All Films

Nina Hagen Band - Live @ Rockpalast

1978 • 60 min

Since her solo debut in 1978, Nina Hagen has been considered the enfant terrible of the German music scene. Their shrill performances like the one on December 9, 1978, in Dortmund's Westfalenhalle remain unmatched to this day. There she and her band (the later Spliff) underlined their deserved status as the "Godmother of Punk".

Moomintroll and the Comet

1978 • 18 min • Soviet Union

Stop-motion animation. A comet is hurtling towards Earth. Moomintroll and friends travel to a mountaintop observatory to investigate.

Notes on the Popular Arts

1978 • 20 min

An exploration of American escapism through dream sequences. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

The Carpenters: A Christmas Portrait

1978 • 50 min • United States of America

Richard and Karen Carpenter host a musical celebration of the holiday with celebrity guests Gene Kelly, Georgia Engel, and Jimmy & Kristy McNichol.

L'évasion

1978 • 8 min • France

Jeunet and Caro capture the story of an attempted prison escape from the Prison de la Santé in Paris. As the escape artists travels through tunnels and squeeze his way through freshly cut bars, he finds himself in an endless labyrinth underneath the confining walls of solitude.

Neutronenfrieden?

1978 • 3 min

Playing children are hit by the neutron bomb. Their clothes remain behind which a business man collects and puts up for sale.

Three Sons-In-Law

1978 • 18 min • Soviet Union

Kahi and Baadur get a letter from Berik, who sent them photographs of women and a letter in which he informs them that he has decided to marry one of them. Having also decided to build their family life with unmarried others, the friends buy a hive of bees and set off on the train.

Lunch Break

1978 • 20 min • Soviet Union

During the lunch break, the employees hold sports competitions, where women consistently win, frustrating the chief, who finds himself in a comical situation while trying to restore men's prestige.

Masha Is Not Lazy Anymore

1978 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Rowing Across the Atlantic

1978 • 20 min • France

Newlyweds, Adelaide and Jonathan leave New York in 1907 in a boat and row, ignorant of world events, to Europe. The years pass and many things are changing them, love is gradually degrading to hatred, then indifference. Old age is almost here, and with it, in a last swim, a last embrace, husband and wife end up “alone at last.” The boat adrift, will be discovered on the shores of Europe in the year 1957

Stars' War: The Flight of the Wild Geese

1978 • 24 min

Promotional short film about the making of the 1978 film The Wild Geese.

A Tale of Lost Time

1978 • 19 min • Soviet Union

Three evil wizards from a gloomy enchanted forest littered with broken toys and school supplies enter the city through a secret door in the fence to find three lazy children who "waste time." Having found such lazy people - a schoolboy and a schoolgirl, sorcerers deceive them by deceiving them of the time that they thoughtlessly lost by skipping school. As a result, old people turn into big children, and children into little grandparents.

Poyga And The Fox

1978 • 16 min • Soviet Union

The fox helps Poyga the hunter find love and drive out the robbers from his native land.

Autumn Scenes

1978 • 20 min

“The film is in three parts, each one exploring the fragmentary experience of perception by resorting to various forms of temporal and spatial dislocation. ‘Concrete Fall’ and ‘Fergus Walking’ are both filmed from a moving viewpoint, and the camera motion is ‘converted’ through simple editing and printing procedures to register subtle depths in space, the layering between foreground and infinity. In ‘Packeted Passages’ I filmed with two synchronized cameras and fused the two views in the printing stage into one disintegrated screen space.” – William Raban

Within the Woods

1978 • 32 min • United States of America

The low budget film starring the young Bruce Campbell that influenced the Evil Dead films.

Christmas at Walt Disney World

1978 • 50 min

Holiday special from 1978 featuring various Disney characters.

House Specialty

1978 • 12 min • France

Sophie Tatischeff's short film set in the small town of Sainte-Sévère-sur-Indre, three decades after its use in her father's film 'Jour de Fête'. The conversation from a typical village bar is transplanted to a patisserie with particularly tempting tartlets: 'No reason for us not to have another' says one habitué; 'no more for me thanks,' says another. 'A shortbread at this time of day?' asks the woman behind the counter.

Merce by Merce by Paik

1978 • 27 min

Merce by Merce by Paik is a two-part tribute to choreographer Merce Cunningham and artist Marcel Duchamp. The first section, “Blue Studio: Five Segments”, is a work of video-dance produced by Merce Cunningham and videomaker Charles Atlas. The second part, produced by Paik and Shigeko Kubota, further queries the relationship between everyday gestures and formal notions of dance.

What Do We See After Closing Our Eyes and Stopping Our Ears?

1978 • 5 min • Poland

Non-camera style short film.

The Stableboy's Christmas

1978 • 27 min • United States of America

Ten-year old Tammy refuses to wrap a Christmas present intended for her cousin, hoping to keep the doll for herself. Later, through a dream, she travels back to Bethlehem to witness a little stableboy's act of unselfish love when he gives the Christ child his pet lamb. Tammy then realizes how sharing presents with others is a way of sharing God's love at Christmastime.

Contact

1978 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A man walking on the fields encounters an alien visitor from outer space.

Soup and Me

1978 • 24 min • United States of America

On the day of the Halloween party, Soup and Rob are finding plenty of ways to get into trouble: swimming in a local pond (though their mothers prohibit swimming so late in the year), pitching apples over a barn, and borrowing a cart which had drifted away from its owner. The grandest mischief of all, however, comes from their attempt to win the prize at the Halloween party, given to the entrant with the largest pumpkin.

Special Delivery

1978 • 7 min • Canada

A hapless husband neglects to clear the icy walk, which leads to the mailman slipping and breaking his neck. A comedy of errors results from his attempts to hide the body.

Three Dates with Genesis

1978 • 49 min

Documentary covering three gigs during Genesis' 1978 'And Then There Were Three...' tour.