All Films

Biohazard

1978 • 50 min • Poland

The former head of the Institute of Science - Professor Molnar, returns to the Institute to seek treatment for his heart condition. The new director of the Institute, and his former assistant, Dr. Egberg had a falling out with Molnar after the latter considered his research unethical. However, after waking up from surgery, Molnar makes a horrifying discovery; Egberg has swapped their brains!

Gardiner's Island: A Visit with Robert David Lion Gardiner

1978 • 30 min • United States of America

This 1978 film by Fenwick Productions features a tour of Gardiner's Island by Robert David Lion Gardiner, the 16th Lord of the Manor. Its conversion from 16mm film was made possible by the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation.

Cortège

1978 • 34 min • France

First film (of around thirty until this day) with électro-acoustic music. Dreamlike edition of male physical actions, executed according to synopsis established in common by four ‘actants’. Shot in outside, without story or words. The domain of the homosexual desire and pleasure is put in images of nature where materials become the ‘environment’. Films can be thrown only in the presence of the author, consult us on the conditions.

L'Âge doré

1978 • 4 min • France

La Femme n’est plus ce qu’elle était

1978 • 7 min • France

A parody of feminist criticism on found footage covered by humoristic chisellings, signs or hasty figurative elements. Sometimes, chisellings are fine, and sometimes they are treated in large shots (razor tears, acid, cutting the film itself, wide spraying, thick stamps). A bedsheet is used as the final screen from which various women's evocations are represented.

What Am I Doing Here

1978 • 20 min • United States of America

A playing with words, narrative, and performance…..A display of my fantasies, fears, and mundane realities……A narcissistic reflection and indulgence in my ecstasies, torments, and humorous nuances….A personal journey through the question ‘What am I Doing Here?’ and the endless attempts to answer it. Jean Sousa

Ellen on the Rope

1978 • 6 min • United States of America

Ellen on the Rope is an energetically expressive study of performer Ellen Fisher working out on the rope in her Lodge Hall rehearsal space, itself a handsome room of classical proportions and lighting. Sousa’s film studies Fisher’s strenuous activity from a series of vantage points, creating a strobing rhythm by crossing the camera’s shutter speed with the rate of the rope traversing its frame. Unlike other athletic film studies, usually focused on body properties or close-ups of muscular exertion, Ellen on the Rope directs our attention more towards physics, tracing the dynamics and energy of Ellen’s patterns through space with a camera that progresses from tripod stillness to sympathetic motion. A simple exercise, this film offers a fine example of two artists working out together on rope and celluloid.” B. Ruby Rich, Chicago Reader, 1979

H.e.h.

1978 • 40 min • France

Pour lire Robbe-Grillet

1978 • 45 min • Japan

La Petite Fille

1978 • 9 min • France

She plays with the sand. Anonymous Dahomean music: percussion by two stones of four pieces of wood placed on the legs of the instrumentalist. This music is meant to keep monkeys and birds away from crops, but causes mutual attraction with the little girl.

Spring-Coming Effects

1978 • 5 min • Romania

Experimental film on 16mm by Ioan Pleș as part of Kinema Ikon.

Louder, Faster, Shorter

1978 • 17 min

In the intense, original Punk Rock scene at the Mabuhay Gardens (the only club in town which would allow it), the Avengers, Dils, Mutants, Sleepers, and UXA played a benefit for striking Kentucky coal miners (“Punks Against Oppression!”), raising $3300.

Astral Projections

1978 • 37 min

Ken, a dithering aspirant to the counter culture, returns from an abortive trip to Bali only to find things worse in Melbourne. A tragi-comedy detailing a young man's humiliation and inability to communicate.

The Age of Silence

1978 • 9 min • Spain

Very hard radiography of repression, torture and the unstoppable desire to achieve freedom. The untold protest drawn by OPS, with a mouth that screams in a face that has literally sewn other parts, becomes one of the most political and adult works of Spanish animation.

Magic Star Traveler Volume 1

1978 • 21 min

Two alien puppets go back in time and narrate nature videos.

Cigarette Burn

1978 • 7 min

With Nancy Halpern and Yves Marton. "Sitting home smoking cigarettes during the occupation. Very nasty and sophomoric. And beautiful." — A.H.

Au pays des couchers de soleil

1978 • 5 min • Canada

Fables have their relevance, particularly when dealing with such delicate topics as politics. This is the story of a retired gentleman with a distinctly British demeanor who buys nine provincial flowers to be planted in his garden. He avoids the fleur-de-lis, which, however, doesn't avoid him. Eventually their attitudes towards each other soften due to the beneficial effects of a watering can.

The Moieties

1978 • 9 min

"... where beads of light searching out 'the beloved' do pulse with the beat of the filmmaker's heart in perfect contrapuntal rhythm with all else in the frame of that sequence." – Stan Brakhage, World Film Festival of Canada

Entre chiens et loup

1978 • 21 min • Canada

Gives us a glimpse of a life which remains very monotonous despite the social upheavals that mark the country.

White Red and Green Lights

1978 • 7 min

"White, Red and Green Lights" opens with a blank white screen. A performer enters, and the viewer realizes that the camera is placed above the scene looking back in space toward the floor. The performer brings in fluorescent light tubes and places them on the floor horizontally near the bottom of the screen. This positioning corresponds to the foreground in the filmed scene The lights appear to be black since white is black in negative. The film switches to color negative and the performer brings in both red and green fluorescent tubes. These are also placed near the bottom of the screen. Finally he moves the red and green lights to the side edges of the screen and the film ends with red and green lights running up the sides of the screen.

Black and Woman

1978 • 21 min • Norway

Victoria Santa Cruz, dancer and choreographer, talks about the work she's developing with her folklore ensemble and shares her experience as a black peruvian woman in an interview with Eugenio Barba.

Each Peach Pear Plum

1978 • 5 min

'Each Peach Pear Plum' is a classic picture book that won the Kate Greenaway Medal. In pictures and words, it introduces the very youngest of readers to a number of characters from traditional stories.

To Tell Only The Truth

1978 • 5 min • Soviet Union

A film by Arturas Barysas, one of Lithuania's "counter-culture" avant-garde pioneers.

That Sweet Word...

1978 • 1 min • Soviet Union

A man tries in vain to escape his self-imposed cage.