Cinematic Era: 1978 Vintage

Short documentary by Aleksandar Ilić.

A structural work in which Frankenstein attempts to conquer the universe.

Heather McAdams films herself in (none-too-convincing) drag while lip-syncing to a record claiming to spur breast growth through hypnosis in this early Super 8 experiment.

The film, shot in 1978, documents the experiences of Palestinian women who speak about the horrors of life in the occupied territory and displacement, as well as resistance and love for their country. The film is titled Jafra, which suggests it was made in honor of solidarity with the Palestinian people. The word “Jafra” has been used through film and cultural resistance movements as a metaphor for Palestine itself – idealized, beautiful, longed for, and now lost or in exile.

This film captures the friendship, collaboration and shared adventurous spirit between two pioneers in Philippine experimental filmmaking. After returning from Europe in 1977, Virgilio Aviado’s vision found a crucial collaborator in veteran actor and producer Michael “Mike” Parsons. Their partnership led to "The Monastery", an art workshop in Baguio, which soon became a crucible for their joint creative endeavours. Significant arrivals from Japan—an etching press and a brand new 16mm SLR Canon Scoopic—further solidified their multimedia aspirations.

A poor farmer and his son healed a wounded stork, who in gratitude gave them a magic seed - from it grew a watermelon full of gold coins. An envious bai wanted to get the same seed by trickery...

This documentary presents a story about the day one hundred and forty-seven deadly twisters swept through Kentucky, Ohio, and Alabama. The funnels devastated large portions of eleven states, taking three hundred and seven lives in the United States and eight more in Ontario, Canada. It includes extensive footage of the tornadoes actually striking Louisville, Cincinnati, and Xenia. It also shows how early warning, advance preparation, and coordination in emergency operating centers have helped to save many lives.

This documentary is devoted to the People's Republic of Angola, its realities, natural conditions and fight against mercenaries.

A cyclical year in the lives of the Inuit community at Grise Fjord, Ellesmere Island, 900 miles north of the Arctic circle.

The camera follows a mysterious man through the streets of London until he reaches an alternative reality in the style of Chris Marker's La Jetée. Science fiction tropes clash with real-life struggles.

Emphasizes the unchanging nature of God amidst the world's changes, expressing gratitude for His constancy. A conversation reveals a vision of God that encourages not to limit Him, suggesting that He is more expansive than one can imagine.

I went to Ladakh in the vain search for a shaman. What I found was a species of Buddhist healing that involved trance and a variety of magical tricks of the healing trade.

The Activity of Georgians in Italy (from King Pharnavaz to the manuscripts of Erekle), A Georgian Psalm Not Found in the Archives of Italy – compiled by M. Tarchnishvili. Georgian-French Dictionary and his other works. The Activity of Mikheil Tamarashvili (History of the Georgian Church).

The Unemployment Test is presented as a quiz to judge the audience’s knowledge about the welfare system, albeit one backed by a funky disco synth soundtrack. The viewers of the film take the test alongside people in a classroom who are evenly split between those who have benefited from unemployment insurance and others who have not. Short dramatized scenes with non-professional actors play out in two phases. Each skit ends with a question by the narrator. The audience’s an- swers are scored at the end of each phase.

The daily life of two families from Nezahualcóyotl.

Stop motion musical shows college student getting ready for the day

I wanted to make a film in which the world is turned upside down, a film made up of images that assert that these images have no meaning. There is a shot that uses a doll, which was washed up on the riverbank where we visited while filming "Mineralogist". I picked it up thinking that I might be able to use it in the shoot. Masanobu Nakamura seemed to think that this shot was my response to "Commemorative Photography" and asked me about it, but I had no idea what it meant so I was at a loss for words.

Tom Palazzolo's 1978 film "Sharie's Prom" is a documentary that captures the experiences of Sharie Holeb and her friends during their prom night in Chicago. The film offers an intimate glimpse into the lives of these young individuals as they navigate the excitement and challenges of this significant high school event.

Narrated by Pulitzer prize winning author N. Scott Momaday, the program attempts to rectify misconceptions about early Native Americans, demonstrating that their contributions to the world's knowledge, and influence on the development of America, in particular, has been considerable.

A German Film Award winning short documentary.

A single-take document of a domestic exchange where image and sound raise one set of expectations and then create a conundrum for the viewer.

A caustic and humorous challenge to the traditional male and female roles and stereotypes inculcated by our upbringing. The film illustrates two opposing worlds: that of the “eternal masculine” and that of the “eternal feminine” through the behaviors, concerns, work and aspirations of women and men, and through the games, projects and dreams of children.

In the center of the plot is the record holder of bench shooting, three-time world champion Yu.F.Tsuranov.

What more understated, and yet more effective, ode to urbanization than Mesaroș’s film, which consists entirely from dynamic black&white photographs connected by a voice-over commentary written from the perspective of a naughty pre-teen boy who enjoys to the full the benefits of modernization? His village (Nehoiu, in Buzău county) is about to become a town; the boy writes a letter to his cousin from the capital, Bucharest, to tell him about his daily life. As in Red Flag, humour is a crucial element employed to smooth down the otherwise transparent political ‘message’ of the film: when the boy swallows a button, the mother takes him to the “new” hospital, where the doctors take an x-ray picture “to see if it’s from the shirt or the pants”; the machine is “so good” that they can clearly see what sort of button it is.

Tells the story of Tijah, the child of a contract laborer during the Dutch colonial era in Deli. Her beauty attracted the attention of Bustaman and Mr. Pieter Dikkert. When Bustaman was about to propose, it turned out that she had been used as a servant and concubine in Pieter Dikkert's house until she became pregnant. However, Bustaman still wants Tijah. He was caught trying to meet TIjah until Tijah was thrown out and separated by her son. A year later, when she had recovered, it was Bustaman who reunited Tijah with her teenage son.

I found Ailanthus altissima, the tree of heaven, compelling and I studied it in multiple ways. An ancient and successful plant, it grows very fast, thrives in distressed environments, and is difficult to eliminate. It has been very popular as well as feared illustrating some ridiculous group thinking in the public life of America. I used pieces of this history to make many art works in various media during the late 1970s. This excerpt was cut from a Super 8mm reel edited during 1978-9. Ailanthus trees may be a part of a solution in restoring the many disturbed landscapes people have created.

Through a letter to an American friend, Lili Massaferro narrates her life: born into a bourgeois family, she became involved in political militancy after the murder of her son and organized the female branch of the Montoneros group. Its history is intertwined with the figure of Eva Perón, and with certain significant political events in the country.

Portrait of the American experimental filmmaker Tom Chomont, who resided in Eruope from 1969-1975, before returning to New York.

Łęczna is a town in eastern Poland in the lubelskie voivodship. Unfortunately, it is infamous for a legend of a former settlement that collapsed and was covered by the ground. The reason for that was the fact that the place had been inhabited by quarrelsome, envious, and malicious people. The modern legend predicts another catastrophe in 2000. In the 1970s, miners came to the town and tried to adapt to it. The unpleasant division between the old and the new inhabitants, between agricultural and industrial Łęczna, was felt by the newcomers.

A study of the patterns and gesture of family when ceremony no longer counts. Made to remember the occasion and place myself as a part of it.

An experimental short film that finds film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum playing himself, being interviewed about a film that doesn’t exist. Director Peter Bull proceeds to create the film that Rosenbaum describes. The alternating footage provides insight into these two different modes of representation.

Nine separate animated cycles of human figure drawings intercut with self-portraits and rotoscoped ocean footage repeat, converge and spill over into watery confusion

Retelled and based on the short story by the American novelist O. Henry.

A surreal and metaphysical story around an extravagant character, "Eu" [I/Me]. "Eu" marries his beloved and well-loved bicycle. Accused of the murder of the vehicle, he escapes from prison and becomes president of the government.

The final part in the core Street Film series.

1978–79. Slideshow, approx. 7 min. Courtesy the Estate of David Wojnarowicz and P.P.O.W, New York.

The “Helene” narrow-gauge railroad is bought back as a discarded train by members of the Society for German Railway History and painstakingly restored to working order.

In this film, a group of people who go up to the mountains to collect wood depict the conflicts of behavior and thoughts that become apparent during their work.

A short documentary film about an unnamed engineer who achieves a good property position through hard work, stubbornness and consistency in his actions. Scenes from the workplace and everyday family life are interspersed with monologues by the protagonist, in which he expresses his opinions on attitudes towards superiors, conflicts or the qualities of a good professional. He thus invites us to polemicize and reflect on the life of a careerist and the concept of success.

Tommy, Michael, and Peter are teenage skateboard fans, as are a lot of other kids in their church. So their inventive youth director begins to center activities around skateboarding. But then through jealousy and hard competition, the three boys make some discoveries that changes their lives

Lekeitio is one of the most important fishing villages in the Cantabrian Sea. The film shows the way of life of the sea.

The Horthy regime marching into the idyll of childhood with peculiar religious processions, Second World War air-raid sirens tearing adolescence to shreds, socialism propped on the shoulders of Stakhanovists in the shadow of Rákosi banners, and the experience of the ‘most cheerful barrack’ of goulash communism within strict confines: this is the collective fate of generation N.

A film about an innovative method of learning a foreign language in just 24 sessions in Galina Kitaygorodskaya‘s method: "The method of activating the capabilities of the individual and the team", allows to activate mental processes (memory, perception, thinking, imagination) and emotional resources of the individual, which releases enormous creative energy, allowing students to easily and effectively process huge amounts of new information in a short time. It is a system of language teaching as a means of intercultural communication. The film shows the dynamics of two groups that started learning French and Russian from scratch. G. O. Kitaygorodskaya proved to be a fan of her work. She was not bothered by the camera, but she was not going to make up for it or pose for it: "No takes. I came to teach people the language." Here, every lesson is like a live script.