Cinematic Era: 1978 Vintage

Nietzchka Keene evokes a woman’s fractured inner world in this enigmatic portrait composed in water, mirrors, and blood.

Dancing man. A woman clapping her hands to the rhythm. Narrow down your theme communication between men and women rhythmically expressed. People's movements stripped down to the bare minimum, the start and end points of the movement. A composed work by just two photos. Inspired by cinematic expression before the birth of cinema, it was made using a simple method.

Composed in twenty-two movements that coalesce into a haunting psychic journey, the enigmatic Pictures of the Lost evokes states of heightened consciousness, symbolic and ritual gesture, and spiritual transformations. Buckner's dreamlike, rhythmic visions, rendered in saturated hues, create a perceptual tension between abstraction and recognition. Elusive images unfold like silent apparitions. -EAI

A continuous-take, cinema-verité study of Toronto's famous all-night diner. A film that studies the pulse of the after-hours urban environment, in real time.

Deep in Mexico two brothers sit in a plaza discussing a broken fuel pump. In a few days they will leave for work. With their father and some friends they will ride a bus 1,300 miles north and enter the United States by walking through the desert. They call America “El Otro Lado,” the other side.

An interview of Luis Mattini, general secretary of the Workers' Revolutionary Party (PRT), and Enrique Gorriaran Merlo, member of the political bureau of PRT and commander of the People's Revolutionary Army (ERP), is the basis of this short documentary completed in Rome in 1978. Archive images accompany the voices of the guerrilla militants who denounce the crimes perpetrated by the Videla dictatorship and they present an overview of militant and political organization against the forces of imperialism.

A terrifying reflection on the urban tragedy of the future.

This short film illustrates a day in the life at Pacific Rim National Park. Located on Vancouver Island, the park houses giant trees, drooping moss and beautiful ocean views that provide breathtaking material for an eager eye.

A playing with words, narrative, and performance…..A display of my fantasies, fears, and mundane realities……A narcissistic reflection and indulgence in my ecstasies, torments, and humorous nuances….A personal journey through the question ‘What am I Doing Here?’ and the endless attempts to answer it. Jean Sousa

Every year, a ritual known as ida is performed by the Umeda people, who inhabit the dense primary forest of the Waina-Sawanda district of West Sepik, Papua New Guinea. Ida, the central social and cultural drama of the Umeda, is a fertility ritual, in which a dominant theme is the metamorphosis of the cassowaries. An ethnography by anthropologist Alfred Gell, Metamorphosis of the Cassowaries, complements the film.

Young people living in a children’s home in Mecklenburg talk about their unstable home situations and domestic violence. Many of them have alcoholic parents and some are in danger of going down the same path. They speak openly about the past and their hopes for a better life. The documentary follows the young men and women within the group and in search of personal space. A party to start the summer holidays marks not only the end of the school year – it also means that an entire class will be taking leave of the home forever.

"ANGLE, with its brief black and white shots, almost always plunging and oblique, of naked bodies or parts of bodies, is a film of rupture. Punctuations of black primers break up the filmic continuity, isolating snapshots or brief furtive movements: the body rolling over itself, colliding with the other or falling (these terrible falls, as sharp as a fainting spell, like that of the hero of The Andalusian Dog, whose hand, as he falls, brushes for a moment against the naked back of a beautiful, insensitive woman, and which is, it seems to me, the most striking representation of the link between passion in love and death that can be given). Often these movements are repeated and the actors seem to be the descendants of Muybridge's bonshommes lost in a white room. At the end - this is the longest shot in the film - in a corner of the room, one of the two actors remains crouched, hiding his eyes in his hands. Then the corner reappears, empty."

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

This film is composed of ten films, some of which originally intended for display on three screens at once; the first was Berlino-Milan-Lisboa ; a film about Berlin in the middle of Milan right and left of Lisbon; with three audio tracks, front, and two each coming from a back corner. The other three-screen films had different lengths, one called Autobiography , with pictures of the creator and his parents, and another called Pieds rouges . The film also includes footage recorded in Bath, England, where Luyken once had a studio.

In eight parts, Alphons S. tells the story of his life as a child and teenage miner in the Ruhr region, as a vagrant traveling across Germany in the 1920s, as a farm worker on estates in Mecklenburg, as an anarchist and left-wing socialist—but above all as an intelligent and alert witness to everyday history from 1906 to 1939.

In Floorshow he presents a rich stream-of-consciousness flow of images that encompass past, present, and fantasy, a contemplation of the filmmaking process, and film aesthetics. Myers makes a bolder-than-ever attempt to break down the barriers between the conscious and subconscious, the making of a film and the film itself. What Myers projects is an acutely personal vision of life so beautifully shaped and paced that we're able to connect with it even if we cannot expect to decipher its private meanings.

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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Educational film that deals with proper conduct of army officers.

A short film.

Two short films, the first NOT about purity itself, whatever that might be, but rather an equivalent of the process of searching for purity in the mind ... the second film, then, thought's rebound from that.

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.

A critique of the institution of mental health care that questions ‘normal’ viewing habits.

Fake documentary about Seville and its imaginary innovations in urbanism.

Rituals of performance, symbolic showdowns and murders of father figures, slaughterhouse parties, examinations of prejudice, gender and sexuality.

Following the Fisga in the solitary journey through the waters and exuberant nature of the Amazon, we witness the patient search for the fish that will feed his family, and his struggle to catch it.

"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.

Ritual for Third World Women Artists

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.

About a chicken in a little cell, which did not want to be friends with anyone, because all the rest were some in a spot, some in a stripe, and some in a flower. A chicken was looking for someone just like him for friendship, until he got into trouble...

Super8, colour, silent.

Animated study of eggs.

A young couple, locked in a room quietly relates, as she recalls her life from birth until the arrival of first love.

1978 Linda Christanell experimental short

Howie, a 70-year-old alcoholic and ex-sailor, sums up his life in the following terms: "Travel and drink, drink and travel, that's all I've ever done." The film Howie redefines its subject in terms of the present, documenting Howie's two-year hiatus in a small college town, his confrontations with the townspeople, and his relationship with the filmmaker.

1978 German Super 8 short work

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 basement apartment , depart from their elongated corridor 5 rooms . The whole apartment is crosslinked by mirrors that function as a monitoring system . Throughout the shoot time I have the camera does not move , she stood there like a dead man , but every corner of the apartment had by this mirror monitor installation constantly in the viewfinder . So the movie starts from the the front door at the farthest part of the apartment and ending with the view on the street, he crosses this Disstanz speak without eimal to turn his head , - . Not as in life through their own motion , but as in cinema, reading , in my head : physically passive. This works by the rise doors and cut off the see way , mirrors are crazy and turn the see way or redirect , until he finally goes in 25 minutes to the door on the street.

Short about a lesbian love affair.

Three young men want find new jobs through the army.

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.

UCLA Animation Workshop Student Film. Animated film about lips kissing.

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.

An early video work by Ivan Ladislav Galeta that underlines the perceptual presumptions of video-media.

Bollywood 1978

Bollywood 1978