1978 Movies

This very short documentary from the Hinterland Who’s Who series introduces viewers to the black bear.

The film portrays the story of a couple, who face the conflicts between fantasy and reality of their marriage, through a journey. The woman leaves the...

Three male voices dissect one edition of The New York Times through a series of locked-off shots, revealing the prejudice and latent content of news a...

An interview-based documentary broadcast by the BBC in May 1978, made to coincide with a season dedicated to King at London’s National Film Theatre (n...

A short film directed by Daniel Filho.

An young agronomist insists to start using a new corn variety, but the collective farm chief is against it.

Uruguayan filmmakers in exile document aspects of social reality in Peru. The town of Mariscal Cáceres, which its inhabitants call La Mejorada, is lef...

Two humorous stories about a man who cuts down a tree he is sitting on.

Documentary tribute to the Egyptian singer Abdel Halim Hafez produced in 1977 consisting of archive images of the singer during his visit to Paris in...

A short film.

Franz and Martha settle down in an abandoned house. For Franz, it means an end to their continual moving around and it also means that he will sleep i...

PASS/FAIL is a fictional drama about the struggle of a Black filmmaker to raise funds for a socially relevant documentary. The film provides a portrai...

A close-up of the artist slowly cutting her own tongue with a razor blade, letting blood spill from her mouth.

8mm film by Swiss artist Roman Signer.

It is a wooden silver-retrieving sluice, thus light-catch awash with something like "cheek and jowl clippings of Argentine bulls" (as Hollis Frampton...

Community work as a celebration to build an institutional space for the people.

The starting point for the film is the problems surrounding political power over the mass media, and the right of different groups to express their vi...

Narcisa Hirsch was born on 16 January under the sign of Capricom. These diaries labelled Capricorn 78 show an approach to everyday life with unusual t...

A young agricultural conductor, Pedro goes to Alentejo to work in a farm, in March 1974. The contact with the workers and the experience of their prob...