All Films

The Field

1978 • 9 min • Soviet Union

A black/white world, slow heavy labor, each frame crossfaded into the next.

Вагончик

1978 • 7 min • Soviet Union

Quod Libet

1978 • 8 min • Netherlands

An associative linking of erotic and pornographically suggestive transformations, whereby the unity is preserved by placing the action in a frame.

Untitled: 'Silueta' Sequence No. 1

1978 • 4 min

Still Life

1978 • 5 min • United States of America

This film explores the transformation of an image from color negative to color positive on one film stock. “The Still Life“ was painted its color negative during the filming and then the exposed film was processed and printed on color negative printstock.

A Cidade dos Executivos

1978 • 7 min • Brazil

A terrifying reflection on the urban tragedy of the future.

The Jump

1978 • 1 min

Goldstein's landmark 1978 rotoscopic animation. Often played on a loop. 16mm, color, silent, 19s.

Chromaticité II

1978 • 7 min

Second film of the series, from a few images - some photocopied - and a soundtrack full of noise (of war) and fury - the Vietnam War to be precise - guns, aircraft carrier take-offs, noise from napalm bombs, hair-dryers and zippos lighters. The horror ! The horror !

Chickenstew

1978 • 11 min

Re-enactment of a mellow evening with friends, in which a static camera, synchronous sound, a shiny cook pot, and an old wood stove conspire in a game of hide-and-seek with the viewer involving film illusion and point-of-view. A single strand of 16mm and/or a watched pot.

Loteamento Clandestino

1978 • 22 min • Brazil

Short footage about the illegal settlements issues and the struggle of the residents for the regularization of the land's possession.

El Cuatro de Hojalata

1978 • 13 min • Venezuela

A child tries to improve the life of the animals in a zoo by playing music with his tin four.

Thank You, Stork!

1978 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Animated Soviet satire film from 1978. Demographic problem. For adults. The stork flew over the city and carried a baby in its beak. The stork brought children to different families, but each had its own reason not to have children.

Dr. Loomis

1978 • 3 min • United States of America

Heather McAdams films herself in (none-too-convincing) drag while lip-syncing to a record claiming to spur breast growth through hypnosis in this early Super 8 experiment.

Healing

1978 • 9 min

I went to Ladakh in the vain search for a shaman. What I found was a species of Buddhist healing that involved trance and a variety of magical tricks of the healing trade.

An Open Letter to the Literary Youth in Hong Kong

1978 • 14 min

Story: ‘1. We must make political films. 2. We must make films politically.’ Mok Chiu-yu’s allusions to Godard’s 1970 ‘What is to be done?’ manifesto are active in his wandering exploration of locations such as Hong Kong’s then newly opened City Hall and Café do Brazil. Punctuated with jump cuts and graphical interventions onto the film strip itself, An Open Letter not only critiques the trappings of intellectual life, but also questions the role of an activist-filmmaker in Hong Kong society.

Eka and the Goat-Kid

1978 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The story of a little girl's friendship with a kid who protected her from an evil boy and returned the doll he had taken away.

Mañas y patrañas de gente extraña

1978 • 9 min • Argentina

Anti-communism animated short film released after Argentina's last military coup in 1976.

Foregrounds

1978 • 13 min

"FOREGROUNDS, like SAUGUS SERIES, is devoted almost entirely to carefully constructed spatial ambiguities. The most visceral of these prints a rotating boulder, occupying half of the screen, over a slow lateral pan across the desert (painted by Neon Park). A faint superimposition of leaves on top of the landscape has the effect of pushing its vista farther back in space. Correspondingly, the boulder bulges out of the picture-plane like a Cezanne apple. The effect is so strong that even when O'Neill begins to animate 'scratches' over the image, one's eye refuses to surrender the illusion of volume." - J. Hoberman, The Village Voice

Canada Vignettes: Fort Prince of Wales

1978 • 1 min • Canada

A Canada Vignette giving a humorous animated version of the history of Fort Prince of Wales from its construction to its capture by the French.

Murita Cycles

1978 • 27 min

Filmmaker Barry Braverman's documentary about his father, Murray.

Riddles for a Candy

1978 • 8 min • Czechoslovakia

In Jiří Barta’s imaginative debut, a magic book poses three riddles to an anteater-like creature. His reward for answering, a wrapped piece of candy, proves elusive. Barta's animation revels in the possibilities of transformation and symbolic logic.

Talents and Admirers

1978 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Moses Sisters Interview

1978 • 32 min • United States of America

An interview with biographer and filmmaker Pearl Bowser, whose work concerns the "race films" of 20th century American cinema.

Look! We Have Come Through!

1978 • 11 min • Canada

"a revelation of the editing process ... done with remarkable care and precision ... The interrelationship between moving body and moving camera is heightened to the intensity of a struggle." Joyce Nelson