1978 Movies

Experimental film by Alida Walsh

No Commercial Potential is composed of 19 separate video performance works. Each piece utilizes some aspect of video processing; From the playful to t...

In "Happy Birthday, I'm 40" Walsh unites mythological symbols and experimental film processes in a public comment upon our culture's preoccupation wi...

West Side Highway was first screened by filmmaker Donald J Pollock on a super 8mm print at an open screening at the Millennium Film Workshop on East 4...

An elaborate screenplay and an orthodox direction that avoids waste. And the right technique and actors to support it. The staff of the Keio 8mm Cine...

A recording of a multimedia installation for two synchronized Super 8 projectors and ten transpar-ent projection surfaces arranged in the shape of a t...

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

“It may be important to note that I received a 1978 Canada Council Film Production Grant for an experimental "frame of reference" film, Splitstream, b...

Between ever-present splices, a circular mirror reflects a pendulating tire swing.

A film by Arturas Barysas, one of Lithuania's "counter-culture" avant-garde pioneers.

Cylinder, Sphere and Solid opens with a white screen. A performer enters from the right side and draws a black circle. He continues to draw and finall...

"... where beads of light searching out 'the beloved' do pulse with the beat of the filmmaker's heart in perfect contrapuntal rhythm with all else in...

"I picked up the telephone one day and somehow got cross-connected into a conversation between a couple talking about the simple experiences of their...

She plays with the sand. Anonymous Dahomean music: percussion by two stones of four pieces of wood placed on the legs of the instrumentalist. This mus...