8 – 15 Luglio / July 1978

Fant’America 2.0
L’artista muggesano Dante Pisani firma l’immagine del Festival numero sedici.
Accanto alla programmazione dei film in concorso va in onda il secondo capitolo della rassegna inaugurata l’anno precedente: Fant’America 2 si concentra sui serials statunitensi antecedenti il 1941, recuperati dallo staff de La Cappella Underground insieme a Stuart Rosenthal.

Fant’America 2.0
Dante Pisani, an artist from Muggia, signs the 16th Festival edition image.
Aside from the films taking part in the contest, Fant’America 2 takes place. It is the second part of the exhibition which started the previous year and it focuses on the serials from USA before 1941, recovered by the Cappella Underground staff and Stuart Rosenthal.
giuria / jury
Jacques Duchateau
Walter Ernsting
Enrico Fulchignoni
Gianni Rondolino
Philip Strick
eventi / events
Fant’America. Serials
Retrospettiva_Retrospective
Il futuro dell’energia
Convegno internazionale_International conference
Jules Verne. Il 150esimo anniversario della nascita
Mostra_Exhibition
Asteroide d’oro
Operation Ganymed
Rainer Erler
Asteroide d’argento
agli extraterrestri
/ to extraterrestrials

in Laserblast
Sigillo d’oro Città di Treiste
Bewitching Eyes
Piotr Szulkin
Premio speciale giuria
Spaceborne
Philip Dauber
Premio speciale giuria
L’intelletto dell’universo
Victor Milioti

Feature Film

End of the World
— John Hayes
Five Seconds to Disaster
[5 minuti alla catastrofe – Za pyat sekund do katastrofy]
— Anatoliy Ivanov
How About a Plate of Spinach?
[Což takhle dát si špenát]
— Václav Vorlíček
Laserblast
[L’uomo laser]
— Michael Rae
Mansion of the Doomed
[Terrore nel buio]
— Michael Pataki
USA, 1976, 89′
Photo Souvenir
— Edmond Séchan
Prey
[Terrore ad Amityville Park]
— Norman J. Warren
Operation Ganymed
[Operazione Ganymed]
— Rainer Erler
Uchû senkan Yamato
[Corazzata Spaziale Yamato]
— Yshinobu Nishikazi
Unsichtbare Gegner
— Valie Export

Shorts

Alternative 3
— Christopher Miles
UK, 1977, 56′
Dedalo
— Manfredo Manfredi
Italy, 1976, 12′
The Glitterball
— Harley Cokeliss
UK, 1977, 56′
Hardware Wars
— Ernie Fosseline
USA, 1978, 13′
L’intelletto dell’universo
— Victor Millioti
URSS, 30′
Lidérc
— Peter Gardos
Hungary, 1977, 13′
Le motard de l’apocalypse
— Richard Oliver
Belgium, France, 1977, 12′
Oczy Uroczne
— Piotr Szulkin
Poland, 1976, 41′
Permesso di sbarco
— Riki Shelach
Israel, 21′
Sjena na suprotnom zidu
— Bruno Gamulin
Yugoslavia, 1977, 20′
Spaceborne
— Philip Dauber
USA, 1977, 14′
Un viaggio nel paese degli inventori
— Vladimir Kogay
URSS, 30′

Retrospettiva

Fant’America.
Serials
Buck Rogers
— Ford Beebe,
Saul A. Goodkind
USA, 1939
Dick Tracy
— Ray Taylor,
Alan James
USA, 1937
The Exploits of Elaine
[I misteri di New York]
— Louis J. Gasnier,
George B. Seitz
USA, 1914
Flash Gordon conquers the universe
[Flash Gordon – Il conquistatore dell’universo]
— Ford Beebe,
Ray Tailor
USA, 1940
Mighty Mouse
— Paul Terry
USA, 1942-1948
The Miracle Rider
— Amand Schaefer,
Breezy Reeves Eason
USA, 1935
Outside the Law
[Il fuorilegge]
— Tod Browning
USA, 1921, 75′
The Phantom Creeps
— Ford Beebe,
Saul Goodkind
USA, 1939
The Phantom Empire
— Otto Brower,
Breezy Reeves Eason
USA, 1935
The Power God
— Ben Wilson,
Francis Ford
USA, 1925
The Return of Chandu
— Ray Taylor
USA, 1934, 208′
Superman
— Dave Flaischer
USA 1941-1943
Undersea Kingdom
— Breezy Reeves Eason,
Joseph Kane
USA, 1936