All Films

Trolls of Norway

1978 • 14 min

Arthur (Grandpa) Stavig takes us on a journey through the various trolls which once called Norway their home.

No Commercial Potential (Collected Works 1974 - 1978)

1978 • 52 min

No Commercial Potential is composed of 19 separate video performance works. Each piece utilizes some aspect of video processing; From the playful to the aggressive, Gusella's early works in the medium are notable. The sounds are both natural (zoom lens being manipulated in 'Wolfzooming') and electronic, or a combination of both, as in the hypnotic 'Neo Plastic Key'.

DDR-Magazin 1978/12

1978 • 22 min • East Germany

Rostock - GDR county on the Baltic. This county covering the northern part of the GDR is the welcoming destination of many people: holidaymakers, tourists, people on business trips and seamen. Sometimes there is an equal number of local residents and visitors. The film reports on the development of this formerly backward region to an advanced agrarian and industrial county. It reports on the way of life and achievements of the people and gives the viewer an impression of the county's scenic beauties.

Eduardo the Healer

1978 • 55 min

Presents the life and philosophy of Eduardo Calderon, a Peruvian folk healer. Includes his methods of diagnosis and a curing ceremony.

Lincoln Logs for Jesus

1978 • 4 min • United States of America

“Playing on all of Tyler Turkle’s previous interview films, accelerating and violating their stylistics, LINCOLN LOGS FOR JESUS is a nearly Cubist look at the world. A fast-paced consumer jaunt, almost ritual in nature, winds its way through flashes, repetition, swift cuts, and the reverse switch for an edgy, jarring continuity.” – Steve Dollar, Media X.

Tajimoltik: Five Days Without Name

1978 • 30 min

The Maya calendar consists of 18 months of 20 days each, or 360 days. The five remaining days, known as the "days without name," or Chaikin, are the days of Carnival. These days of transition, which coincide with the Catholic Holy Week, are thus filled with celebrations which combine elements from Spanish Catholicism with traditional rituals and cargo fiestas. Reflections on the meaning of the colorful events of these days are offered by the French priest Michel Chanteau.

Soledad de Paseo

1978 • 12 min

The imaginary escapades of a woman who want to scape from her work as a nurse of an sick man.

Everything Is Spinning

1978 • 2 min • Yugoslavia

A Yugoslavian (Slovenian) short animated film.

Underbridge

1978 • 7 min

A spherical opening in a steel girder of the Memphis-Arkansas Bridge provides a bird's eye view of the Mississppi River below. A stationary camera perched over the hole records ambient sounds and the symmetrical rhythms of the waves and passing vessels.

They Shouted Black At Me

1978 • 4 min

In this remarkable recording of a performance by Victoria Santa Cruz, we follow the curve of identification traced by a character (a woman) in relation to the color of her skin.

Say

1978 • 3 min

A stationary woman is asked to repeat words as commanded by a voice off-camera. Say......

Zwischen uns sei Wahrheit

1978 • 7 min

movie inspires the viewer to recall a wordless story of five men who meet under mysterious circumstances and receive secret notes. The brassy score builds the suspense as the men meet and square off in a graveyard. The Goethe quote ‘Zwischen uns sei Wahrheit’ translates to ‘Let there be truth between us,’ an interesting phrase in a film that seems to blend fantasy and reality, a tool Terence McDonald also wields in Nebelung and Twilight Belle. This film was made with the members of an amateur film club in Derry, many of whom appear in the short film [Film Club Antics]. The film’s credit note Film Realizion – Eric Von Peak (aka Eric Peak).

Autumn in Beijing

1978 • 24 min • Japan

Video as no video

1978 • 3 min • Italy

An analysis of the nature of this means of communication. The absence of an action on the video does not mean the negation of the video; on the contrary, the less freedom is granted to the image, the greater freedom is granted to the imagination. An attempt to probe into the body of the video to discovery its soul.

Inside and Out

1978 • 2 min • Yugoslavia

A man constructs wooden wings enabling him to fly, but he is bounded by the giant wire cage encircling both the fliers and non-fliers.

Baker's Big Chance

1978 • 22 min

Silent Super 8 black and white movie featuring James Baker, drummer with the Perth punk band The Scientists.

Do you remember this movie ?

1978 • 4 min • Italy

An intensely lyrical sequence. A movie in the video to create a tunnel through memory. An alphabet pronounced by a sweet voice in which every letter corresponds to a word whose emotional suggestiveness creates associations with childhood, its ancestral significance, its dreams, its magic, its mistery, its nonsense.

Composizione Per Sequenze E Frequenze

1978 • 6 min

Structural film conceived as an architectural construction where compositional rigor slows down and incorporates a Dionysian feeling of existence, wants to represent through almost physical blocks of frames a feeling of horror for the violence that pervades the contemporary world: lifeless bodies abandoned in cars lost in the bush, the advance of a marching army, a face that deforms into an expressionist scream, other faces, alternation of positive and negative frames: visual leitmotifs that recur obsessively.

The tide was black

1978 • 30 min • France

In 1976 there were only a few thousand tons of oil on the coast. In 1978, 230,000 ; It was too late to shed tears.

Fire

1978 • 2 min • United States of America

An abstract kaleidoscope of colors and shapes made using image processing, with a soundtrack influenced by traditional Asian folk music.

Dodici animali

1978 • 16 min • Italy

Through gestures and sounds produced by the performer, movements and verses of 12 animals are reinterpreted.

Poor Cinderella, still ironing her husband shirt

1978 • 7 min • Cuba, United States of America

An experiment with celluloid images, based on discards from the short Blanca Putica. A Girl in Love (1973).

VTR and I - Spiegazione loop

1978 • 5 min • Italy

Explanatory example of how the video loop works. I have used this device for many of my videos since 1978.

Le luth et la vièle des Teda du Tibesti

1978 • 33 min

Two traditional chord instruments are made and played by the Teda craftsmen of Tibesti, Chad.