All Films

Laurel Fork

1978 • 3 min

Peter Bundy film

State Highway

1978 • 4 min

Peter Bundy film

Sniffare

1978 • 24 min • Sweden

Håkan started sniffing paint thinner when he was 13, at 16 he was first arrested, now we get to follow him as he returns to his childhood neighbourhood and no one wants to see him.

Black's Garage

1978 • 17 min • United States of America

Short documentary segment for Twin Cities Public Television, St. Paul, MN, about Clarence and Harold Black at their service station in Jacksonville, Illinois.

Vtr&i

1978 • 13 min • Italy

This work marks a milestone in my research with video. For the first time, in fact, I'm using a particular system of my own invention: the video loop. The technique, previously used in the music field, is applied by me to video and allows me to create infinite superimpositions of images and sounds that accumulate in real time. This technical-poetic procedure will later determine a large part of my video production and will find the most correct application in music video performances.

Mole and the Hare

1978 • 10 min • Soviet Union

About a mole who unexpectedly discovered a wonderful world on the surface of the earth.

Don't Forget

1978 • 5 min

Don’t Forget shows traces of light on film emulsion. Blonk filmed reflections in the water, light passing through a canopy, and moving light sources. By zooming in and making circular camera movements and vibrations caused by long exposure times, patterns in different forms are created. For this film, he used extremely high-contrast, orthographic film, which creates an abstract-expressionist game of light and shadow.

Venise

1978 • 35 min • France, Italy

16mm dairy film by Pierre Parat

Spata, Saint Peter's Stew

1978 • 25 min • Greece

The film describes the custom called "Saint Peter's Stew" and is celebrated in Spata during the feast of Peter and Paul. In the year the film was made, 1978, the performance of the custom took on a strong socio-political content. He was associated with the residents' protest movement against the government's decision to move the airport to Spata. Besides the description of the custom, the film reveals two more important points. The first is that, as anthropology also claims, customs are not simple survivals of ancient institutions but are constantly transformed, forming an operative framework, in which the social problems of the time are inscribed as content. The second is that the respective protest and resistance movements are expressed through existing social symbols changing their content.

David Bowie On Stage

1978 • 21 min

April 10th, 1978 - Dallas Convention Center - Dallas, TX

A Night When I Cannot Shoot

1978 • 46 min

In this 16mm work Shiroyasu Suzuki made himself the subject and tried to create a film based on his own image. However, once he started filming, it became clear that his image was nothing more than a camera fetish. Then, realizing that he must expose his empty self, he begins to think about making "15 Days".

Through to the Continent by Ferry Train

1978 • 8 min • United Kingdom

British Transport film.

Wañuchun Cooperativa

1978 • 13 min • Peru

In Lucrepata (Cusco), the community rises up to recover their land by confronting the cooperatives and the state, wanting community autonomy over their territory

¿Cuál es la consigna?

1978 • 17 min • Nicaragua

Historical documentary about popular Sandinista insurrection in Nicaragua, 1978.

Carriage Cleaning

1978 • 28 min • United Kingdom

The techniques and materials used (and attention to detail needed) to clean railway carriages manually.

Fungi: The One Hundred Thousand

1978 • 7 min • United States of America

Explains that there are approximately 100,000 species of fungi known to science, and that these simple plants are both harmful and beneficial to humans. Uses photomicrography to show the parts of the fungus and time-lapse photography to illustrate growth and reproduction.

Mr. and Mrs. Robin's Family (Revised)

1978 • 10 min • United States of America

A child narrates this story of a robin family from early spring to late fall. Beautiful nature photography shows the fledglings born and growing up, the robins' daily habits and seasonal activities.

New Rose

1978 • 2 min • Yugoslavia

A super 8mm film by Davorin Marc.

Fairy Tale Theatre

1978 • 9 min • Japan

Seven classic fairy tales animated in stop motion. The stories include Thumbelina, The Little Mermaid, The Little Match Girl, The Ugly Duckling, Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk and The Old Man Who Made the Dead Trees Blossom (花咲か爺さん).

Gure itsasoa

1978 • 14 min • Spain

Lekeitio is one of the most important fishing villages in the Cantabrian Sea. The film shows the way of life of the sea.

Prelude

1978 • 10 min • Bulgaria

Little Lulu

1978 • 25 min

Little Lulu (Lauri Hendler), the mischievous little girl with big goals, and her friends crusade for women's rights when the boys object to the fact that their summer camp, Camp Whackadoo, has become co-ed.

India Time

1978 • 59 min • India, United States of America

Hafif's second feature is another montage of film and voiceover narration. Hafif created it after she travelled to India with Robert Morris where the two visited workshops of local stonemasons. For the soundtrack, the artist drew on entries in her travel diary and other notes. The various textual fragments gradually coalesce around a common thematic core: the critique of a linear construction of time, which is implicitly associated with Western modes of thinking.

An Essay on a Free Topic

1978 • 20 min • Soviet Union