All Films

Sensorial

1978 • 3 min • Venezuela

From the Venezuelan artist John Moore a watercolor animation movie made in 1978.

An Optimistic Miniature

1978 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A Ilia Doiashvili Cartoon

Odyssey

1978 • 10 min • Bulgaria

A man moves against a strong wind. It turns out that he is walking on a tight rope.With a great effort, he finally hits a high platform. There are a lot of people on it. The wind comes from their mouths. He joins the crowd to make a wind against the next one who goes on the rope.

Starcycle

1978 • 4 min

The metamorphic lifecycle of a cartoon star.

Cats at the Door

1978 • 3 min

A daring escape attempt. Kittens.

Ranky Tanky

1978 • 1 min

Cut-out animation.

Angolans

1978 • 46 min • Soviet Union

This documentary is devoted to the People's Republic of Angola, its realities, natural conditions and fight against mercenaries.

The Dream

1978 • 7 min • United States of America

An early Super 8 film by Heather McAdams, made while she was an MFA student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

The Golden Watermelon

1978 • 9 min • Soviet Union

A poor farmer and his son healed a wounded stork, who in gratitude gave them a magic seed - from it grew a watermelon full of gold coins. An envious bai wanted to get the same seed by trickery...

Oil-Coated Umbrellas: Meinung

1978 • 25 min • Taiwan

Once essential on rainy days in Taiwan, the handcrafted oil-paper umbrella from Meinung,was not only a symbol of local craftsmanship but also a major source of livelihood. However, as Taiwan rapidly shifted toward an industrial and commercial economy in the 1980s, mass-produced plastic umbrellas replaced these meticulously made paper ones. What was once a daily necessity gradually became a nostalgic cultural artifact. Today, a handful of long-established artisans continue to follow traditional methods. With patience and precision, they craft each umbrella by hand. Though its original function has faded, their emotional bond with the craft remains unchanged. Their dedication and skilled workmanship reflect a deep-rooted respect for materials and tradition, preserving a vanishing heritage one umbrella at a time.

Julie from Ohio

1978 • 28 min • Switzerland

Julie visits family in Italy.

Make Up - Make Down

1978 • 5 min

In Make Up - Make Down, the daily act of applying make-up (normally hidden) becomes an erotic game of objects with all the characteristics of a variety act.

Capricornio 78

1978 • 20 min • Argentina

Narcisa Hirsch was born on 16 January under the sign of Capricom. These diaries labelled Capricorn 78 show an approach to everyday life with unusual tenderness and beauty; a baby bird that a child lovingly cares for; a calf being born: cats and dogs: a house in the snow; a fire, Narcisa on the grass; Narcisa swimming; a full life.

Meeting Point

1978 • 6 min

The video deals with two distinct realities—the inner space of TV images and the viewer’s actual space. Two dots are used as visual symbols of the relationship between these two opposites: one dot on the performer’s forehead (a symbol of the “inner eye”); the other on the screen representing an exterior “point of view.” Procedure: 1. I am dancing to music in front of a static camera. 2. I start the playback of the tape and try to stop the video image at a moment when one dot covers the other. (Sanja Ivekovic)

Let's Make a Sandwich

1978 • 18 min

As a number of critics have pointed out, the title of O'Neill's film Let's Make a Sandwich refers not only to one of the pieces of found footage that make up the film, but to the process of its making, to the layers and sandwiching of the image. That parallel physical surface and his artisanal production of it might link all of O'Neill's work across media and position it as well toward the graphic-the flattening contour line of the cut out-and to collage, both in its cut and its combination as its dominant term.

Diploteratology

1978 • 7 min

A revision of Bardo Follies, Diploteratology suggests that “death (destruction of the original image) is not an end but merely the next stage.” Preceded by longer versions entitled "Bardo Follies."

Enigma: Nazo

1978 • 3 min • Japan

Enigma is something of a more glamorous version of White Hole, with a wide variety of elaborate textures (often composed of iconographic and religious symbols) converging towards the centre of the screen.

Incontinence: A Diarrhetic Flow of Mismatches

1978 • 18 min • United States of America

The editing strategies parallel the personal relationships depicted, and a mismatched cut is literally only the other side of a mismatched couple. Rarely have sound, image and the spatio-temporal coordinates of narrative illusion been buffeted about so vigorously.

Grain Graphics

1978 • 6 min

In Filmmakers' Monthly, Edgar Daniels described GRAIN GRAPHICS as a structural film "which begins with two frames of a film strip, one above the other, occupying the middle of the screen, flanked by two vertical filmstrips with smaller frames. In grainy negative, a small number of figures interact in various ways in each of the frames. Gradually, as if the camera were drawing away, this pattern grows smaller and its units increase correspondingly in number, until at the end there appear to be hundreds of rectangles, all with figures busy in motion.” Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

The Dictator

1978 • 22 min

Ficticious interview with a fictitious dictator.

Meta Meta

1978 • 3 min • Indonesia

“Images of the life force welling up. This is a film which depicts the visual dreams I had when I was only 12 years old. I made this film in the same way that I paint.”

Canada Vignettes: Sodbusters

1978 • 1 min • Canada

A Canadian prairie farm family has a tough beginning on their new farm.

Happy Kuchkhi

1978 • 26 min • Soviet Union

Sea Travels

1978 • 11 min

"A surrealistic film made with optical printed techniques about a young girl who acts as a guide on a journey aimed at recapturing childhood through the distortion of memory." - The Independent