All Films

Sincerity III

1978 • 35 min • United States of America

In the autobiographical tradition of the earlier Sincerities, this film takes up the light-threads of our living 14 years ago when the Brakhage family found home and "settled," like they say, into some sense of permanence. This quality of living in one place tends to destroy most senses of chronology: thus, along lines-of-thought of growing and shifting physicality, events can seem to be occuring simultaneously (a thot-process 'kin to that of THE DOMAIN OF THE MOMENT), and the memory of such a time IS prompted and sustained by details of living usually overlooked or taken-for-granted (such as Proust's cookie which prompted "The Remembrance of Things Past"). Michael McClure's "Fleas" and Andrew Noren's "The Exquisite Corpse I" were additional sources of inspiration for the making of this work.

Shrinking of the Sun

1978 • 5 min • Japan

An experimental short.

Things Are Different Now

1978 • 17 min

With the help of his grandfather and a friend, a teenager learns to cope with his parents' divorce.

The Being On Time Game

1978 • 11 min

A little girl learns how not to be late.

Drei deutsche Mörder. Aufzeichnungen über die Banalität des Bösen

1978 • 45 min

Documentary on Oswald Kaduk, Josef Klehr and Josef Erber, former members of the staff of Auschwitz concentration camp.

Silueta de Arena

1978 • 2 min

Sand and water meet in a glimmering silhouette.

Fades and Close-Ups

1978 • 8 min • United States of America

…was shot in black and white Super 8mm and is accompanied by a soundtrack of drumming and deep breathing. The camera fades in and out on a symmetrical series of lovely, grainy close-ups of the naked, apparently sleeping forms of a male and a female (Huot himself and Carol Kinne). The film is closely related to, and would be especially interesting screened with Willard Maas’ Geography of the Body, Tara Iimura’s Love, and Yoko Ono’s Fly.

Sanibel

1978 • 9 min • United States of America

8mm. experimental film shot by JoAnn Elam in Sanibel, Florida.

Bonycrone

1978 • 19 min • Soviet Union

This is a fairytale that shows us how to discard the false values and pick the real values.

The Song of Rio Jim

1978 • 6 min

What is film? The spectator will be able to imagine all possible Westerns and anti-Westerns.

kisoutan

1978 • 3 min • Japan

Hush Hoggies Hush: Tom Johnson's Praying Pigs

1978 • 4 min

Meet Tom Johnson and his praying pigs. "Been fooling with them hogs for 35 long years," Johnson says in the film as he rocks on the porch of his modest residence near Bentonia, Mississippi. "It's just an idea that I took up. It's a play thing. And it put me into something that I didn't get out of too easy and so soon." The pigs, taught to stand beside their brimming slop trough with heads bowed while Johnson prayed over their food, dug in with gusto when he finally released them to eat. Johnson died in 1980, but the four minute film is a lasting reminder of his special pig training talents.

High Voltage Electricians

1978 • 13 min • Yugoslavia

It documents the installation of electrical lines high above a country valley.

The end of the DREAM

1978 • 2 min • Japan

Tosca

1978 • 20 min • France

Dansité

1978 • 10 min • France

Dansité is the visualization, in cinematic space and time, of two bodies in motion; mobile, immobile, intertwined, broken, tense, restrained, suspended between heaven and earth, sand and rock, they suddenly stop, fixing the eternity of the moment.

The Primary concerns of Roy G. Biv

1978 • 23 min • United States of America

A constructed framework used to illuminate a reflection on the color spectrum by means of a complex of 'narrative' cross-references. –J. K.

Chérie, que veux-tu ?

1978 • 27 min • France

A man and a woman prepare to go out. Later, they meet in a sophisticated bar.

Katarakt

1978 • 10 min • Netherlands

A live-action animation comprised of brief images (single-frame shots) and dual images about a naked man in a black space. We become extremely aware of his physicality, while the film also carries out an attack on our physical abilities.

To Persist Is To Win

1978 • 15 min • Argentina

An interview of Luis Mattini, general secretary of the Workers' Revolutionary Party (PRT), and Enrique Gorriaran Merlo, member of the political bureau of PRT and commander of the People's Revolutionary Army (ERP), is the basis of this short documentary completed in Rome in 1978. Archive images accompany the voices of the guerrilla militants who denounce the crimes perpetrated by the Videla dictatorship and they present an overview of militant and political organization against the forces of imperialism.

Vesta Lunch (Cookin' at the Vesta)

1978 • 11 min

A continuous-take, cinema-verité study of Toronto's famous all-night diner. A film that studies the pulse of the after-hours urban environment, in real time.

El otro lado

1978 • 60 min

Deep in Mexico two brothers sit in a plaza discussing a broken fuel pump. In a few days they will leave for work. With their father and some friends they will ride a bus 1,300 miles north and enter the United States by walking through the desert. They call America “El Otro Lado,” the other side.

Le discours de l'armoire

1978 • 55 min • Canada

Rémanence I

1978 • 6 min

Rail Ditch and Fence. - Auteuil racetrack, Paris France