All Films

The Rite of Spring

1978 • 36 min

...Dancing to the border of exhaustion. Dressed in little, the black earth sticks to their skin. Yes, to the point where it hurts. A document of early Pina Bausch, an authentic recording of one of the most outstanding choreographies of the 20th century.

Return to the Edge of the World

1978 • 24 min • United Kingdom

Michael Powell makes a moving return trip to the remote island of Foula, forty years after he shot his first major feature there - 'The Edge of the World (1937)'.

Elvis Costello and The Attractions: Live on Rockpalast

1978 • 46 min • Germany

Elvis Costello and The Attractions perform live in Koln, Germany.

The Honeymooners Christmas Special

1978 • 49 min • United States of America

With a Christmas lotto radio show coming up, Ralph Kramden invests his mother-in-law's social security check, Ed Norton's Christmas bonus, and the Nortons' life savings into lottery tickets.

Dare, You Are Talented!

1978 • 53 min • Soviet Union

A film about an innovative method of learning a foreign language in just 24 sessions in Galina Kitaygorodskaya‘s method: "The method of activating the capabilities of the individual and the team", allows to activate mental processes (memory, perception, thinking, imagination) and emotional resources of the individual, which releases enormous creative energy, allowing students to easily and effectively process huge amounts of new information in a short time. It is a system of language teaching as a means of intercultural communication. The film shows the dynamics of two groups that started learning French and Russian from scratch. G. O. Kitaygorodskaya proved to be a fan of her work. She was not bothered by the camera, but she was not going to make up for it or pose for it: "No takes. I came to teach people the language." Here, every lesson is like a live script.

Sevilla tuvo que ser

1978 • 9 min • Spain

Fake documentary about Seville and its imaginary innovations in urbanism.

Sons of Haji Omar

1978 • 58 min • Canada

Haji Omar and his three sons belong to the Lakankhel, a Pashtoon tribal group in northeastern Afghanistan. The film focuses on his family: Haji Omar, the patriarch; Anwar, the eldest, his father's favorite, a pastoralist and expert horseman; Jannat Gul, cultivator and ambitious rebel; and Ismail, the youngest, attending school with a view to a job as a government official.

The Future

1978 • 30 min

A drama by Robert Holmes suggesting two possibilities for life in the year 2000.

The Beard

1978 • 10 min

Man versus facial hair

Skating

1978 • 3 min • United States of America

Juxtaposition and editing are used in this meditation on the human/environmental act of skating and its component parts.

Shall I See You Now?

1978 • 30 min

Carmel's new surroundings are not what she was expecting from a mental health institution.

Hoy es jueves cinematográfico

1978 • 4 min • Chile

It's Thursday, the day to go to the movies in Chile. Families see in the newspapers and advertisements the films that will be shown. Everything is prepared. A man attends a function and sitting in the audience, he gets excited when he sees his favorite images and actors on the big screen. The movie ends and the screen turns off. It is time to return to reality.

Camera/Cage

1978 • 3 min • United States of America

The Kite

1978 • 9 min • Soviet Union

A cautionary tale that happened to a girl. Unexpectedly, she has offended his friend, a little puppy, but failed to recognize and correct the error, in spite of the misunderstandings that have arisen due to the influx of emotions. In the end, friendship and good mood came back to our heroes.

The Set-Up

1978 • 17 min • United States of America

The Set-Up is Kathryn Bigelow's student film at Columbia about the exploration of 'why violence in cinematic form is so seductive'. It featured two men beating each other to a pulp in a dark alley, while two professors analyzed the philosophy of it all on the soundtrack.

Four Journeys Into Mystic Time: Mysterium

1978 • 14 min • United States of America

A pair of performers wearing bodysuits dance and balance together in this short film for director Shirley Clarke’s Four Journeys Into Mystic Time.

Vacuum Cleaner

1978 • 9 min • Soviet Union

A colourful animation about a red vacuum cleaner that threatens to swallow the whole world.

The Secret Life of Edward James

1978 • 54 min • United Kingdom

Documentary about Edward James, an aristocrat who patronized surrealist artists such as René Magritte, Leonora Carrington, and Salvador Dalí, among others. His life is a whole catalog of incredible moments that constitute the prelude to his final monument in the middle of the Mexican jungle: Las Pozas, a surreal garden filled with giant structures as useless as they are beautiful. James divorced his wife Tilly Losch in 1934, accusing her of adultery with Prince Serge Obolensky, an American hotel executive; her countersuit, in which she made it clear that James was homosexual, failed. James was actually bisexual. After the divorce, James joined a social set in England which included the Mitford sisters and the composer Lord Berners.

The Unquenchable Fire of Lycia

1978 • 58 min

The fourth film in the "Traces of Anatolian Civilizations" series, "The Unquenchable Fire of Lycia" consists of two 30-minute episodes. The documentary reflects the Lycian Civilization, another stop in the Anatolian people's civilizational evolution. Indeed, the Lycian Civilization is a "fire" that finds its historical continuity in the Anatolian people's resistance to independence. In a sense, it is a magnificent and unquenchable "fire." During the filming of the film, the Lycian region, located between Antalya and Fethiye, was meticulously scanned step by step in two separate seasons, consulting with expert scientists.

The Boy and the Butterfly

1978 • 6 min • Soviet Union

A film about a boy who loves flowers and butterflies, based on a short story by Anton Hansen Tammsaar. In his thoughtless pursuit of the butterfly, he shatters all the flowers in his path.

Dr Mohammad Iqbal

1978 • 20 min

A film is about the great Urdu poet, Mohammad Iqbal. He is reminisced by his son Justice Javed Iqbal, who says, "The centenary of AllamaIqbal, my father, which is being celebrated in India and Pakistan shows how his memory is still held in the two countries." Iqbal's Tarana-E-Hind or the Song of India became the battle song of freedom. The poet sang, "Religion does not teach us to hate each other. We are all Indians, and our homeland is this Hindustan of ours."Gandhiji in one of his Urdu letters wrote, "I have sung this song of Iqbal hundreds of times in jail." Iqbal was a poet of the revolution, who penned innumerable impassioned poems during his life time, which ended on April 21, 1938 when the sun of his glory was at its zenith.

Ciné regards: Jacques Tati

1978 • 27 min • France

Interview with the French film director, conducted for television in 1978.

Tree Film

1978 • 2 min • United States of America

The New Klan: Heritage of Hate

1978 • 59 min • United States of America

Documents Ku Klux Klan activities in California, Georgia, Chicago, and Ohio.