Cinematic Era: 1978 Vintage

Yet another instructional short about seventies kids from California being prepared for emergencies.

In Rennes, as part of the 5th Traditional Arts Festival in 1978, storytellers and musicians from the Seychelles islands express their concern with modernism and the disinterest of young people in traditional music.

A story about a writer and a young poetess

Elena, a pregnant young girl walks the steep path to the orphanage where single mothers often leave their children. The girls in the hospital greet Elena with a ritual they made up. She remains closed in herself. Elena tries to contact the boy who is the father with no success. Instead of him, his parents come. People who wish to adopt a child also come. Another woman does not find the strength to overcome the critical attitude of the people towards single mothers. This leads Elena to decision to take care of her baby by herself.

Portrait of the composer, Peter Maxwell Davies, set in the context of the islands of Orkney. George Mackay Brown is featured reading his own verse and there are quotations from the works of Edwin Muir, Robert Rendell and the ancient Orkneyinga Saga. Extracts from the composer's works include pieces from Ave Maria Stella, O Magnum Mysterium and the final scene from his opera The Martyrdom of Saint Magnus.

An experimental film set during the transition period after the death of Franco that explores Basque identity and state oppression of the Basque population.

Georges' dream is to go find Julie in the West. Patrick's dream is to find the mythical West of his novels. They leave together.

In this haunting performance, Wilke conflates the private and the public as autobiographical theater. The audience "eavesdrops" on a series of phone messages intended for Wilke, recorded from her answering machine. This voice-over litany of messages becomes an intimate if one-sided narrative of Wilke's life, a diary of personal and professional relationships — family, lovers, friends, colleagues — that is oddly elegiac. Wilke strips to reveal that her body is covered with the names of the individuals we have heard speaking; she then methodically removes the names until all traces have disappeared.

The meteoric rise of Frank L. Rizzo from cop on the beat, to law and order police commissioner, to controversial mayor.

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Their last Dutch theatre program

Red Berlin from the 1910s to the resistance against National Socialism comes to life as a proletarian family history. The siblings of Ernst Knaack, a communist who was executed in 1944, talk about their childhood and youth, which they spent with their grandparents. Their grandfather, a former sailor who took part in the November Revolution and was a member of the Workers' and Soldiers' Council, ran the Zum Kuli pub in Prenzlauer Berg—a workers' pub that was also frequented by the unemployed and homeless, where party meetings were held and leading KPD members such as August Bebel and Hermann Duncker were regulars.

The first account on film of the growth of multinational corporations, their impact on people at home and abroad, and their influence on U.S. foreign policy. This is the film that helped kick-off the anti-globalization movement. Upon release, it quickly became a standard "audio-visual text" for those concerned about the growing impact of multinational corporations on global affairs. The film examines how the ever-increasing concentration and velocity of capital affect employment in the U.S., shape patterns of development in the Third World, and influence our nation's foreign policy.

An experimental short.

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

An art bondage film by punk-feminist and dominatrix Lisa Baumgardner.

This is a quite a rare example of a political sci-fi filmed without means. An excessive and schizophrenic creature, DINNI E LA NORMALINA allows Grifi’s more playful soul to see the light, while not dispersing the dark reflection on the exploitation by media institutions.

United States 1978, Super 8 transferred to digital, colour, silent, 3 min

"In a charming fantasy about the art of aimation, each character has a unique personality. Kathy is even invited to join her characters in ther cartoon world, thus adding another playful dimension to the theme of the relationship of an artist to her materials." - WorldCat

Do-do, who receives an order from the Tiansanjin-in to rescue the living beings who are in jeopardy, goes to Changchun, Manchuria. He delivers the command book with the blood plasma of five fingers to the villains such as Takni Gubong and Myung Rae, and a bloody battle ensues between them. On the other hand, Yeon-yeon-sim, who regards Il-do as the enemy of his deceased father, joins and joins the three old ladies, and the fight intensifies. However, the battle is engulfed in chaos as the red-faced poison ivy and the villains of the Seven Great Gates flock to the turquoise jade Gwaneum Buddha statue. In the end, Yeon Ja-sim resolves the misunderstanding about Il-do and joins Il-do to defeat the Seven Great Monks who covet the statue of the Buddha Gwaneum.

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.

Documentary about a project to find proper shelter and care for abandoned old folk in Polish villages.

Documentary about a school for kids from troubled homes.

Simon’s New Sound (1978, 8 min.) is about a young boy who is searching for a new instrument with which to celebrate Trinidad’s pre-Easter Carnival. He fashions a steel drum from the carefully indented bottom of an oildrum. Poet Opal Palmer is the voice of Simon.

This film explores the transformation of an image from color negative to color positive on one film stock. “The Still Life“ was painted its color negative during the filming and then the exposed film was processed and printed on color negative printstock.

"a revelation of the editing process ... done with remarkable care and precision ... The interrelationship between moving body and moving camera is heightened to the intensity of a struggle." Joyce Nelson

The Kings Road punks go on a day trip - to 10 Downing Street! - in this edition of Captain Zip's Video Trip

In 1975, I was invited to “make any film I wanted as long as it was shot in Minneapolis." David Hancock, a filmmaker friend in Vermont, who coincidentally grew up in Minneapolis, had just asked me to film him. He had been recently diagnosed with terminal cancer in his early thirties and wanted me to document the craziness of his dying days, as he was buffeted from chemotherapy to New Age cures recommended by friends. I didn’t have the stomach to follow much of David’s last days. Meanwhile, Steve Ascher and I teamed up to go to Minneapolis. We wanted to ask strangers what in their lives they would like to have filmed. For me, it was almost like an act of expiation. -Ed Pincus via Harvard Film Archive

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

The subordinates of the demon boss Yang Doo-seok attack the Korean people's wandering village and kidnap young women. Yang Du-seok sends the women to King So-rim, and King So-rim moves the women through his subordinate manager, but the women are taken away by Nakamura's surprise attack. At this time, Geoam appears and defeats Nakamura and Yang Doo-seok, and finds his younger sister In-sil to find a new life.

Interviews with mothers and family members who lost loved ones in the Lebanese conflict with Israel.

A story about a teenagers confrontation with the adult world, in poetic and slightly melancholic mood. Benas is not an adult yet but not a child any more while his town is visited by new interesting people who change his life: events make him grown up.

The adventures of a squirrel and their family.

To come back to abstraction, I have a feeling that colour varies in my work between two aspects: the colour-object that comes from the sensation of an object, in this case the film strip, and the opening. This colour-object permits the transporting of objects into space, to explore the space of the screen in the theatre; this is what allowed me to develop Liminal Minimal (1977) by enlarging the space of projection with two projectors and, taking into account that the vertical strips evolve on a black background comparable to the darkness of the theatre, I was able explore the whole space of the projection with the coloured strip

1978 Spanish experimental short

A souped-up paean to sex, violence and all-around rowdy behavior.

Short about a lesbian love affair.

“The three parts developed over a year period of intense study during the mid-1970s. It sort of began and ended my dependency on “high-tech” equipment to make films and led me through the equally intensive parameters of what motion picture film could reproduce on a visceral, detail oriented level. In contrast to the high end 2K digital technology used to restore ‘Manhatta’ and 'Ballet Mechanique', I learned filmmaking decades earlier on a 35mm Oxberry beam-splitter, multi-head, aerial-image bi-pac optical printer. A dinosaur by today’s standards and all hand operated prior to the advent of computer-assists, this machine was precise and exact to the frame. ’S&J: Pt. 3' took 26 hours to shoot straight thru without one mistake.” —Bruce Posner

After winning the war with Russia, Japan sends out young Japanese men of the Black Dragon Group to Manchuria in order to take control of the Manchurian coalmines that are in disarray. The Japanese consul general and mayor of Bong-chun city conspire to take control of the coalmines. However, the White Dragon Group, a branch of the Korean independence fighters, with the help of the great warrior Lee Mu-rim, completely ruins the Japanese plans to take over the coal mines.

"Afternoon idyll with Nancy Frumkin."

At twilight in Binghamton, two filmmakers exchange portraits.

In college days, Mi-Nu, So-Hee, and Si-Hyeong were friendly each other. When both Mi-Nu and So-Hee promise to get married, Si-Hyeong gives blessing for them even if he feels pains of love failure. The news is released that Mi-Nu is lost and dies when he goes to a foreign country to collect news articles together with friendly mission of the neutral nations. Si-Hyeong feels sorrowful to hear the news, but gets married to So-Hee, who is pregnant, for her wellbeing. When they forget Mi-Nu's accident, Si-Hyeong hears the news in the newspapers that Mi-Nu was kidnapped by the enemy but escapes dramatically in 15 months. Mi-Nu feels much disappointed to hear the marriage of both Si-Hyeong and So-Hee, but prays their wellbeing and leaves for New York as a resident staff reporter.

The Choi family has long protected their golden Buddha which is said to contain the power to guard the fate of the nation. Both Chinese bandits and the Japanese military learn of this statue and Choi requires the aid of Iljimae to protect it.

Il-Man was separated from his parents at his young age and was brought up by his teacher, a Taekwon martial art trainer. After his teacher dies, he comes to Seoul to study and look for his parents. Il-Man faints owing to hunger in front of Taekwon martial art hall. Thanks to help of both Kang-Shik and Jin-Suk, however, he stays at Kangsik's home and finds out his mother by their help.

Footage of this film was found in his belongings of director Mark Zenner after his death. A classic slice of Australian punk, both literally and figuratively, as razor sharp editing and collage techniques enliven the documentary on several punk bands.

A short film about Jack Burnett and his involvment in the horse racing industry in the 1970s. (Jack is the father-in-law of the filmmaker) Identifiable with many students. Could be used for discussion on the idea of bought leisure and deals with gambling relating to horse racing.

Biographical sketch of the heroic guerrilla on the tenth anniversary of his death, made from the evocations of the homonymous poem written by Nicolás Guillén.

Two fantastic stories that happened to four boys thanks to a rich imagination and a dream to learn as much as possible about the world. Their inquisitive minds dream of the distance, the cosmic expanses, and here and now they want to ride beautiful horses that can soar in the air. Their expectations are being met, and many more adventures await them.

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.

Bollywood 1978