1978 Movies

Spying is equal parts diary film, structural film and conceptual film. The filmmaker “spies” on neighbors, passersby and day workers—whomever is visib...

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

An early film by Dietmar Brehm

"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...

Experimental film by Nesya Shapiro Blue.

"In 1978, Michèle Rosier filmed the marriage of Soraya and Pascal Alvarez in the working-class suburb of Aubervilliers – resulting in a humanist, warm...

Through her work for the magazine Search and Destroy in San Francisco, Mondini-VanLoo met several prominent punk bands (including the Sex Pistols) who...

A film by Toney W. Merritt

A film by Toney W. Merritt

A film by Toney W. Merritt

A personal ritual of strength is getting a haircut

Experimental short by Jun'ichi Okuyama.

Produced by NASA contractor Rockwell International, this circa 1978 film was made shortly before the successful Apollo-Soyuz space mission. It is foll...

Goldstein's landmark 1978 rotoscopic animation. Often played on a loop. 16mm, color, silent, 19s.

Second film of the series, from a few images - some photocopied - and a soundtrack full of noise (of war) and fury - the Vietnam War to be precise - g...

Educational film from the German Democratic Republic.

The once thriving industrial town of Haverhill, Massachusetts on the Merrimack River now resembles, in the words of one of the film's subjects, "a gho...