Cinematic Era: 1978 Vintage

A compilation film of historical footage of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and its aftermath. The composition of this "lament" is based on historical film footage and photographs, further processed using special effects, which document the extent of the destruction caused by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in August 1945. This anti-war film, a documentary of atomic death without commentary, is given a character that is not only mournful but also accusatory by Penderecki's music "Threnos" with its provocative, even disturbing soundscape.

A documentary film consisting of various clips of Josip Broz Tito.

King Lorenzo was in trouble: the echo had disappeared from his kingdom. It all happened because his neighbor, King Florindo, had ordered the mountain — the one that reflected the echo — to be destroyed. The quarrel quickly escalated, and both kingdoms prepared for war. King Florindo’s son took command of his father's army. But King Lorenzo had no sons at all — only three daughters. And then...

This short documentary tells the true story of Patricia Garner, a woman reluctantly approaching middle age sandwiched between changing social values and the loss of her family role. Illustrating her struggles and successes, this film about newly found courage will inspire everyone.

In Surinamers in Nederland: De terugkeer van het zwarte goud, we see Surinamese people arriving in the Netherlands, unsure of what to expect, and being packed into overcrowded boarding houses. The government's idea is that they should then be integrated into society as quickly as possible. This was to be done by the Centraal Bureau Uitvoering Vestigingsbesluit Rijksgenoten, set up in 1974.

The Doctor, Romana and K9 drink in the TARDIS in celebration of Christmas.

Lu Zaw's journey to find his long-lost father while navigating young love and family tensions in this coming-of-age story about identity and belonging.

Detective Pret is assigned to track down the stolen goods taken from a secret society of detectives. An imprisoned gunsman, Yo, is assigned as his bodyguard. It is not long before the pair begins to hear about an elusive figure known as Spiduah, who has watchful eyes all across the globe, making them act as cautiously as possible as people around them are silenced.

Tracking the Rímac River, which originates in the Andean snow-capped mountains at 5,000 meters above sea level and runs for 125 kilometers before emptying into the Pacific Ocean, crossing a wide range of ecosystems found throughout Peru’s diverse geography, and highlighting its influence on both human life and nature along its entire course.

This is one of four short films taken from the censored movie Chiaraqe, ritual battle (1975). In seven minutes, it explains in a didactic and expository tone what the confrontation between two groups of communities in the Cusco highlands consists of. Dances, men on horses, flying stones, warakas and liwis alive, a lizard, a dead man. The short film is a testimony to the ritual event, but it is also a testimony to the filmmakers' view of the populations of the Andes 50 years ago.

Excerpt from a discussion between a man and a woman at a sawmill. An adaptation of a short story by Yuri Kazakov.

At the insistence of his parents, Taichi had to give up further studies and marry a girl he did not know, Akjemal. And her heart was given to someone else, a young man from her village.

1978. USA. A performance film composed by Eric Mitchell, Maripol. Cinematography by James Nares. Staging by Mitchell. Styling by Maripol. With Edwige Belmore, Maripol, Mitchell, Olivier Mosset, JP Roland Levy. Video. 30 min.

The film questions the consequences of the agrarian revolution through the experience of the members of a film crew sent to a rural area for a shooting and who are faced with the daily issues of the villagers.

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.

Grab some safety pins, practice your sneer and get ready to revisit Toronto's thriving punk scene. THE LAST POGO documents the raucous 1978 punk concert held in Toronto's legendary Horseshoe Tavern-a night of unhinged music and unbridled mayhem. On December 1, 1978, legendary Toronto concert promoters Gary Topp and Gary Cormier-better known as The Garys-presented The Last Pogo, a rollicking, riotous concert at the venerable Horseshoe Tavern. On the bill were seminal bands from Toronto's punk rock scene: The Scenics, The Cardboard Brains, The Secrets, The Mods, The Ugly, The Viletones and Teenage Head. During the concert, the frenetic energy of 800+ thrashing fans in the club boiled over and a near-riot ensued. Filmmaker Colin Brunton was there with a camera crew to capture it all, from the irreverent punk musicians and the slam-dancing audience to the police who tried to stop the show and the firefighters called in to escort people from the premises.

A study of skateboarders using the old skating course in Kelvingrove Park, Glasgow; action has been set to music from the ballet Swan Lake. The course shown in this film was dismantled a few years later, however a replacement was opened on the same site in 2004.

Richard and Rochelle Wright and their two sons travel the Fraser River from Tête Jaune Cache to the Pacific coast in a rubber raft.

Various politicians react to the proposals by Irish Prime Minister Jack Lynch about power sharing in Northern Ireland.

Documentary about youth unemployment.

The devil sits grumpily in hell. His grandmother advises him to take a woman. He is reluctant at first, but suddenly decides on Gretel because she can cook such beautiful dumplings. But Kasper, whose bride she is, is not to be trifled with. After many adventures, he once again defeats the prince of the underworld.

About the citizens of the houseboat colony in Sausalito, their ways of living, and their struggle with urban planners.

During the Great Patriotic War, in the occupied Hutsul village, a grandmother tells her grandchildren a fairy tale about the giant Chugaystra, the people's defender in ancient times. At night, a wounded partisan comes to their hut, and the children go to the forest to look for Chugaystra, deciding that only he can help the partisan and all Hutsuls...

A Super 8, color film with sound by Joseph Morder.

Zulueta short

About three Icelanders living in London, leading very different lives. The film concentrates on the events of one day in June, culminating in an independence celebration at the Icelandic embassy, where all three meet up.

A study of human transience, interrupted by the unchanging image of factory chimneys that smoke without pause.

A sampling of abstract styles - black and white patterns, colorful flicker, and dancing line formations, interspersed with a strangely unnerving combination of organic and computer-generated sound effects.

This film deals with the fate of children during the Second World War. The Nazis divided children into two categories: “the good ones,” the Aryan children, and “the bad ones,” the others. In the name of ultranationalism, Nazism, the theory of the Übermensch, and racism, Aryan children were mentally indoctrinated, while the others were imprisoned in camps and physically destroyed. These “others” were mainly children from non-Aryan and supposedly impure races: Jews, Poles, Russians, Yugoslavs, and Roma. For this film, Lydia Chagoll conducted research in World War II documentation centers, museums, and concentration camp archives in several countries, collecting texts, documents, and photographs. The film consists of a montage of photos and footage filmed by the Nazis themselves, accompanied by voice-over commentary based entirely on quotations from Nazi publications, laws, decrees, directives, newspapers, schoolbooks, reports, and political texts.

This short vignette features coal mines in New Waterford and Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, along with traditional Cape Breton folk songs sung by Men of the Deeps - a miners' choral group.

A short 1978 documentary about artist Alice Neel.

…was shot in black and white Super 8mm and is accompanied by a soundtrack of drumming and deep breathing. The camera fades in and out on a symmetrical series of lovely, grainy close-ups of the naked, apparently sleeping forms of a male and a female (Huot himself and Carol Kinne). The film is closely related to, and would be especially interesting screened with Willard Maas’ Geography of the Body, Tara Iimura’s Love, and Yoko Ono’s Fly.

An experimental short.

A television adaptation of one of the charming fairy tales by poet František Hrubín. Princess Rose falls in love with a peacock so much that her parents fear for her health and chase the bird out of the royal garden. No one suspects that he is an enchanted young man. When he appears to the princess in a dream as the Peacock King and tells her that they can meet if he crosses the sea and endures the mountains, Rose does not hesitate for a moment. Difficult trials await her, but in the end she stands up to them well and becomes the Peacock King's wife.

This film describes the journey of nomadic Asian people to North America via a land bridge.

Traces of stories. The images themselves. Tear off. Stain. To paint. Makes light out of them.

A movie about how a father feels when he finds he has to sacrifice his only son for a group of people on an oncoming train. A dramatic parable on God’s sacrifice of His Son.

The visual "degeneration" of the image ... through successive rephotography is paralleled by the compression of verbal information to the point of its loss of legibility; yet, both the "degenerated" sound and image are perceptually engaging, even in the most advanced stages of "degeneration". It is obvious why the film has its title, because of the strategies of its coming into being, but, paradoxically, at the level of effect, its dynamics arise from its "Episodic Degeneration".

1978 Spanish experimental short

Film starring Mohan Babu, Krishna Ghattamaneni and Jayapradha

Film starring Shatrughan Sinha, Reena Roy and Asha Sachdev

When Sergeant Kruy is released from prison, a hitman is dispatched to kill him by Yan Yomarat, a kingpin in Korat. However, Kruy was a former mercenary himself, so he takes care of the hitman. He then decides to personally destroy Yan Yomarat's cartel...

A king and his three daughters must contend with the hairy wiles of the "ugly bastard" known as Omnifurous.

Hands Across The Border was a seven city slow scan collaboration. With participation from Paul Wong, Sharon Levett & Daryl Lacey, Video Inn, Vancouver;Randall Lyon & Gus Nelson, Televista Projects, Memphis; Sharon Grace, Video Free America, Berkeley Art Museum, U.C.; Peggy Cady, Bill Bartlett, Chas Leckie. Open Space, Victoria; Felix Partz, Jorge Zontal & Willoughby Sharp, General Idea, Toronto; Liza Bear & Robin Winters, Center for New Art Activities, NY.; et al. Slow-scan television equipment used a computerised memory to sample a picture from a television camera every few seconds, “freeze” it and send it down a telephone line as an audio signal. The machines could only be used between two points at a time. At the receiving end, the signal was decoded and slowly scanned out a still frame on a television monitor.

The review and study of the pictorial work of José Sabogal (1888-1956), father of Peruvian Indigenism, continues.

Documentation of the 2-hour performance by Marina Abramović and Ulay, performed in 1978 at Harlekin Art in Wiesbaden. In this piece, the two artists and a live snake triangulate the performance space. By blowing across the mouths of empty bottles, Abramović and Ulay produce sounds meant to rouse the snake, attempting to charm it and alter the physical geometry of the arrangement.