All Films

Trio A

1978 • 10 min

First performed in 1966, Trio A consists of an approximately five-minute sequence of discrete movements that, with the exception of walking, are never repeated. Although it appears effortless, the dance is painstaking to learn in its precise articulation of the body.

Video 50

1978 • 51 min • Switzerland, Germany

Produced in an era before 24-hour programming cycles, Video 50 was initially used as a late night filler on TV stations in Germany, France, Belgium, and Switzerland. Random, surreal, and unexpected, Video 50 resembles the dream cycle of a dormant TV station after it conscious programming has ceased. Its structure and form anticipate the dissociated sequence of moving images we are now accustomed to encountering on YouTube and social media.

The Father of Loneliness

1978 • 58 min • Yugoslavia

It is a sentimental story about the father-son relationship, reminiscent of a photo from an old family album, over which one feels some sort of deep nostalgia. The focus of the plot is a poetic story about a father who lives in the village and his son who visits him regularly.

Canada Vignettes: The Maple Leaf

1978 • 1 min • Canada

The maple leaf on the Canadian flag turns into two profiles that illustrate the many relationships between people.

Raggedy Ann & Andy: The Great Santa Claus Caper

1978 • 30 min • United States of America

When inventor/efficiency expert Alexander Graham Wolf plots to take over Santa's workshop, Comet asks for help from Raggedy Ann, Andy and their dog, Raggedy Arthur.

Pinkologist

1978 • 7 min • United States of America

The Little Man visits a psychiatrist, having been driven to insanity by the Pink Panther.

The Little Brown Burro

1978 • 23 min

A sad little burro who feels that no one wants him and that he doesn't belong anywhere finds out differently when he is bought by Joseph to transport Mary on their travel to Jerusalem for the birth of Jesus.

The Things We Did Last Summer

1978 • 42 min

This episodic comedy features the original cast of Saturday Night Live as they present individual skits that describe their summer vacations. Among the highlights is a concert segment featuring John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd as the Blues Brothers.

Vinterdag 1914

1978 • 38 min • Sweden

A solitary railway station in northern Sweden on a bitter cold winter day 1914. Based on a short story from 1944.

Hanna-Barbera's All-Star Comedy Ice Revue

1978 • 60 min • United States of America

A live-action/animated television special produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions.

Maidens

1978 • 28 min • Australia

Maidens(1978) is an autobiographical essay film, using personal archives, still and moving image, from both domestic and other sources, lyrical narration and emotive music to trace the filmmaking journey of one feminist (the filmmaker herself). Almost four years in the making, Maidens picked up local and international short film awards and became compulsory viewing in women and film courses around the country -- where it sparked much impassioned debate. It remains essential viewing for an enhanced understanding of the moment of awakened consciousness that characterised 1970s feminism.

Notes for Jerome

1978 • 45 min

During the summer of 1966 Jonas Mekas spent two months in Cassis, as a guest of Jerome Hill. Mekas visited him briefly again in 1967, with P. Adams Sitney. The footage of this film comes from those two visits. Later, after Jerome died, Mekas visited his Cassis home in 1974. Footage of that visit constitutes the epilogue of the film. Other people appear in the film, all friends of Jerome.

Tooth Brushing

1978 • 5 min • United States of America

Charlie Brown leaves his appointment with his dentist armed with an instructional pamphlet on proper tooth brushing technique. He endeavors to practice toothbrushing with Linus and his dog Snoopy.

The Small One

1978 • 26 min • United States of America

Ordered by his father to sell an old mule called Small One, a Hebrew boy in the ancient Holy Land takes the donkey to the Jerusalem market. Finding no buyers there, the boy is about to give up when he meets a kind man named Joseph, who buys Small One and uses the steed to take his pregnant wife Mary to Bethlehem.

Escapade

1978 • 50 min • United States of America

Two U.S. Secret Service agents are lured on a bizarre search for their rookie partner who has mysteriously disappeared.Two secret agents set out in search of a missing comrade.

Below the Lion Rock: Choice Of Dreams

1978 • 46 min

Several women from Taiwan came to Hong Kong in search of their dreams. Blessed with a beautiful voice, Lin Mei-Yun (Lam Kin-Ming) dreamt of making the leap from lounge singer to pop star.

Xenogenesis

1978 • 12 min • United States of America

A woman and an engineered man are sent in a gigantic sentient starship to search space for a place to start a new life cycle. Raj decides to take a look around the ship. He comes across a gigantic robotic cleaner. Combat ensues.

A Walk Through H

1978 • 41 min • United Kingdom

An anonymous narrator outlines a bizarre journey taken through "H", aided by a series of extraordinary maps, and his previous dealings with the mysterious Tulse Luper and the keeper of the bird house at the Amsterdam Zoo.

The Devil and Daniel Mouse

1978 • 25 min • Canada

When a young female mouse makes a deal with the devil to become a rock star and learns the price, her boyfriend has to help her avoid damnation.

The Stingiest Man in Town

1978 • 50 min • Japan, United States of America

This cartoon version of A Christmas Carol hails from the production house of Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass--the team that brought you just about every other Christmas special you saw as a kid (including Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer). Reinvented as a 49-minute musical ghost story, it stars the voice of Walter Matthau as the bedeviled Scrooge and Tom Bosley as the Jiminy Cricket-type narrator, B. Humbug, Esq.

Pøbel

1978 • 51 min • Norway

The criminal Tom goes in and out of jail and feels he is getting destructive, where he can't distinguish between love and violence, endearment and toughness nor self realization and self destruction.

The Spectre's Bride

1978 • 11 min • Czechoslovakia

A dead soldier comes for his fiancée from the grave.

Sea of Wonders

1978 • 54 min • Japan

A photographer is lost in a storm and washes up on an isolated island, where he meets a vampire woman and falls in love with her.

Rikedom

1978 • 28 min • Sweden

Johan enjoys the autumn work in the small park in his hometown, but he is worried ...