All Films

Merry Christmas Doctor Who

1978 • 1 min • United Kingdom

The Doctor, Romana and K9 drink in the TARDIS in celebration of Christmas.

Splits

1978 • 27 min • United States of America

Based on “Emma Zunz,” a short story by Jorge Luis Borges, the film moves through the internal voices of Emma’s character, whose evolution between crime, revenge and justice assumes—read from the context of the social struggles of the 60s and 70s—a decidedly political character.

The Lundstroms: Colorado Christmas

1978 • 52 min • United States of America

Music and Christmas joy from the beautiful Rockies.

Mate mal y bien

1978 • 10 min

Recovered Zulueta short.

Latest Fashion ('78 Spring-Summer)

1978 • 14 min

Fashion film directed by Gábor Bódy. Screened in retrospective at Alternative Film/Video Belgrade Festival 2014.

Watch That Space

1978 • 17 min

Colin Welland presents this confined spaces training video from the Health and Safety Executive, detailing the hazards of entering any confined space without the neccessary awareness, training & equipment.

Howard Hawks: A Hell of a Good Life

1978 • 58 min • Germany

Documentary featuring the last filmed interview with director Howard Hawks

The Carpenters... Space Encounters

1978 • 60 min • United States of America

Take a magical, musical trip through time and space with the Carpenters and their guests... including a "Star Wars/Close Encounters" fantasy that will dazzle and delight you.

Yankee Doodle Pink

1978 • 6 min • United States of America

During the American Revolution, the Pink Panther is sent to notify townsfolk that the Redcoats are coming. (Reissue of "Pinky Doodle" 1976).

My Friend, the Semaphore

1978 • 9 min • Soviet Union

An educational short on road safety for children.

She's a Railroader

1978 • 10 min • Canada

Karen Zaitchik jumps on and off moving boxcars, throws switches, pulls brakes and uncouples freights with ease and confidence. She's a railroader for CN and that's what this 21-year-old highly individualistic woman wants out of life for the moment. This colourful short film shows how Karen manages in the traditionally male world of the railroad.

Vestibule (In 3 Episodes)

1978 • 25 min • United States of America

...a meditation on a familiar New York city space in which memories, fantasies and the maniacial interwine.

Ramones: Live at Musikladen

1978 • 52 min

Live performance of original punk rockers The Ramones on the West German television show 'Der Musikladen' in 1978. The band's 50-minute set features some of their best-loved hits such as 'Blitzkrieg Bop', 'Sheena Is a Punk Rocker' and 'Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment'.

Budworks

1978 • 35 min • Canada

Through the 1980's in every Canadian province east of Saskatchewan, except Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, chemical insecticides are sprayed from the air onto the forests to combat the spruce budworm and other forest insects. The focus is on the province of New Brunswick whose spraying began in 1952. It explores who both sprayers and anti-sprayers are, the role of government, the economics and the health issues surround the aerial application of insecticides.

Chairmen

1978 • 13 min • Canada

This short animated film presents an allegorical portrait of a society where men have lost their autonomy in the struggle to be recognized by the very society that restricts their freedom.

The Secret of Rented Island

1978 • 10 min

Presents Jack Smith in a perfomance entitled Rented Island, an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts.

Liquid Crystals

1978 • 6 min • France

Title cards introduce images we watch without narration; they are displays of shape and color. François de Roubaix's electronic music accompanies these images, photographed under a polarizing microscope. The crystals appear to move like tiny organisms: small four-part fans share the frame with flowing lines of pink. Multiple patterns appear side by side.

Låt er inte förföras

1978 • 30 min • Sweden

"Don't Be Seduced" - Gothenburg's Brecht-ensemble performs songs and texts of Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill and Hanns Eisler.

Make Me Psychic

1978 • 8 min • United States of America

Anita the duck buys a psychic device at a novelty store in an alternate universe and creates mayhem at a crazy party.

Double Strength

1978 • 20 min • United States of America

Four stages of a lesbian relationship explored in an experimental film starring performance artists Terry Sendgraff and Barbara Hammer on suspended trapezes and ropes.

Fergus Walking

1978 • 3 min

Directed by William Raban.

Black Beauty

1978 • 47 min • Australia

This heart warming adaptation of the timeless novel tells the story of the courageous stallion Black Beauty, a well-bred horse in the 19th century England.

People Wither Like Leaves...

1978 • 4 min • Poland

A study of human transience, interrupted by the unchanging image of factory chimneys that smoke without pause.

The Light Princess

1978 • 56 min • United Kingdom

Based on a short story by George MacDonald, a princess experiences constant weightlessness.