1978 Movies

We begin with a fragmented portrait of Činča, between the stories she tells and the thoughts of those surrounding her. In The Head, a girl is confront...

Experimental film by Nesya Shapiro Blue.

An ethnographic documentary which looks at the relationship between music and work in predominantly rural cultures. It depicts the lives of fisherman,...

In 1976 there were only a few thousand tons of oil on the coast. In 1978, 230,000 ; It was too late to shed tears.

The Kings Road punks go on a day trip - to 10 Downing Street! - in this edition of Captain Zip's Video Trip

"Shot in 1975 or 1976, edited in 1978. Shot in the fallow garden of the abandoned apartment house where I lived, nearly squatted." - Jim Otis

The "exquisite corpse" named in the title of this piece refers to a favorite game of the Surrealists, played by passing a folded sheet of paper among...

Part of BFI's "National Coal Board Collection".

Ellen on the Rope is an energetically expressive study of performer Ellen Fisher working out on the rope in her Lodge Hall rehearsal space, itself a h...

This documentary shows how Icelanders maintain the salmon stock in their rivers. It includes scenes from salmon fishing in the river Laxá í Kjós, the...

A young emigrant rediscovers the culture of Kabylie during a visit to his uncle.

Short film about the tanks of the NVA (army of the German Democratic Republic)

A special documentary takes a look at the youth gangs of Helsinki using a multivocal approach.

From Frederick Rossiff's Savage Opera series.

A feature film with documentary inserts about freedom of speech in Norwegian film, from the "witch" dance in Hønefoss in 1977, to the challenging of N...

Short film by Público founder Vicente Jorge Silva.

Super-8 short film by Andrés Valencia.

That’s Entertainment/The Conjuror’s Assistants is an attempt to reveal some problems inherent in vérité documentary such as voyeurism, the nature/exte...