Cinematic Era: 1978 Vintage

Pictures of city life in Dresden. Slogans and stereotypes, for example, "Growth - Prosperity - Stability with Schrittmaß DDR - 30" are underlaid with sound collages of music and noise.

Propaganda film from the Argentine radical political organization 'Montoneros', analyzing the 20th-century history of its country and explaining the present tactical decisions of the organization.

Everything is going well between Teixeirinha and Mary Terezinha. They are finishing a film, and she is pregnant and happy. However, during a routine check-up, Teixeirinha discovers that Mary has leukemia and could die if not treated soon. Desperate, but trying to hide the truth, he sends for an American specialist who confirms the diagnosis. Accidentally, Mary learns about the illness and asks a doctor friend for her opinion. In the meantime, Teixeirinha relives the suffering of when he lost his mother and appeals to faith. He consults a spiritual healer who says that a kind woman with a beautiful smile could help him. Immersed in so many memories, he goes to the Sanctuary of Fatima in Portugal to see if he can find the path to Mary's cure.

This portrait of a guinea fowl is the first clear vision I've had of the hot-blooded dinosaurs still living among us. (SB)

Ritual for Third World Women Artists

Seven students of the paranormal get in over their head.

Two friends make a deathly bet over the outcome of a lottery ticket.

Documentary on the closing of Griswold Machine Works, a factory had manufactured film splicers for decades.

Nam-soon, who has come to Tokyo with a dream of becoming a singer, falls for the words of the drug dealer Cheon-ga and sacrifices her purity, but in the end is betrayed by him.

"Beyond much single frame shooting, ICON, an early film, allowed for the use of cropped stencil letters as abstractions and the idea of bringing my painting sensibility and tools to film. Super 8, silent, experimental."

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

1978 German Super 8 short work

Three young men want find new jobs through the army.

16mm short from 1978. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.

In Filmmakers' Monthly, Edgar Daniels described GRAIN GRAPHICS as a structural film "which begins with two frames of a film strip, one above the other, occupying the middle of the screen, flanked by two vertical filmstrips with smaller frames. In grainy negative, a small number of figures interact in various ways in each of the frames. Gradually, as if the camera were drawing away, this pattern grows smaller and its units increase correspondingly in number, until at the end there appear to be hundreds of rectangles, all with figures busy in motion.” Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

The Air Force Academy attracts young people who only dream of flying. Although their hometowns, schools, and personalities are different, those who want to achieve the same dream undergo intense training together. After hard training, the long-awaited entrance ceremony is held as an official cadet, and under strict discipline, they learn society while feeling the camaraderie. Cheol-min is the son of a wealthy man, Yong-su is a young farmer, and Young-sik is the son of an Air Force sergeant.

After liberation, Seong-jun, who escaped to South Korea, earns a living by serving as a Jiget-gun. It is a time when the two Koreas split and the ideological confrontation intensified, but Sung-jun refuses to be caught up in any ideology. However, when he encounters the atrocities and conspiracies of the communists, the Jeonpyeong Action Group, his beliefs change. He joins the Northwest Youth Corps with his comrades to crush the communist conspiracy.

Two high school students facing difficulties at both school and home decide to break up and meet again in the future once they have overcome their hardships

A short in time and significant in content segment of a child's mental experiences with no editing. The camera's attention is focused on the boy's face, watching a puppet theater performance invisible to the viewer.

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

The story of a miner who decides to change his life by migrating to the countryside with his wife and children.

Directed by Sadok Ben Aïcha.

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

Film starring Taraka Rama Rao Nandamuri, Vanisri and Jayamalini

Film starring Thikkurisi Sukumaran Nair and Sharada

Bollywood 1978

Bollywood 1978

World War II rages on as a young Chinese soldier grapples with the harsh realities of trying to survive on the battlefield. The Chinese rebels continue to hold their siege against the advancing Japanese forces, and their determination is showcased in one grueling yet mesmerizing martial arts sequence after another. But can the rebels' strategy save them, or will it end up failing them as their defenses crumble one by one?

A master and his student are on the trail of a traitor. They are confronted by his Family and have to fight, and the master is injured.

Set in the historic site of Brussels' béguinage, this film provides a detailed portrait of the neighborhood's residents. Comprised of about 30 interconnected chapters, it unfolds over the course of a single day, from dawn to dusk, with each segment building on the last, like a web of stories.

A blend of home movie and structuralist film

Do ghosts come from outer space? Are they amongst us? The Amazing World of Ghosts seeks to unveil the mysteries that defy mankind's understanding and define the modern age… and then runs out of stock footage before getting anywhere.

One of a series of films made about life in Dumfries Academy 1955-1978. This film was shot in the academic year 1977-1978 and as well as the scenes of daily school life, it includes footage of the flooding of the river Nith on 31st October 1977.

From 1974 to 1977, Lucas Vereertbrugghen and his crew filmed anonymously under the name 'The Present as History' in Nazareth, Acre, and Galilee, where Palestinians lived in bleak conditions. They also filmed in the occupied territories of Jerusalem and Ramallah and, with the help of a friendly Palestinian couple, in several destroyed villages in the Golan Heights and Gaza. Everything was shot on Super 8, both for financial reasons and to preserve secrecy. The film was later converted to 16 mm and won a bronze medal at the Baghdad Festival in 1978.

Portrait of architect Aldo van Eyck (1918-1999). Van Eyck is the son of poet and journalist Pieter Nicolaas van Eyck. He talks about his childhood in London, his studies in architecture at the technical college in the Netherlands, and his philosophy regarding architecture and visual arts, in which the pursuit of harmony is paramount.

Here's a complete edition of the Nova "In the Event of Catastrophe" as aired over the PBS Network - and in Chicago, would have been transmitted over WTTW Channel 11. This deals with civil defense preparedness in the event of nuclear war, whether anyone could survive one, and the contrasting steps taken by both the United States and the Soviet Union.

A short film shot on Super 8 by Hiedy de Assis Corrêa, known as Hassis.

Ants, bras, bushes, cages, crates, diamonds, drawers, flaming fountains, flowers, glass, hearts, hogsheads, holes, painter's palette, Pegasus, pools, religious articles, Sea Captain, starlight, statuary, tar, tiger, time travel...

It's raining. That's a big deal here in Los Angeles.

Double screen short experimental film by Tani Mario

A boy visits a frustrated magician posing as a dentist and gets a lecture on dental hygiene.

Short film.

This is a personal and family film that documents the early years of the author's daughter, Aiñari Indacochea von Mollendorff. Filming began in 1972, when his wife, the choreographer Yvonne von Mollendorff, was still pregnant, and was completed in 1978 when his daughter was four years old. Aiñari's early life is recorded on video and superimposed to create a dialogue between different time periods. The expressions of wonder, emotion, and joy on the four-year-old girl's face, reflecting on her own growth, are juxtaposed with images of her as a younger child with her mother.

The film tells about the amazing archipelago of Spitsbergen, which is completely covered with glaciers, and about the unique flora and fauna of the islands. It is located at 78 degrees north latitude. The film also tells a romantic story about the conquest of the North Pole by Amundsen, Nansen, Nobel, and others.

Super-8 short film by Andrés Valencia.

Super-8 short film by Andrés Valencia.

Destined for the rail transport workers as an audiovisual help for trainings, the film deals with irregularity of passenger trains shuttling. It presents the causes of actual train delays resulting from neglects, lack of proper training and qualifications as well as bad work organization. The film presents staged events, which served as examples of incorrect actions leading to train delays.

In June 1973 the NATO Council of Ministers held a conference in Copenhagen. Therefore the theatre of action, SOLVOGNEN, sent out a group of picked troops to maintain order. The film is constructed as a pro-NATO film and we watch as the AMF protect ministers, clear left-wing demonstrations, do sight-seeing in Copenhagen, and we are shown scenes from a NATO-performance in the Grey Hall.

Goran Massot is the author of this television drama about the “landloper of a good heart”. About a man who goes abroad, finds the wrong way and comes back to resell watches.

Narrated report on the neighbourhood struggle in Madrid's suburbs against property speculation, focusing on two forms of protest: murals and banners. Text taken from: La Digitalizadora de la Memoria Colectiva

A parody which deals with the transformation of a man from a failure to a success.

Documents the congress of the Peasant Confederation of Peru.