All Films

Dschungel Berlin 1978

1978 • 11 min • Germany

The last day in the tanzclub "Dschungel" at Winterfeldplatz, Berlin-Schöneberg. Located at the bar Slumberland, GoltzStraße. 24. It documents with single frame automatic one night from evening to dawn. Sounds from The Doors and Iggy Pop. "Dschungel" moved in 1978 to Nürnberger Straße 35 and became more glamorous and hip.

Moon Film

1978 • 5 min • Hungary

Short animated film

Metronome

1978 • 3 min • United Kingdom

Part of Sherwin's short film series. "...In the shuddering stasis of METRONOME– an illusion caused by the clash between the spring-wound mechanisms of the Bolex camera and of the metronome itself." -Film-Makers' Co-Op

Michel Nedjar

1978 • 13 min • France

Splendid portrait of the artist Michel Nedjar making one of his dolls, which allows to fully follow the entire genesis of the act of creation.

Terror in Dresden

1978 • 20 min • East Germany, Germany

Pictures of city life in Dresden. Slogans and stereotypes, for example, "Growth - Prosperity - Stability with Schrittmaß DDR - 30" are underlaid with sound collages of music and noise.

Orixá Ninú Ilê

1978 • 25 min • Brazil

A documentary short that speaks on the hierarchical organization and the contents of an Afro-Brazilian nagô temple.

Gaël

1978 • 33 min • France

An approach to Gaël Badaud and his activity as a painter: the birth of his paintings and the tight bonds between his work and his personal experience.

Dialogue with Ceauşescu

1978 • 7 min

A film directed by Ion Grigorescu.

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1978 • 6 min • Austria

Recorded during a presentation of the "Performance Art Festival" in the Modern Art Galerie, Vienna. The presentation was officially put to an end by the police because of the infernal sound made by the accompanying noise orchestra. In this film short shots have been "mounted" in the camera. The film material is shown twice, whereas the sound is composed over the entire length of the film (out of elements of the real sound from the performance). (E.S.jr.)

La rencontre

1978 • 6 min • Netherlands

Performance by Edward Luyken in his Paris home. Luyken wears overalls like those worn by German tank soldiers. First he plays with a kind of amulet, then he makes small objects by stacking and sliding together clumps of various sizes. This activity is intermittently interrupted when Luyken has to rewind the spring of his camera every twenty seconds.

Sevilla en tres niveles

1978 • 9 min • Spain

King David

1978 • 17 min

This is a documentary of David Hammons prior to his leaving the Los Angeles arts community. This video covers the artist's creative strategies at that time. It served as both an interview and video performance by David Hammons.

Nightclub

1978 • 31 min • United States of America

A reading of seven dreams interleaved with filmed audience reactions and "Fire" by the Pointer Sisters, "A Message to Rudy" by The Specials,"Take It To the Limit" by the Eagles and more. The dreams deals with the past, present aswell as the future.

Ett satans år

1978 • 45 min • Sweden

Swedish documentary from 1977. The film is about the last starvation year in Sweden, the emergency year 1867 in Ångermanland. It is a story about people who are hurting, but also about efforts from the outside world to help the developing country Sweden out of the crisis. SVT's documentary filmmaker Olle Häger passed away in November 2014. We remember him by showing some of his appreciated films during the summer.

O Bondinho de Santa Tereza

1978 • 28 min • Brazil

Through documentary images, old photographs and interviews, the director presents the Santa Tereza cable car, not only as an original means of transport and tourist element, but also as an important part of the history of the city of Rio de Janeiro.

The Avengers: Live at Target Video

1978 • 23 min • United States of America

Rare, live footage of The Avengers filmed in San Francisco at the Temple and the Mabuhay Gardens, 1978

Margaret Mead: A Portrait By a Friend

1978 • 30 min • France

Jean Rouch filmed this loving and humorous portrait of anthropologist and filmmaker Margaret Mead in September 1977 while he was a guest of the first Margaret Mead Film Festival. As both a friend and colleague, Rouch reveals a glimpse of the legendary Mead in her later years.

Rasage

1978 • 17 min • France

Cate and Shauna Play Quietly

1978 • 30 min • United Kingdom

Catherine Elwes, videotape. Screened at the About Time: Video, Performance and Installation by Women Artists exhibition at the ICA in 1980.

Summer is Gone

1978 • 30 min • Japan

The viewer spends a pleasant 30 minutes enfolded in the agreeably lazy atmosphere generated by repeating images and minimalist music that characterize Nakamura’s films. The rhythm of repetitions, subtle deviations, and memories evoked by momentary images transform the scenery of an actual street into a world of daydreams. Nakamura’s distinctive trance film has earned high international acclaim.

Hors d'oeuvre

1978 • 34 min • Netherlands

Twelve different everyday events that become special and sometimes even absurd by virtue of their ordinariness.

One Night in the Art Gallery

1978 • 19 min • China

An animated parody about the Gang of Four. The 1978 post Cultural Revolution film is Lin Wenxiao's directorial debut.

Beius

1978 • 6 min • Romania

A rural experiment filmed with an 8mm camera captures the Transylvanian landscape around the town of Beius. Blurred lines, warm colors, depth of space, and soothing scenes: the impression of an oil painting is disturbed by the agitated camera movements, vertical swoops, image inversions, and overlaying of shots.

Cinématon n°17 : Gaël Badaud

1978 • 4 min • France