All Films

The Last F

1978 • 60 min • Soviet Union

Once a very curious sixth grader lost interest in studying for unknown reasons. He even reconciled that he would remain in the second year.

気分を変えて?

1978 • 30 min • Japan

Director Inudo's first film, influenced by Masato Hara's "Ballad of Sadness Colored by Strangeness," Kazuki Omori's "Flying Saucer" series, and Kiyoshi Kurosawa's "School Days. A film about the breakup of the group and another film shot on the same day. In the summer of 1978, a boy who is too absorbed in the stage and the movies gets his first menstrual period, and by making a film called "Change Your Mood," he changes his mood and gets through his period. The power of showing the film as being about something familiar and then lifting it up to a fictional structure and putting everything that the filmmaker feels about the time period in which he lives into it is overwhelming. The power of this film is overwhelming to the viewer.

Two Little Peacocks

1978 • 30 min • China

New Tenants

1978 • 9 min • Hungary

A centaur family moves into an apartment in Budapest, where the residents, led by the house janitor, don't take kindly to the odd lifestyle of the new residents.

Court Case

1978 • 12 min • United States of America

An insider's look on the making of Penn's tennis balls, from their creation in a factory to the final stages of quality control.

The Human Factor

1978 • 50 min • Yugoslavia

A TV drama.

Six Pieces

1978 • 2 min • Switzerland

8mm film by Swiss artist Roman Signer.

Vertical Horizon

1978 • 10 min

Like us, sometime typically between mid-November and Christmas, Vertical Horizon awakens to a white blanket borne over the once-familiar landscape. T-shirts, coniferous trees, blue skies, sunrises—last week’s tapestry of colours suddenly feel like some edenic memory from time immemorial.

Magma

1978 • 20 min

A filmed performance by Giuliano Sturli.

The World's Smallest Public Railway

1978 • 24 min

A classic Movietone cinema short from 1978. The Romney Hythe and Dymchurch Railway is a one-third scale mainline in miniature operating regular services over 13.5 miles of track across the Romney Marsh in Kent.

Psychereel

1978 • 12 min

Experimental psychedelic short film by Olga Spiegel, an original member of Women Artist Filmmakers (WAF 1974-1981).

New Ways

1978 • 13 min • United Kingdom

This film focuses on the basics of adapting to life in England.

Miró: Theatre of Dreams

1978 • 57 min

A biographical documentary on Spanish painter and sculptor Joan Miro (1893-1983), renowned for his part in the 1920s surrealist movement in Paris in his exploration of the inner world of dreams and the unconscious in a range of works. The documentary traces his involvement at the age of 85 in putting together a strongly political theatrical piece with young actors under the banner of Claca theatre, a theatre ideally aimed to translate to performance anywhere and as a surreal vision of traditional Catalonian folk culture.

Magic Tears

1978 • 8 min • Soviet Union

A fairy tale about a girl who went to the land of kind animals to save a fading singing flower.

Laurie

1978 • 25 min • United Kingdom

Portrait of Laurie Wheatley, a former plasterer with a life long interest in photography, drawing, painting and sculpture. Follows the production of his first ever life-size sculpture - a figure in plaster depicting a shipyard welder, and using the 'master-mould' process.

Way Out

1978 • 18 min • Yugoslavia

Way Out is dedicated to Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Marquette Park (Part II)

1978 • 36 min

A documentary on a Neo-Nazi rally in Marquette Park, Chicago, on July 9, 1978 features footage from inside the Neo-Nazi headquarters in Chicago (led by Frank Collin) and protesters in Marquette Park. In the headquarters they discuss logistics, chit-chat, and organize themselves for the rally. In the park beforehand we see people gathering (both anti-Nazis and Neo-Nazis) and police organizing themselves for the rally. Filmed by Tom Palazzolo and Mark Rance.

The Greatest Stuntman Alive

1978 • 23 min • United States of America

The behind the scenes/making of featurette for the 1978 Hal Needham movie 'Hooper'

Vito

1978 • 59 min

This 1978 documentary classic is an inside look at the old-style Chicago Machine politics of the Richard J. Daley era, where Alderman Vito Marzullo ran his West Side 25th Ward virtually unchallenged from 1953-1985.

Song of the Paddle

1978 • 41 min • Canada

Join outdoorsman Bill Mason in this short documentary as he and his family go canoe camping in the wilderness. Gain an appreciation for the art of canoeing while watching a small group experience the sheer joy and beauty of Nature. Along the way, the Masons experience countless adventures and some breathtaking scenery, including Indian rock carvings at Lake Superior.

The Screen, Just the Screen

1978 • 24 min

I have a fixed idea about the screen that while it has no depth, we know that it is sprayed by 24 frames a second at the same point for an infinite amount of time. Were it possible to freeze into a solid the sum of all the images, the screen would be seen as a limitless freezer of frames. Even more so, when the screen is a screen of a screen—a condition approaching the simultaneity of electronics. The usual battery of devices: Super-8, 16mm and slide projectors. A constructed series of film loops with scenes of [everyday] life, slowing down and accelerating the events on a solitary screen, so that life as it has been staged gathers itself up in a perpetual serial [process of] self-editing. On the tv screen a face is pierced through by the small filmic screen.

La Alameda

1978 • 43 min • Spain

Following a commission from the College of Architects of Seville, for the production of a documentary about the La Alameda de Hércules area of the Sevillian capital in a debate about its possible destiny and urban planning challenges, the filmmaker Juan Sebastián Bollaín, offers this visionary realistic and critical, at the same time experimental and iconoclastic, portrait of the problem of the transformation of historic centers in our cities.

This Is Montage

1978 • 7 min • United States of America

"Inspired by a passage from Sergei Eisenstein’s Film Form, this film explores relationships between film and language while playfully challenging the Russian filmmaker’s theory of film montage … and thus lies between a wink and a nod to the master. Also a bit of tongue-in-cheek to myself as aspiring film studies student: had I been a good typist I very likely would never have become a filmmaker." - Holly Fisher

That’s Entertainment/The Conjuror’s Assistants

1978 • 35 min • United Kingdom

That’s Entertainment/The Conjuror’s Assistants is an attempt to reveal some problems inherent in vérité documentary such as voyeurism, the nature/extent of a vérité intervention and audience “passivity”. A frame by frame analysis of just 100ft of documentary footage taken at a children’s Christmas party, the film shows the young man “entertaining” the adults and children and his two young assistants, the a younger boy and an older girl, and the reaction of the audience – men and women supervising children of both sexes. The visible materiality of the film is used to distance the action and encourage a reading the film as a 'text.