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Sky Over Water

Sky Over Water

1978 • 22 min • Brazil
in the waters of Arembepe, a woman, sometimes pregnant, sometimes not, a child, and a man, together in an elliptical temporality, harmonize and integrate into the space of nature with an emphatic rhythm. A biographical record of a hippie thesis from one of the popes of tropicalismo.
76 Anos, Gregório Bezerra, Comunista

76 Anos, Gregório Bezerra, Comunista

1978 • 31 min • Sweden
Michele alla ricerca della felicità

Michele alla ricerca della felicità

1978 • 23 min • Italy
Michele, a political prisoner, witnesses the violence and fury of guards against a drug addicted prisoner.
Dance Frame

Dance Frame

1978 • 6 min • United States of America
The human form is used in composition with geometric form in an exploration toward a third dimension through juxtaposition of color and line.
The Contortionist

The Contortionist

1978 • 1 min • United States of America
This rare homemade movie by Joyce Randall depicts Artist, Sculptor, Doll Maker, Greer Lankton in an impossible number of positions, time lapsed. She manages to cover every square inch of the room before the film is done. Greer's friends often mention that she used to like to tie herself up in knots and stay in contorted positions, as well as sit in unusual poses that demonstrate her flexibility, so she and her sister created this home movie on VHS.
Mouthpiece

Mouthpiece

1978 • 1 min • United States of America
Dave Jones prototype modules (keyers, color field generators, output amplifier), black-and-white camera, microphone and Serge audio modules (voltage controlled oscillators, filters, sequencer)
Brabeza

Brabeza

1978 • 22 min • Brazil
Echoes from the Cinema Novo, stylized in photographic compositional experiments and montage, in the encounter of a migrant woman with a man carrying a rifle in the streets of the big city.
The Common Viper

The Common Viper

1978 • 19 min • Soviet Union
The common European adder, the only venomous snake native to Estonia, has often been feared and hated among the people. "Tavaline rästik" attempts to see behind the fears and introduce this unique reptile.
Andiamo In’merica – Os Italianos No Brasil

Andiamo In’merica – Os Italianos No Brasil

1978 • 42 min • Brazil
A documentary about Italian immigration in Brazil.
Dreams of Kojori Forest

Dreams of Kojori Forest

1978 • 27 min • Soviet Union
Experimental puppet film based on jazz variations of Georgian urban folklore. Musical compositions are performed by singers (puppets) gathered in Kojori Forest to celebrate The New Year
The Gossips

The Gossips

1978 • 58 min • Canada
This feature fiction film describes Acadia from a new and humorous angle. In a small village in the Acadian region of Nova Scotia, a couple living out of wedlock and a broad-minded priest scandalize the village gossips. They suspect that a treacherous act is about to be committed. Suspense builds, stoked by the clacking tongues of a trio of suspicious housewives.
Candy Candy: The Call of the Spring

Candy Candy: The Call of the Spring

1978 • 25 min • Japan
Candy returns to Pony's Home and she meets a girl who has lost her parents and doesn't associate with the other kids. In order to cheer her up she decides to tell her about herself from the moment she was found by Miss Pony and sister Lane to her decision to leave the boarding school in England and walk her own path.
Our Daily Bread Give Us Today

Our Daily Bread Give Us Today

1978 • 14 min • Yugoslavia
The film shows the work of the Red Cross in Sarajevo during socialist Yugoslavia. The Red Cross has been present in Bosnia and Herzegovina since 1912, and thanks to its work, many families had a hot meal every day.
YOUSHI KEI (Prologue)

YOUSHI KEI (Prologue)

1978 • 11 min • Japan
A short film by Keiichi Tanaami
What Is Your Song About?

What Is Your Song About?

1978 • 25 min • Soviet Union
A music film about the amateur art of the peoples of the USSR. Russian ditties, Tuvan throat singing, Koryak songs of the Hololo festival.
Fire in the Depths of the Tree

Fire in the Depths of the Tree

1978 • 26 min • Soviet Union
Twelve-year-old Zhenya is withdrawn and unsociable, even though he grows up in a prosperous family where he is showered with attention and bought expensive toys. He loves to tinker. But no one shares his hobby, and he has no friends. A chance encounter with an elderly man changes Zhenya's life.
Automata

Automata

1978 • 8 min
The combination of insular wonderland with open cityscape is more tightly realized in Automata. For this film, Sokoloff challenged Grauer to make things from a bag of wind-up toy motors. He then spliced together a cycle of footage from his favorite city sites. Finally, he shot Grauer’s creations on the same film in a double exposure. The result is a day in the life of a shaman toy gang, set loose upon Manhattan. Automata recalled references ranging from Godzilla to the stop-motion Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Technically, Automata is more roughly hewn than either of these predecessors. Only when the film’s toys are superimposed on an amorphous background (like moving lights or water) do they convincingly seem a part of their environment. Nevertheless, the toys’ jerky motion, the film cuts’ jagged beat, and the staccato George Anthiel score all create a charming, childlike, unexpectedly graceful effect.
Four Journeys Into Mystic Time: Initiation

Four Journeys Into Mystic Time: Initiation

1978 • 28 min • United States of America
Left to viewer interpretation, this beautiful dance piece displays a spiritual or religious initiation. A short work, this film was released as part of Shirley Clarke’s Four Journeys Into Mystic Time.
One

One

1978 • 2 min
The first film I ever made consists of the first roll of film I ever shot, entitled One. I made it for the first film class Keith Sanborn taught, in 1978 at the Department of Media Studies at the University of Buffalo, when he was a graduate student working with Hollis Frampton. I was 17. The assignment was to make a film using one roll of Super 8 film, without moving the camera. The result is a kind of poetic/cinematic one-liner. It is in tune with the structuralist spirit of the day - to my surprise.
Der Eintänzer

Der Eintänzer

1978 • 44 min • Germany
1978's "Der Eintänzer" is about a young man named Max, a blind man and twins.
Free Climb: The Northwest Face of Half Dome

Free Climb: The Northwest Face of Half Dome

1978 • 48 min
Details the tenth attempt by Jim Erickson and Art Higbee to scale the two thousand-foot-high vertical face of Half Dome in Yosemite National Park. Narrated by Robert Redford.
Light Reading

Light Reading

1978 • 20 min
The bloodstained bed suggest a crime..No answers are given, after the torrrent of words at the beginning of the film, all the film offers are closed images and more questions..Is it even blood on the bed, what fracture is there between seeing and certainty? If there has been a crime, 'she' might still be victim..How can a crime of such complexity and continuity be 'solved'? The voice searches for clues, sifting through them, reading and re-reading until the words and letters loom up nightmarishly, no longer hung on the structure of language.
David Bowie: Live at Beat Club Musikladen

David Bowie: Live at Beat Club Musikladen

1978 • 42 min
Before the end of 1976, Bowie's interest in the burgeoning German music scene, as well as his drug addiction, prompted him to move to West Berlin to clean up and revitalize his career. Working with Brian Eno while sharing an apartment in Schöneberg with Iggy Pop, he began to focus on minimalist, ambient music for the first of three albums, co-produced with Tony Visconti, that would become known as his Berlin Trilogy. Song Listing: Sense Of Doubt, Beauty And The Beast, Heroes, Stay, The Jean Genie, TVC 15, Alabama Song and Rebel Rebel.
Wild Gunman

Wild Gunman

1978 • 20 min • United States of America
The mythic nature of cowboy masculinity is deconstructed in this scathing montage of re-contextualized sounds and images culled from advertising, television, arcade game footage and other pop culture iconography.