All Films

Cuarteto

1978 • 20 min • Argentina

Branches, leaves, and flowers overlap and mingle. The film closes with a passage from philosopher Zhuang Zhou.

Creativity: Simon's New Sound

1978 • 8 min

Simon’s New Sound (1978, 8 min.) is about a young boy who is searching for a new instrument with which to celebrate Trinidad’s pre-Easter Carnival. He fashions a steel drum from the carefully indented bottom of an oildrum. Poet Opal Palmer is the voice of Simon.

Cycle

1978 • 3 min • United Kingdom

Breathing

1978 • 3 min • United Kingdom

Untitled: 'Silueta' Sequence No. 2

1978 • 3 min

United States 1978, Super 8 transferred to digital, colour, silent, 3 min

Mobiles

1978 • 3 min • United States of America

2D sketches fill, rearrange, and texture themselves, with a score by Barry Schrader. One of Jules Engel's works on the Visual Music 1946-1986 DVD from the Center for Visual Music.

It Still Rotates

1978 • 20 min • Soviet Union

Suliman Mohamed Ibrahim Elnour’s graduation film depicts everyday life in a school in Yemen.

Rencontre

1978 • 4 min

Cardboard cut-outs explode, twirl, disintegrate and form shapes in a delightful, airy film that describes the journey through life, its inevitable ups and downs, and the final triumph of the person.

Dinni e la Normalina, ovvero la Videopolizia Psichiatrica contro i sedicenti Gruppi di Follia Militante

1978 • 27 min • Italy

This is a quite a rare example of a political sci-fi filmed without means. An excessive and schizophrenic creature, DINNI E LA NORMALINA allows Grifi’s more playful soul to see the light, while not dispersing the dark reflection on the exploitation by media institutions.

Malditos Mendigos

1978 • 16 min • Brazil

A parabol about the despised ones of the Earth.

Suddenly, A Strike

1978 • 24 min • Austria

In the Semperit tyre factory, the only strike after World War II takes place in May 1978, lasting for three weeks. The film shows the course of the strike in interviews, photos, graphics and talks at a pub; it draws attention to the position of the union between its loyalty to the workers and its responsibilities towards the entrepreneurs.

Misunderstanding

1978 • 20 min • Poland

Piotr Majdrowicz’s film The Misunderstanding of 1978 presents the story of a young photographer in love with an athlete who he photographs.

Egypt, City of the Dead

1978 • 35 min • France

A portrait of the City of the Dead, an inhabited cemetery just outside of Cairo and on the fringes of the city’s public dumping ground, like a living reproach and a bad conscience. Starting from the City of the Dead, the film shows the populous neighborhoods of Cairo in the grip of hypertrophy and misery, every day more threatened by paralysis.

Batsu

1978 • 5 min • Japan

An experimental short.

Eça de Queiroz: Notas Breves Sobre

1978 • 26 min • Portugal

Program of biographical character on Eça de Queiroz, writer, with emphasis on his literary work and respective themes, illustrated with interpretations of actors.

Sincerity III

1978 • 35 min • United States of America

In the autobiographical tradition of the earlier Sincerities, this film takes up the light-threads of our living 14 years ago when the Brakhage family found home and "settled," like they say, into some sense of permanence. This quality of living in one place tends to destroy most senses of chronology: thus, along lines-of-thought of growing and shifting physicality, events can seem to be occuring simultaneously (a thot-process 'kin to that of THE DOMAIN OF THE MOMENT), and the memory of such a time IS prompted and sustained by details of living usually overlooked or taken-for-granted (such as Proust's cookie which prompted "The Remembrance of Things Past"). Michael McClure's "Fleas" and Andrew Noren's "The Exquisite Corpse I" were additional sources of inspiration for the making of this work.

Shrinking of the Sun

1978 • 5 min • Japan

An experimental short.

Things Are Different Now

1978 • 17 min

With the help of his grandfather and a friend, a teenager learns to cope with his parents' divorce.

The Being On Time Game

1978 • 11 min

A little girl learns how not to be late.

Drei deutsche Mörder. Aufzeichnungen über die Banalität des Bösen

1978 • 45 min

Documentary on Oswald Kaduk, Josef Klehr and Josef Erber, former members of the staff of Auschwitz concentration camp.

Silueta de Arena

1978 • 2 min

Sand and water meet in a glimmering silhouette.

Fades and Close-Ups

1978 • 8 min • United States of America

…was shot in black and white Super 8mm and is accompanied by a soundtrack of drumming and deep breathing. The camera fades in and out on a symmetrical series of lovely, grainy close-ups of the naked, apparently sleeping forms of a male and a female (Huot himself and Carol Kinne). The film is closely related to, and would be especially interesting screened with Willard Maas’ Geography of the Body, Tara Iimura’s Love, and Yoko Ono’s Fly.

Sanibel

1978 • 9 min • United States of America

8mm. experimental film shot by JoAnn Elam in Sanibel, Florida.

Bonycrone

1978 • 19 min • Soviet Union

This is a fairytale that shows us how to discard the false values and pick the real values.