Cinematic Era: 1978 Vintage

This piece documents one of Smith's earliest performances of his "Baby Ikki" character, in which he performs in public as an oversized infant in diaper, hat and sunglasses.

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.

A surreal and metaphysical story around an extravagant character, "Eu" [I/Me]. "Eu" marries his beloved and well-loved bicycle. Accused of the murder of the vehicle, he escapes from prison and becomes president of the government.

Tough life of a donkey who serves his owners until they discard him as unusable for drudgery.

Beatriz Mira, a Brazilian filmmaker living in Mexico, films the housework carried out by women at the end of a decade marked by numerous political and social movements, including feminist groups that disputed the fact that women had been banished from the public sphere, and thus confined to the household. In their fights and debates, they wielded the motto ‘what’s personal is political’.

The light and shadows of today's youth are intermingled in a prismatic world of scenes depicting images of agonizing days with a surreal touch, and scenes of rampaging in all directions in the real world. Eight-Man is an energetic young man who dreams of being Superman but can't be.

Set in the thirties, a sensitive peasant boy who is caught in the vice of cruel military machine. From the start his masters treat him as an inanimate object, which can change hands without so much as a second thought. This is a story about human dignity in a society resting on violence and subordination.

Concert of Marie and the Boys in Fourvière Roman Theater in Lyon, on July 29, 1978. The sound does not match the image.

Made from the same footage as Epilogue but in a different order: 1. pan, 2. dissolve-crossfade, 3.freeze.... as opposed topan, freeze, crossfade-dissolve......very different in terms of filmic expectation, recognition, assumptions of anti-narrativity, all whilst watching these small fragments (each film only a few minutes long, each made from the (repeated) opticals of the same very short fragments of several seconds each....)....P.G.

"In this work in progress, which will never be completed, even though he has screened it in public several times, the filmmaker discusses with the writer France Huser the difficulty of filming / women / of letters / and of making a frontal portrait, which will inevitably have to be reworked." - Gisèle Rapp-Meichler

The trials and tribulations of a couple.

A 1978 documentary short about a growing phenomenon of its time: women returning to work as they reach middle age.

Leon Spinks vs. Muhammad Ali II, was a professional boxing match contested on September 15, 1978, in New Orleans for the WBA and Lineal Heavyweight Championships. The fight was estimated to have been watched by a record 2 billion viewers worldwide,in some 80 nations. Ali entered the rematch as a 2½ to 1 favorite. ABC televised the fight live in the United States. The network paid $5.3 million for the rights. An estimated audience of 90 million viewers watched the main event in the United States.The bout drew a 46.7 rating, meaning 46.7 percent of TV sets in the nation were tuned in. The attendance at the Superdome was 63,350 which at the time was the largest indoor attendance ever for a boxing match.

"SILKSCREENS follows the choreography of printmakers at work, pulling the edition of Jasper Johns' print, THE DUTCH WIVES. It was filmed at Simca Print Artists in New York. I got the notion of repetitive labor as a form of dance from the French painter, Edgar Degas. No doubt, I was also influenced by minimalism with its impetus to integrate normal, workaday movements into fine art. For the sound track, I worked with the musician, Richard Teitelbaum (who in turn had worked with John Cage). We used ambient sounds from the print shop and the street outside to reflect the kind of hearing that you experience as you work, when sounds float in and out of consciousness. The artist, Jasper Johns, does not appear in this film. My next film, HANAFUDA, focused on Johns at work with the printers at Simca." -Katy Martin.

Kids learn tips on first aid.

The first chapter in our Masters of Modern Sculpture series looks at groundbreaking work from the brilliant minds that reshaped sculptural art and inspired generations to come. Narrated by George Segal, The Pioneers explores famed pieces from sculptors such as Rodin, Maillol and Picasso.

An alien princess (heavily inspired by the famous comic book character Wonder Woman) teams up with a handsome astronaut to take on the rival alien race hunting her down.

Film in three parts: (1) Paranorama 3 and 4: a handmade Région Centrale. At once observation and description of the realm of vision, of what is possible to see (sound recorded at the time of shooting). (2) Paranorama 5: simple observation of the realm of vision (sound added at a later time: illustration). (3) Pierre Rivière and I: attempt at reading the first lines from Pierre Rivière's testimony, as an embodiment rather than a stage direction.

"...Series of narrative events, stories if you like, but so clustered visually as to have a center so to speak, slightly off center."

This film was hand wound though the camera backwards and forwards as the waves on a beach built up and broke on the shore.

Simplicio is an eight years old boy who lives in an old boat abandoned and stranded on a coast.

Sophie Tatischeff's short film set in the small town of Sainte-Sévère-sur-Indre, three decades after its use in her father's film 'Jour de Fête'. The conversation from a typical village bar is transplanted to a patisserie with particularly tempting tartlets: 'No reason for us not to have another' says one habitué; 'no more for me thanks,' says another. 'A shortbread at this time of day?' asks the woman behind the counter.

Documentary about the murderer José Luis Cerveto.

Bob Harris introduces Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers in concert at the BBC Television Centre in London's Shepherd's Bush in 1978.

200th anniversary of first climb on Triglav.

A biographical program about Almeida Garrett, poet and playwright, from a historical perspective, highlighting his involvement with liberalism, political career and his role as the driving force of the theater in Portugal.

An Oscar nominated animated short about the relationship between children and their parents.

Movie starring Vishnuvardhan, Manjula Devi, K S Ashwath and is directed by T R Ramanna.

A documentary film about the Eunsan worship ritual tradition.

The trans-European motorway, also known as the "Guest Worker's Road", is full of dangers for the migrants who drive to Turkey for their summer break. This portrait of this highway is a powerful documentation of the history of labor migration to Europe.

Adaptation of a Portuguese traditional tale. A travelling man rests at a inn. While sleeping, three beautiful women tell him where to go, the black islands, where he can find them and marry the one that is a princess.

A short animated film by Tadanari Okamoto

The devil is bored in hell and organizes an unbearable concert that even disturbs his grandmother. She sends him to earth to fetch Gretel to relieve his boredom.

Colargol, after numerous preparations and tests, takes a trip around the Earth's globe with Raven and Rat. After an emergency landing, they build a new rocket and set off towards the Phantasmagoria constellation.

“This title was meant quite sincerely and the film offers a previsional vocabulary. There was a joy in becoming who and what I was then… filming surroundings, friends, the light & colors around me.” (J.B.)

Three part documentary on life in a peripheral run-down town.

The story of four fellow students who fall in love with the same girl.

Future Perfect is an early algorithmic film, based on a collection of decreasing mathematical series that produce visual and auditory rhythms beyond the control of the filmmakers. (Grahame Weinbren) Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2007.

A foreigner in a Finnish hospital.

As a number of critics have pointed out, the title of O'Neill's film Let's Make a Sandwich refers not only to one of the pieces of found footage that make up the film, but to the process of its making, to the layers and sandwiching of the image. That parallel physical surface and his artisanal production of it might link all of O'Neill's work across media and position it as well toward the graphic-the flattening contour line of the cut out-and to collage, both in its cut and its combination as its dominant term.

Elizabeth Bagshaw was a forerunner of the women's movement. As one of the first women to practise medicine in Canada, she had to overcome society's bias against women in medicine. During her seventy-year career she helped to instigate change in public opinion on that issue, as well as the issue of birth control. The film captures the personality of this remarkable woman through a contemporary interview and re-enactments of episodes from her youth. The sepia tones of the re-enactments are in keeping with the film techniques of the time, giving the viewer a strong sense of the period. The film is of special interest to persons interested in the evolution of women's roles in Canadian society.

This short film from the Canada Vignettes series profiles a unique French-Canadian family, the Fourniers, 12 of whom work as stunt men and women for films.

Documentary about the Swedish film director, produced for the UK television program "The South Bank."

Documentary short film about Enrique Cabrera Barroso, a Mexican university student leader of the 1968 student movement and member of the Mexican Communist Party.

Norwegian TV-drama, based on Henrik Ibsen's play by the same title.

The existence of a musical band and its importance to the community.

A man interviews people. Michael Dudok de Wit graduated from the West Surrey College of Art with this film.