All Films

Eka and the Goat-Kid

1978 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The story of a little girl's friendship with a kid who protected her from an evil boy and returned the doll he had taken away.

Mañas y patrañas de gente extraña

1978 • 9 min • Argentina

Anti-communism animated short film released after Argentina's last military coup in 1976.

Foregrounds

1978 • 13 min

"FOREGROUNDS, like SAUGUS SERIES, is devoted almost entirely to carefully constructed spatial ambiguities. The most visceral of these prints a rotating boulder, occupying half of the screen, over a slow lateral pan across the desert (painted by Neon Park). A faint superimposition of leaves on top of the landscape has the effect of pushing its vista farther back in space. Correspondingly, the boulder bulges out of the picture-plane like a Cezanne apple. The effect is so strong that even when O'Neill begins to animate 'scratches' over the image, one's eye refuses to surrender the illusion of volume." - J. Hoberman, The Village Voice

Canada Vignettes: Fort Prince of Wales

1978 • 1 min • Canada

A Canada Vignette giving a humorous animated version of the history of Fort Prince of Wales from its construction to its capture by the French.

Murita Cycles

1978 • 27 min

Filmmaker Barry Braverman's documentary about his father, Murray.

Riddles for a Candy

1978 • 8 min • Czechoslovakia

In Jiří Barta’s imaginative debut, a magic book poses three riddles to an anteater-like creature. His reward for answering, a wrapped piece of candy, proves elusive. Barta's animation revels in the possibilities of transformation and symbolic logic.

Talents and Admirers

1978 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Moses Sisters Interview

1978 • 32 min • United States of America

An interview with biographer and filmmaker Pearl Bowser, whose work concerns the "race films" of 20th century American cinema.

Look! We Have Come Through!

1978 • 11 min • Canada

"a revelation of the editing process ... done with remarkable care and precision ... The interrelationship between moving body and moving camera is heightened to the intensity of a struggle." Joyce Nelson

Dschungel Berlin 1978

1978 • 11 min • Germany

The last day in the tanzclub "Dschungel" at Winterfeldplatz, Berlin-Schöneberg. Located at the bar Slumberland, GoltzStraße. 24. It documents with single frame automatic one night from evening to dawn. Sounds from The Doors and Iggy Pop. "Dschungel" moved in 1978 to Nürnberger Straße 35 and became more glamorous and hip.

Moon Film

1978 • 5 min • Hungary

Short animated film

Metronome

1978 • 3 min • United Kingdom

Part of Sherwin's short film series. "...In the shuddering stasis of METRONOME– an illusion caused by the clash between the spring-wound mechanisms of the Bolex camera and of the metronome itself." -Film-Makers' Co-Op

Michel Nedjar

1978 • 13 min • France

Splendid portrait of the artist Michel Nedjar making one of his dolls, which allows to fully follow the entire genesis of the act of creation.

Terror in Dresden

1978 • 20 min • East Germany, Germany

Pictures of city life in Dresden. Slogans and stereotypes, for example, "Growth - Prosperity - Stability with Schrittmaß DDR - 30" are underlaid with sound collages of music and noise.

Orixá Ninú Ilê

1978 • 25 min • Brazil

A documentary short that speaks on the hierarchical organization and the contents of an Afro-Brazilian nagô temple.

Gaël

1978 • 33 min • France

An approach to Gaël Badaud and his activity as a painter: the birth of his paintings and the tight bonds between his work and his personal experience.

Dialogue with Ceauşescu

1978 • 7 min

A film directed by Ion Grigorescu.

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1978 • 6 min • Austria

Recorded during a presentation of the "Performance Art Festival" in the Modern Art Galerie, Vienna. The presentation was officially put to an end by the police because of the infernal sound made by the accompanying noise orchestra. In this film short shots have been "mounted" in the camera. The film material is shown twice, whereas the sound is composed over the entire length of the film (out of elements of the real sound from the performance). (E.S.jr.)

La rencontre

1978 • 6 min • Netherlands

Performance by Edward Luyken in his Paris home. Luyken wears overalls like those worn by German tank soldiers. First he plays with a kind of amulet, then he makes small objects by stacking and sliding together clumps of various sizes. This activity is intermittently interrupted when Luyken has to rewind the spring of his camera every twenty seconds.

Sevilla en tres niveles

1978 • 9 min • Spain

King David

1978 • 17 min

This is a documentary of David Hammons prior to his leaving the Los Angeles arts community. This video covers the artist's creative strategies at that time. It served as both an interview and video performance by David Hammons.

Nightclub

1978 • 31 min • United States of America

A reading of seven dreams interleaved with filmed audience reactions and "Fire" by the Pointer Sisters, "A Message to Rudy" by The Specials,"Take It To the Limit" by the Eagles and more. The dreams deals with the past, present aswell as the future.

Ett satans år

1978 • 45 min • Sweden

Swedish documentary from 1977. The film is about the last starvation year in Sweden, the emergency year 1867 in Ångermanland. It is a story about people who are hurting, but also about efforts from the outside world to help the developing country Sweden out of the crisis. SVT's documentary filmmaker Olle Häger passed away in November 2014. We remember him by showing some of his appreciated films during the summer.

O Bondinho de Santa Tereza

1978 • 28 min • Brazil

Through documentary images, old photographs and interviews, the director presents the Santa Tereza cable car, not only as an original means of transport and tourist element, but also as an important part of the history of the city of Rio de Janeiro.