Cinematic Era: 1978 Vintage

I combined a mostly still photo (a person and scissors) with a series of photos (fingers) that show a lot of movement.

A film about Bonnie Prince Charlie's escapades in the Outer Hebrides and his escape with Flora MacDonald

This silent 9 minute film is like a 'pointillist painting' come to life - where grainy shapes reveal themselves to be part of a visual jigsaw puzzle - an assembly over time - and where the film-maker's daughter serves to be the subject of this painting in time. Razutis uses re-photography and camera movements that mimick the eye's 'saccadic eye movement' in revealing the visual sequence and interaction between daughter and father. The revelation is conducted over repeating sequences whose content is 'sampled' as if in the construction of a memory as puzzle.

The morals of young people working in rural areas, their dreams and efforts are shown through the life of Doljing, an agronomist.

Adventures of a roller from a jointer who decided to explore the world. The roller seeks new thrills in encounters with a typewriter roller, a wringer roller and a road roller.

Portrait of Laurie Wheatley, a former plasterer with a life long interest in photography, drawing, painting and sculpture. Follows the production of his first ever life-size sculpture - a figure in plaster depicting a shipyard welder, and using the 'master-mould' process.

A short film by Paul Dopff.

After receiving his Ph.D. from NCSU in 1978, Turner Whitted left for Bell Labs and proceeded to shake the CGI world with an algorithm that could ray-trace a scene in a reasonable amount of time. His film, The Compleat Angler is one of the most mimicked pieces of CGI work ever, as every student that enters the discipline tries to generate a bouncing ray-traced ball sequence.

Anna and Ulrike are very different siblings. Anna is almost grown up, has a large circle of friends and gets on well with everything in life. Ulrike, a few years younger, is quite the opposite. She lives in a world of pipe dreams, can't fit in anywhere well and Anna is the victim of her countless fantasy fairy tales.

Land Day is commemorated by Palestinian annually on March 30. On that day in 1976, Palestinian citizens of Israel rebelled against the attempts of the ruling authorities to expropriate and colonize large swathes of their lands around six villages in the Galilee. Palestinians announced a general strike and organized marches in different Arab towns, where violent confrontations with the police erupted resulting in six martyrs amongst the demonstrators. Since then, the 30th of March was marked as a national day in which Palestinians show unity and intention to defend their land and the attachment to their national identity. Yom El Ard recounted the events of that day and documented the first anniversary activities. It features interviews with victims of violence, mayors of the affected villages and shows rarely seen footage of that era.

Machinery at work in a Scottish factory.

A landscape is a landscape is a landscape. But in her view of the ambiguity of reality, Wanda Mihuleac composes an infinite landscape of reflections and lights.

Documentary on the redevelopment on a dock area of Sydney. For 5 years, until 1977, Woolloomooloo was the site of a bitter struggle between property developers and the local community, which at times involved the National Trust, Building Unions and squatters’ organisations.

An unpublished piece by this pioneer of experimental cinema with the participation of Elías Cherñajovsky and Sergio Levin.

Film by Michael J. Murphy. Considered lost.

This entertaining collaboration between Skip Blumberg and Jules Backus showcases award-winning whistling performances at the First International Whistling Festival in Carson City, Nevada. The small video cameras and informal style of the makers brings the viewer up close to these eccentric but virtuoso musicians.

Beginning of the 20th century. The General Directorate of Gifts and Legacies is an administration that costs the taxpayer a lot of money and that everyone knows is of no use to anyone. The employees are mere civil servants, "roundabouts". They despise each other cordially, envy and petty ambitions flourish there, they dream of raises and decorations...

The psychology of collecting records - whether they be Classical, Jazz, Popular or Rock is seen in interviews with both dealers and collectors all entwined with Devensky’s visual and sound obsessions. A powerful Documentary which shortly shows that it really doesn’t matter what one collects, for their ‘missing needs’ are all the same. The final incident is an interview with a disgruntled 78rpm record dealer who tells an unforgettable story of why in enter this business culminating, when, in otter frustration, he proceeds to destroys his stock of recordings.

Recorded Live in the Spring of 1978 at BBC's Shepherd's Bush Theater, Jackson Browne and band play selections from the newly released Running on Empty album and many others,

“It may be important to note that I received a 1978 Canada Council Film Production Grant for an experimental "frame of reference" film, Splitstream, before I went to film school. For this film I invented a means of post-synchronization to create an "impossible" simultaneous viewing of two contrasting points of view: an objective long shot following a character, and a handheld POV of the same character in the same scene—a unique use of horizontal split screen" -SA

a film about the nature of the individual in the world and about the individual as he moves from one space to another, shadowed by structures.

A home movie of Norwich, Vermont

When Masoud Al-Mawardi gets hysterical, his family commits him to a hospital. When he is released, everyone starts to be wary of him. His nephew wants to marry his cousin because he knows his uncle Masoud is rich, and he plots to send him back to the hospital.

13-year-old Kim Young-chul, who reads his mother and is ill, has a father and two younger brothers who cannot afford to live. Neighbors who feel pity for this and sympathize with Dong-jang take the center stage and decide on her stepmother, so that Yeong-chul marries her father. However, the family faces difficulties due to the rude behavior of his younger brother Yeong-i. Her stepmother takes all of her and takes care of the poor children with her patience and sincerity. Eventually, order is established in her home, her laughter spreads, and her children gradually understand her mother.

This short documentary film illustrates the various ways people fight the high cost of energy by devising ingenious ways to use wood, the sun, and the wind. The film highlights one such project named the Ark. Using natural systems only, this bio-shelter ingeniously provides housing, heat, food and electricity for an entire family.

"Inspired by a passage from Sergei Eisenstein’s Film Form, this film explores relationships between film and language while playfully challenging the Russian filmmaker’s theory of film montage … and thus lies between a wink and a nod to the master. Also a bit of tongue-in-cheek to myself as aspiring film studies student: had I been a good typist I very likely would never have become a filmmaker." - Holly Fisher

Program of biographical character on Eça de Queiroz, writer, with emphasis on his literary work and respective themes, illustrated with interpretations of actors.

1978 Angolan documentary.

Propaganda film from the Argentine radical political organization 'Montoneros', analyzing the 20th-century history of its country and explaining the present tactical decisions of the organization.

Suliman Mohamed Ibrahim Elnour’s graduation film depicts everyday life in a school in Yemen.

This film follows Maria Esther, Jose Agrippino's partner, as she falls into a trance; the film takes place in the day-to-day setting of a room looking out over the beach and over the roofs of a house in North Africa.

“A completely in-camera edit of a day in a life. This is a home movie of my mother and one of several portraits made near the beginning of my filmmaking.” (J.B.)

Based on the fairy tale of the same name by O. Ioseliani. About the little boy Bacho, who helped the forest animals that had run away from home return to their mothers.

A mysterious genesis, in which abstract thought is constantly transformed into concrete substance, and the microscopic level of things interchanges with the macroscopic representation of the universe. - Culturgest

Official entry to the first Metro Manila Film Festival in 1978 directed by Manuel 'Fyke' Cinco and starred Bembol Roco, George Estregan, Trixia Gomez, Jean Saburit, Joonee Gamboa, Cynthia Gonzales, and Val Iglesias

Do ghosts come from outer space? Are they amongst us? The Amazing World of Ghosts seeks to unveil the mysteries that defy mankind's understanding and define the modern age… and then runs out of stock footage before getting anywhere.

Sequel to Ranryū no hate (1977).

It is a vision of the human groups that live in the deserts of the northern coast of Peru, of the desertification processes and the reforestation work in the area.

A white line starts living, and dances around nature and bridges, cars and humans

The start of a long-term observation of the Bronnmann family from Cologne, who have seven children - what are their concerns, plans, and dreams?

An animated short from Viktor Kubal

A series of interviews with the residents of Canoa Quebrada - a tourist spot on the coast of Ceará, Brazil - that puts in contrast the local poverty and the idyllic nature that surrounds it.

A sheep's kind feeling for a selfish cat develops into mutual selfless friendship during a sheep's illness.

The young journalist Solongo, who received his first assignment and went to report at the border post, showed the daily events of the modern border soldier's life in a lyrical form.

Part 1 of a trio of pieces titled Lives. "Diaries" documents daily activity.

Two couples are each heading for divorce. The academics Lene and Lars after less than two years of marriage, while working class Lone and Peter are to split after 12 years. How did it come to this? Switching between the two marriages, their stories are being uncovered from social, psychological, political and sexual perspectives. Does it come to a verdict on marriage as an institution?

This short “portrait” of the artist was screened on public television.

Two humorous stories about a man who cuts down a tree he is sitting on.

In this 16mm work Shiroyasu Suzuki made himself the subject and tried to create a film based on his own image. However, once he started filming, it became clear that his image was nothing more than a camera fetish. Then, realizing that he must expose his empty self, he begins to think about making "15 Days".

Recovered Zulueta short.

The film tells a story about a woman who manages to overcome the mischievous behavior of her student and also his father, who is left by his wife. The father’s remaining love for his wife complicates their relationship

“Time consumes images, time consumes sounds”. This phrase is punctuated over time with words and movements by a "human metronome".