All Films

The Song of Rio Jim

1978 • 6 min

What is film? The spectator will be able to imagine all possible Westerns and anti-Westerns.

kisoutan

1978 • 3 min • Japan

Hush Hoggies Hush: Tom Johnson's Praying Pigs

1978 • 4 min

Meet Tom Johnson and his praying pigs. "Been fooling with them hogs for 35 long years," Johnson says in the film as he rocks on the porch of his modest residence near Bentonia, Mississippi. "It's just an idea that I took up. It's a play thing. And it put me into something that I didn't get out of too easy and so soon." The pigs, taught to stand beside their brimming slop trough with heads bowed while Johnson prayed over their food, dug in with gusto when he finally released them to eat. Johnson died in 1980, but the four minute film is a lasting reminder of his special pig training talents.

High Voltage Electricians

1978 • 13 min • Yugoslavia

It documents the installation of electrical lines high above a country valley.

The end of the DREAM

1978 • 2 min • Japan

Tosca

1978 • 20 min • France

Dansité

1978 • 10 min • France

Dansité is the visualization, in cinematic space and time, of two bodies in motion; mobile, immobile, intertwined, broken, tense, restrained, suspended between heaven and earth, sand and rock, they suddenly stop, fixing the eternity of the moment.

The Primary concerns of Roy G. Biv

1978 • 23 min • United States of America

A constructed framework used to illuminate a reflection on the color spectrum by means of a complex of 'narrative' cross-references. –J. K.

Chérie, que veux-tu ?

1978 • 27 min • France

A man and a woman prepare to go out. Later, they meet in a sophisticated bar.

Katarakt

1978 • 10 min • Netherlands

A live-action animation comprised of brief images (single-frame shots) and dual images about a naked man in a black space. We become extremely aware of his physicality, while the film also carries out an attack on our physical abilities.

To Persist Is To Win

1978 • 15 min • Argentina

An interview of Luis Mattini, general secretary of the Workers' Revolutionary Party (PRT), and Enrique Gorriaran Merlo, member of the political bureau of PRT and commander of the People's Revolutionary Army (ERP), is the basis of this short documentary completed in Rome in 1978. Archive images accompany the voices of the guerrilla militants who denounce the crimes perpetrated by the Videla dictatorship and they present an overview of militant and political organization against the forces of imperialism.

Vesta Lunch (Cookin' at the Vesta)

1978 • 11 min

A continuous-take, cinema-verité study of Toronto's famous all-night diner. A film that studies the pulse of the after-hours urban environment, in real time.

El otro lado

1978 • 60 min

Deep in Mexico two brothers sit in a plaza discussing a broken fuel pump. In a few days they will leave for work. With their father and some friends they will ride a bus 1,300 miles north and enter the United States by walking through the desert. They call America “El Otro Lado,” the other side.

Le discours de l'armoire

1978 • 55 min • Canada

Rémanence I

1978 • 6 min

Rail Ditch and Fence. - Auteuil racetrack, Paris France

Vigilar es defender

1978 • 10 min • Argentina

Animated short released during the 1970s, when tension escalated between neighboring countries Argentina and Chile which almost led to a war. The film was produced by the Argentinian military dictatorship at the time. It informs about the dangers of having an undefended border.

Live!

1978 • 11 min • East Germany

This short film traces the story of a man from birth to old age. The magical dreams of his youth appear from time to time, but daily routine quickly takes over. His striving for material wealth – including a Trabant car, a shelving unit, a boat – leads him to betray his youthful ideals, and he ultimately becomes a slave to his possessions. In the final frames of the film, “LIVE” – written in large white letters – ironically reminds viewers not to forget to follow their dreams.

Pictures of the Lost

1978 • 23 min

Composed in twenty-two movements that coalesce into a haunting psychic journey, the enigmatic Pictures of the Lost evokes states of heightened consciousness, symbolic and ritual gesture, and spiritual transformations. Buckner's dreamlike, rhythmic visions, rendered in saturated hues, create a perceptual tension between abstraction and recognition. Elusive images unfold like silent apparitions. -EAI

Your Daughter Is Sleeping

1978 • 7 min

"I picked up the telephone one day and somehow got cross-connected into a conversation between a couple talking about the simple experiences of their day which included the line 'Your daughter is sleeping'. I felt as a voyeur, hearing and seeing things I was not meant to see and hear. Somehow that became a metaphor for voyeuristic filmmaking, as troubling and imperfect as that experience can be." –RM

El servicio

1978 • 45 min • Mexico

Mexican feature film

The Flashettes

1978 • 20 min

When a man returns home to Bedford-Stuyvescent, NYC, he finds the young girls there dealing with growing problems of alcoholism, drug use, and teenage pregnancy. He decides to counteract the negative forces operating in the girls' lives by starting a track team for them which provides valuable discipline, gives them pride and confidence, and becomes a second family for many. The film follows the team through a city-wide competition held on Randall's island.

Nor Was This All By Any Means

1978 • 24 min

In this densely layered work, Ramos explores his cultural and personal heritage through a collage of recorded and appropriated footage. Juxtaposing African and American landscapes, personal and media imagery, he traces a spiritual and physical journey that moves from from Harlem to Goree Island, Cape Verde and Tanzania. In a forceful portrait of cultural disenfranchisement that refers to the African diaspora and the bitter harvest sown by slavery, he challenges the veracity of mass cultural images of African-Americans.

Wind in the Web

1978 • 5 min

A 16mm film by Abbott Meader, made as a visual response to the poem "Standing Here," by Karen Andersen Woodard.

Snake Dance Teacher Dance

1978 • 18 min

"Snake Dance was shown in United States Embassies in Africa in the late 1970s and early 1980s to show the American culture was not all Jim Crow and race riots. Arthur Hall came to Maine as a movement specialist for the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Maine Arts Commission was so impressed they called in filmmakers. We looked in on a Wednesday and filmed all day the next Friday, using all the film we had - color and both negative and reversal black and white." —Bruce Williams