Cinematic Era: 1978 Vintage

Ricky Raccoon, a huge and hip talking raccoon, teaches kids and parents about how to stay safe when at crossings, including how to pass crosswalks safely and what traffic signs mean what.

Bela, a young bride, is being escorted to the house of her new husband, Gani, who will soon leave to become a partisan.

This fascinating amateur film of punks on the streets of London in 1978 - shot by prominent punk chronicler Captain Zip - captures the outfits and irreverent attitudes of the time. Punk PVC exposes her rear to tourists, while Joe Rex simply sticks two fingers up at passers-by. Famous faces glimpsed include Slits singer Ari Up and punk's fashion-designer-in-chief Vivienne Westwood. The soundtrack to this film - which includes a voice-over from Captain Zip (Phil Munnoch) as well as music of the time, and the voices of Rat, Mouse and Fliss - was added later, in 1991. Those seen on screen include Eds and Wobble, Joe Rex, PVC, Mandy, Ziggy, Tampax, Sherry, Michael, the Kingston Lurkers, Hamster, Ari, Bethnal, Ari Up, Caroline, Rat and Mouse, Nige, Tracey, Spider, Carrot, Julie, Vivienne Westwood, and Vaughan.

Two women – one passive and resigned, the other aggressive and domineering – interact in various locations in New York city. The film explores the dynamic between them before ending with a showdown at the roller-coaster on Coney Island.

A TV version of a performance by the Ivan Franko Ukrainian Drama Theatre in Kiev, directed by A. Skibenko, based on a play by Mark Kropivnitsky.

The film tells the story of a foolish and mischievous donkey that constantly angers and provokes everyone it encounters. However, when it finds itself in danger and the wolf fed up with its antics gets furious and wants to eat the donkey, the offended sheep, goats, and hedgehog rise to its defense.

20-minute tape consisting of six segments in b/w created by video artist Buky Schwartz in 1978.

A look at Spindleworks, a transitional "sheltered workshop" for people with special needs. Under the direction of Nan Ross, the "sheltered workshop" was a vast improvement over what had been before. The film takes its title from the fiber art of the same name by Steve Mann. Shot on a Bolex, all the fades were made in camera.

The old man was riding a cart to the bazaar. The road ran through a mountain and the horse began to resist and refused to pull the watermelon. The old man tried his best to get the horse to climb the mountain, but he couldn't do anything. It was only through kindness and mutual help that the old man managed to cross the mountain.

Set in 1976, turbulent days just after Mao Tse-Tung's death. People who focus on production and construction and those who insist political persecution struggle fiercely.

This film is a short documentary portrait of economist, technologist and lecturer Fritz Schumacher. Up to age 45, Schumacher was dedicated to economic growth. Then he came to believe that the modern technological explosion had grown out of all proportion to human need. Author of Small Is Beautiful - A Study of Economics as if People Mattered and founder of the London-based Intermediate Technology Development Group, he championed the cause of "appropriate" technology. The film introduces us to this gentle revolutionary a few months before his death.

Twelve-year-old Jody is on a wagon train trip with his father when they are attacked by renegade Comancheros led by the villain cut-throat. Jody sets out across country for home.

An extraordinary animated work composed of 99 still images. The bizarre story of the mechanized walking doll “Margaret” kidnapping and confining a female student in a sailor-style school uniform is realized with a precisely calculated method of full in-camera editing of one 100-foot reel. The filmmaker himself appears in this humorous, radical Pop film, one of Nakamura’s best-known works.

While new, monster housings are being erected, people grow a small farm in their vicinity. Soon the bulldozers come and ransack it.

Alice, trapped in a stolen hamper of pantomime costumes aboard the Isle of Wight Ferry, tries to attract the children's attention, but their attempts to rescue her are in vain.

Part of BFI collection "The Age of the Train."

Married life starts out full of bright hopes for Alex and Lynda - but soon they are trapped in a nightmare with their friend Bill.

Brazilian performance

Laci Székács, the best football striker in his class, is not good at maths.When it comes to writing his test, he can't solve the examples.The children do everything they can to stop their partner's father from going to the teacher, because they know that if he finds out the result, he won't let Laci play.In the end, the boy, although he learns maths, can't take part in the championship, but the other children are also banned from playing...

Using highly-manipulated and over-processed images, Latham investigates the process of video as inherently fragmented. Weaving together various people’s impressions of the artist and her work, the work demonstrates important parallels between video, storytelling, and the formation of identity — all processes of active fabrication that blend “lies” and truth in the construction of a certain reality, history, or past. Labeling an image of herself talking as “her most recent explanation,” Latham addresses “the construction of her video personality” as an identity outside of herself.

Jandira tries her luck in garimpo, after having an amotional crisis. There, she opens a nightclub of women.

Perry Como celebrates an early American Christmas in Williamsburg VA with John Wayne and Diana Canova.

A lonely lumberjack tries to cut down an old tree in the forest. He hits it for the first time using his axe. He doesn’t carry on because the tree resembles a living creature. The seasons pass. A natural disaster strikes, people and animals die because of that. The crown of the old tree becomes a shelter for a woman.

Australian Short Film directed by James Ricketson

interview with nico

The story of a sage who travels on his donkey and gives people advice. Based on Georgian folklore and the texts of Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani.

We can barely see the house plunged into semi-darkness, from which Angela emerges. Mid-morning heat, early summer. The house looks big, there's a garden, a car parked in front of the door: it's one of those long American cars. Los Angeles, around West Hollywood. Angela gets in the car, starts the engine, starts. She is wearing a summer dress, she is in her thirties. She drives slowly.; follows the mass of cars traveling at a moderate pace. She takes the avenues that open up in front of her, then perhaps by chance enters a highway, which she leaves a few minutes later. She drives aimlessly. Palm trees, foliage, cars, everything is covered in dust under the sun. "Slow city moving fast"... Film presented at the National Festival of Young French Cinema in Trouville in 1978. - google translation of senscritique's description of the film.

Records the rehearsals and performance of Pärt's "Italian Concerto" by the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra during the Festival of Early and Contemporary Music in Tallinn.

Mexican feature film

Exploring the relationship between Aboriginal people and their land (including the Dreaming, sacred places), this film was inspired by Silas Roberts’ submission to the 1976 Australian Government inquiry on uranium mining - the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry. Silas, whose tribal name is Ngourladi, is an elder of the Allawa clan and was the first chairman of the Northern Land Council, established to assist Aboriginal people make land rights claims based on traditional ownership. The film, which moves from Arnhem Land in the north to Yuendumu in the centre, examines the importance of maintaining Aboriginal culture and laws and explains the reasons why they object to the mining being carried out.

As a headliner of the prestigious Berlin Jazz Festival (Berliner Jazztage), Fela takes the stage with Afrika '70 and captures the hearts of the audience with a raucous, high-energy, exciting musical performance.

The 1978 World Cup was played in Argentina, and ended with the home nation winning its first World Cup gold in history. Holland's golden generation lost their second World Cup final in a row. Sweden drew with Brazil but still finished last in their group. Argentina's Mario Kempes won the top scorer's award, while other stars in the tournament included Cubillas from Peru and Boniek from Poland.

MUNDIAL 78 is a humorous depiction of the controversial 1978 football World Cup that took place during the Argentinian dictatorship

The troubles of a separated couple, the adventures of a bookseller in the home of a lascivious woman, and the confusion of a businessman from São Paulo.

Billie Turf and Dolfie have to stay at boarding school during the summer holidays because their report cards are too poor. Everything goes smoothly until Kwel comes up with an invention that turns water into gasoline with a pill.

Lesson of October 13, 1978 (course #11). Films discussed: Dracula (Tod Browning, 1931), Germany Year Zero (Roberto Rossellini, 1948), The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock, 1963), Weekend (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967). In the vaults of Concordia University's Visual Collections Repository department slept some 30 ½-inch black-and-white video open reels. They contained Jean-Luc Godard's 14 lessons, spread out from April 14, 1978 to October 21, 1978. The sessions consisted of long and brilliant series of digressions (often uninterrupted), initiated by questions from the audience or from Serge Losique. There are dazzling reflections on editing, economics, actors and actresses, war, political commitment, the media, and we witness the setting in motion of a unique thought.

Spectrum and prism divide the screen; whites and light, etc. "Out of this purity comes all colors. I've always been attracted to refracted light and prismatic phenomena" says Bernard. For Richard Devereaux. Super 8, silent, non-narrative.

The film describes one of the most beautiful corners of Azerbaijani land, the ancient city of Shusha, covering its ancient history, the people who bring pride to the city, and the inimitable nature of the land of mountains.

The film's hero is the city's famous barber, Mammadali. He is passionate about his profession. His clients are officials and famous people. A humorous and gentle man by nature, Mammadali has a difficult relationship with his wife. His wife is a teacher, a frivolous woman who looks down on her husband's profession... Although his wife and older son are indifferent toward him, he doesn't make a tragedy out of it; on the contrary, he tries to be understanding. And he has enough love for both his profession and his family. Even when his sixteen-year-old son asks him to leave the house on his birthday, wanting to be alone with his friends, he understands. Despite feeling a momentary disappointment.

Digitization within the scope of the project “FILMar: Digitization of cinematographic heritage”. Landscape, tradition and development of Porto Santo.

1919. Retreating under the blows of the Red Army, the English interventionists intend to take all the purebred Akhal-Teke horses with them. They are assisted in this by the horse thief Alikhan, who has already managed to obtain the purebred Lachin horse. To oversee this crucial mission, Captain Kelvin arrives in Ashgabat. Red Army soldier Kurban also arrives, already monitoring the situation and providing necessary instructions to the underground. Meanwhile, Dovlet, the owner of Lachin, tries to free his beloved horse, but he is captured by Alikhan. The young man learns that the horse thief plans to deceive the British and sell the herd to the Basmachis.

In "Este río, estas islas…", Surraco narrates the life and work of the Entre Ríos poet Juan L. Ortiz.

1978's "Der Eintänzer" is about a young man named Max, a blind man and twins.

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.

A sunny Sunday in Washington Square. Super-8 film directed by Jorge O Mourão during his stay in New York in 1978.

First performed in 1966, Trio A consists of an approximately five-minute sequence of discrete movements that, with the exception of walking, are never repeated. Although it appears effortless, the dance is painstaking to learn in its precise articulation of the body.

A short animated film by Furukawa Taku.

An extended, truly extraordinary animation sequence opens this hard-line, good-humoured work from the London Women’s Film Group. The film decodes the mythic story of Rapunzel, re-framing the folk tale in a variety of unlikely ways, revealing its darker edges and exploring its role in the relationship between patriarchy and childhood. Look out for Lora Logic from X-Ray Spex, plus Dave Swarbrick from Fairport Convention.

"A good ski run is like a good meal." So begins the unmistakable musings - and voice - of Warren Miller as we journey back to the "Me Decade" and his classic film, "Ski a la Carte." All the sights, sounds and styles of the 1970s are guaranteed to get you in the mood for a little ski boogie on an off the hill at some of the most amazing destinations on the planet. Classic ski action cinematography at its best. Featured locations include Mammoth Mountain, CA, and an invitation-only spring racing derby; Mt Vernasus in Greece, which hosts a school for ski-ophytes; and some truly outrageous '70s freestyle action from Squaw Valley, Park City, Sun Valley, and Colorado's Breckenridge, Keystone, Copper and A-Basin resorts. Generous portions of Warren Miller's trademark humor and some crazy kaleidoscopic effects make "Ski a la Carte" the perfect sample of vintage 1970s Warren Miller.