All Films

Cigarette Burn

1978 • 7 min

With Nancy Halpern and Yves Marton. "Sitting home smoking cigarettes during the occupation. Very nasty and sophomoric. And beautiful." — A.H.

Au pays des couchers de soleil

1978 • 5 min • Canada

Fables have their relevance, particularly when dealing with such delicate topics as politics. This is the story of a retired gentleman with a distinctly British demeanor who buys nine provincial flowers to be planted in his garden. He avoids the fleur-de-lis, which, however, doesn't avoid him. Eventually their attitudes towards each other soften due to the beneficial effects of a watering can.

The Moieties

1978 • 9 min

"... where beads of light searching out 'the beloved' do pulse with the beat of the filmmaker's heart in perfect contrapuntal rhythm with all else in the frame of that sequence." – Stan Brakhage, World Film Festival of Canada

Entre chiens et loup

1978 • 21 min • Canada

Gives us a glimpse of a life which remains very monotonous despite the social upheavals that mark the country.

White Red and Green Lights

1978 • 7 min

"White, Red and Green Lights" opens with a blank white screen. A performer enters, and the viewer realizes that the camera is placed above the scene looking back in space toward the floor. The performer brings in fluorescent light tubes and places them on the floor horizontally near the bottom of the screen. This positioning corresponds to the foreground in the filmed scene The lights appear to be black since white is black in negative. The film switches to color negative and the performer brings in both red and green fluorescent tubes. These are also placed near the bottom of the screen. Finally he moves the red and green lights to the side edges of the screen and the film ends with red and green lights running up the sides of the screen.

Black and Woman

1978 • 21 min • Norway

Victoria Santa Cruz, dancer and choreographer, talks about the work she's developing with her folklore ensemble and shares her experience as a black peruvian woman in an interview with Eugenio Barba.

Each Peach Pear Plum

1978 • 5 min

'Each Peach Pear Plum' is a classic picture book that won the Kate Greenaway Medal. In pictures and words, it introduces the very youngest of readers to a number of characters from traditional stories.

To Tell Only The Truth

1978 • 5 min • Soviet Union

A film by Arturas Barysas, one of Lithuania's "counter-culture" avant-garde pioneers.

That Sweet Word...

1978 • 1 min • Soviet Union

A man tries in vain to escape his self-imposed cage.

Transitions

1978 • 3 min

A pregnant woman sitting near a window is replaced with a child, an adult and a senior citizen in subsequent edits, revealing the cycle of life.

1978 • 3 min • Yugoslavia

How can one film nothing, how to depict infinity in a film? A camera pointed towards the sky registers one such attempt. The infinite sky in the frame is seen precisely that way – like nothing, a film stripe worn out, empty surface, 0 (zero). The hand holding the camera is trying to keep the slide in the same motionless position. At one point, the camera slightly moves to the left out of fatigue. A roof with a chimney appears in the bottom left hand corner – the only part of the scene which inadvertently reveals the attempt and the wish – how to film nothing.

Hinterland Who's Who: Black Bear

1978 • 1 min • Canada

This very short documentary from the Hinterland Who’s Who series introduces viewers to the black bear.

Chambers

1978 • 6 min • United States of America

black and white, 16mm, silent

13 Shots

1978 • 3 min • Poland

After Dinner Science

1978 • 2 min

A short work by Esther Shatavsky.

Mikkola - Motocross Master

1978 • 30 min

The film 'Mikkola - Motocross Master' emphasises the sheer professionalism of Heikki Mikkola and shows how he mastered two major 500c Motocross events during 1978. The races featured are the French Grand Prix held at Gaillefontaine in April and the Italian Grand Prix at Gallarate in June.

Fishs Eddy

1978 • 6 min

Between ever-present splices, a circular mirror reflects a pendulating tire swing.

Cinématon n°22 : Martine Rousset

1978 • 4 min

Asteroid

1978 • 19 min • Canada

A made for the camera video collaboration with Steve Paxton, a unique pas de deux between videographer and dancer.

The Stool Becomes the Ladder

1978 • 6 min

The Stool Becomes the Ladder was made in 1978, using techniques of video feedback, quantizing levels and chroma, and simple downstream text. The stool is transformed into a ladder.

Trial Against the Declassed from Poshnja, Berat January 6-7, 1978

1978 • 17 min • Albania

Perhaps the most chilling testament to the ruthlessness of Albania’s communist regime, this documentary presents a public trial in a packed cinema: four young men accused of industrial sabotage and listening to foreign music. In the finale, replicating the Stalinist show trials of the 1950s, the audience applauds the death sentences for two defendants, and long prison terms for the other two who absurdly also lose their voting rights. The ice cold Poshnja is a rarely-screened, forbidden film (it is not even listed on the Albanian archive website) and the sole directing effort of Albania’s leading film scholar, Abaz Hoxha.

Screen, Projector & Film

1978 • 14 min

This film deals with filming (taking) and (giving) projecting into the same space of present and past.

Arbitrary Fragments

1978 • 13 min • United States of America

Using highly-manipulated and over-processed images, Latham investigates the process of video as inherently fragmented. Weaving together various people’s impressions of the artist and her work, the work demonstrates important parallels between video, storytelling, and the formation of identity — all processes of active fabrication that blend “lies” and truth in the construction of a certain reality, history, or past. Labeling an image of herself talking as “her most recent explanation,” Latham addresses “the construction of her video personality” as an identity outside of herself.

How to Make a New York Cake

1978 • 5 min • Netherlands

It’s always party time with the De Nooijer family at home. Innocent pleasure or a political film?