All Films

Dancers

1978 • 29 min • United Kingdom

The members of the Ballet Rambert seen through their daily activities, including backstage, during rehearsals and performances, as well as in class and home settings.

All the Troubles of the World

1978 • 22 min • United States of America

Depicts the not too distant future when computers have been so perfected that the largest directs the world's economy, science and human psychology. Presents a story about an assassination threat against Multivac, a computer that directs much of the world's economic and human existence, and how this threat draws everyone together.

Three from Prostokvashino

1978 • 17 min • Soviet Union

Little Fedor brings a cat to home despite his mother's distaste for cats. He runs away with his talking cat, to make more friends on the way.

The Back Page

1978 • 30 min

And a warm welcome to a very cold valley! Charlton Athletic are playing Notts County and things are livening up in the Press Box.

Lucia Chase Vignette

1978 • 2 min

Lucia Eames chases a little boy after he steals her diary. It is one of 6 shorts made to display the use of Polavision.

Travellers

1978 • 30 min

As Old William stands in an autumnal Yorkshire graveyard at his wife's funeral, a young man's face strikes an uncanny chord and brings back memories of his past

Ad vitam aeternam

1978 • 10 min • Belgium

A man remains dazed and confused after his wife's death. Strange things start happening in his house. The next day the undertaker comes to collect the body.

Miracles in the Sieve

1978 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A bizarre cartoon based on English nursery rhymes.

Prisoners of Conscience

1978 • 45 min • India

An early Patwardhan documentary completed in 1978, Prisoners of Conscience focuses on the state of emergency imposed by Indira Ghandi from June 1975 through March 1977. During this time over 100,000 people were arrested without charge and imprisoned without trial. They were released only by the government that replaced Ghandi's. The film also shows that political prisoners existed in India before the state of emergency and continued after the new government was elected.

Art Lives Series: Joan Miro

1978 • 55 min

With his seemingly naïve, symbolic paintings, Joan Miró formed a new artistic language in the 20th century. Brought up in Barcelona, the painter, graphic artist and sculptor was drawn to Paris and, under the influence of the surrealists, developed his unique style and poetic imagery that unite Catalan folk art and fantastic elements. Robin Lough followed the 85-year-old Miró to theatre rehearsals and went to see him in his studio on Majorca. There he met with an amazingly creative and disciplined artist, whose visionary pictures paved the way for abstract expressionism.

Inside Women Inside

1978 • 21 min • United States of America

This film exposes the daily humiliation regularly faced by women in U.S. prisons using firsthand accounts of inmates at the North Carolina Correctional Center for Women and the Correctional Institute for Women at Riker's Island, New York.

Alternative

1978 • 10 min • Bulgaria

A tourist bus is driving along the road. In front of him is a man who wants to tell the passengers something. On the bus are drunk men, a writer, an Arab sheikh, a prostitute, a priest, a hunter, a boxer, and a Japanese woman. None of them pays attention to the warning. They even mock the person and threaten him. Only when the bus falls into the abyss does it become clear that the person wanted to prevent the disaster.

Ciné regards: Jacques Tourneur

1978 • 27 min • France

Interview with film director Jacques Tourneur which first appeared on the French television series "Ciné regards".

Still Moving/Patti Smith

1978 • 13 min • United States of America

Short film by photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. A portrait of Patti Smith.

Olivia

1978 • 60 min • United States of America

This one hour special, aired May 17, 1978, features Olivia singing many of her hits with special guests Andy Gibb, ABBA, the Southern Californian Community Choir, and Gary Frank.

The Magino Village Story: Pass

1978 • 43 min • Japan

This rural documentary features poet Jin Makabe. Thoughts about agriculture, memories, landscapes.

Hip Hip Parade!

1978 • 28 min • United States of America

Hip Hip Parade! was a primetime special promoting the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, originally broadcast on PBS stations throughout Thanksgiving week 1978. Hosting the special were Kermit the Frog and Fozzie Bear, of The Muppet Show fame.

Magnus och Brasse: Det är serverat

1978 • 60 min • Sweden

DET ÄR SERVERAT inspelad 1978 på Berns Salonger i Stockholm. Härenstam och Brännström framför sketcher som "Ouvertyr med arg servitör", "Goddag, God dag", "De ä bar å åk! I helvete heller!" "Kirurgerna".

Wood Mountain Poems

1978 • 28 min • Canada

In this short documentary, Canadian poet Andrew Suknaski introduces us to Wood Mountain, the south central Saskatchewan village he calls home. In between musings on his poetry, which is tinged with nostalgia and the vast loneliness of the plains, the poet discusses the area’s multicultural background and Native heritage, as well as the customs and stories of these various ethnic groups.

Rätt ut i luften

1978 • 52 min • Sweden

An actress is interviewed in front of a studio audience by a "TV personality".

Pink and Shovel

1978 • 7 min • United States of America

The Pink Panther buries a $5 bill, and tries to get it back after a hotel is built on top of it.

Vertical Features Remake

1978 • 45 min • United Kingdom

Vertical Features Remake is a film by Peter Greenaway. It portrays the work of a fictional Institute of Reclamation and Restoration as they attempt to assemble raw footage taken by ornithologist Tulse Luper into a short film, in accordance with his notes and structuralist film theory. The footage consists mostly of vertical landscape features, such as trees and posts, shot in the English landscape.

J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai vs. Gorenger

1978 • 23 min • Japan

While investigating a UFO in the Sky Ace, J.A.K.Q. is caught off guard by the return of Iron Claw, with the Big Four now leading the remnants of Crime and the Black Cross Army.

Père Lachaise Cemetery

1978 • 5 min

Sarah Maldoror’s camera roams the famous flagstones and foliage of Père Lachaise, visiting its nooks and cats, to the sound of poems such as Liberté, by Paul Éluard.