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Dreams of Kojori Forest

Dreams of Kojori Forest

1978 • 27 min • Soviet Union
Experimental puppet film based on jazz variations of Georgian urban folklore. Musical compositions are performed by singers (puppets) gathered in Kojori Forest to celebrate The New Year
The Gossips

The Gossips

1978 • 58 min • Canada
This feature fiction film describes Acadia from a new and humorous angle. In a small village in the Acadian region of Nova Scotia, a couple living out of wedlock and a broad-minded priest scandalize the village gossips. They suspect that a treacherous act is about to be committed. Suspense builds, stoked by the clacking tongues of a trio of suspicious housewives.
Candy Candy: The Call of the Spring

Candy Candy: The Call of the Spring

1978 • 25 min • Japan
Candy returns to Pony's Home and she meets a girl who has lost her parents and doesn't associate with the other kids. In order to cheer her up she decides to tell her about herself from the moment she was found by Miss Pony and sister Lane to her decision to leave the boarding school in England and walk her own path.
Our Daily Bread Give Us Today

Our Daily Bread Give Us Today

1978 • 14 min • Yugoslavia
The film shows the work of the Red Cross in Sarajevo during socialist Yugoslavia. The Red Cross has been present in Bosnia and Herzegovina since 1912, and thanks to its work, many families had a hot meal every day.
YOUSHI KEI (Prologue)

YOUSHI KEI (Prologue)

1978 • 11 min • Japan
A short film by Keiichi Tanaami
What Is Your Song About?

What Is Your Song About?

1978 • 25 min • Soviet Union
A music film about the amateur art of the peoples of the USSR. Russian ditties, Tuvan throat singing, Koryak songs of the Hololo festival.
Fire in the Depths of the Tree

Fire in the Depths of the Tree

1978 • 26 min • Soviet Union
Twelve-year-old Zhenya is withdrawn and unsociable, even though he grows up in a prosperous family where he is showered with attention and bought expensive toys. He loves to tinker. But no one shares his hobby, and he has no friends. A chance encounter with an elderly man changes Zhenya's life.
Automata

Automata

1978 • 8 min
The combination of insular wonderland with open cityscape is more tightly realized in Automata. For this film, Sokoloff challenged Grauer to make things from a bag of wind-up toy motors. He then spliced together a cycle of footage from his favorite city sites. Finally, he shot Grauer’s creations on the same film in a double exposure. The result is a day in the life of a shaman toy gang, set loose upon Manhattan. Automata recalled references ranging from Godzilla to the stop-motion Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Technically, Automata is more roughly hewn than either of these predecessors. Only when the film’s toys are superimposed on an amorphous background (like moving lights or water) do they convincingly seem a part of their environment. Nevertheless, the toys’ jerky motion, the film cuts’ jagged beat, and the staccato George Anthiel score all create a charming, childlike, unexpectedly graceful effect.
Four Journeys Into Mystic Time: Initiation

Four Journeys Into Mystic Time: Initiation

1978 • 28 min • United States of America
Left to viewer interpretation, this beautiful dance piece displays a spiritual or religious initiation. A short work, this film was released as part of Shirley Clarke’s Four Journeys Into Mystic Time.
One

One

1978 • 2 min
The first film I ever made consists of the first roll of film I ever shot, entitled One. I made it for the first film class Keith Sanborn taught, in 1978 at the Department of Media Studies at the University of Buffalo, when he was a graduate student working with Hollis Frampton. I was 17. The assignment was to make a film using one roll of Super 8 film, without moving the camera. The result is a kind of poetic/cinematic one-liner. It is in tune with the structuralist spirit of the day - to my surprise.
Der Eintänzer

Der Eintänzer

1978 • 44 min • Germany
1978's "Der Eintänzer" is about a young man named Max, a blind man and twins.
Free Climb: The Northwest Face of Half Dome

Free Climb: The Northwest Face of Half Dome

1978 • 48 min
Details the tenth attempt by Jim Erickson and Art Higbee to scale the two thousand-foot-high vertical face of Half Dome in Yosemite National Park. Narrated by Robert Redford.
Light Reading

Light Reading

1978 • 20 min
The bloodstained bed suggest a crime..No answers are given, after the torrrent of words at the beginning of the film, all the film offers are closed images and more questions..Is it even blood on the bed, what fracture is there between seeing and certainty? If there has been a crime, 'she' might still be victim..How can a crime of such complexity and continuity be 'solved'? The voice searches for clues, sifting through them, reading and re-reading until the words and letters loom up nightmarishly, no longer hung on the structure of language.
David Bowie: Live at Beat Club Musikladen

David Bowie: Live at Beat Club Musikladen

1978 • 42 min
Before the end of 1976, Bowie's interest in the burgeoning German music scene, as well as his drug addiction, prompted him to move to West Berlin to clean up and revitalize his career. Working with Brian Eno while sharing an apartment in Schöneberg with Iggy Pop, he began to focus on minimalist, ambient music for the first of three albums, co-produced with Tony Visconti, that would become known as his Berlin Trilogy. Song Listing: Sense Of Doubt, Beauty And The Beast, Heroes, Stay, The Jean Genie, TVC 15, Alabama Song and Rebel Rebel.
Wild Gunman

Wild Gunman

1978 • 20 min • United States of America
The mythic nature of cowboy masculinity is deconstructed in this scathing montage of re-contextualized sounds and images culled from advertising, television, arcade game footage and other pop culture iconography.
O Vigilante Rodoviário

O Vigilante Rodoviário

1978 • 57 min • Brazil
The Police are investigating a money counterfeiting ring. When an undercover agent suffers a disaster caused by criminals, a team joins the Highway Police to dismantle the gang.
Bird

Bird

1978 • 3 min • United States of America
This portrait of a guinea fowl is the first clear vision I've had of the hot-blooded dinosaurs still living among us. (SB)
Step by Step

Step by Step

1978 • 23 min • Syrian Arab Republic
In a rolling area of Syria, the villagers live their everyday life, in toil and poverty. Trapped between the hardships of farming, religious and political ideologies, they barely survive. Their children are the only ones that are still full of hope. They imagine their future lives and picture themselves as doctors or engineers. But these are pipe dreams. All they can actually look forward to is farming the land with primitive tools like their parents, getting a menial job in the city or becoming brainwashed soldiers..
Campos Elíseos

Campos Elíseos

1978 • 12 min • Brazil
The history of São Paulo's first residential district..
Klaabu

Klaabu

1978 • 9 min • Soviet Union
Klaabu's birth and adventure begins.
The Institution

The Institution

1978 • 54 min • United Kingdom
A critique of the institution of mental health care that questions ‘normal’ viewing habits.
Camilo Pessanha: Entre os Dois Abismos

Camilo Pessanha: Entre os Dois Abismos

1978 • 27 min
Biographical program on Camilo Pessanha, a poet associated with the movement of symbolism in the Portuguese language, led by Danilo Barreiros, writer and researcher, highlighting his stay in Macao and the influence that Chinese culture and art had on his work.
Sevilla Rota

Sevilla Rota

1978 • 10 min • Spain
Fake documentary about Sevilla.
Zero Hour

Zero Hour

1978 • 25 min
Presents a story about a girl and her friends who play a strange game called invasion. The girl's mother becomes alarmed when she discovers that the invasion is to come from outer space, and she begins to wonder what will happen at zero hour.