What Am I Doing Here

What Am I Doing Here 1978

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A playing with words, narrative, and performance…..A display of my fantasies, fears, and mundane realities……A narcissistic reflection and indulgence in my ecstasies, torments, and humorous nuances….A personal journey through the question ‘What am I Doing Here?’ and the endless attempts to answer it. Jean Sousa

1978

La Femme n’est plus ce qu’elle était

La Femme n’est plus ce qu’elle était 1978

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A parody of feminist criticism on found footage covered by humoristic chisellings, signs or hasty figurative elements. Sometimes, chisellings are fine, and sometimes they are treated in large shots (razor tears, acid, cutting the film itself, wide spraying, thick stamps). A bedsheet is used as the final screen from which various women's evocations are represented.

1978

The Red Bowmen

The Red Bowmen 1978

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Every year, a ritual known as ida is performed by the Umeda people, who inhabit the dense primary forest of the Waina-Sawanda district of West Sepik, Papua New Guinea. Ida, the central social and cultural drama of the Umeda, is a fertility ritual, in which a dominant theme is the metamorphosis of the cassowaries. An ethnography by anthropologist Alfred Gell, Metamorphosis of the Cassowaries, complements the film.

1978

The Song of Rio Jim

The Song of Rio Jim 1978

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What is film? The spectator will be able to imagine all possible Westerns and anti-Westerns.

1978

Lebens-Geschichte des Bergarbeiters Alphons S.

Lebens-Geschichte des Bergarbeiters Alphons S. 1978

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In eight parts, Alphons S. tells the story of his life as a child and teenage miner in the Ruhr region, as a vagrant traveling across Germany in the 1920s, as a farm worker on estates in Mecklenburg, as an anarchist and left-wing socialist—but above all as an intelligent and alert witness to everyday history from 1906 to 1939.

1978

Intercourse With...

Intercourse With... 1978

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In this haunting performance, Wilke conflates the private and the public as autobiographical theater. The audience "eavesdrops" on a series of phone messages intended for Wilke, recorded from her answering machine. This voice-over litany of messages becomes an intimate if one-sided narrative of Wilke's life, a diary of personal and professional relationships — family, lovers, friends, colleagues — that is oddly elegiac. Wilke strips to reveal that her body is covered with the names of the individuals we have heard speaking; she then methodically removes the names until all traces have disappeared.

1978

Sun, Wind and Wood

Sun, Wind and Wood 1978

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This short documentary film illustrates the various ways people fight the high cost of energy by devising ingenious ways to use wood, the sun, and the wind. The film highlights one such project named the Ark. Using natural systems only, this bio-shelter ingeniously provides housing, heat, food and electricity for an entire family.

1978

Things Are Different Now

Things Are Different Now 1978

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With the help of his grandfather and a friend, a teenager learns to cope with his parents' divorce.

1978

Batsu

Batsu 1978

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An experimental short.

1978

Optocht

Optocht 1978

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Four persons travel by rail to visit a city. On arrival they take a bicycle to continue their tour and join occasionally a passing protest manifestation. The camera is never far off their trail.

1978