All Films

David Bowie On Stage

1978 • 21 min

April 10th, 1978 - Dallas Convention Center - Dallas, TX

A Night When I Cannot Shoot

1978 • 46 min

In this 16mm work Shiroyasu Suzuki made himself the subject and tried to create a film based on his own image. However, once he started filming, it became clear that his image was nothing more than a camera fetish. Then, realizing that he must expose his empty self, he begins to think about making "15 Days".

Through to the Continent by Ferry Train

1978 • 8 min • United Kingdom

British Transport film.

Wañuchun Cooperativa

1978 • 13 min • Peru

In Lucrepata (Cusco), the community rises up to recover their land by confronting the cooperatives and the state, wanting community autonomy over their territory

¿Cuál es la consigna?

1978 • 17 min • Nicaragua

Historical documentary about popular Sandinista insurrection in Nicaragua, 1978.

Carriage Cleaning

1978 • 28 min • United Kingdom

The techniques and materials used (and attention to detail needed) to clean railway carriages manually.

Fungi: The One Hundred Thousand

1978 • 7 min • United States of America

Explains that there are approximately 100,000 species of fungi known to science, and that these simple plants are both harmful and beneficial to humans. Uses photomicrography to show the parts of the fungus and time-lapse photography to illustrate growth and reproduction.

Mr. and Mrs. Robin's Family (Revised)

1978 • 10 min • United States of America

A child narrates this story of a robin family from early spring to late fall. Beautiful nature photography shows the fledglings born and growing up, the robins' daily habits and seasonal activities.

New Rose

1978 • 2 min • Yugoslavia

A super 8mm film by Davorin Marc.

Fairy Tale Theatre

1978 • 9 min • Japan

Seven classic fairy tales animated in stop motion. The stories include Thumbelina, The Little Mermaid, The Little Match Girl, The Ugly Duckling, Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk and The Old Man Who Made the Dead Trees Blossom (花咲か爺さん).

Gure itsasoa

1978 • 14 min • Spain

Lekeitio is one of the most important fishing villages in the Cantabrian Sea. The film shows the way of life of the sea.

Prelude

1978 • 10 min • Bulgaria

Little Lulu

1978 • 25 min

Little Lulu (Lauri Hendler), the mischievous little girl with big goals, and her friends crusade for women's rights when the boys object to the fact that their summer camp, Camp Whackadoo, has become co-ed.

India Time

1978 • 59 min • India, United States of America

Hafif's second feature is another montage of film and voiceover narration. Hafif created it after she travelled to India with Robert Morris where the two visited workshops of local stonemasons. For the soundtrack, the artist drew on entries in her travel diary and other notes. The various textual fragments gradually coalesce around a common thematic core: the critique of a linear construction of time, which is implicitly associated with Western modes of thinking.

An Essay on a Free Topic

1978 • 20 min • Soviet Union

I've Told You Everything

1978 • 10 min • Soviet Union

In the center of the plot is the record holder of bench shooting, three-time world champion Yu.F.Tsuranov.

Red Light

1978 • 9 min • Japan

“This film is assembled from a series of cuts conveying different moods. It is mostly composed of the simple action of seeing images alternately or in succession, such as of scissors cutting against each other, or of the blink of eyes peering through a magnifying glass. I thought of them as being like red, amber and green traffic lights.” (Isao Kota)

Baby Ikki

1978 • 3 min

This piece documents one of Smith's earliest performances of his "Baby Ikki" character, in which he performs in public as an oversized infant in diaper, hat and sunglasses.

At the Height of Horror

1978 • 15 min

A haunted house unleashing demonic forces to terrorize its tenants.

Works in the Field

1978 • 37 min • United States of America

Mountain landscapes, Manhattan cityscapes and images from magazine covers and television news are fragmented through optical printing with computer generated mattes. Intercut with a found documentary about family life in Malaysia, the film becomes an essay on reading. Watching the film is like an accelerated game of Concentration with glimpses of the image appearing inside swirling grids. The juxtaposition of the gridded sequences to the conventionally assembled Malaysian footage formulates an inquiry into the nature and meaning of the "document" in cinema.

We Are Women

1978 • 7 min

A poetic video piece in which Weiss alternates between hand-held shots of women that are surviving in the streets of Mexico City and colourful, kaleidoscopic forms. In a very personal style she combines sound, color, abstractions, reportage, rhythm. A unique melange of realism, absurdism and fantastical, a sort of eerie fairytale that holds a profound social commentary. – Mila van der Weide

Finger

1978 • 3 min • Japan

I combined a mostly still photo (a person and scissors) with a series of photos (fingers) that show a lot of movement.

El Gringo Eskiador

1978 • 56 min • France

In June 1978, Patrick Vallençant made the first ski descent of the southeast face of Artesonjaru in Peru, in the Cordillera Blanca, 6,000 meters above sea level and 60° of slope. He left Huaraz on horseback, a donkey carrying his equipment. While crossing Cajas, the last village on the trail to Lake Paron, he was greeted by Victor and Cesar, two Indians who accompanied him to the lake. The climb to the summit was tiring, requiring as much effort from his arms as from his legs. The beginning of the descent was hesitant, the slope extremely steep. He achieved his feat on June 9, his thirty-second birthday.

The Unemployment Test

1978 • 14 min

The Unemployment Test is presented as a quiz to judge the audience’s knowledge about the welfare system, albeit one backed by a funky disco synth soundtrack. The viewers of the film take the test alongside people in a classroom who are evenly split between those who have benefited from unemployment insurance and others who have not. Short dramatized scenes with non-professional actors play out in two phases. Each skit ends with a question by the narrator. The audience’s an- swers are scored at the end of each phase.