All Films

Solution No. 1

1978 • 11 min • Iran

A man, unable to hitch a ride back to his broken-down car with a new tire, rolls it back to his car while running.

Who Will Get the Pineapple?

1978 • 9 min • Soviet Union

The monkey is a bit of a rascal, until the tiger cub shows him he doesn't have any friends because of it.

Scream

1978 • 9 min • Yugoslavia

Film consists of shots of Belgrade Zoo, animals inside it, and the medieval fortress it was built within. Features a bizarre soundtrack of experimental music. It also features cinematography by Ratko Vladic, famous Serbian cinematographer.

O Aleijadinho

1978 • 23 min • Brazil

O Aleijadinho, a study of the work of Antonio Francisco Lisboa, the architect whose cathedral de Andrade had assisted in the restoration of more than 20 years earlier. de Andrade dedicated the film to his father, who had sent him on the expedition.

The Great Banana Pie Caper

1978 • 28 min • United States of America

Theodore and Mason have to cope with bullies, prejudice, and learning responsibility. In the process they learn about the reality of friendship and God's special caring.

A Boy and a Girl

1978 • 8 min • Soviet Union

Animated short about a boy and a girl.

Song of Radauti

1978 • 25 min • Romania, United States of America

A look at the Jewish community in Rădăuți, Romania, from 1974 to 1976.

Lírai beszélgetés Pilinszky Jánossal

1978 • 45 min

János Pilinszky explains his thoughts on the mechanism of thinking, seemingly banal things, faith, Simone Weil, and the scandal of the twentieth century.

Tracks on Snow

1978 • 26 min • Soviet Union

Ants Jõgi (1892-1983) is a dignified gentleman whose main profession in life has been acting. He also has a spirit of an artist and an artisan. The 85-year-old man is lonely and has to go to a retirement home. Director Leida Laius' documentary tells a story about the life and work of the old actor as well as contemplates on the true values of life, old man's connections to the present and the past. The thoughts of the wise old man are enchanting with their simplicity and warmth.

Ciao Bella or Fuck Me Dead

1978 • 9 min • United States of America

A summer-in-the-city travelogue that mixes verité of Lower East Side Bikers, Times Square topless dancers, and Coney Island crowds to achieve an atmosphere of manic exhibitionism and sexual raunch.

Alvin Lee & Ten Years Later: Live at Rockpalast 1978

1978 • 51 min

One of rock's most explosive and innovative guitarists, Alvin Lee, set the music alight as founding member of the seminal band, Ten Years After. This special edition of Rockpalast spotlights the artists' new project, Alvin Lee's Ten Year's Later providing indisputable evidence that the talented axesmith is still capable of delivering spellbinding fretboard mastery that routinely leaves audience members in awe-struck admiration. Tracks: ------- 1. Gonna Turn You On 2. Help Me 3. Ain't Nothing Shaking 4. Hey Joe 5. I'm Going Home 6. Chao Choo Mama 7. Rip It Up

The Divisions of Nature

1978 • 29 min • France

Ruiz on the film: "Les Divisions is a documentary about the Château de Chambord and the title comes from the Divisione of Johannes Scotus (Erigena), the ninth century Irish philosopher (who was a 'realist', although the film is more 'nominalist' in characterization of the castle which presents itself as a representation). I say that it is a representation, since it is neither practical for military purposes (too many doors), nor to live in (too many draughts), but only as pure representation. So for the commentary, I tried to imagine how a Renaissance philosopher would view it in a pastiche of a scholastic or gothic text, then a pastiche of Fichte's Vocation of Man and finally a pastiche of Baudrillard."

Through grass, over sand

1978 • 18 min

An oneiric film about a student who sacrifices his studies for the girl he loved.

Brāļi Kokari

1978 • 21 min • Soviet Union

A film about the well-known Latvian artists, choir conductors - Imants and Gido Kokars.

A Letter from Beirut

1978 • 50 min • Lebanon

Letter from Beirut documents the filmmaker's return to Beirut during one of the lulls, three years after the outbreak of the civil war, animated by the urge to return. She is confronted by the physical, emotional and psychological ravages of the war, terrified and sorrowful, she cannot find her place in the city. In that quest, she communicates with everyday people, friends, neighbors, people riding the bus across the city's eastern and western flanks. To pace her journeying and dramatic unraveling of the film, Saab borrows the guise of a letter read in a voice-over, written by world-renowned poet Etel Adnan. A rare document from the civil war, Letter from Beirut lays bare and spontaneously how people make sense of their everyday in the midst of chaos, violence, terror and sorrow.

Gradiva: Esquisse I

1978 • 26 min • France

The movie shows a smattering of images from the story of Wilhelm Jensen's Gradiva. The subject is sublimated desire.

How Longing Was Defeated

1978 • 21 min • Soviet Union

The Merry Master arrived in the enchanted city and defeated the evil witch Tosca.

El Capitan

1978 • 57 min • United States of America

The Brain Leeches

1978 • 55 min • United States of America

Invading aliens are taking over the brains of folks in a small town. The head leech is a wad of black tinfoil with a couple of white thumbtacks for eyes. Others are spidery-like rubber things pulled along by strings.

New Wings

1978 • 40 min • Japan

Das gestörte Fest

1978 • 27 min • East Germany

The devil is bored in hell and organizes an unbearable concert that even disturbs his grandmother. She sends him to earth to fetch Gretel to relieve his boredom.

Jugend TV

1978 • 45 min • Switzerland

Swiss TV Special from 1978.

The Little Hawk

1978 • 15 min • Soviet Union

A kitten and a young boy live in a small fisherman's hut. The boy's father calls him Little Hawk. The threesome are poor but happy, and the father goes to sea every day to fish. One day, there is a storm at sea and the father doesn't come home...

Song of the Canary

1978 • 30 min • United States of America

The film documents the Occidental Petroleum plant in Manteca, California and the scandal in which employees became sterile after being exposed to the pesticide DBCP.