All Films

The Avengers: Live at Target Video

1978 • 23 min • United States of America

Rare, live footage of The Avengers filmed in San Francisco at the Temple and the Mabuhay Gardens, 1978

Margaret Mead: A Portrait By a Friend

1978 • 30 min • France

Jean Rouch filmed this loving and humorous portrait of anthropologist and filmmaker Margaret Mead in September 1977 while he was a guest of the first Margaret Mead Film Festival. As both a friend and colleague, Rouch reveals a glimpse of the legendary Mead in her later years.

Rasage

1978 • 17 min • France

Cate and Shauna Play Quietly

1978 • 30 min • United Kingdom

Catherine Elwes, videotape. Screened at the About Time: Video, Performance and Installation by Women Artists exhibition at the ICA in 1980.

Summer is Gone

1978 • 30 min • Japan

The viewer spends a pleasant 30 minutes enfolded in the agreeably lazy atmosphere generated by repeating images and minimalist music that characterize Nakamura’s films. The rhythm of repetitions, subtle deviations, and memories evoked by momentary images transform the scenery of an actual street into a world of daydreams. Nakamura’s distinctive trance film has earned high international acclaim.

Hors d'oeuvre

1978 • 34 min • Netherlands

Twelve different everyday events that become special and sometimes even absurd by virtue of their ordinariness.

One Night in the Art Gallery

1978 • 19 min • China

An animated parody about the Gang of Four. The 1978 post Cultural Revolution film is Lin Wenxiao's directorial debut.

Beius

1978 • 6 min • Romania

A rural experiment filmed with an 8mm camera captures the Transylvanian landscape around the town of Beius. Blurred lines, warm colors, depth of space, and soothing scenes: the impression of an oil painting is disturbed by the agitated camera movements, vertical swoops, image inversions, and overlaying of shots.

Cinématon n°17 : Gaël Badaud

1978 • 4 min • France

The Last F

1978 • 60 min • Soviet Union

Once a very curious sixth grader lost interest in studying for unknown reasons. He even reconciled that he would remain in the second year.

気分を変えて?

1978 • 30 min • Japan

Director Inudo's first film, influenced by Masato Hara's "Ballad of Sadness Colored by Strangeness," Kazuki Omori's "Flying Saucer" series, and Kiyoshi Kurosawa's "School Days. A film about the breakup of the group and another film shot on the same day. In the summer of 1978, a boy who is too absorbed in the stage and the movies gets his first menstrual period, and by making a film called "Change Your Mood," he changes his mood and gets through his period. The power of showing the film as being about something familiar and then lifting it up to a fictional structure and putting everything that the filmmaker feels about the time period in which he lives into it is overwhelming. The power of this film is overwhelming to the viewer.

Two Little Peacocks

1978 • 30 min • China

New Tenants

1978 • 9 min • Hungary

A centaur family moves into an apartment in Budapest, where the residents, led by the house janitor, don't take kindly to the odd lifestyle of the new residents.

Court Case

1978 • 12 min • United States of America

An insider's look on the making of Penn's tennis balls, from their creation in a factory to the final stages of quality control.

The Human Factor

1978 • 50 min • Yugoslavia

A TV drama.

Six Pieces

1978 • 2 min • Switzerland

8mm film by Swiss artist Roman Signer.

Vertical Horizon

1978 • 10 min

Like us, sometime typically between mid-November and Christmas, Vertical Horizon awakens to a white blanket borne over the once-familiar landscape. T-shirts, coniferous trees, blue skies, sunrises—last week’s tapestry of colours suddenly feel like some edenic memory from time immemorial.

Magma

1978 • 20 min

A filmed performance by Giuliano Sturli.

The World's Smallest Public Railway

1978 • 24 min

A classic Movietone cinema short from 1978. The Romney Hythe and Dymchurch Railway is a one-third scale mainline in miniature operating regular services over 13.5 miles of track across the Romney Marsh in Kent.

Psychereel

1978 • 12 min

Experimental psychedelic short film by Olga Spiegel, an original member of Women Artist Filmmakers (WAF 1974-1981).

New Ways

1978 • 13 min • United Kingdom

This film focuses on the basics of adapting to life in England.

Miró: Theatre of Dreams

1978 • 57 min

A biographical documentary on Spanish painter and sculptor Joan Miro (1893-1983), renowned for his part in the 1920s surrealist movement in Paris in his exploration of the inner world of dreams and the unconscious in a range of works. The documentary traces his involvement at the age of 85 in putting together a strongly political theatrical piece with young actors under the banner of Claca theatre, a theatre ideally aimed to translate to performance anywhere and as a surreal vision of traditional Catalonian folk culture.

Magic Tears

1978 • 8 min • Soviet Union

A fairy tale about a girl who went to the land of kind animals to save a fading singing flower.

Laurie

1978 • 25 min • United Kingdom

Portrait of Laurie Wheatley, a former plasterer with a life long interest in photography, drawing, painting and sculpture. Follows the production of his first ever life-size sculpture - a figure in plaster depicting a shipyard welder, and using the 'master-mould' process.