All Films

Class Participation

1978 • 6 min • United States of America

A "student film" by Esther Shatavsky.

Providence Video Dating Service (Recovered Tapes)

1978 • 2 min • United States of America

"Rumor had it, many videotapes were discarded when the Providence Video Dating Service closed its doors in 1976. Some tapes were recovered and salvaged. These are edited artifacts from those dumpster dives [...] With Bob Rizzo and Nicole Luria. Produced at Electron Movers 1977 (?)" -ET

Wire Trees With 4 Vectors

1978 • 4 min

Short experimental film by Phil Morton and Guenther Tetz.

Azz Izz Jazz

1978 • 18 min

Jacqueline Frazier’s Azz Izz Jazz showcases jazz legend Billie Harris who performs in studio with a quartet featuring Harris on soprano sax. Among the songs performed is “I Want Some Water,” a composition that Harris, in voice-over, credits, as with all his songs, to his young children who were his inspiration.

Dogs

1978 • 15 min

A film experience to invite careful looking and listening. A group of dogs in the countryside, and at home. The camera observes in a sensitive and detailed way: as the dogs explore a stream and drink, we see how their tongues work to toss beads of water upwards. The rhythms and sounds, the ways of relating and communicating that are special to dogs.

Spiral 3

1978 • 10 min

A joint effort by numerous video artists of the time, starring dancer Rylin Harris.

Swimmer

1978 • 21 min • France

The swimmer is presented as a simple, genderless and isolated identity making new appearances natural, but which nevertheless contain a contradiction: swimming as a way of survival. The pictorial potential has been linked above all to a graphic preoccupation, and the sound illustration represents an important support to the basic idea.

Changing Times

1978 • 3 min • Hungary

The film is a compressed animation parody of Miklós Jancsó's stylised historical choreographies, in which those facing execution and the executioners trade places as the political compass changes direction cynically.

In dark trees

1978 • 2 min • Japan

Born in Tokyo in 1959. While studying oil painting at Musashino Art University, he joined the animation club "Mysterious Magic Lantern Society" and began creating films. In 1980, he joined the independent film screening group "Animation 80" upon its establishment and has been submitting works every year since then. His works have been exhibited at numerous festivals, including the "Torino International Film Festival" (1986, Turin, Italy), the "Shanghai Animation Festival" (1988, Shanghai, China), and "The Evolution of Animation" (1988, O Museum). His unique worldview blends elegance and grotesqueness, and he continues to explore a wide range of expressive techniques, including two-dimensional, three-dimensional, and live-action animation.

Soglie

1978 • 30 min

The Resistance

1978 • 6 min • Yugoslavia

One of the nails does not enter the tree at all, it can not be nailed. It is associated with dignity, endurance, steadfastness. One must always stand behind one's principles and determinations.

Percussion, Impressions and Reality

1978 • 30 min

This is the first comprehensive U.S. film to explore the origins and growth of traditional Puerto Rican music. Interviews with musicians living in New York reveal how traditional music is used as a source of resistance against cultural domination. Their music is also a means by which Puerto Rican culture is maintained and transformed. The film focuses on the music of "Lexington Avenue Express", a group that has taken their music to community centers, political events, prisons and music festivals.

La raison du plus fort n'est pas toujours la meilleure

1978 • 27 min • France

Il Tempo Consuma

1978 • 4 min

“Time consumes images, time consumes sounds”. This phrase is punctuated over time with words and movements by a "human metronome".

Adjunct Dislocations II

1978 • 17 min

Adjunct Dislocations II documents a technically inventive performance. VALIE EXPORT moves along a track with two closed-circuit cameras that are facing different directions and are focused upon patterned screens. Her action creates changing linear shapes on monitor banks within the space.

Via Dolorosa

1978 • 10 min

Every year, in the colonial city of Antigua, Guatemala, the "sorrowful way" of Good Friday is recreated by a path of colored sawdust and flower petals. Along this road several hundred people take turns carrying a ponderous mahoganybier.

Canada Vignettes: Flin Flon

1978 • 3 min

This short documentary vignette reveals the curious origin of the name of Flin Flon, Manitoba.

Alabama Departure

1978 • 9 min • United States of America

Minnesota-based Peter Bundy’s Alabama Departure (1978) is a brief, revelatory cinematic study of locals and landscapes quivering with life.

Microseries 1-5

1978 • 11 min

Compilation film by Michael Rudnick, shot on 5 different film stocks.

I Was a Contestant at Mother's Wet T-Shirt Contest

1978 • 20 min • United States of America

A short documentary on wet t-shirt contests at a Chicago bar.

Punk

1978 • 14 min • France

Mark of the Clown

1978 • 16 min

A minister, in the character of a clown, transforms a rather passive Sunday audience into a worshipping community by incorporating pantomimic symbols throughout each liturgical element. The clown helps the congregation understand why they are gathered and restores the lost sense of the sacred.

Vicios en la cocina, las papas silban

1978 • 24 min • Mexico

Beatriz Mira, a Brazilian filmmaker living in Mexico, films the housework carried out by women at the end of a decade marked by numerous political and social movements, including feminist groups that disputed the fact that women had been banished from the public sphere, and thus confined to the household. In their fights and debates, they wielded the motto ‘what’s personal is political’.

Mancamenti

1978 • 10 min • Italy