All Films

Liana

1978 • 28 min

A short documentary directed by Toufik Senoussi.

Nimbus

1978 • 5 min

"Nimbus was Robert Creeley's first choice to show in conjunction with a lecture at Rocky Mountain Film Center in 1978. This film owes much to Creeley's poetry and Edward Hopper's paintings, although no conscious consideration structured the working process - Hopper in the sense that Brian O'Doherty writes of the paintings as displaying 'an observed, an observer and a witness.'" –G.D.

Hinterland Who's Who: The Raccoon

1978 • 1 min • Canada

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

Theatre Girls

1978 • 56 min • United Kingdom

In her final piece at film school, Longinotto and her partner take us into the "Theatre Girls Club" in Soho, London–a hostel for elderly and destitute women and the only shelter in London that would take in any woman at any time. The filmmakers lived in the hostel for more than two months, establishing an extraordinary level of trust with their “cast” —from the home’s feisty cook to an elderly resident who was a terminal alcoholic. In what will later be recognized as a signature style, Longinotto films without judgement and finds the humor and humanity in situations and characters that might otherwise be seen as tragic. This stunning film debut earned awards at several European festivals and screened to acclaim in the US and Asia.

Sha-Dada

1978 • 5 min • France

Sha-Dada is an "expanded" film on two screens which presents itself as a confrontation between two imperialisms.

A Song for Freedom

1978 • 21 min • Brazil

An image of a boat going down a river, a voice of impostation declaiming direct verses that warn us: we, the poor, have value only in the face of the rich's need. A documentary about the celebration of the Ticumbi festivities in Conceição da Barra, north of Espírito Santo - Brazil.

Travel Log

1978 • 9 min • Canada

This short, experimental road movie is a study in mystery and atmosphere. Juxtaposing photographs on the screen with a woman's words, the film tells the story of a couple who drifts apart, of a journey with no return. Introspective and haunting, this mood piece is a travel album about intimacy and dispossession.

Restez mince vivez jeune

1978 • 9 min • France

A film projected on two screens.

Visible Inventory 6: Motel Dissolve

1978 • 15 min • United States of America

The sixth in a group of eight “Visible Inventories” in various media (2 films, 2 photo grids, 1 videotape, and 2 natural light installations) which list or catalogue my personal fascinations with natural phenomena. (1974-9) A space filled with moving…a series of panning shots of motel rooms in which the film-maker stayed during semi-annual transcontinental auto trips – homogenous accommodations lacking locational cues. Superimposed over the screen image are the names of the towns in which the rooms are located and the car’s odometer reading at each location. The sound track consists of two Gertrude Stein texts: “America I Came and Here I Am” and “American Food and American Houses” both from 1935. The film counterpoints printed word, spoken text, and photographs giving the viewer the alternate options of reading, viewing, and listening. Funded in part by a grant from the Ohio Arts Council. – J.C.L.

Tripletime

1978 • 5 min

Amor de Perdição - Episódio Zero

1978 • 33 min • Portugal

A short TV documentary made to prepare the audience at the time to the premiere of Manoel de Oliveira's "Doomed Love" (TV version). Called "Episode Zero" the documentary revolves around the ideas and challenges on adapting Camilo Castelo Branco's novel, and it also includes interviews with the actors and director.

Néroïcal

1978 • 40 min • France

Women, multiple images, ironic metamorphoses of sea, land and air - bodies that flow, crumble, evaporate...

L’Espai - Temps

1978 • 10 min • Spain

A thriller of frenetic homosexual tension that broke the rules of space and time during the Barcelona of the Transition.

Permanent Wave

1978 • 3 min • United States of America

“Anita Thacher's film was ignored by critics of avant-garde cinema because its lively deconstruction of pornography did not fit into any of the dominant critical categories of the time. »Lauren Rabinovitz

Hors d’oeuvres

1978 • 4 min • United States of America

A sampling of abstract styles - black and white patterns, colorful flicker, and dancing line formations, interspersed with a strangely unnerving combination of organic and computer-generated sound effects.

Cinématon n°21 : Joseph Morder

1978 • 4 min • France

Cinématon n°27 : Michel Nedjar

1978 • 4 min • France

Cinématon n°16 : Teo Hernandez

1978 • 4 min • France

3/78 (Objects and Transformations)

1978 • 6 min • United States of America

Sixteen 'objects', each consisting of one hundred points of light, perform a series of precisely choreographed rhythmic transformations. Accompanied by the sound of a Shakuhachi (the Japanese bamboo flute), the film is an exercise in the visual perception of motion and mathematical structure.

Splitstream

1978 • 9 min • United States of America

“It may be important to note that I received a 1978 Canada Council Film Production Grant for an experimental "frame of reference" film, Splitstream, before I went to film school. For this film I invented a means of post-synchronization to create an "impossible" simultaneous viewing of two contrasting points of view: an objective long shot following a character, and a handheld POV of the same character in the same scene—a unique use of horizontal split screen" -SA

Truxx

1978 • 19 min • Canada

A short manifesto of collective resistance to police oppression in the wake of the historic 1977 raid on the Montreal gay bar Truxx.

The Spectacles

1978 • 20 min

The story begin with a boy’s routine visit to optometrist. He has poor eyesight and is prescribed with glasses. That is the beginning of the troubles for the little boy, who lives with his single mother in poor outskirts of the capital.

The Brendan Voyage

1978 • 57 min • United Kingdom

Legends say that St. Brendan crossed the Atlantic in the sixth century. Tim Severin made the trip to see if the legend might be fact.

A Nasty Bear-Cub

1978 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Three young bears are sent by their father to hunt on their own, using different techniques: strength, agility and smartness.