All Films

Cinématon n°21 : Joseph Morder

1978 • 4 min • France

Cinématon n°27 : Michel Nedjar

1978 • 4 min • France

Cinématon n°16 : Teo Hernandez

1978 • 4 min • France

3/78 (Objects and Transformations)

1978 • 6 min • United States of America

Sixteen 'objects', each consisting of one hundred points of light, perform a series of precisely choreographed rhythmic transformations. Accompanied by the sound of a Shakuhachi (the Japanese bamboo flute), the film is an exercise in the visual perception of motion and mathematical structure.

Splitstream

1978 • 9 min • United States of America

“It may be important to note that I received a 1978 Canada Council Film Production Grant for an experimental "frame of reference" film, Splitstream, before I went to film school. For this film I invented a means of post-synchronization to create an "impossible" simultaneous viewing of two contrasting points of view: an objective long shot following a character, and a handheld POV of the same character in the same scene—a unique use of horizontal split screen" -SA

Truxx

1978 • 19 min • Canada

A short manifesto of collective resistance to police oppression in the wake of the historic 1977 raid on the Montreal gay bar Truxx.

The Spectacles

1978 • 20 min

The story begin with a boy’s routine visit to optometrist. He has poor eyesight and is prescribed with glasses. That is the beginning of the troubles for the little boy, who lives with his single mother in poor outskirts of the capital.

The Brendan Voyage

1978 • 57 min • United Kingdom

Legends say that St. Brendan crossed the Atlantic in the sixth century. Tim Severin made the trip to see if the legend might be fact.

A Nasty Bear-Cub

1978 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Three young bears are sent by their father to hunt on their own, using different techniques: strength, agility and smartness.

Class Participation

1978 • 6 min • United States of America

A "student film" by Esther Shatavsky.

Providence Video Dating Service (Recovered Tapes)

1978 • 2 min • United States of America

"Rumor had it, many videotapes were discarded when the Providence Video Dating Service closed its doors in 1976. Some tapes were recovered and salvaged. These are edited artifacts from those dumpster dives [...] With Bob Rizzo and Nicole Luria. Produced at Electron Movers 1977 (?)" -ET

Wire Trees With 4 Vectors

1978 • 4 min

Short experimental film by Phil Morton and Guenther Tetz.

Azz Izz Jazz

1978 • 18 min

Jacqueline Frazier’s Azz Izz Jazz showcases jazz legend Billie Harris who performs in studio with a quartet featuring Harris on soprano sax. Among the songs performed is “I Want Some Water,” a composition that Harris, in voice-over, credits, as with all his songs, to his young children who were his inspiration.

Dogs

1978 • 15 min

A film experience to invite careful looking and listening. A group of dogs in the countryside, and at home. The camera observes in a sensitive and detailed way: as the dogs explore a stream and drink, we see how their tongues work to toss beads of water upwards. The rhythms and sounds, the ways of relating and communicating that are special to dogs.

Spiral 3

1978 • 10 min

A joint effort by numerous video artists of the time, starring dancer Rylin Harris.

Swimmer

1978 • 21 min • France

The swimmer is presented as a simple, genderless and isolated identity making new appearances natural, but which nevertheless contain a contradiction: swimming as a way of survival. The pictorial potential has been linked above all to a graphic preoccupation, and the sound illustration represents an important support to the basic idea.

Changing Times

1978 • 3 min • Hungary

The film is a compressed animation parody of Miklós Jancsó's stylised historical choreographies, in which those facing execution and the executioners trade places as the political compass changes direction cynically.

In dark trees

1978 • 2 min • Japan

Born in Tokyo in 1959. While studying oil painting at Musashino Art University, he joined the animation club "Mysterious Magic Lantern Society" and began creating films. In 1980, he joined the independent film screening group "Animation 80" upon its establishment and has been submitting works every year since then. His works have been exhibited at numerous festivals, including the "Torino International Film Festival" (1986, Turin, Italy), the "Shanghai Animation Festival" (1988, Shanghai, China), and "The Evolution of Animation" (1988, O Museum). His unique worldview blends elegance and grotesqueness, and he continues to explore a wide range of expressive techniques, including two-dimensional, three-dimensional, and live-action animation.

Soglie

1978 • 30 min

The Resistance

1978 • 6 min • Yugoslavia

One of the nails does not enter the tree at all, it can not be nailed. It is associated with dignity, endurance, steadfastness. One must always stand behind one's principles and determinations.

Percussion, Impressions and Reality

1978 • 30 min

This is the first comprehensive U.S. film to explore the origins and growth of traditional Puerto Rican music. Interviews with musicians living in New York reveal how traditional music is used as a source of resistance against cultural domination. Their music is also a means by which Puerto Rican culture is maintained and transformed. The film focuses on the music of "Lexington Avenue Express", a group that has taken their music to community centers, political events, prisons and music festivals.

La raison du plus fort n'est pas toujours la meilleure

1978 • 27 min • France

Il Tempo Consuma

1978 • 4 min

“Time consumes images, time consumes sounds”. This phrase is punctuated over time with words and movements by a "human metronome".

Adjunct Dislocations II

1978 • 17 min

Adjunct Dislocations II documents a technically inventive performance. VALIE EXPORT moves along a track with two closed-circuit cameras that are facing different directions and are focused upon patterned screens. Her action creates changing linear shapes on monitor banks within the space.