1978 Movies

I combined a mostly still photo (a person and scissors) with a series of photos (fingers) that show a lot of movement.

Georges Méliès (1861-1938),cinema pioneer. A first-person narration traces Méliès' early interests in drawing and magic shows. He builds a studio and...

Documentary about the Wadden Sea in which Van der Keuken looks at this ribbon in the landscape through the eyes of a city-dweller. A film about the re...

Elizabeth Bagshaw was a forerunner of the women's movement. As one of the first women to practise medicine in Canada, she had to overcome society's bi...

Outtakes of Indian war movies are edited to show how the media shapes our minds, feelings, and dreams.

England in the late Middle Ages. Escaping from vagabonds, three peasants, two men and a woman, flee into a forest where they are attacked by monks and...

Records the changing facial expressions of a young woman as she applies her make-up and fantasizes about suitors and romance. The film concludes when...

Short experimental animation.

“An interior, edited in-camera portrait of Jessie Sarafina Bernard, in late afternoon summer sun. Warmly regarded.” (J.B.)

Describes life on the Aboriginal reserve of Palm Island in Queensland. Old men from Dyirbal language group tell stories of the massacres and poisoning...

Oema Foe Sranang (1978),translated in Dutch as Vrouwen van Suriname, was a film made in close collaboration with LOSON (Landelijke Organisatie Strijd...

A short documentary directed by Toufik Senoussi.

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 s...

Tells the story of a young man who, because his parents stopped funding his college, applied for a job as a driver. It all happened because he refused...

There is an old stone house in a clearing, it is surrounded by greenery. Architects have ambitious plans for this area. They will build a modern city...

Film by Michael J. Murphy. Considered lost.