1978 Movies

Paradise Spy, film by Dana Gordon, 90 minutes, made in 1978; the first 30 minutes are silent. Shown at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC in 1980.

This film was hand wound though the camera backwards and forwards as the waves on a beach built up and broke on the shore.

Composed in twenty-two movements that coalesce into a haunting psychic journey, the enigmatic Pictures of the Lost evokes states of heightened conscio...

Bollywood 1978

The film shows birds-swarms flying in the sky. Seemingly inpredictable the birds change direction, accompanied by shrill birdcries. Though the sound...

Reel 4 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

Hokme Tir by Iraj Ghaderi

The daily life of the popular sectors in Lima in the seventies.

An illustration of the possibilities around electronically manipulating the colours of moving clouds. This formal investigation also makes it possible...

Short documentary directed by Berta Saldaña —who directed State newsreels for three different and opposing governments: Velasco Alvarado, Morales Berm...

A person with an artistic vocation is forced to abandon it to work as a bureaucrat due to pressure from their family.

A documentary about California punk.

The final entry in Robert Beavers' Sotiros trilogy

In Lucrepata (Cusco),the community rises up to recover their land by confronting the cooperatives and the state, wanting community autonomy over thei...

A middle school girl with a dead mother and a kidney tumor conceals her knowledge of her impending death from her father to protect his feelings.

Ford’s bracingly intimate and reflexive documentary on time and change was filmed over four years and focuses on a small group of male filmmakers and...

The “Helene” narrow-gauge railroad is bought back as a discarded train by members of the Society for German Railway History and painstakingly restored...