All Films

I've Told You Everything

1978 • 10 min • Soviet Union

In the center of the plot is the record holder of bench shooting, three-time world champion Yu.F.Tsuranov.

Red Light

1978 • 9 min • Japan

“This film is assembled from a series of cuts conveying different moods. It is mostly composed of the simple action of seeing images alternately or in succession, such as of scissors cutting against each other, or of the blink of eyes peering through a magnifying glass. I thought of them as being like red, amber and green traffic lights.” (Isao Kota)

Baby Ikki

1978 • 3 min

This piece documents one of Smith's earliest performances of his "Baby Ikki" character, in which he performs in public as an oversized infant in diaper, hat and sunglasses.

At the Height of Horror

1978 • 15 min

A haunted house unleashing demonic forces to terrorize its tenants.

Works in the Field

1978 • 37 min • United States of America

Mountain landscapes, Manhattan cityscapes and images from magazine covers and television news are fragmented through optical printing with computer generated mattes. Intercut with a found documentary about family life in Malaysia, the film becomes an essay on reading. Watching the film is like an accelerated game of Concentration with glimpses of the image appearing inside swirling grids. The juxtaposition of the gridded sequences to the conventionally assembled Malaysian footage formulates an inquiry into the nature and meaning of the "document" in cinema.

We Are Women

1978 • 7 min

A poetic video piece in which Weiss alternates between hand-held shots of women that are surviving in the streets of Mexico City and colourful, kaleidoscopic forms. In a very personal style she combines sound, color, abstractions, reportage, rhythm. A unique melange of realism, absurdism and fantastical, a sort of eerie fairytale that holds a profound social commentary. – Mila van der Weide

Finger

1978 • 3 min • Japan

I combined a mostly still photo (a person and scissors) with a series of photos (fingers) that show a lot of movement.

El Gringo Eskiador

1978 • 56 min • France

In June 1978, Patrick Vallençant made the first ski descent of the southeast face of Artesonjaru in Peru, in the Cordillera Blanca, 6,000 meters above sea level and 60° of slope. He left Huaraz on horseback, a donkey carrying his equipment. While crossing Cajas, the last village on the trail to Lake Paron, he was greeted by Victor and Cesar, two Indians who accompanied him to the lake. The climb to the summit was tiring, requiring as much effort from his arms as from his legs. The beginning of the descent was hesitant, the slope extremely steep. He achieved his feat on June 9, his thirty-second birthday.

The Unemployment Test

1978 • 14 min

The Unemployment Test is presented as a quiz to judge the audience’s knowledge about the welfare system, albeit one backed by a funky disco synth soundtrack. The viewers of the film take the test alongside people in a classroom who are evenly split between those who have benefited from unemployment insurance and others who have not. Short dramatized scenes with non-professional actors play out in two phases. Each skit ends with a question by the narrator. The audience’s an- swers are scored at the end of each phase.

Sensorial

1978 • 3 min • Venezuela

From the Venezuelan artist John Moore a watercolor animation movie made in 1978.

An Optimistic Miniature

1978 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A Ilia Doiashvili Cartoon

Odyssey

1978 • 10 min • Bulgaria

A man moves against a strong wind. It turns out that he is walking on a tight rope.With a great effort, he finally hits a high platform. There are a lot of people on it. The wind comes from their mouths. He joins the crowd to make a wind against the next one who goes on the rope.

Starcycle

1978 • 4 min

The metamorphic lifecycle of a cartoon star.

Cats at the Door

1978 • 3 min

A daring escape attempt. Kittens.

Ranky Tanky

1978 • 1 min

Cut-out animation.

Angolans

1978 • 46 min • Soviet Union

This documentary is devoted to the People's Republic of Angola, its realities, natural conditions and fight against mercenaries.

The Dream

1978 • 7 min • United States of America

An early Super 8 film by Heather McAdams, made while she was an MFA student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

The Golden Watermelon

1978 • 9 min • Soviet Union

A poor farmer and his son healed a wounded stork, who in gratitude gave them a magic seed - from it grew a watermelon full of gold coins. An envious bai wanted to get the same seed by trickery...

Oil-Coated Umbrellas: Meinung

1978 • 25 min • Taiwan

Once essential on rainy days in Taiwan, the handcrafted oil-paper umbrella from Meinung,was not only a symbol of local craftsmanship but also a major source of livelihood. However, as Taiwan rapidly shifted toward an industrial and commercial economy in the 1980s, mass-produced plastic umbrellas replaced these meticulously made paper ones. What was once a daily necessity gradually became a nostalgic cultural artifact. Today, a handful of long-established artisans continue to follow traditional methods. With patience and precision, they craft each umbrella by hand. Though its original function has faded, their emotional bond with the craft remains unchanged. Their dedication and skilled workmanship reflect a deep-rooted respect for materials and tradition, preserving a vanishing heritage one umbrella at a time.

Julie from Ohio

1978 • 28 min • Switzerland

Julie visits family in Italy.

Make Up - Make Down

1978 • 5 min

In Make Up - Make Down, the daily act of applying make-up (normally hidden) becomes an erotic game of objects with all the characteristics of a variety act.

Capricornio 78

1978 • 20 min • Argentina

Narcisa Hirsch was born on 16 January under the sign of Capricom. These diaries labelled Capricorn 78 show an approach to everyday life with unusual tenderness and beauty; a baby bird that a child lovingly cares for; a calf being born: cats and dogs: a house in the snow; a fire, Narcisa on the grass; Narcisa swimming; a full life.

Meeting Point

1978 • 6 min

The video deals with two distinct realities—the inner space of TV images and the viewer’s actual space. Two dots are used as visual symbols of the relationship between these two opposites: one dot on the performer’s forehead (a symbol of the “inner eye”); the other on the screen representing an exterior “point of view.” Procedure: 1. I am dancing to music in front of a static camera. 2. I start the playback of the tape and try to stop the video image at a moment when one dot covers the other. (Sanja Ivekovic)

Let's Make a Sandwich

1978 • 18 min

As a number of critics have pointed out, the title of O'Neill's film Let's Make a Sandwich refers not only to one of the pieces of found footage that make up the film, but to the process of its making, to the layers and sandwiching of the image. That parallel physical surface and his artisanal production of it might link all of O'Neill's work across media and position it as well toward the graphic-the flattening contour line of the cut out-and to collage, both in its cut and its combination as its dominant term.