1978 Movies

Experimental film by Alida Walsh

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...

In "Happy Birthday, I'm 40" Walsh unites mythological symbols and experimental film processes in a public comment upon our culture's preoccupation wi...

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 4...

An Alberto Bróccoli's animation short film.

An elaborate screenplay and an orthodox direction that avoids waste. And the right technique and actors to support it. The staff of the Keio 8mm Cine...

A look at the Jewish community in Rădăuți, Romania, from 1974 to 1976.

A recording of a multimedia installation for two synchronized Super 8 projectors and ten transpar-ent projection surfaces arranged in the shape of a t...

The Stool Becomes the Ladder was made in 1978, using techniques of video feedback, quantizing levels and chroma, and simple downstream text. The stool...

A crushed fly. An outline of organic forms, an illusory trip. (Filmform)

Between ever-present splices, a circular mirror reflects a pendulating tire swing.

A film by Arturas Barysas, one of Lithuania's "counter-culture" avant-garde pioneers.

Cylinder, Sphere and Solid opens with a white screen. A performer enters from the right side and draws a black circle. He continues to draw and finall...

Yeong-cheol, at only 13, is the head of his family and takes care of his mentally incapacitated father and two younger brothers. The neighbors take pi...

Experimental film on 16mm by Ioan Pleș as part of Kinema Ikon.

"I picked up the telephone one day and somehow got cross-connected into a conversation between a couple talking about the simple experiences of their...

Differences between the live and the studio version of America's performance are interesting in and of themselves, although they are technical rather...

A film by Toney W. Merritt