Year 1978 - 283

A film by Toney W. Merritt

Composed in twenty-two movements that coalesce into a haunting psychic journey, the enigmatic Pictures of the Lost evokes states of heightened consciousness, symbolic and ritual gesture, and spiritual transformations. Buckner's dreamlike, rhythmic visions, rendered in saturated hues, create a perceptual tension between abstraction and recognition. Elusive images unfold like silent apparitions. -EAI

In the intense, original Punk Rock scene at the Mabuhay Gardens (the only club in town which would allow it), the Avengers, Dils, Mutants, Sleepers, and UXA played a benefit for striking Kentucky coal miners (“Punks Against Oppression!”), raising $3300.

A video of Betty Kaplowitz in performance

A series of exemplary visual elements unfold in many generations of images. The erotic scene which initiates this swirl maintains its persistent and non-consumable essence in the clash with nostalgia and fears, facts and dreams, memory’s debris. Ode to the invincible Eros.

This film is composed of 4 sections, corresponding to the four directions radiating out from a single house. They are as follows: 1 - daytime, facing east, with animation, desert from a window; 2 - daytime, facing south, with same animation, desert from a window; 3 - daytime, facing west, doghouse from a window; 4 - night, in front of a fireplace on the north wall; animation. The early pleasures are in the texture of the paper on the desert in the 1st two sections, side-lit (like a sea or dimpled skin), and the sun's first ray on the curled corner; the thrill of the comparison of places. Then maybe, the thrill that they actually exist in the same time and place, and are not contrived in an optical printer; then to learn that the fades in and out of the animation are by changes in the natural light. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2007.

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.

Educational film that deals with proper conduct of army officers.

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

An experimental short.

Biographical program on Camilo Pessanha, a poet associated with the movement of symbolism in the Portuguese language, led by Danilo Barreiros, writer and researcher, highlighting his stay in Macao and the influence that Chinese culture and art had on his work.

A parabol about the despised ones of the Earth.

An art bondage film by punk-feminist and dominatrix Lisa Baumgardner.

Ritual for Third World Women Artists

A day at Basel's Rhine harbor during a time when the city was still characterized by industry. Changing light, reflections, moving shadows, and the undulating surface of the water dominate the film; images alternate between panoramic views of the port with its industrial plants and ships and close-up shots of bollards, quays, and individual parts of buildings. The calm images and the silence (the film lacks sound) convey a peaceful atmosphere that contrasts with the usually noisy industrial harbor.