Cinematic Era: 1978 Vintage

8mm film by Swiss artist Roman Signer.

A screen version of Raimonds Pauls's musical based on Theodore Dreiser's novel Sister Carrie.

Documentary film.

A montage of watercolour images of the work and occasional play of a farm family.

In an annual village ritual six untouchables are chosen to be high caste figures for two weeks and have to undergo intensive and vigorous purification and mortification processes.

A young and shy dragon lives in the forest. One day the young Miguelito stumbles upon the dragon. Together they travel to a nearby town in despair. The Bord of Happiness has been stolen by a mean witch! Together, Miguelito and the dragon try to free the Bird of Happiness.

The movie shows a smattering of images from the story of Wilhelm Jensen's Gradiva. The subject is sublimated desire.

A strong-willed, energetic woman who has earned the deepest respect and authority through her work, but is unhappy in her family life.

When city doctor Jan Vahlfeldt inherits his eccentric uncle’s rural practice, he must also take on its quirky long-time assistant, Anna Michels. Adapting to country life and her unconventional ways, Jan faces a series of humorous challenges before claiming his inheritance.

A documentary about Dutch shipbuilders and their work. Hundreds of jobs at shipyards are on the line and their craftsmanship is under threat. The labourers have to watch and stand by as their future becomes more and more uncertain.

Take a golden trip down memory lane with Bud Abbott and Lou Costello and their classic zany, rapid-fire routines that keep generations laughing!

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A carnival is in town. Workers start to build the stalls and tents. Players practice their act. Roma, peasants and grifters put up their own boots. After they pay taxes to local officials, they get a muddy ground for their stalls.

Documentary film about the structural anchoring of racism in West Germany.

Village belle Moyna is married to city boy Prasanta and is rejected.

In this fifth part, Norman McLaren deals not with motion (if motion is defined as a change of location in two- or three-dimensional space) but with change--change in the amount and color of light within an otherwise static screen. Normally, the animator combines such change with motion, but here it is studied in isolation.

Documentary on drug use in America

Weather Report's landmark concert in Offenbach, Germany on September 28, 1978.

Johan enjoys the autumn work in the small park in his hometown, but he is worried ...

The film shows a single-row beet harvester in action during the sugar beet harvest. The topping of the beets is shown at normal speed. The test conditions used are explained.

From 1978 a written and directed short film by Daniel Johnston starring his father, Bill Johnston.

A live-action animation comprised of brief images (single-frame shots) and dual images about a naked man in a black space. We become extremely aware of his physicality, while the film also carries out an attack on our physical abilities.

The television film is based on three short stories: ‘A Meeting’ by Valentin Rasputin, ‘The Cool Sun of Autumn’ by Yuri Trifonov, and ‘Rags’ by S. Nikitin.

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PASS/FAIL is a fictional drama about the struggle of a Black filmmaker to raise funds for a socially relevant documentary. The film provides a portrait of the artist by examining his daily life and his dream world.

The film is a compressed animation parody of Miklós Jancsó's stylised historical choreographies, in which those facing execution and the executioners trade places as the political compass changes direction cynically.

Óscar Alves' last foray into cinema, this film was shot with the specific purpose of opening the show of the same name at the Scarllaty Club in 1978. Thus, the film seeks to fictionalize what must have been the events that took place in the previous weeks and that gave rise to the show that the audience would now watch live.

A mute alone is just a silent man.

This short animated film presents an allegorical portrait of a society where men have lost their autonomy in the struggle to be recognized by the very society that restricts their freedom.

An educational short on road safety for children.

Compilation of extracts from Children Film Foundation films, introduced by Keith Chegwin, a boy actor who has appeared in CFF films.

Experimental short by Nobuhiro Aihara.

The Chinese Typewriter is about education and language, and the way a society is shaped by them. Exemplifies the politically committed film that defies the strict rubric of avant-garde. Barnett seems less interested in challenging traditional form than in exploding his own occidental vision. -- Gregory Solman

A look at the Jewish community in Rădăuți, Romania, from 1974 to 1976.

Two psychiatrists attempt to save a suicidal man.

A love story with a tragic ending set in 19th century Turkmenistan

A 1977 documentary profiles the life and work of Saar, her fascination with the mystical and the unknown, merging with her social concerns as an African American woman.

Aspects of the life and work of Julia of Burgos, first socialist poetess from Puerto Rico.

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A play about the issue of family relationships, real and calculated partnership.

Based on the book Undertaker of Tales and 40 Barbarities by Roman Leonardo Picón.

An associative linking of erotic and pornographically suggestive transformations, whereby the unity is preserved by placing the action in a frame.

Part four in the Emilia animation series. King Oskar rules his little kingdom, which is an island in the sea. After the king falls ill, people at first wonder how they will get along without Oskar. But then they start to listen to themselves, obey themselves and come up with a lot of new things.

Criminal police and antitrust officials arrive at the headquarters of a plastics raw materials factory. They pored over files, seized materials, and discovered price lists, which were, of course, encrypted. Their suspicions of illegal price-fixing with apparent competitors, driven purely by greed, grew stronger and were ultimately confirmed, but they were unable to prove them. Bernd Schiedel, the company's sales manager and caught in the conflict between loyalty to his employer and the company, had initiated the operation himself by providing information.

Explanatory example of how the video loop works. I have used this device for many of my videos since 1978.

The central character, Jean-Christophe Krafft, is a German musician of Belgian extraction, a composer of genius whose life is depicted from cradle to grave. He undergoes great hardships and spiritual struggles, balancing his pride in his own talents with the necessity of earning a living and taking care of those around him. -- Wikipedia

The final entry in Robert Beavers' Sotiros trilogy

Businessman Bharata is rich and has a 22-year-old trophy wife named Natalia. Feeling neglected, Natalia decides to have an affair with Bharata's nephew Pieter, who's home on college break from America. This leads to blackmail, pregnancy, murder, pawning off an unborn child on the wrong dad, gambling debt, forced prostitution, fights to the death and more!

The myth of Atlantis has only one source: Plato. He described, some 2,500 years ago, a country overflowing with wealth, located beyond the Pillars of Hercules, whose capital would have been destroyed by an earthquake, then engulfed in the depths of the sea. Following a miraculous aerial photo, Commander Cousteau finds himself on the trail of the lost civilization of the legend of Atlantis. Near the island of Dia, the team makes an extraordinary discovery…

A group of children are trying to organize a pioneers detachment.