1978 Movies

An abstract kaleidoscope of colors and shapes made using image processing, with a soundtrack influenced by traditional Asian folk music.

Early work of the celebrated director.

Documentary about people who survive by collecting garbage in Curitiba.

British Transport film.

Presents the life and philosophy of Eduardo Calderon, a Peruvian folk healer. Includes his methods of diagnosis and a curing ceremony.

black and white, 16mm, silent

An experimental film containing many dark, brooding images: nighttime expressway traffic and street scenes, diner interior, etc.

Heather McAdams films herself in (none-too-convincing) drag while lip-syncing to a record claiming to spur breast growth through hypnosis in this earl...

'Each Peach Pear Plum' is a classic picture book that won the Kate Greenaway Medal. In pictures and words, it introduces the very youngest of readers...

The story of a Northwestern Drifter who has already wasted a quarter of his life and gets by with a full tank of gas and $200. Lyle is a lonely Northw...

A hilariously cruddy parody of micro budget sci-fi schlock

The black-and-white images of the round-trip zooms in the Eira courtyard gate gangs slide over each other to form a hypnotic choreography of the film...

In 1977 the Vasulkas were commissioned by public television to create six half-hour programs for broadcast on WNED in Buffalo, New York. In the result...

Short documentary segment for Twin Cities Public Television, St. Paul, MN, about Clarence and Harold Black at their service station in Jacksonville, I...

The artist's own room in Helsinki as seen in a deliberately unsightly manner. According to Oka, the film is "strongly inspired by Peter Gidal."

A group of boys discover that their village cannot afford the sacrificial cattle required for a traditional circumcision ceremony, so they decide to s...

Arthur (Grandpa) Stavig takes us on a journey through the various trolls which once called Norway their home.