Year 1978 - 281

Documentary on Mikhail Naimy (1889-1988)

A pregnant woman sitting near a window is replaced with a child, an adult and a senior citizen in subsequent edits, revealing the cycle of life.

Based on the book Undertaker of Tales and 40 Barbarities by Roman Leonardo Picón.

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…

In a parallel universe, where a sauna bath represents the policies of ancient Rome, the poet Gómez Rojas and a group of Socialist men try to free their fellow prisoners from the judge, tyrant and teacher, Astorquiza.

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

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

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