Cinematic Era: 1978 Vintage

Two traditional chord instruments are made and played by the Teda craftsmen of Tibesti, Chad.

Short film about a circus.

The symbolic meaning of the tree is made visible in a series of children's drawings.

Root Hog or Die is a portrait of a living remnant of this once pervasive but rapidly vanishing way of life. Filmed in 1973 in hilltowns across Western Massachusetts and Southern Vermont, it follows the cycle of the farming year from spring to winter. In its course we visit with an array of elders, who reflect on farming's deep natural patterns, share their family histories and personal memories, and ponder the inevitable forces of technological and social change they have endured. The bittersweet nature of their challenges is manifest, as is the quiet pride they take in their lives as farmers.

The short film is about a boy who wants to buy the attention of his classmates by means of expensive objects that he cannot afford.

Kosher-made guilty pleasures.

An experiment with celluloid images, based on discards from the short Blanca Putica. A Girl in Love (1973).

Håkan started sniffing paint thinner when he was 13, at 16 he was first arrested, now we get to follow him as he returns to his childhood neighbourhood and no one wants to see him.

Short documentary segment for Twin Cities Public Television, St. Paul, MN, about Clarence and Harold Black at their service station in Jacksonville, Illinois.

Short directed by Michel Ricaud

Experimental short by Masaki Matsushita.

An analysis of the nature of this means of communication. The absence of an action on the video does not mean the negation of the video; on the contrary, the less freedom is granted to the image, the greater freedom is granted to the imagination. An attempt to probe into the body of the video to discovery its soul.

The subject is anger. This animated film captures the thoughts and actions produced by a young girl's frustration. Coronet Instructional Media.

Animated film produced by Zagreb Film

In this remarkable recording of a performance by Victoria Santa Cruz, we follow the curve of identification traced by a character (a woman) in relation to the color of her skin.

An anonymous off-camera group examine a nude woman for "agreeability." Sexual themes and allegorical structures serve as the vehicle for the narrative. The tape consists of close up shots of a nude woman with off-camera voice over.

"Bellvue Film was made in a rehabilitation ward, and it offers and inventory of patients: a child learning to use crutches, a young man beginning exercise with weights, the old man, the beautiful woman, the middle aged man without legs and one arm. The film settles upon this man, finally, discovering as one might, as a visitor, a pain in a face, the limp pajama over a stump of a leg, the cinches, straps, buckles of prostheses, his happiness and pride, one marvels. Camhi's film manner is without cuteness. Images seemingly are made from whatever vantage point is possible, not from a preconceived angle. Flash frames, light-struck ends are kept if the image beneath is worthy. For it is the image and its information not the style that matters, without sentiment, silently." – Anthony Bannon

Kodachrome film diary.

8mm film by Swiss artist Roman Signer.

Like us, sometime typically between mid-November and Christmas, Vertical Horizon awakens to a white blanket borne over the once-familiar landscape. T-shirts, coniferous trees, blue skies, sunrises—last week’s tapestry of colours suddenly feel like some edenic memory from time immemorial.

The film portrays the story of a couple, who face the conflicts between fantasy and reality of their marriage, through a journey. The woman leaves the man halfway through the journey and goes back

Silvia Szuprizinski has lived alone with her little daughter for a year now: time to take stock. The young woman talks, her stories commented by Gabriele Hochneder’s pictures of everyday life that tell of efforts. Silvia, leaning against the tiled stove, talks about the failed relationship with the child’s father with detachment, but also with a certain degree of regret. At least her own family are present, all of them at the door in time for the first birthday. Still, Silvia spends her nights alone with herself – and the television. The fact that Hochneder’s film, despite the adversities, does not become a lament is at least partly owing to its sanguine main protagonist.

A face, on an old song sheet, with eyes that peer out from the past; a quiet room with sunlight seeping thru the drawn blinds. Tranquil moments, as the camera pans down the lyrics of an old song. A film made with a memory of a similar song sheet, that impressed me at the age of 14. –B. F.

Describes life on the Aboriginal reserve of Palm Island in Queensland. Old men from Dyirbal language group tell stories of the massacres and poisoning of their people when they first came in contact with the white settlers.

Norwegian women's experiences with abortion boards

Presents the life and philosophy of Eduardo Calderon, a Peruvian folk healer. Includes his methods of diagnosis and a curing ceremony.

Land Art performance by Nanda Vigo.

A César award winning documentary about the resistance of the people of Limousin to technocratic measures that threaten their culture and their living environment.

A Latvian engineer returns as an expert to the shipyard on the Coast, which he had to leave once.

A growing number of parents are concerned about the impersonal approach to childbirth seen in many hospitals. They find hospital procedures inflexible and more often geared to the needs of the institution than to those of child and parent. Members of the medical profession and parents discuss today's obstetric methods and alternatives to them. The film candidly records the birth of a baby and the interaction of mother and father.

This is the first comprehensive U.S. film to explore the origins and growth of traditional Puerto Rican music. Interviews with musicians living in New York reveal how traditional music is used as a source of resistance against cultural domination. Their music is also a means by which Puerto Rican culture is maintained and transformed. The film focuses on the music of "Lexington Avenue Express", a group that has taken their music to community centers, political events, prisons and music festivals.

A film about the relationship between real life and art in photography, photo as the capturer and interpreter.

West Side Highway was first screened by filmmaker Donald J Pollock on a super 8mm print at an open screening at the Millennium Film Workshop on East 4th Street back in 1978. Unseen for decades, it’s a simple document of a place both familiar and no longer existent, moving in its quiet historicity.

Cubic forms emerge and dissolve through morning mists.

A footballer ending his career takes up a job as an engineer.

According to the director, this film is made by Osaka people, for Osaka people (?). according to the director. The director himself appears in the film and gives a light-hearted performance. The combination of the slapstick sensibility and the beautiful screen is indescribably stylish.

A joint effort by numerous video artists of the time, starring dancer Rylin Harris.

Every year, on the third Saturday of June, in an otherwise sleepy borough of southeastern North Carolina known as Spivey's Corner (population 49), some 5,000-10,000 folks gather from far and wide to take part in the festivities and entertainment in the day-long extravaganza known as the National Hollerin' Contest.

Between 1976 and 1982, Jane Veeder traveled the western mountains of the United States with Phil Morton. On these road trips the two would shoot video of their surroundings using a portable video recorder. Some of these video recordings of the western mountain terrain were used to produce the televised video piece known as Program #7. Program #7 was produced as a part of a larger group of videos known as The Electronic Visualization Center: A Television Research Satellite to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Program #7 was televised on Chicago Public Television as a part of a program which ran work by independent video creators. Program #7 was created using a Sandin Image Processor and a Bally Home Computer. Graphics generated using a Bally Home Computer would be overlaid overtop of the video recorded by Veeder and Morton using the Sandin Image Processor. The Sandin Image Processor would also be used to add varying patterns to the image.

A documentary about California punk.

A film experience to invite careful looking and listening. A group of dogs in the countryside, and at home. The camera observes in a sensitive and detailed way: as the dogs explore a stream and drink, we see how their tongues work to toss beads of water upwards. The rhythms and sounds, the ways of relating and communicating that are special to dogs.

A recording of a multimedia installation for two synchronized Super 8 projectors and ten transpar-ent projection surfaces arranged in the shape of a tetrahedron, accompanied by a live ambient mu-sic performance by Adrian Ilici and a recitation of a text on soap bubbles from the work of architect and systems theorist R. Buckminster Fuller.

Turandot, the emperor's daughter is ready to get married, but the suitor has to answer three questions, otherwise he's dead.

Animated short film showing a hammer stymied by a nail that won't be hammered down.

This film deals with filming (taking) and (giving) projecting into the same space of present and past.

Marius Hugo, a young medical student, has one great love in his life: his future career as a doctor, where he can serve people and thus make the world a better place. To pay for his studies, he works part-time at a roadside cafe, and one day it is right there, where he meets Dr Louise, an unhappy married woman, with whom he tries to find his happiness. His home life is also not very wonderful: there is a motorcycle 'corridor' on his track and they try to exercise their kind of human service: with fists and chains. His background in the back streets is his past: his profession as a doctor and servant is his future.

Long work.

For the television film Highway N°1, Jef Cornelis once again worked with architecture critic Geert Bekaert, who provided the screenplay. The film, which paints a portrait of the highway between Antwerp and Mechelen – and specifically the stretch between Kontich and Walem – deals with spatial planning on either side of an important Belgian arterial road, the first state highway in Belgium.