All Films

Hedefteki Adam

1978 • 53 min

Turkish crime thriller

Who Shall Remain Nameless

1978 • 14 min

This film juxtaposes extreme close-up film of the activity of ants in the tunnels of an ant farm with a narration by a middle-aged, middle-American male discussing the relation between race riots and the positions of the planets. The narration derives from found tapes I’d discovered in a thrift store that had been recorded by a man named Archie Olson, speaking to his daughter in Minnesota. In other scenes, texts from Joan of Arc and Eldridge Cleaver, patterns of feathers and seeds falling, Harry Partch percussion music, and imagery of multiplying bacteria supply a view of the American political-cultural landscape that continually shifts from the macrocosmic to microcosmic and from practical and conversational to the occult and religious.

Body Sketches

1978 • 6 min

Nine separate animated cycles of human figure drawings intercut with self-portraits and rotoscoped ocean footage repeat, converge and spill over into watery confusion

Snow

1978 • 3 min • Soviet Union

A young couple with a child long for an idyllic life in the countryside.

On the Verge of an Image of Christmas

1978 • 10 min

A study of the patterns and gesture of family when ceremony no longer counts. Made to remember the occasion and place myself as a part of it.

A Day in the National Parks

1978 • 6 min

An impressionistic view of Canada's national parks. The camera creates a composite landscape of ideal beauty where nature is wild and varied. It travels from the east coast to the west, from seashore to mountains, from lakes to forests. A film without words.

Benefit Seeker

1978 • 18 min • Soviet Union

Once upon a time there lived the son of a peasant who got tired of working in the field, and he went into the world to seek happiness. He walked for a long time, and many times it already seemed that happiness would smile at him...

Long Live the Cinema!

1978 • 29 min • Soviet Union

Reflections of the Dandelion the computer on the future of cinema.

But We're Friends, Aren't We?

1978 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A sheep's kind feeling for a selfish cat develops into mutual selfless friendship during a sheep's illness.

Communiqué From Argentina

1978 • 40 min • United States of America

Through a letter to an American friend, Lili Massaferro narrates her life: born into a bourgeois family, she became involved in political militancy after the murder of her son and organized the female branch of the Montoneros group. Its history is intertwined with the figure of Eva Perón, and with certain significant political events in the country.

An Equation With Six Known

1978 • 16 min • Soviet Union

About the USSR national volleyball team, which became the world champion in 1978, and its senior coach Vyacheslav Platonov.

Canoa Quebrada

1978 • 21 min • Brazil

A series of interviews with the residents of Canoa Quebrada - a tourist spot on the coast of Ceará, Brazil - that puts in contrast the local poverty and the idyllic nature that surrounds it.

Further Adventures of Bonnie Prince Charlie

1978 • 15 min • United Kingdom

A film about Bonnie Prince Charlie's escapades in the Outer Hebrides and his escape with Flora MacDonald

Saturday Morning

1978 • 4 min

A single-take document of a domestic exchange where image and sound raise one set of expectations and then create a conundrum for the viewer.

Sharie Holeb's Prom Night

1978 • 21 min

Tom Palazzolo's 1978 film "Sharie's Prom" is a documentary that captures the experiences of Sharie Holeb and her friends during their prom night in Chicago. The film offers an intimate glimpse into the lives of these young individuals as they navigate the excitement and challenges of this significant high school event.

À Procura De Uma Resposta

1978 • 34 min

Film produced in 1978 by the Portuguese Film Institute's “Agrarian Reform Production Unit” (Luís Gaspar, Vítor Duarte and Carlos Gaspar) in co-production with Bulgaria.

Northern Hemisphere

1978 • 9 min • Japan

I wanted to make a film in which the world is turned upside down, a film made up of images that assert that these images have no meaning. There is a shot that uses a doll, which was washed up on the riverbank where we visited while filming "Mineralogist". I picked it up thinking that I might be able to use it in the shoot. Masanobu Nakamura seemed to think that this shot was my response to "Commemorative Photography" and asked me about it, but I had no idea what it meant so I was at a loss for words.

Peru: Literacy for Social Change

1978 • 31 min • Germany

Adult educator Paulo Freire developed literacy programs in northeastern Brazil to combat part of the colonial legacy of illiteracy and promote social change. This film depicts adult educators putting Freire's methods to work on a Peruvian co-operative cotton farm, teaching peasants how to read and write. The promise of the literacy program is that the peasants will be able to use their newly found confidence to change the reality of their daily existence and collectively gain control of their own lives

Between Glances

1978 • 14 min

"Between Glances... plays with the illusion of depth, with interactions between apparent upper and lower planes. Strong blacks and whites bound the range of grays they encompass, while, periodically, black and white stills devoid of gray tones and of motion demarcate the film's progress." – B. Ruby Rich

Jenny's Arctic Diary

1978 • 60 min

A cyclical year in the lives of the Inuit community at Grise Fjord, Ellesmere Island, 900 miles north of the Arctic circle.

I Congresso dos Sindicatos da Indústria de Hotelaria e Turismo

1978 • 14 min • Portugal

Jimmie Brown the Newsboy

1978 • 2 min

Silhouette animation with pet frog.

Et si on se passait de patrons ?

1978 • 37 min • Belgium

It's possible to work without bosses, and workers have proven it in Belgium, notably at Balai Libéré, a cleaning company at the University of Louvain-la-Neuve, at Sablières de Wauthier-Braine, and at the Textiles d'Ere cooperative, a spinning mill that operated as a cooperative for nearly 30 years. The film focuses mainly on this third experience. The workers (90% of the staff are women), whose memories have been rekindled by a video shot at the time, recount the occupation of their factory. We then see them at work. Everyday scenes and interviews follow one another, revealing the changes that have taken place. Or that sometimes have not taken place.

Etude

1978 • 13 min

Experimental film by Hiroyuki Sekine.