All Films

Skating

1978 • 3 min • United States of America

Juxtaposition and editing are used in this meditation on the human/environmental act of skating and its component parts.

Shall I See You Now?

1978 • 30 min

Carmel's new surroundings are not what she was expecting from a mental health institution.

Hoy es jueves cinematográfico

1978 • 4 min • Chile

It's Thursday, the day to go to the movies in Chile. Families see in the newspapers and advertisements the films that will be shown. Everything is prepared. A man attends a function and sitting in the audience, he gets excited when he sees his favorite images and actors on the big screen. The movie ends and the screen turns off. It is time to return to reality.

Camera/Cage

1978 • 3 min • United States of America

The Kite

1978 • 9 min • Soviet Union

A cautionary tale that happened to a girl. Unexpectedly, she has offended his friend, a little puppy, but failed to recognize and correct the error, in spite of the misunderstandings that have arisen due to the influx of emotions. In the end, friendship and good mood came back to our heroes.

The Set-Up

1978 • 17 min • United States of America

The Set-Up is Kathryn Bigelow's student film at Columbia about the exploration of 'why violence in cinematic form is so seductive'. It featured two men beating each other to a pulp in a dark alley, while two professors analyzed the philosophy of it all on the soundtrack.

Four Journeys Into Mystic Time: Mysterium

1978 • 14 min • United States of America

A pair of performers wearing bodysuits dance and balance together in this short film for director Shirley Clarke’s Four Journeys Into Mystic Time.

Vacuum Cleaner

1978 • 9 min • Soviet Union

A colourful animation about a red vacuum cleaner that threatens to swallow the whole world.

The Secret Life of Edward James

1978 • 54 min • United Kingdom

Documentary about Edward James, an aristocrat who patronized surrealist artists such as René Magritte, Leonora Carrington, and Salvador Dalí, among others. His life is a whole catalog of incredible moments that constitute the prelude to his final monument in the middle of the Mexican jungle: Las Pozas, a surreal garden filled with giant structures as useless as they are beautiful. James divorced his wife Tilly Losch in 1934, accusing her of adultery with Prince Serge Obolensky, an American hotel executive; her countersuit, in which she made it clear that James was homosexual, failed. James was actually bisexual. After the divorce, James joined a social set in England which included the Mitford sisters and the composer Lord Berners.

The Unquenchable Fire of Lycia

1978 • 58 min

The fourth film in the "Traces of Anatolian Civilizations" series, "The Unquenchable Fire of Lycia" consists of two 30-minute episodes. The documentary reflects the Lycian Civilization, another stop in the Anatolian people's civilizational evolution. Indeed, the Lycian Civilization is a "fire" that finds its historical continuity in the Anatolian people's resistance to independence. In a sense, it is a magnificent and unquenchable "fire." During the filming of the film, the Lycian region, located between Antalya and Fethiye, was meticulously scanned step by step in two separate seasons, consulting with expert scientists.

The Boy and the Butterfly

1978 • 6 min • Soviet Union

A film about a boy who loves flowers and butterflies, based on a short story by Anton Hansen Tammsaar. In his thoughtless pursuit of the butterfly, he shatters all the flowers in his path.

Dr Mohammad Iqbal

1978 • 20 min

A film is about the great Urdu poet, Mohammad Iqbal. He is reminisced by his son Justice Javed Iqbal, who says, "The centenary of AllamaIqbal, my father, which is being celebrated in India and Pakistan shows how his memory is still held in the two countries." Iqbal's Tarana-E-Hind or the Song of India became the battle song of freedom. The poet sang, "Religion does not teach us to hate each other. We are all Indians, and our homeland is this Hindustan of ours."Gandhiji in one of his Urdu letters wrote, "I have sung this song of Iqbal hundreds of times in jail." Iqbal was a poet of the revolution, who penned innumerable impassioned poems during his life time, which ended on April 21, 1938 when the sun of his glory was at its zenith.

Ciné regards: Jacques Tati

1978 • 27 min • France

Interview with the French film director, conducted for television in 1978.

Tree Film

1978 • 2 min • United States of America

The New Klan: Heritage of Hate

1978 • 59 min • United States of America

Documents Ku Klux Klan activities in California, Georgia, Chicago, and Ohio.

Leonard Bernstein: Reflections

1978 • 51 min

Leonard Bernstein discusses his Boston childhood, his musical growth at Harvard and the Curtis Institute and the influence of great masters like Reiner, Mitropoulos and Koussevitzky. He shares his feelings on the primacy of tonal music and speculates on the nature of the creative process. From Carnegie Hall, scene of his début, to the living room of his home and his private studio overlooking New York's Central Park, Reflections explores the artist's varied and colourful career.

Acting and Reacting

1978 • 21 min

An early Josh Becker short starting Bruce Campbell with appearances by Ted Raimi, Sam Raimi and Scott Spiegel.

Numbers Quarrel

1978 • 8 min • Soviet Union

As numbers quarrel after disagreeing which number is the strongest, two children realize the true meaning of strength in numbers.

Kasper's Last Stand

1978 • 30 min

A TV play by Graeme McCaig set amongst Blackpool's beach entertainers and starring Roy Kinnear

Monsieur Saint-Saëns

1978 • 26 min • France

The imaginary adventures of musician Sans-Saëns.

Deal

1978 • 4 min • Poland

The earth falls off the titan's arms and breaks into two parts. Those parts turn into two tanks and later into two bombs with smoldering fuses. The elderly gentlemen who travel on the bombs warn each other of an imminent outbreak of the war. Just like leaders of the empires during the Cold War.

Alice Cooper and Friends

1978 • 52 min

A TV concert special showcasing performances by Alice Cooper and support acts Sha Na Na, The Tubes and Nazareth. Filmed June 19, 1977 at Anaheim Stadium, Anaheim, CA, this special was broadcast in September 1977 on US television.

Laurel and Hardy Laughtoons

1978 • 24 min • United States of America

A compilation of some of Laurel and Hardy's best gags, including scenes from "Angora Love" (1929)," "You're Darn Tootin'" (1928), "Liberty" (1929), "The Battle Of The Century" (1927), with updated scores and sound effects.

Instrumentos da Música Popular Brasileira - A Cuíca

1978 • 10 min • Brazil

Testimony by instrumentalist Osvaldinho da Cuíca with historical explanation of the presence of cuíca in several countries around the world and its popularization in Brazil based on samba. Osvaldinho gives tips on how to extract the sound from the instrument and makes a presentation at the Casa Verde Samba School Mocidade Alegre.