All Films - Short Movie Database

Tasteful Romance

1978 • 7 min

UCLA Animation Workshop Student Film. Animated film about lips kissing.

Arrow Creek

1978 • 6 min

Filmed on the Crow Indian reservation at Crow Agency, Montana, ARROW CREEK poetically interweaves elements that creates metaphors on cultural themes through sound/image juxtaposition (such as bull riding and the sound of a mass).

Review 32nd Year No 1

1978 • 10 min

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

Sleeping Dogs (Never Lie)

1978 • 10 min

The day they filled all that gravel in front of Jack and Jerry's old studio on Venice Blvd. A yellow bird fascinated by reflection. Several views from the San Francisco Marine Museum on a gray day in December. Three views of Mercer Street, New York after the second big snowstorm of January, '78. Several fogs, a strange puddle, and a female Husky induced to howl by humans. (This film is perhaps best seen after one of the others, like a "chaser.")

Ritmes cromàtics

1978 • 5 min • Spain

Artigas uses direct painting on or celluloid, opting for total abstraction, without figurative concessions.

Boy Meets Girl

1978 • 10 min • Spain

1978 Spanish experimental short

Highway 61 Revisited

1978 • 11 min

A souped-up paean to sex, violence and all-around rowdy behavior.

Mouvement in the Inside of My Left Hand

1978 • 7 min

1978 Linda Christanell experimental short

Kubis

1978 • 4 min • Indonesia

An experimental short of simple but stimulating visuals, accompanied by a rousing Philip Glass soundtrack.

Hammer and Sickle

1978 • 6 min

1978 German Super 8 short work

The Tale of Bacho and His Mother

1978 • 18 min • Soviet Union

Based on the fairy tale of the same name by O. Ioseliani. About the little boy Bacho, who helped the forest animals that had run away from home return to their mothers.

O Lento, Seguro, Gradual e Relativo Strip-tease do Zé Fusquinha

1978 • 4 min • Brazil

Giraffe and glasses

1978 • 9 min

An animated film about how a giraffe broke her glasses, went to the pharmacy to buy new ones, but on the way she spent money on a hat, scarf, stockings and it turned out that there was nothing to buy glasses for.

Toque de queda

1978 • 57 min

A woman is expecting a child while her husband is in prison for political reasons.

X/78 Rheinhafen

1978 • 12 min

A day at Basel's Rhine harbor during a time when the city was still characterized by industry. Changing light, reflections, moving shadows, and the undulating surface of the water dominate the film; images alternate between panoramic views of the port with its industrial plants and ships and close-up shots of bollards, quays, and individual parts of buildings. The calm images and the silence (the film lacks sound) convey a peaceful atmosphere that contrasts with the usually noisy industrial harbor.

Jacka V.C.

1978 • 47 min

Documentary about the First World War hero and later St. Kilda Mayor. Today Albert Jacka is almost forgotten, yet his heroic feats captured the imagination of a generation. In the early decades of the century he personified the archetypal Australian.

Ex-communion

1978 • 12 min • France

Michel Journiac's actions (1935-1995) are unique works and have never been repeated (except for the first, Mass for a body, 1969). Only photographs, films or videos testify to their existence.

Inventário de um Feudalismo Cultural Nordestino

1978 • 11 min • Brazil

An exercise critical of the official culture, based on a performance of the Vivencial Group. Scenography in the streets, alongside monuments of Recife.