Cinematic Era: 1978 Vintage

Four teenage girls from high school classmates form a gang that emphasizes solidarity.

Yes, it's yet another UFO documentary of stock footage, blurry photographs, and rambling narration that may or may not relate to what is on screen.

The filmed image is liberated from the shackles of representation of an external reality, becoming autonomous and spatial; the sound drifts and is regenerated by its asyncronous but nevertheless intimate relation to the image. Here, the sound is not reduced to the secondary role of accompanying the image. It constitutes the sensory experience just as much as does the image. Fast motion, slow motion, superimposition, reflection, colorization, filtering and synthetic composition: a combination of effects that produces a long audiovisual perspective within just one sequence.

Stop motion experiments in a garden.

Hommage to “Lost Honor of Katherina Blum” is about people dragged in the mud by the newspapers and finally destroyed…

A made for the camera video collaboration with Steve Paxton, a unique pas de deux between videographer and dancer.

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.

Legends say that St. Brendan crossed the Atlantic in the sixth century. Tim Severin made the trip to see if the legend might be fact.

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)

Experimental short

A young girl named Diana, her archeologist father and her brother visit friends in Berkshire near the site of the ancient Celtic horse cut into a chalky hillside. Though Diana is blind, she has the "sight" which connects her to a mysterious white stallion, to an ancient legend of Arthur as a Celtic chieftain, and to danger from others who seek paranormal power.

(1978, 16mm, color, sound, 2min.)

A man sits in his room. He is wearing clothes and combat boots. He listlessly sucks on a cat-shaped lollipop. The cat wears a red bow. A pineapple comes into play, later a porcelain horse. Outside, the train screeches through the snow. A version of the German folk song “Der Graf von Rüdelsheim” plays in the background.

Greg Kihn Band plays live from AudiMax in Hamburg, Germany, in support of their Next of Kihn LP.

A film about Sergei Eisenstein and Charlie Chaplin which praises their creative freedom and commitment.

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.

The protagonist's adventures tell a story about the water supply system.

The imaginary escapades of a woman who want to scape from her work as a nurse of an sick man.

Labour of Love: The Housewife examines the role of the Asian woman within the realm of the home and the family. It features the boundless work that a housewife must accomplish in a day to run a household and to care for her family. The film is an early feminist take on the perception regarding the economic value of the stay-at-home mother and wife, whose contribution to society is underrated. A 2K restoration was made possible using a sole-surviving 16mm colour reversal (with scenes of black & white) print from the Asian Film Archive Collection (AFA) in 2022.

A collage film about weekly magazines.

Through many interviews, sketches, some reports, many varied documents, a survey on the relationship of the individual to work.

Crashing the Pearly Gates Won't Make You An Angel

Pattern of Events is a very unique and personal take on a highly specific element of life in this city. “The viewing through magnifying lens and the voice-over narration of personals printed in the Village Voice Bulletin Board point directly to chance as the organizing principle of life. Yet people continuously thrown together by chance become obsessed with one moment, one image, one word, one person. ‘I must see you again.’ …. This film makes the barest glance reverberate with potential meaning” (Steve Anker and Gail Currey, The Last 80 Langton Street Catalog).

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.

Four teenage girls from high school classmates form a gang that emphasizes solidarity.

Yes, it's yet another UFO documentary of stock footage, blurry photographs, and rambling narration that may or may not relate to what is on screen.

Victor Hugo Rojas destroys a Warhol painting, as a sacrifice.NYC 1978

A short lyrical document about an ancient Oriental discipline, this film moves from the streets of China, where the people practice Tai-Chi daily, to North America, where the same movements are executed by a solitary figure in a park.

Experimental short

First works with pure color. The slits are organized into vertical Yellow-Red-Blue strips which move laterally across the screen according to a pre-calculated order.

A child tries to improve the life of the animals in a zoo by playing music with his tin four.

Greg Kihn Band plays live from AudiMax in Hamburg, Germany, in support of their Next of Kihn LP.

A film about Sergei Eisenstein and Charlie Chaplin which praises their creative freedom and commitment.

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.

The protagonist's adventures tell a story about the water supply system.

A succession of animated plans.

A Filipino action-drama directed by Lupita Aquino-Kashiwahara.

Isabel takes very good care of her own things, but is careless with things that others share with her. When she "magically" changes places with those she has returned damaged property to, she learns to treat all property as if it were her own.

The trials and tribulations of a couple.

This very short documentary film depicts the spring and fall migratory visits of snow geese to Cap Tourmente, Québec.

"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.

A broke Count awaits for a bot that never comes.

The Stranglers playing live in San Francisco 1978.

This is a documentary of David Hammons prior to his leaving the Los Angeles arts community. This video covers the artist's creative strategies at that time. It served as both an interview and video performance by David Hammons.

Mexican feature film

This rare interview with Maciunas, the founder of Fluxus, took place a few months before his death in 1978. Maciunas discusses his famous chart, "Diagram of Historical Development of Fluxus and other Four Dimensional, Aural, Optic, Olfactory, Epithelial, and Tactile Art Forms," tracing influences ranging from John Cage and Marcel Duchamp to vaudeville and Spike Jones. This work offers invaluable insights into a celebrated artist and the forces that shaped the diverse Fluxus movement.