1978 Movies

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

A short experimental film about depression

The Stool Becomes the Ladder was made in 1978, using techniques of video feedback, quantizing levels and chroma, and simple downstream text. The stool...

In college days, Mi-Nu, So-Hee, and Si-Hyeong were friendly each other. When both Mi-Nu and So-Hee promise to get married, Si-Hyeong gives blessing fo...

“An interior, edited in-camera portrait of Jessie Sarafina Bernard, in late afternoon summer sun. Warmly regarded.” (J.B.)

A footballer ending his career takes up a job as an engineer.

The history of abortion legislation in Norway

Ford’s bracingly intimate and reflexive documentary on time and change was filmed over four years and focuses on a small group of male filmmakers and...

A group of little monsters fight for a coin in a dark corner on a bookshelf.

Marius Hugo, a young medical student, has one great love in his life: his future career as a doctor, where he can serve people and thus make the world...

An exploration of light in its myriad aspects: glowing, glittering, sparkling, twinkling, peeking through tree branches or perforations.

Sitapur-based Mangala lives with her widowed mother and seven brothers, and is of marriageable age. Wealthy Banke Thakur would like to wed her, but sh...

The film tells the story of Hans and Peter, who protested in the Johannesburg ghetto in 1976. There, they witnessed the murder of 300 black pupils and...

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

At venues such as Southern Exposure in San Francisco and Some Serious Business in Venice, California, Wiehl performed Arrowcatcher, creating a sculptu...

A short film about the Belgian sculptor Georges Grard, made during his last exhibition in 1977, which places human beings above all else.

Wedding song: friend Tom Cleveland gave me one roll of film and camera to shoot his wedding ceremony in bride’s ancestral Charlotte, N.C. house rainy...