.Yl 1978 - 282

Mis en pièces means in French taking into pieces, but it could mean to set up a play, or to deconstruct a play. The film is about a theater play which is shot against the medium theater. This film is an attempt to destroy the representation of the perspectivist point of view. Disorganizing a process to see…

Through documentary images, old photographs and interviews, the director presents the Santa Tereza cable car, not only as an original means of transport and tourist element, but also as an important part of the history of the city of Rio de Janeiro.

Short film by Público founder Vicente Jorge Silva.

Ethnographic film documents a family of woodcutters living in isolation in the mountains of Calden, at the geographic center of Argentina. Through his narration, Sixto Ramon Zerda explains his wish for his children to be educated and to avoid the punishing work and exploitation he has suffered. Introduction narrated by Henry Fonda.

Isabel takes very good care of her own things, but is careless with things that others share with her. When she "magically" changes places with those she has returned damaged property to, she learns to treat all property as if it were her own.

A man tries in vain to escape his self-imposed cage.

This short vignette features coal mines in New Waterford and Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, along with traditional Cape Breton folk songs sung by Men of the Deeps - a miners' choral group.

Fables have their relevance, particularly when dealing with such delicate topics as politics. This is the story of a retired gentleman with a distinctly British demeanor who buys nine provincial flowers to be planted in his garden. He avoids the fleur-de-lis, which, however, doesn't avoid him. Eventually their attitudes towards each other soften due to the beneficial effects of a watering can.

"This is a portrait of Brakhage in Brakhage's style. I can't see any justification for making this film." - Ken Jacobs

"Nimbus was Robert Creeley's first choice to show in conjunction with a lecture at Rocky Mountain Film Center in 1978. This film owes much to Creeley's poetry and Edward Hopper's paintings, although no conscious consideration structured the working process - Hopper in the sense that Brian O'Doherty writes of the paintings as displaying 'an observed, an observer and a witness.'" –G.D.

"... where beads of light searching out 'the beloved' do pulse with the beat of the filmmaker's heart in perfect contrapuntal rhythm with all else in the frame of that sequence." – Stan Brakhage, World Film Festival of Canada

A 16mm film by Abbott Meader, made as a visual response to the poem "Standing Here," by Karen Andersen Woodard.

One of the structural films by Jadwiga Singer, showing relations between photo image, film record and reality. "Destruction" can also be interpreted as metaphor of Singer`s personal situation.

Two alien puppets go back in time and narrate nature videos.

This rare interview with Maciunas, the founder of Fluxus, took place a few months before his death in 1978. Maciunas discusses his famous chart, "Diagram of Historical Development of Fluxus and other Four Dimensional, Aural, Optic, Olfactory, Epithelial, and Tactile Art Forms," tracing influences ranging from John Cage and Marcel Duchamp to vaudeville and Spike Jones. This work offers invaluable insights into a celebrated artist and the forces that shaped the diverse Fluxus movement.

A document by Larry Miller

A film by Renata Breth

A film by Renata Breth