Cinematic Era: 1978 Vintage

A documentary that looks at the sculpture of internationally acclaimed artist Leo Mol, who has lived in Winnipeg since 1948. Focuses on the creation of a bronze portrait of the Ukrainian composer Mykola Lysenko, the founder of the conservatory in Kyiv. The entire process of sculpting in the lost-wax method is shown (from the plasticene stage through to casting) and explained in the voice-over narration. Mol himself talks about his art and his philosophy of life, and some of Lysenko's music is played on the soundtrack.

This is a recording of a movie discussion. This discussion, shown live in German television on November 16th 1978, is framed by two screenings of Huillet/Straub's movie »Toute révolution est un coup de dés«. It's first shown shortly after the discussion's participants have been introduced, a second time after the end of the discussion. After the movie ends the program cuts back to the studio for a short time, showing the guests as well as some technicians talking whilst the credits of the TV-program enroll.

A group of boys discover that their village cannot afford the sacrificial cattle required for a traditional circumcision ceremony, so they decide to steal the cattle so the ritual can continue.

All the goals from the 1978 world cup

A train trip with a mother and her son, to whom she speaks.

Flashing lights illuminate black faces and dark eyes, oscillating between darkness and inverted lightness.

This one's quite a change of pace as you get an homage to sword and sandal films starting off on Mount Olympus as the toga-clad Zeus sends the mustachioed Hercules to stop a scientist from unleashing a cyborg he's developing in his basement. --Mondo Digital Blu-ray Review

The work of several Brazilian musicians is illustrated through images from different regions of the country in various segments.

It’s that time of year when unwanted items of furniture from a Budapest tenement block are chucked out. Among the discarded antique furniture, a Thonet chair sets off on a road trip to leave the dusty urban cityscape behind and, via the concrete jungle of newbuild flats and the broken-down rust belt, finally return to nature.

The story begin with a boy’s routine visit to optometrist. He has poor eyesight and is prescribed with glasses. That is the beginning of the troubles for the little boy, who lives with his single mother in poor outskirts of the capital.

The Experience of Light is a 1978 short film created and narrated by filmmaker Dorothy Fadiman. The film documents the presence of light as a universal symbol for "Spirit", to people from many cultures.

Between six and eight o'clock in the morning, two young women go from a diffuse but different discomfort for each of them, understand this discomfort, and discover the fragility of the movement. (CJC)

A short TV documentary made to prepare the audience at the time to the premiere of Manoel de Oliveira's "Doomed Love" (TV version). Called "Episode Zero" the documentary revolves around the ideas and challenges on adapting Camilo Castelo Branco's novel, and it also includes interviews with the actors and director.

Goldstein's landmark 1978 rotoscopic animation. Often played on a loop. 16mm, color, silent, 19s.

It narrates the situation of the countryside in Mexico and in particular about agricultural laborers, who move from one region to another.

The second film in Robert Beavers' Sotiros trilogy

In May 1974 a group of Mohawk activists reoccupied a part of their ancestral land and proclaimed it Ganienkeh. This abandoned territory was reclaimed by the Mohawks on the basis of a treaty with the State of New York enacted in the late 18th century.

Avignon. Aix en Provence. A troupe of transvestites: “Les Mirabelles”. Four boys, one girl. Dab Germaine, Loulou Bonheur, Marie Bonheur, Nini Crépon, Hubert Lulu. A show. Daily life. Behind the scenes. Makeup. The cafe terrace. Friends, lovers, groupies. Success. The bides. Gay or straight? The two Gs. The clothes. The market. The parade. The Guerrillas: Queer in La Ciotat. A pianist. Talent. A column, and that's it.

1978 Angolan documentary

Her name was Maria Auxiliadora Lara Barcellos, but she was called Dora. She was 31 years old, born and raised in Brazil. On June 1, 1976, she took her own life by throwing herself in front of a subway train in West Berlin.

Calligrams Woody and Steina Vasulka 4:00 1970 Illuminatin' Sweeney Skip Sweeney 28:38 (ex. 5:00) 1975 Video Weavings Stephen Beck 28:00 1976 Five-Minute Romp Through the IP Dan Sandin 5:00 (ex. 4:00) 1973 Triangle in Front of Square in Front of Circle... Dan Sandin 3:00 1973 Video-Taping Ernie Gusella 5:00 1974 Exquisite Corpse Ernie Gusella 5:00 1978 Einstine Eric Siegel 6:00 1978 General Motors Phil Morton 1:00:00 (ex. 10:00) 1976 Merce by Merce by Paik Nam June Paik 30:00 1975 Crossings and Meetings Ed Emshwiller 27:33 (ex. 4:00) 1974 Complex Wave Forms Ralph Hocking 5:00 (ex. 4:00) 1977 Pictures of the Lost Barbara Buckner 23:00 (ex. 8:00) 1978 Video Locomotion Peer Bode 5:00 1978 Music on Triggering Surfaces Peer Bode 3:00 1978 C-Trend Woody Vasulka 3:00 (ex. 7:00) 1974 Switch! Monitor! Drift! Steina 4:00 1976

A rumor surfaces that the fighting scriptures, 'Dharma's Secret Technique,' written by the Buddhist priest, Dharma, is secretly hidden in a Buddhist temple in China. The masters who love justice and the warriors of the Biryong Fighting Hall search high and low for the scriptures. Seo Chun-wi has come from Koryo to avenge himself against his parents' enemies. Chun-wi becomes the disciple of the greatest fighting master Tae-baek. He receives 'Dharma's Secret Technique' and begins his training. However, Ma Chun-pyo and his gang have been eyeing the scriptures. They put drugs in Chun-wi's tea and defeat him. They seize 'Dharma's Secret Technique' and even kill Ah-min, Chun-wi's girlfriend. However, through incredible efforts, Chun-wi regains his strength and makes a clean sweep of Chun-pyo and his gang. Chun-wi punishes Suk-in, the enemy of his parents, and returns to his home country.

Mirela is an animated short educational film for children produced by ‘New Albania’ film studio complex (Kinostudio).

A rare Rockpalast show from Alberto Y Lost Trios Paranoias in 1978. here you can see them perform the Snuff Rock EP live along with lots of other nonsense typical of the Alberto's, a must have...

Inspired by Simone De Beauvoir's writings Stephanie Beroes' film Recital addresses the state of 'woman in love', a situation fraught less with ecstasy than with risk and pain. Recital is a highly structured film. Each section involves a woman, situated in some external local, reading a letter or other text. It is clear that the women are not the authors of what they read. The first text is a letter expressing the pain of unrequited love, the abyss of frustrated passion, however read in a monotone with no peaks of feeling. This pattern of love letter reading is repeated with several other readers: one breaks up laughing when she comes to a passage: 'Oh, yes, I love you, I love you.' Clearly the subject is not one of true comedy, particularly since the letters recited are ones Beroes once earnestly composed. Beroes' goal, however, is a kind of distanced deconstruction of the experience, in an attempt to view it with the lessons of knowledge and time.

Short, student film directed by Ray Argall (Return Home), who is better known as a cinematographer (Look Both Ways). Watching TV. Driving Around. Eating peanut butter. Trying to get a job. Dogfood is a film about the sort of people that live in the suburbs.

Short experimental animation from a trio of talented knob-twiddlers.

Documentary about Peruvian football in the seventies.

A young veterinarian arrives from the city for his first job at a sovkhoz. The cheerful hippie-like young man clashes with the locals who take him as a stranger. The film is a combination of somber naturalism, lyricism, a dash of naive sentimentality and a deep sense of sovkhoz life in the early 1970s. Based on Riho Mesilane's short story "The Veterinarian's First Week". As Mesilane fled to Vienna at the end of the filming, the film was banned and released 13 years after its completion in autumn 1991.

A mafia gang tries to get some until a pretty lady appears to ruin their plans.

Documentary about pop music artist Shinji Harada.

The metamorphic lifecycle of a cartoon star.

Footage of neo-Nazi Frank Collin speaking in front of a swastika is mutilated with bleach, scratches and markers, and intercut with footage of a baboon.

Short film by Diego Rísquez.

The 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin was an armed rebellion by Irish republicans against British rule in their country. Sixty years later, Kenneth Griffith interviews nine of those who took part in that historic event. This documentary was filmed in 1976 and completed in 1978. However, it was suppressed from being shown on television.

Wedding song: friend Tom Cleveland gave me one roll of film and camera to shoot his wedding ceremony in bride’s ancestral Charlotte, N.C. house rainy December’s end 1977.

Documentary short about Iranian migration in Sweden.

A non-narrated glimpse of the sea's most unusual inhabitants. A musical score accompanies each creature and emphasizes its appearance, movements and unique behavior. Underwater photography reveals fish that can walk, fish that have hands, fish that swim upside down, strange fish, colorful fish, and poisonous fish.

An interview of Heidi Bucher during the making of Untitled (Herrenzimmer), conducted by her son.

Using film footage from various sources, Kaiss al-Zubaidi creates a description of the everyday lives of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. Through skilful montage, the constant latency of conflict and violence becomes a relationship between the images. Counter-Siege was awarded one of seven ‘Main Prizes’ by the international jury at the 1979 Oberhausen Short Film Festival.

A documentary film exploring the manner in which a determined young man overcame a basic mental defect and became a useful member of society. Insightful editing techniques reveal the dreams, ideals and problems that face a large segment of the American male population. Educational. Background music written and performed by the DEVO orchestra.

A documentary about the film roles of British actor Alec Guinness. Volume 8 in a series produced by Janus Films.

Fan film/remake of the 1974 made-for-TV film ROLL, FREDDY, ROLL, made by Missouri college students in 1978.

The viewer spends a pleasant 30 minutes enfolded in the agreeably lazy atmosphere generated by repeating images and minimalist music that characterize Nakamura’s films. The rhythm of repetitions, subtle deviations, and memories evoked by momentary images transform the scenery of an actual street into a world of daydreams. Nakamura’s distinctive trance film has earned high international acclaim.

Ashwathama is a 1979 Indian Malayalam-language film, directed by K. R. Mohanan. The film stars Madampu Kunjukuttan, Savitri and Vidhubala in the lead roles.

Early work of the celebrated director.

The Stranglers playing live in San Francisco 1978.

Members of the Wild Goose patrol decide to find the little monkeys stolen from the Zoo. They try to make up for what the unruly adults messed up. They keep bumping into the disguised damned ice-cream vendor, the intriguing Bagaméri, who would like to get the reward set for the finder of the monkeys.

Produced by NASA contractor Rockwell International, this circa 1978 film was made shortly before the successful Apollo-Soyuz space mission. It is followed by a second film SPACESHIP EARTH showing on-going work on the new Space Shuttle. APOLLO-SOYUZ was created prior to the actual mission, and uses footage from prior Apollo missions and concept art. The film also shows the construction and assembly process for the Apollo side of the mission with Deke Slaton and crew shown. The docking module is shown at 1:52 and again at 2:43 when it was displayed at the 1973 Paris Air Show.

The invention of the cinematograph by Louis and Auguste Lumière in 1895 marked the culmination - synthesis, standardisation and industrialisation - of various research carried out in previous years on the decomposition and illusion of movement through a series of fixed shots (Demenÿ, Reynaud, Muybridge, Londe, Marey...). These images are now being reworked by the generation of "post-structuralist" filmmakers, for whom the magic of the device lies in the articulation of two images, which in no way are neutral.

Documentary film.

An animated film about the hardships of voyageurs' lives in the early Canadian fur trade.