conduct of army officers.

Biohazard

1978 • 50 min • Poland

The former head of the Institute of Science - Professor Molnar, returns to the Institute to seek treatment for his heart condition. The new director of the Institute, and his former assistant, Dr. Egberg had a falling out with Molnar after the latter considered his research unethical. However, after waking up from surgery, Molnar makes a horrifying discovery; Egberg has swapped their brains!

Gardiner's Island: A Visit with Robert David Lion Gardiner

1978 • 30 min • United States of America

This 1978 film by Fenwick Productions features a tour of Gardiner's Island by Robert David Lion Gardiner, the 16th Lord of the Manor. Its conversion from 16mm film was made possible by the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation.

Cortège

1978 • 34 min • France

First film (of around thirty until this day) with électro-acoustic music. Dreamlike edition of male physical actions, executed according to synopsis established in common by four ‘actants’. Shot in outside, without story or words. The domain of the homosexual desire and pleasure is put in images of nature where materials become the ‘environment’. Films can be thrown only in the presence of the author, consult us on the conditions.

L'Âge doré

1978 • 4 min • France

La Femme n’est plus ce qu’elle était

1978 • 7 min • France

A parody of feminist criticism on found footage covered by humoristic chisellings, signs or hasty figurative elements. Sometimes, chisellings are fine, and sometimes they are treated in large shots (razor tears, acid, cutting the film itself, wide spraying, thick stamps). A bedsheet is used as the final screen from which various women's evocations are represented.

What Am I Doing Here

1978 • 20 min • United States of America

A playing with words, narrative, and performance…..A display of my fantasies, fears, and mundane realities……A narcissistic reflection and indulgence in my ecstasies, torments, and humorous nuances….A personal journey through the question ‘What am I Doing Here?’ and the endless attempts to answer it. Jean Sousa

Ellen on the Rope

1978 • 6 min • United States of America

Ellen on the Rope is an energetically expressive study of performer Ellen Fisher working out on the rope in her Lodge Hall rehearsal space, itself a handsome room of classical proportions and lighting. Sousa’s film studies Fisher’s strenuous activity from a series of vantage points, creating a strobing rhythm by crossing the camera’s shutter speed with the rate of the rope traversing its frame. Unlike other athletic film studies, usually focused on body properties or close-ups of muscular exertion, Ellen on the Rope directs our attention more towards physics, tracing the dynamics and energy of Ellen’s patterns through space with a camera that progresses from tripod stillness to sympathetic motion. A simple exercise, this film offers a fine example of two artists working out together on rope and celluloid.” B. Ruby Rich, Chicago Reader, 1979

H.e.h.

1978 • 40 min • France

Pour lire Robbe-Grillet

1978 • 45 min • Japan

La Petite Fille

1978 • 9 min • France

She plays with the sand. Anonymous Dahomean music: percussion by two stones of four pieces of wood placed on the legs of the instrumentalist. This music is meant to keep monkeys and birds away from crops, but causes mutual attraction with the little girl.

Spring-Coming Effects

1978 • 5 min • Romania

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

Louder, Faster, Shorter

1978 • 17 min

In the intense, original Punk Rock scene at the Mabuhay Gardens (the only club in town which would allow it), the Avengers, Dils, Mutants, Sleepers, and UXA played a benefit for striking Kentucky coal miners (“Punks Against Oppression!”), raising $3300.

Astral Projections

1978 • 37 min

Ken, a dithering aspirant to the counter culture, returns from an abortive trip to Bali only to find things worse in Melbourne. A tragi-comedy detailing a young man's humiliation and inability to communicate.

The Age of Silence

1978 • 9 min • Spain

Very hard radiography of repression, torture and the unstoppable desire to achieve freedom. The untold protest drawn by OPS, with a mouth that screams in a face that has literally sewn other parts, becomes one of the most political and adult works of Spanish animation.

Magic Star Traveler Volume 1

1978 • 21 min

Two alien puppets go back in time and narrate nature videos.