All Films

Primary

1978 • 2 min • United States of America

The artist’s mouth fills the whole image plane. Silently the words “red,” “blue,” “green” are slowly and repeatedly articulated. The color of the screen switches from red to blue to green at a quickened rate. Utilizing the same rate, the spoken words, “red,” “blue,” and “green,” are cut together into syllabic combinations of the three words making up the asynchronous sound track. The individual words, barely intelligible as spoken, are more easily “read” on the uniformly moving lips. (Quasha, George and Charles Stein. An Art of Limina: Gary Hill’s Works and Writings. Barcelona: Ediciones Polígrafa, 2009, p. 589)

Kielipuolipotilas

1978 • 41 min • Finland

A foreigner in a Finnish hospital.

Vida y poesía de Julia de Burgos

1978 • 28 min • Puerto Rico

Aspects of the life and work of Julia of Burgos, first socialist poetess from Puerto Rico.

Don't Dream It - See It

1978 • 15 min • United Kingdom

The Kings Road punks go on a day trip - to 10 Downing Street! - in this edition of Captain Zip's Video Trip

Дудка-веселушка

1978 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Ballad of the Falcon and the Star

1978 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Based on the poems of the Uzbek poetess of the 19th century Uyvasi about the unrequited love of the Falcon for a distant Star.

Le petite réverbère

1978 • 10 min • France

Traces of stories. The images themselves. Tear off. Stain. To paint. Makes light out of them.

Interieur Interiors (To A-K)

1978 • 15 min • Canada, United States of America

Changes of spatial relationships, scales, locations, and materials are intimated with recognisable clues which nevertheless do not always eliminate the former understanding of the images. These and other levels of ambiguity are instilled, which shake the photographic image’s authority as a principle of reality by confronting it with its illusory nature. We are back with magic, made possible with black and white film, shadows and lights, the limitations of the screen and the depth of field. So as when film grains, dots in deep space, disintegrate the solidity and enclosureness of a wall, the intentions of the film and the transforming events accumulate at a very intimate level of the viewer, that is at the level of the mechanism of his understanding.

Rounds

1978 • 4 min • United Kingdom

“This film was made by superimposing in the camera six takes of myself playing the flute in six different positions around a circle. With each shot I randomly began playing “Row, Row, Row Your Boat”. The resulting film shows a unique rendition of this classic round.” - Jenny Okun

Cuarteto

1978 • 20 min • Argentina

Branches, leaves, and flowers overlap and mingle. The film closes with a passage from philosopher Zhuang Zhou.

Creativity: Simon's New Sound

1978 • 8 min

Simon’s New Sound (1978, 8 min.) is about a young boy who is searching for a new instrument with which to celebrate Trinidad’s pre-Easter Carnival. He fashions a steel drum from the carefully indented bottom of an oildrum. Poet Opal Palmer is the voice of Simon.

Cycle

1978 • 3 min • United Kingdom

Breathing

1978 • 3 min • United Kingdom

Untitled: 'Silueta' Sequence No. 2

1978 • 3 min

United States 1978, Super 8 transferred to digital, colour, silent, 3 min

Mobiles

1978 • 3 min • United States of America

2D sketches fill, rearrange, and texture themselves, with a score by Barry Schrader. One of Jules Engel's works on the Visual Music 1946-1986 DVD from the Center for Visual Music.

It Still Rotates

1978 • 20 min • Soviet Union

Suliman Mohamed Ibrahim Elnour’s graduation film depicts everyday life in a school in Yemen.

Rencontre

1978 • 4 min

Cardboard cut-outs explode, twirl, disintegrate and form shapes in a delightful, airy film that describes the journey through life, its inevitable ups and downs, and the final triumph of the person.

Dinni e la Normalina, ovvero la Videopolizia Psichiatrica contro i sedicenti Gruppi di Follia Militante

1978 • 27 min • Italy

This is a quite a rare example of a political sci-fi filmed without means. An excessive and schizophrenic creature, DINNI E LA NORMALINA allows Grifi’s more playful soul to see the light, while not dispersing the dark reflection on the exploitation by media institutions.

Malditos Mendigos

1978 • 16 min • Brazil

A parabol about the despised ones of the Earth.

Suddenly, A Strike

1978 • 24 min • Austria

In the Semperit tyre factory, the only strike after World War II takes place in May 1978, lasting for three weeks. The film shows the course of the strike in interviews, photos, graphics and talks at a pub; it draws attention to the position of the union between its loyalty to the workers and its responsibilities towards the entrepreneurs.

Misunderstanding

1978 • 20 min • Poland

Piotr Majdrowicz’s film The Misunderstanding of 1978 presents the story of a young photographer in love with an athlete who he photographs.

Egypt, City of the Dead

1978 • 35 min • France

A portrait of the City of the Dead, an inhabited cemetery just outside of Cairo and on the fringes of the city’s public dumping ground, like a living reproach and a bad conscience. Starting from the City of the Dead, the film shows the populous neighborhoods of Cairo in the grip of hypertrophy and misery, every day more threatened by paralysis.

Batsu

1978 • 5 min • Japan

An experimental short.

Eça de Queiroz: Notas Breves Sobre

1978 • 26 min • Portugal

Program of biographical character on Eça de Queiroz, writer, with emphasis on his literary work and respective themes, illustrated with interpretations of actors.