1978 Movies

An experimental short of simple but stimulating visuals, accompanied by a rousing Philip Glass soundtrack.

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

A precursor to Lucier's later works, in which light is used as metaphor, Bird's Eye is an evocative formalist exercise in which Lucier explores light...

A short film by John Henry Timmis IV

Part 3 of the Wittstock series also shows the surroundings of the textile factory. Older gentlemen in a pub reveal that two factories produced fabrics...

Personal experiences of Northwest Ohio residents during the January 1978 blizzard that disrupted daily activities. Stories include the helicopter resc...

An extraordinary animated work composed of 99 still images. The bizarre story of the mechanized walking doll “Margaret” kidnapping and confining a fem...

1978 Angolan documentary.

Brujo is an exploration of shamanism and curing among the Mazatec Indians of Oaxaca, Mexico, and among two groups of Maya Indians in southern Mexico a...

Short work.

In a rolling area of Syria, the villagers live their everyday life, in toil and poverty. Trapped between the hardships of farming, religious and polit...

Fire, old and burned portraits of family life, dogs copulating, figures from the political era of the military dictatorship. Armed, manly, phallic pow...

Indian film directed by M.S. Mani.

Part 1 of a trio of pieces titled Lives. "Diaries" documents daily activity.

The constant vibration of a still image grwo twisted comment on what is moving image. The film makes an anti-nuclear statement, combining photographs...

Raja Rani Ko Chahiye Pasina is a 1978 Bollywood film directed by Sulabha Deshpande.

Narrated by Pulitzer prize winning author N. Scott Momaday, the program attempts to rectify misconceptions about early Native Americans, demonstrating...

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

Short footage about the illegal settlements issues and the struggle of the residents for the regularization of the land's possession.