All Films

És így s eképp tovább

1978 • 22 min • Hungary

A mute alone is just a silent man.

Nutcase

1978 • 48 min • Ireland, New Zealand

Evil Eva and her cronies threaten to blow their enemies sky-high by reactivating the Rangitoto volcano with a nuclear device. However, the goofy gang isn't all bad - they like to break into song and dance while holding the city for ransom. Who will save the city from destruction? Why a talented trio of kids, including a nutcase who has invented an antigravity machine. The police force, zonked out on Eva's drugged coffee, are made ineffectual.

И смех и грех

1978 • 9 min • Soviet Union

The Magic Watermelon

1978 • 9 min • Soviet Union

The film is designed to instill in children a sense of respect for work and respect for nature.

Monse

1978 • 38 min • Mexico

A teenager rebels against the authoritarian, repressive education at a private school through fantasy, imagination, and anarchy.

Baby Story

1978 • 11 min

A humorous description of how a human baby is conceived and develops in the womb, from fertilization to birth.

Dima Hits the Road

1978 • 17 min • Soviet Union

Exposed

1978 • 7 min • Brazil

Fire, old and burned portraits of family life, dogs copulating, figures from the political era of the military dictatorship. Armed, manly, phallic power.

Like A Passing Train 1

1978 • 4 min • Japan

Space. Inspired by photographs of Winston Link (Night Trick), this film is composed of images of trains passing by a house. Trains are seen from inside the house in a variety of viewing angles. The film lists all possible perspectives on the passing train and becomes a metaphor of cinema.

The Rat Race

1978 • 2 min

A man tries to catch a Mickey Mouse toy while at work

The Point

1978 • 48 min • Canada

This documentary is a portrait of Point St. Charles, one of Montreal’s notoriously bleak neighbourhoods. Many of the residents are English-speaking and of Irish origin; many of them are also on welfare. Considered to be one of the toughest districts in all of Canada, Point St. Charles is poor in terms of community facilities, but still full of rich contrasts and high spirits – that is, most of the time.

The Magic Arts

1978 • 19 min • Australia

A visual onslaught of artistic ideas, showing how art relates to and intertwines with our daily lives. Art, personified here as an opera-singing Valkyrie, hang-glides down from the clouds to check on the state of the arts in Australia - from painting, writing and music to dance, theatre, puppetry and sculpture. Featuring John Bell, Anna Volska, Reg Livermore, Rory O'Donohue, David Gulpilil and the work of Thomas Keneally and Patrick White among others, this is a phantasmagoria of filmic effects.

On Location: Redd Foxx

1978 • 46 min • United States of America

"Sanford and Son" made Redd Foxx a household name. This HBO "On Location" features his night-club act, raw and uncensored, and gives the viewers another side of this comedic genius. Starting thirty years before Sanford in what was known as the "chitlin" circuit, he performed with the likes of Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and the Will Mastin Trio. The Silverbird Hotel in Las Vegas presents the act in the true Redd Foxx tradition.

Podarenka

1978 • 18 min • Soviet Union

Based on the fairy tale "Silver Hoof".

Letter to the Young Intellectuals of Hong Kong

1978 • 15 min • Hong Kong

Letter to the Young Intellectuals of Hong Kong is a 35mm film that utilised and appropriates footage from a documentary Henry Moore exhibition in Hong Kong, through over-dubbing, painting directly onto the film and other gestures, Mok turns the material into an incendiary address to Hong Kong's youth. Intercut with newly filmed material creates, the film also functions as a personal diary of Mok's political activity throughout the 1970s.

Sky Over Water

1978 • 22 min • Brazil

in the waters of Arembepe, a woman, sometimes pregnant, sometimes not, a child, and a man, together in an elliptical temporality, harmonize and integrate into the space of nature with an emphatic rhythm. A biographical record of a hippie thesis from one of the popes of tropicalismo.

76 Anos, Gregório Bezerra, Comunista

1978 • 31 min • Sweden

Michele alla ricerca della felicità

1978 • 23 min • Italy

Michele, a political prisoner, witnesses the violence and fury of guards against a drug addicted prisoner.

Dance Frame

1978 • 6 min • United States of America

The human form is used in composition with geometric form in an exploration toward a third dimension through juxtaposition of color and line.

The Contortionist

1978 • 1 min • United States of America

This rare homemade movie by Joyce Randall depicts Artist, Sculptor, Doll Maker, Greer Lankton in an impossible number of positions, time lapsed. She manages to cover every square inch of the room before the film is done. Greer's friends often mention that she used to like to tie herself up in knots and stay in contorted positions, as well as sit in unusual poses that demonstrate her flexibility, so she and her sister created this home movie on VHS.

Mouthpiece

1978 • 1 min • United States of America

Dave Jones prototype modules (keyers, color field generators, output amplifier), black-and-white camera, microphone and Serge audio modules (voltage controlled oscillators, filters, sequencer)

Brabeza

1978 • 22 min • Brazil

Echoes from the Cinema Novo, stylized in photographic compositional experiments and montage, in the encounter of a migrant woman with a man carrying a rifle in the streets of the big city.

The Common Viper

1978 • 19 min • Soviet Union

The common European adder, the only venomous snake native to Estonia, has often been feared and hated among the people. "Tavaline rästik" attempts to see behind the fears and introduce this unique reptile.

Andiamo In’merica – Os Italianos No Brasil

1978 • 42 min • Brazil

A documentary about Italian immigration in Brazil.