1978 Movies

Produced by NASA contractor Rockwell International, this circa 1978 film was made shortly before the successful Apollo-Soyuz space mission. It is foll...

A cinematic poem in which he makes a visual reflection on death in pre-Columbian Peru based on the observation of the ruins of Huaycán and Puruchuco.

Narrated by Pulitzer prize winning author N. Scott Momaday, the program attempts to rectify misconceptions about early Native Americans, demonstrating...

Gay erotic short film.

Nineteen images in black, sepia, and white light.

A precursor to Lucier's later works, in which light is used as metaphor, Bird's Eye is an evocative formalist exercise in which Lucier explores light...

How can one film nothing, how to depict infinity in a film? A camera pointed towards the sky registers one such attempt. The infinite sky in the frame...

Presents a four-part series of trigger films designed to raise the consciousness of young adult audiences in an effort to reduce rape among acquaintan...

A group of five-year-olds visits a cobbler's workshop.

A young man must deliver a newspaper that is published secretly to its readers. But he has not returned home.

The film shows a single-row beet harvester in action during the sugar beet harvest. The topping of the beets is shown at normal speed. The test condit...

1978. 10mins.

A pregnant woman sitting near a window is replaced with a child, an adult and a senior citizen in subsequent edits, revealing the cycle of life.

Like us, sometime typically between mid-November and Christmas, Vertical Horizon awakens to a white blanket borne over the once-familiar landscape. T-...

16mm short from 1978. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.

Directed by David Bishop.