All Films

Jubilee of Nightingale

1978 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Raven and crow are discussing the commotion in the bird kingdom. It turns out that the Nightingale has an anniversary and everyone is flying to this celebration. Raven is outraged that no one celebrates the anniversary of crows so massively. He decides to go on a holiday and spoil all the fun.

The Sinyushka's Well

1978 • 30 min • Soviet Union

Ilyukha the prospector dreams of finding his happiness. In the end, he discovers that it’s not in money, but in kindness and love.

Controlling Interest

1978 • 46 min • United States of America

The first account on film of the growth of multinational corporations, their impact on people at home and abroad, and their influence on U.S. foreign policy. This is the film that helped kick-off the anti-globalization movement. Upon release, it quickly became a standard "audio-visual text" for those concerned about the growing impact of multinational corporations on global affairs. The film examines how the ever-increasing concentration and velocity of capital affect employment in the U.S., shape patterns of development in the Third World, and influence our nation's foreign policy.

Destruction

1978 • 3 min • Poland

One of the structural films by Jadwiga Singer, showing relations between photo image, film record and reality. "Destruction" can also be interpreted as metaphor of Singer`s personal situation.

Nós & Eles

1978 • 17 min • Brazil

A Princesa das Ilhas Negras

1978 • 25 min • Portugal

Adaptation of a Portuguese traditional tale. A travelling man rests at a inn. While sleeping, three beautiful women tell him where to go, the black islands, where he can find them and marry the one that is a princess.

The Woman Who is Awaited?

1978 • 52 min • Soviet Union

A film about a woman's role in the society.

Sizzlin' Skateboards

1978 • 48 min

Tommy, Michael, and Peter are teenage skateboard fans, as are a lot of other kids in their church. So their inventive youth director begins to center activities around skateboarding. But then through jealousy and hard competition, the three boys make some discoveries that changes their lives

North Beach

1978 • 12 min

“North Beach is a beautiful film. The human race should stick around to enjoy it. It’s all cinema, all experience. No ‘problems,’ art in-jokes, other fashionable bluffing. Hills composes, orchestrates. The film’s a concentrate of rhythmic invention, solid work, shapely; gorgeous.” —Ken Jacobs

Fortune Favours Łęczna

1978 • 17 min • Poland

Łęczna is a town in eastern Poland in the lubelskie voivodship. Unfortunately, it is infamous for a legend of a former settlement that collapsed and was covered by the ground. The reason for that was the fact that the place had been inhabited by quarrelsome, envious, and malicious people. The modern legend predicts another catastrophe in 2000. In the 1970s, miners came to the town and tried to adapt to it. The unpleasant division between the old and the new inhabitants, between agricultural and industrial Łęczna, was felt by the newcomers.

The Ladder

1978 • 5 min • Czechoslovakia

An animated short from Viktor Kubal

Rod McKuen's Christmas in New England

1978 • 60 min

Rod McKuen's Christmas show from 1978 with special guest Dusty Springfield.

Four Journeys Into Mystic Time: One Two Three

1978 • 8 min • United States of America

An abstract work featuring three dancers, the performers interact with large screens as well as each other. Included in Shirley Clarke’s Four Journeys Into Mystic Time, costuming and color play an integral role in this piece.

Pencil Booklings

1978 • 14 min • United States of America

"In a charming fantasy about the art of aimation, each character has a unique personality. Kathy is even invited to join her characters in ther cartoon world, thus adding another playful dimension to the theme of the relationship of an artist to her materials." - WorldCat

Instrumentos da Música Popular Brasileira - O Berimbau

1978 • 10 min • Brazil

Almeida Garrett 1799-1854: Escrever é Lutar

1978 • 24 min

A biographical program about Almeida Garrett, poet and playwright, from a historical perspective, highlighting his involvement with liberalism, political career and his role as the driving force of the theater in Portugal.

La ciudad es el recuerdo

1978 • 8 min • Spain

Fake documentary about Sevilla.

The Blacksmith

1978 • 28 min

In this Roy Spence film, created for the Ulster Folk Museum, Joe O’Neill shows a range of blacksmithing skills and techniques using tools and methods that have not changed in centuries. These include heat welding, scarfing, scrolling, curling and bending. All completed in a traditional simple forge. The original version of the film included an audio track explaining the history, tools and techniques of a blacksmith, however even as a silent film, the powerful visuals of this timeless skill remains evident.

Music in Progress: Mike Westbrook - Jazz Composer

1978 • 42 min • United Kingdom

Documentary on the work of jazz musician Mike Westbrook.

Vere D'he Go?

1978 • 3 min

A playful reference to vertigo in the title Vere d’he Go Composition announces a more vigorous attempt at spatial disorientation using again the striped sticks and now vertical wipes.

Holding It

1978 • 20 min

Goofy suspense thriller by Josh Becker.

St. John's Day

1978 • 20 min • Soviet Union

Documentary about the St. John's Day festival in Tallinn. Recorded with a hidden camera, the film is full of contrasts and expressively depicts the changes in the traditions of Midsummer's Eve and the emotional impoverishment of city dwellers, showing their behaviour at the bonfires - their loneliness as well as their alcohol-induced exuberant state in big crowds.

Abrasions

1978 • 35 min • France

Tribute to Tristan Corbière. Images of the sea, stars, muses, the poetic universe of Tristan Corbière. Evocation of the Conlie camp, where thousands of Breton volunteers were taken during the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-1871, in order to do their classes there. For lack of means, or fear of a "Chouan peril", these soldiers never received either the equipment or the training necessary for combat. Some of them were however sent to fight, but almost disarmed.

Genesis: Four Billion Years in the Making

1978 • 32 min

The Great Valley in Africa - a crack of more than 6,500 kilometers in the earth's crust - is the result of the continental fracture that began about 20 million years ago. Volcanic eruptions, like the spectacular eruption of Hawaii's Kilauea volcano in Genesis, are the result of powerful tectonic processes that continually reshape the earth's surface. “From the first moment a supernova explodes in a burst of light and sound, Genesis audiences won't just have a front row seat to watch the creation of the world. The public will be immersed in the creation itself and will be fully aware that the creation is still going on” – Richmond, News-Leader. "Genesis attests that if the public is offered what it wants, it will break down its doors" -Minneapolis Star.