All Films

Communiqué From Argentina

1978 • 40 min • United States of America

Through a letter to an American friend, Lili Massaferro narrates her life: born into a bourgeois family, she became involved in political militancy after the murder of her son and organized the female branch of the Montoneros group. Its history is intertwined with the figure of Eva Perón, and with certain significant political events in the country.

An Equation With Six Known

1978 • 16 min • Soviet Union

About the USSR national volleyball team, which became the world champion in 1978, and its senior coach Vyacheslav Platonov.

Canoa Quebrada

1978 • 21 min • Brazil

A series of interviews with the residents of Canoa Quebrada - a tourist spot on the coast of Ceará, Brazil - that puts in contrast the local poverty and the idyllic nature that surrounds it.

Further Adventures of Bonnie Prince Charlie

1978 • 15 min • United Kingdom

A film about Bonnie Prince Charlie's escapades in the Outer Hebrides and his escape with Flora MacDonald

Saturday Morning

1978 • 4 min

A single-take document of a domestic exchange where image and sound raise one set of expectations and then create a conundrum for the viewer.

Sharie Holeb's Prom Night

1978 • 21 min

Tom Palazzolo's 1978 film "Sharie's Prom" is a documentary that captures the experiences of Sharie Holeb and her friends during their prom night in Chicago. The film offers an intimate glimpse into the lives of these young individuals as they navigate the excitement and challenges of this significant high school event.

À Procura De Uma Resposta

1978 • 34 min

Film produced in 1978 by the Portuguese Film Institute's “Agrarian Reform Production Unit” (Luís Gaspar, Vítor Duarte and Carlos Gaspar) in co-production with Bulgaria.

Northern Hemisphere

1978 • 9 min • Japan

I wanted to make a film in which the world is turned upside down, a film made up of images that assert that these images have no meaning. There is a shot that uses a doll, which was washed up on the riverbank where we visited while filming "Mineralogist". I picked it up thinking that I might be able to use it in the shoot. Masanobu Nakamura seemed to think that this shot was my response to "Commemorative Photography" and asked me about it, but I had no idea what it meant so I was at a loss for words.

Peru: Literacy for Social Change

1978 • 31 min • Germany

Adult educator Paulo Freire developed literacy programs in northeastern Brazil to combat part of the colonial legacy of illiteracy and promote social change. This film depicts adult educators putting Freire's methods to work on a Peruvian co-operative cotton farm, teaching peasants how to read and write. The promise of the literacy program is that the peasants will be able to use their newly found confidence to change the reality of their daily existence and collectively gain control of their own lives

Between Glances

1978 • 14 min

"Between Glances... plays with the illusion of depth, with interactions between apparent upper and lower planes. Strong blacks and whites bound the range of grays they encompass, while, periodically, black and white stills devoid of gray tones and of motion demarcate the film's progress." – B. Ruby Rich

Jenny's Arctic Diary

1978 • 60 min

A cyclical year in the lives of the Inuit community at Grise Fjord, Ellesmere Island, 900 miles north of the Arctic circle.

I Congresso dos Sindicatos da Indústria de Hotelaria e Turismo

1978 • 14 min • Portugal

Jimmie Brown the Newsboy

1978 • 2 min

Silhouette animation with pet frog.

Et si on se passait de patrons ?

1978 • 37 min • Belgium

It's possible to work without bosses, and workers have proven it in Belgium, notably at Balai Libéré, a cleaning company at the University of Louvain-la-Neuve, at Sablières de Wauthier-Braine, and at the Textiles d'Ere cooperative, a spinning mill that operated as a cooperative for nearly 30 years. The film focuses mainly on this third experience. The workers (90% of the staff are women), whose memories have been rekindled by a video shot at the time, recount the occupation of their factory. We then see them at work. Everyday scenes and interviews follow one another, revealing the changes that have taken place. Or that sometimes have not taken place.

Etude

1978 • 13 min

Experimental film by Hiroyuki Sekine.

Jafra

1978 • 20 min • Yugoslavia

The film, shot in 1978, documents the experiences of Palestinian women who speak about the horrors of life in the occupied territory and displacement, as well as resistance and love for their country. The film is titled Jafra, which suggests it was made in honor of solidarity with the Palestinian people. The word “Jafra” has been used through film and cultural resistance movements as a metaphor for Palestine itself – idealized, beautiful, longed for, and now lost or in exile.

A Ilha Dourada - Porto Santo

1978 • 17 min

Digitization within the scope of the project “FILMar: Digitization of cinematographic heritage”. Landscape, tradition and development of Porto Santo.

Stereo

1978 • 47 min • Soviet Union

A young veterinarian arrives from the city for his first job at a sovkhoz. The cheerful hippie-like young man clashes with the locals who take him as a stranger. The film is a combination of somber naturalism, lyricism, a dash of naive sentimentality and a deep sense of sovkhoz life in the early 1970s. Based on Riho Mesilane's short story "The Veterinarian's First Week". As Mesilane fled to Vienna at the end of the filming, the film was banned and released 13 years after its completion in autumn 1991.

With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade

1978 • 48 min • United States of America

With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade is a 1979 documentary film directed by Lorraine Gray about the General Motors sit-down strike in 1936–1937 that focuses uniquely on the role of women using archival footage and interviews. It provides an inside look at women's roles in the strike. The film was one of the first to put together archival footage with contemporary interviews of participants and helped spur a series of films on left and labor history in the US utilizing this technique. The film was also important in helping bring into view the history of American women being active in the public sphere, particularly in union and labor actions. The film was, further, ground breaking because it was produced and directed by women. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

Lmno

1978 • 10 min • United States of America

Conceivably the best of all of Breer’s films to date – has more to do with figuration, according to Breer’s formulation regarding titles with letters or numbers. This becomes clear right away as the title letters are intercut with a flurry of fish swimming past the frame lines, which are made all the more literal through the associative chain established by a snippet of Schubert’s Trout Quintet heard on the soundtrack, along with footsteps – which continue over a profusion of other shapes, colors, and objects, including the title letters again. -- Jonathan Rosenbaum

Furies

1978 • 3 min • United States of America

An animated experimental short film using charcoal and pastels to create Cubist and Art Deco-inspired designs evoking the curiosity, grace and beauty of two cats in constant motion.

Squires of San Quentin

1978 • 30 min • United States of America

Squires of San Quentin is a 1978 American short documentary film produced by J. Gary Mitchell. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short. The film was shot in San Quentin State Prison and depicts "The Squires," inmates who attempt to convince troubled children to avoid criminal behavior.

Data Bursts in 3 Moves

1978 • 14 min • United States of America

Short experimental animation from a trio of talented knob-twiddlers.

Heat Shimmer

1978 • 13 min • Australia

3-colour separation film.