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Corps aboli

Corps aboli

1978 • 16 min • France
The purpose of the film is to go beyond the notion of the body as a system of functions, symptoms and reflexes that try to delimit the whole body. The body, represented here with all its norms, confronted with itself in a space devoid of causal references, moves towards the abolition of its image and the springing of its inner source: it is the luminous nucleus of the human body.
When the Century Took Shape (War and Revolution)

When the Century Took Shape (War and Revolution)

1978 • 15 min • France
In 1978, just after Le fond de l'Air Est Rouge, which mercilessly analyzed the previous ten years of the revolutionary left's momentum until its collapse, Chris Marker made this complementary piece entitled Quand le Siècle a Pris Forme (Guerre et Révolution).
Reggae in a Babylon

Reggae in a Babylon

1978 • 55 min • Germany
The young, gifted and black generation of the '70s who started the British Reggae movement is captured in this unique documentary. Groove to the smooth sounds and see rare footage.
Night Flights

Night Flights

1978 • 6 min • Poland
A couple has sex in different positions under the covers. They are interrupted by the sound of the doorbell. The lover looks for an escape. Finally, he will find it, similarly to other night lovers.
The Sparks Obituary

The Sparks Obituary

1978 • 24 min • Australia
Catherine Deneuve by Chance, or, A Certain Blondeness

Catherine Deneuve by Chance, or, A Certain Blondeness

1978 • 49 min • France
A documentary interview with the French actress while on the sets of films in production. Several of the directors for whom she has made films are also interviewed
Overture: One-Two-Five

Overture: One-Two-Five

1978 • 7 min • United Kingdom
A high speed Inter-City train is the star of this impressionist film in which picture and music are brought together to enhance the mood and rhythm of the subject and hail the arrival of 125mph regular passenger services. With specially composed music by David Gow and no commentary, Overture: One-Two-Five was the last complete production to be shot on 35mm film by British Transport Films. It was produced to mark the introduction of the new Inter-City 125 High Speed Train services between Paddington and Bristol. One of the last big budget productions, it was treated to a coat of Technicolor and a theatrical cinema release. It also marked the beginning of the slow decline of BTF which culminated in its closure. With the abandoning of support features and shorts at cinemas in the late 1970s and early 1980s, most of the unit’s films after 1978 were made primarily for internal use.
Greta's Girls

Greta's Girls

1978 • 18 min • United States of America
Greta's Girls lovingly depicts the quotidian moments in the domestic life of a lesbian couple and their dog in New York City. Greta's Girls is one of the first independent short films to focus on lesbians.
Big Risk

Big Risk

1978 • 17 min • Australia
Footage of this film was found in his belongings of director Mark Zenner after his death. A classic slice of Australian punk, both literally and figuratively, as razor sharp editing and collage techniques enliven the documentary on several punk bands.
Cristal de souffrance

Cristal de souffrance

1978 • 30 min • France
In an old castle, Johnny de Winter-Smythe gives shelter to a mad painter, whom he martyrizes, helped by a hunchback butler. A traveler then arrives, drawn to the castle by the spectral apparition of a woman...
Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman

Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman

1978 • 6 min • Canada
The video opens with a barrage of explosive imagery along with an audio track of a siren taken from the 1970s TV show Wonder Woman. The following scenes are fast paced repeated shots from Wonder Woman, with several scenes following of actress Lynda Carter as the main character Diana Prince, performing her transformative spin from secretarial role into superhero role. […] The representation of repeated transformations expose the illusion of fixed female identities in media and attempts to show the emergence of a new woman through use of technology. […] The video ends with a scene of repeating explosions that precedes a blue background with white text that scrolls upwards, delivering a transcription of lyrics to the song ‘Wonder Woman Disco'.
Mandy's Grandmother

Mandy's Grandmother

1978 • 30 min • United States of America
A young tomboy and her prim grandmother quickly forget the disappointment of their first meeting and become friends.
26 Times in a Row

26 Times in a Row

1978 • 24 min • Canada
This short documentary revisits the 1976 Olympic Marathon. A modern-day addition to the Games, the marathon commemorates the soldier who ran cross-country, in 490 B.C., to announce the Greek victory at Marathon and then died. Here, great film footage of the 1976 Summer Olympics captures the physical demands of the race, while its emotional counterpart is related by Waldemar Cierpinski, the event’s 1976 gold medalist. This emotion-charged film proves that although the winner of the Decathlon is the best all-round athlete, the “toughest” is the winner of the Marathon
Krag

Krag

1978 • 8 min • Poland
1978 Polish animated short
North Star: Mark di Suvero

North Star: Mark di Suvero

1978 • 54 min • United States of America
North Star: Mark di Suvero is a 1977 documentary film about Mark di Suvero that was produced by François de Menil and Barbara Rose. Born in 1933, di Suvero has become one of the most recognized sculptors of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. From about 1975 to 1977, fairly early in di Suvero's long career, filmmaker de Menil and art historian Rose produced this film, which was characterized at the time as "a tribute to the extraordinary work and life of the innovative American sculptor of monumental but delicate constructions." The film shows di Suvero making and installing several of his very large sculptures, and incorporates informal interviews of di Suvero, his mother, and others involved in his career and life at that time. From 1971 to 1975 di Suvero, an American, lived in a self-imposed exile in France in protest of US involvement in war in Vietnam and Southeast Asia, and the filming spans the end of his exile and his return to New York.
The Rite of Spring

The Rite of Spring

1978 • 36 min
...Dancing to the border of exhaustion. Dressed in little, the black earth sticks to their skin. Yes, to the point where it hurts. A document of early Pina Bausch, an authentic recording of one of the most outstanding choreographies of the 20th century.
Return to the Edge of the World

Return to the Edge of the World

1978 • 24 min • United Kingdom
Michael Powell makes a moving return trip to the remote island of Foula, forty years after he shot his first major feature there - 'The Edge of the World (1937)'.
Elvis Costello and The Attractions: Live on Rockpalast

Elvis Costello and The Attractions: Live on Rockpalast

1978 • 46 min • Germany
Elvis Costello and The Attractions perform live in Koln, Germany.
The Honeymooners Christmas Special

The Honeymooners Christmas Special

1978 • 49 min • United States of America
With a Christmas lotto radio show coming up, Ralph Kramden invests his mother-in-law's social security check, Ed Norton's Christmas bonus, and the Nortons' life savings into lottery tickets.
Dare, You Are Talented!

Dare, You Are Talented!

1978 • 53 min • Soviet Union
A film about an innovative method of learning a foreign language in just 24 sessions in Galina Kitaygorodskaya‘s method: "The method of activating the capabilities of the individual and the team", allows to activate mental processes (memory, perception, thinking, imagination) and emotional resources of the individual, which releases enormous creative energy, allowing students to easily and effectively process huge amounts of new information in a short time. It is a system of language teaching as a means of intercultural communication. The film shows the dynamics of two groups that started learning French and Russian from scratch. G. O. Kitaygorodskaya proved to be a fan of her work. She was not bothered by the camera, but she was not going to make up for it or pose for it: "No takes. I came to teach people the language." Here, every lesson is like a live script.
Sevilla tuvo que ser

Sevilla tuvo que ser

1978 • 9 min • Spain
Fake documentary about Seville and its imaginary innovations in urbanism.
Sons of Haji Omar

Sons of Haji Omar

1978 • 58 min • Canada
Haji Omar and his three sons belong to the Lakankhel, a Pashtoon tribal group in northeastern Afghanistan. The film focuses on his family: Haji Omar, the patriarch; Anwar, the eldest, his father's favorite, a pastoralist and expert horseman; Jannat Gul, cultivator and ambitious rebel; and Ismail, the youngest, attending school with a view to a job as a government official.
The Future

The Future

1978 • 30 min
A drama by Robert Holmes suggesting two possibilities for life in the year 2000.
The Beard

The Beard

1978 • 10 min
Man versus facial hair