All Films

Transitions

1978 • 3 min

A pregnant woman sitting near a window is replaced with a child, an adult and a senior citizen in subsequent edits, revealing the cycle of life.

1978 • 3 min • Yugoslavia

How can one film nothing, how to depict infinity in a film? A camera pointed towards the sky registers one such attempt. The infinite sky in the frame is seen precisely that way – like nothing, a film stripe worn out, empty surface, 0 (zero). The hand holding the camera is trying to keep the slide in the same motionless position. At one point, the camera slightly moves to the left out of fatigue. A roof with a chimney appears in the bottom left hand corner – the only part of the scene which inadvertently reveals the attempt and the wish – how to film nothing.

Hinterland Who's Who: Black Bear

1978 • 1 min • Canada

This very short documentary from the Hinterland Who’s Who series introduces viewers to the black bear.

Chambers

1978 • 6 min • United States of America

black and white, 16mm, silent

13 Shots

1978 • 3 min • Poland

After Dinner Science

1978 • 2 min

A short work by Esther Shatavsky.

Mikkola - Motocross Master

1978 • 30 min

The film 'Mikkola - Motocross Master' emphasises the sheer professionalism of Heikki Mikkola and shows how he mastered two major 500c Motocross events during 1978. The races featured are the French Grand Prix held at Gaillefontaine in April and the Italian Grand Prix at Gallarate in June.

Fishs Eddy

1978 • 6 min

Between ever-present splices, a circular mirror reflects a pendulating tire swing.

Cinématon n°22 : Martine Rousset

1978 • 4 min

Asteroid

1978 • 19 min • Canada

A made for the camera video collaboration with Steve Paxton, a unique pas de deux between videographer and dancer.

The Stool Becomes the Ladder

1978 • 6 min

The Stool Becomes the Ladder was made in 1978, using techniques of video feedback, quantizing levels and chroma, and simple downstream text. The stool is transformed into a ladder.

Trial Against the Declassed from Poshnja, Berat January 6-7, 1978

1978 • 17 min • Albania

Perhaps the most chilling testament to the ruthlessness of Albania’s communist regime, this documentary presents a public trial in a packed cinema: four young men accused of industrial sabotage and listening to foreign music. In the finale, replicating the Stalinist show trials of the 1950s, the audience applauds the death sentences for two defendants, and long prison terms for the other two who absurdly also lose their voting rights. The ice cold Poshnja is a rarely-screened, forbidden film (it is not even listed on the Albanian archive website) and the sole directing effort of Albania’s leading film scholar, Abaz Hoxha.

Screen, Projector & Film

1978 • 14 min

This film deals with filming (taking) and (giving) projecting into the same space of present and past.

Arbitrary Fragments

1978 • 13 min • United States of America

Using highly-manipulated and over-processed images, Latham investigates the process of video as inherently fragmented. Weaving together various people’s impressions of the artist and her work, the work demonstrates important parallels between video, storytelling, and the formation of identity — all processes of active fabrication that blend “lies” and truth in the construction of a certain reality, history, or past. Labeling an image of herself talking as “her most recent explanation,” Latham addresses “the construction of her video personality” as an identity outside of herself.

How to Make a New York Cake

1978 • 5 min • Netherlands

It’s always party time with the De Nooijer family at home. Innocent pleasure or a political film?

Semiconductors

1978 • 20 min

Group Portrait: Six Artists in Video

1978 • 56 min

This is a documentary about video artists Bill & Louise Etra, Woody & Steina Vasulka, and Kit Fitzgerald & John Sanborn.

Welcome to Spivey's Corner

1978 • 17 min

Every year, on the third Saturday of June, in an otherwise sleepy borough of southeastern North Carolina known as Spivey's Corner (population 49), some 5,000-10,000 folks gather from far and wide to take part in the festivities and entertainment in the day-long extravaganza known as the National Hollerin' Contest.

Red Bicycle of Sadness

1978 • 50 min • Japan

A romantic comedy with a unique cast and an original story about a letter carrier's bitter love affair caused by a fake letter he sent to the girl he loves. The sweet and sad last scene with a lyrical melody is impressive.

青春のエイトマン

1978 • 25 min • Japan

The light and shadows of today's youth are intermingled in a prismatic world of scenes depicting images of agonizing days with a surreal touch, and scenes of rampaging in all directions in the real world. Eight-Man is an energetic young man who dreams of being Superman but can't be.

Orochi

1978 • 4 min • Japan

A film adaptation of Kazuo Umezu's manga with mysterious images that express time. In the short time of only 4 minutes, the original flavour of the original work and the artist's unique perspective are skillfully intertwined and condensed, and the original images that make us feel the passage of time are a sight to behold.

ばいばいあげいん

1978 • 35 min • Japan

According to the director, this film is made by Osaka people, for Osaka people (?). according to the director. The director himself appears in the film and gives a light-hearted performance. The combination of the slapstick sensibility and the beautiful screen is indescribably stylish.

Wiper

1978 • 10 min

Time is frozen, warped and reconfigured over the course of a Sunday drive.

Happy Birthday, I'm 40

1978 • 22 min

In "Happy Birthday, I'm 40" Walsh unites mythological symbols and experimental film processes in a public comment upon our culture's preoccupation with youth, women as sex symbols, and the recent yearning of women to succeed in a man's world.