Year 1978 - 284

Cardboard cut-outs explode, twirl, disintegrate and form shapes in a delightful, airy film that describes the journey through life, its inevitable ups and downs, and the final triumph of the person.

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

I have a fixed idea about the screen that while it has no depth, we know that it is sprayed by 24 frames a second at the same point for an infinite amount of time. Were it possible to freeze into a solid the sum of all the images, the screen would be seen as a limitless freezer of frames. Even more so, when the screen is a screen of a screen—a condition approaching the simultaneity of electronics. The usual battery of devices: Super-8, 16mm and slide projectors. A constructed series of film loops with scenes of [everyday] life, slowing down and accelerating the events on a solitary screen, so that life as it has been staged gathers itself up in a perpetual serial [process of] self-editing. On the tv screen a face is pierced through by the small filmic screen.

An exercise critical of the official culture, based on a performance of the Vivencial Group. Scenography in the streets, alongside monuments of Recife.

Changes of spatial relationships, scales, locations, and materials are intimated with recognisable clues which nevertheless do not always eliminate the former understanding of the images. These and other levels of ambiguity are instilled, which shake the photographic image’s authority as a principle of reality by confronting it with its illusory nature. We are back with magic, made possible with black and white film, shadows and lights, the limitations of the screen and the depth of field. So as when film grains, dots in deep space, disintegrate the solidity and enclosureness of a wall, the intentions of the film and the transforming events accumulate at a very intimate level of the viewer, that is at the level of the mechanism of his understanding.

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.

Seven students of the paranormal get in over their head.

"a revelation of the editing process ... done with remarkable care and precision ... The interrelationship between moving body and moving camera is heightened to the intensity of a struggle." Joyce Nelson

"A successful, young professional from San Francisco gives us a guided tour of his favourite objects and speculates on the latest new products he is thinking about buying." - MIFF

Documentary on the closing of Griswold Machine Works, a factory had manufactured film splicers for decades.

A mysterious genesis, in which abstract thought is constantly transformed into concrete substance, and the microscopic level of things interchanges with the macroscopic representation of the universe. - Culturgest

Animation that illustrates five of Augusto Monterroso's fables.

Nam-soon, who has come to Tokyo with a dream of becoming a singer, falls for the words of the drug dealer Cheon-ga and sacrifices her purity, but in the end is betrayed by him.

Calligrams Woody and Steina Vasulka 4:00 1970 Illuminatin' Sweeney Skip Sweeney 28:38 (ex. 5:00) 1975 Video Weavings Stephen Beck 28:00 1976 Five-Minute Romp Through the IP Dan Sandin 5:00 (ex. 4:00) 1973 Triangle in Front of Square in Front of Circle... Dan Sandin 3:00 1973 Video-Taping Ernie Gusella 5:00 1974 Exquisite Corpse Ernie Gusella 5:00 1978 Einstine Eric Siegel 6:00 1978 General Motors Phil Morton 1:00:00 (ex. 10:00) 1976 Merce by Merce by Paik Nam June Paik 30:00 1975 Crossings and Meetings Ed Emshwiller 27:33 (ex. 4:00) 1974 Complex Wave Forms Ralph Hocking 5:00 (ex. 4:00) 1977 Pictures of the Lost Barbara Buckner 23:00 (ex. 8:00) 1978 Video Locomotion Peer Bode 5:00 1978 Music on Triggering Surfaces Peer Bode 3:00 1978 C-Trend Woody Vasulka 3:00 (ex. 7:00) 1974 Switch! Monitor! Drift! Steina 4:00 1976

1978 German Super 8 short work

Official entry to the first Metro Manila Film Festival in 1978 directed by Romy Suzara and starred Rudy Fernandez, George Estregan, Trixia Gomez, Ruel Vernal, Raul Aragon, Dencio Padilla, Amy Austria, Rodolfo 'Boy' Garcia, Jose Romulo, and Veronica Jones

Art film part of the REWIND + PLAY, An Anthology of Early British Video Art box-set.

At twilight in Binghamton, two filmmakers exchange portraits.