1978 Movies

"Inspired by a passage from Sergei Eisenstein’s Film Form, this film explores relationships between film and language while playfully challenging the...

Corvo Island is the smallest island in the Archipelago of the Azores, in the Atlantic Ocean. Its area is 17 square km and its population 390. These im...

It takes all sorts of people to make up a Railway, both passengers and staff and we meet a variety of them in this film. We see a number of common eve...

From Frederick Rossiff's Savage Opera series.

A short TV documentary made to prepare the audience at the time to the premiere of Manoel de Oliveira's "Doomed Love" (TV version). Called "Episode Ze...

Les Vrais Perdants examines the subject of childhood education within the context of our competition-driven society. As they help children develop the...

Portrait of architect Aldo van Eyck (1918-1999). Van Eyck is the son of poet and journalist Pieter Nicolaas van Eyck. He talks about his childhood in...

A scientist aids two brothers who are attacked by a rampaging zombie as they take a short cut through their local graveyard.

Documentary about pop music artist Shinji Harada.

Prakash is called in to investigate the theft of diamonds and the kidnapping of scientists; a trail that takes him to distant Nepal.

The filmed image is liberated from the shackles of representation of an external reality, becoming autonomous and spatial; the sound drifts and is reg...

Excavation of the Broch at Bu of Cairston by John Hedges in 1978. The broch is located in Stromness, Orkney.

A story about a teenagers confrontation with the adult world, in poetic and slightly melancholic mood. Benas is not an adult yet but not a child any m...

Die Vertreibung aus dem Paradies is not a conventional portrait of an artist, but rather, documents the creation of the eponymous painting by Franz Ri...

Silhouette animation with pet frog.

Film in three parts: (1) Paranorama 3 and 4: a handmade Région Centrale. At once observation and description of the realm of vision, of what is possi...

“The difference between a computer and people is absurdity”: this phrase, one of the first heard in Matheo Yamalakis’s film, is the key to a documenta...

MUNDIAL 78 is a humorous depiction of the controversial 1978 football World Cup that took place during the Argentinian dictatorship

Legends say that St. Brendan crossed the Atlantic in the sixth century. Tim Severin made the trip to see if the legend might be fact.