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Rowing Across the Atlantic

Rowing Across the Atlantic

1978 • 20 min • France
Newlyweds, Adelaide and Jonathan leave New York in 1907 in a boat and row, ignorant of world events, to Europe. The years pass and many things are changing them, love is gradually degrading to hatred, then indifference. Old age is almost here, and with it, in a last swim, a last embrace, husband and wife end up “alone at last.” The boat adrift, will be discovered on the shores of Europe in the year 1957
Stars' War: The Flight of the Wild Geese

Stars' War: The Flight of the Wild Geese

1978 • 24 min
Promotional short film about the making of the 1978 film The Wild Geese.
A Tale of Lost Time

A Tale of Lost Time

1978 • 19 min • Soviet Union
Three evil wizards from a gloomy enchanted forest littered with broken toys and school supplies enter the city through a secret door in the fence to find three lazy children who "waste time." Having found such lazy people - a schoolboy and a schoolgirl, sorcerers deceive them by deceiving them of the time that they thoughtlessly lost by skipping school. As a result, old people turn into big children, and children into little grandparents.
Poyga And The Fox

Poyga And The Fox

1978 • 16 min • Soviet Union
The fox helps Poyga the hunter find love and drive out the robbers from his native land.
Autumn Scenes

Autumn Scenes

1978 • 20 min
“The film is in three parts, each one exploring the fragmentary experience of perception by resorting to various forms of temporal and spatial dislocation. ‘Concrete Fall’ and ‘Fergus Walking’ are both filmed from a moving viewpoint, and the camera motion is ‘converted’ through simple editing and printing procedures to register subtle depths in space, the layering between foreground and infinity. In ‘Packeted Passages’ I filmed with two synchronized cameras and fused the two views in the printing stage into one disintegrated screen space.” – William Raban
Within the Woods

Within the Woods

1978 • 32 min • United States of America
The low budget film starring the young Bruce Campbell that influenced the Evil Dead films.
Christmas at Walt Disney World

Christmas at Walt Disney World

1978 • 50 min
Holiday special from 1978 featuring various Disney characters.
House Specialty

House Specialty

1978 • 12 min • France
Sophie Tatischeff's short film set in the small town of Sainte-Sévère-sur-Indre, three decades after its use in her father's film 'Jour de Fête'. The conversation from a typical village bar is transplanted to a patisserie with particularly tempting tartlets: 'No reason for us not to have another' says one habitué; 'no more for me thanks,' says another. 'A shortbread at this time of day?' asks the woman behind the counter.
Merce by Merce by Paik

Merce by Merce by Paik

1978 • 27 min
Merce by Merce by Paik is a two-part tribute to choreographer Merce Cunningham and artist Marcel Duchamp. The first section, “Blue Studio: Five Segments”, is a work of video-dance produced by Merce Cunningham and videomaker Charles Atlas. The second part, produced by Paik and Shigeko Kubota, further queries the relationship between everyday gestures and formal notions of dance.
What Do We See After Closing Our Eyes and Stopping Our Ears?

What Do We See After Closing Our Eyes and Stopping Our Ears?

1978 • 5 min • Poland
Non-camera style short film.
The Stableboy's Christmas

The Stableboy's Christmas

1978 • 27 min • United States of America
Ten-year old Tammy refuses to wrap a Christmas present intended for her cousin, hoping to keep the doll for herself. Later, through a dream, she travels back to Bethlehem to witness a little stableboy's act of unselfish love when he gives the Christ child his pet lamb. Tammy then realizes how sharing presents with others is a way of sharing God's love at Christmastime.
Contact

Contact

1978 • 10 min • Soviet Union
A man walking on the fields encounters an alien visitor from outer space.
Soup and Me

Soup and Me

1978 • 24 min • United States of America
On the day of the Halloween party, Soup and Rob are finding plenty of ways to get into trouble: swimming in a local pond (though their mothers prohibit swimming so late in the year), pitching apples over a barn, and borrowing a cart which had drifted away from its owner. The grandest mischief of all, however, comes from their attempt to win the prize at the Halloween party, given to the entrant with the largest pumpkin.
Special Delivery

Special Delivery

1978 • 7 min • Canada
A hapless husband neglects to clear the icy walk, which leads to the mailman slipping and breaking his neck. A comedy of errors results from his attempts to hide the body.
Three Dates with Genesis

Three Dates with Genesis

1978 • 49 min
Documentary covering three gigs during Genesis' 1978 'And Then There Were Three...' tour.
Canada Vignettes: Land Bridge

Canada Vignettes: Land Bridge

1978 • 1 min • Canada
This film describes the journey of nomadic Asian people to North America via a land bridge.
Canada Vignettes: News Canada

Canada Vignettes: News Canada

1978 • 3 min • Canada
Historical events are related through the medium of simulated news broadcasting in 1878.
Sex Pistols - Live at the Longhorn

Sex Pistols - Live at the Longhorn

1978 • 45 min
The Sex Pistols captured live onstage at the very end of their fame (they split days after this show). Sid Vicious had by now replaced bassist Glenn Matlock, but internal divisions in the band would come to a head during this winter tour of the US. Numbers performed include 'Pretty Vacant', 'Anarchy in the UK' and 'No Fun'. Live at the Longhorn Ballroom, Dallas, January 10, 1978.
The Single Parent Family: Images in Black

The Single Parent Family: Images in Black

1978 • 21 min • United States of America
Interviews with single black parents.
Rosaura

Rosaura

1978 • 6 min • East Germany
This film visualizes humanity’s quest to relentlessly pursue goals. In the human fight for progress, the march forward cannot be stopped, even when individual people become weary and die. This animated short is based on a poem by the Chilean filmmaker and poet Juan Forch. Chilean painter Hernando León created the design.
The Bride and the Curfew

The Bride and the Curfew

1978 • 50 min • Albania
Shpresa goes to the house of fascist collaborators to commit an assassination. After that, dressed as a bride, she becomes an illegal.
The Stranglers - Live '78, SF

The Stranglers - Live '78, SF

1978 • 21 min • United States of America
The Stranglers playing live in San Francisco 1978.
It Is Not My Music

It Is Not My Music

1978 • 58 min • Sweden
Moki and Don Cherry met in the mid-1960s and soon began collaborating closely. They made happenings, music, art, posters, and record sleeves; they performed together, organized workshops, and toured. The film merges the different worlds they lived in – countryside and city life, and the various disciplines that were interwoven in their artistic practices.
Uncle Ben

Uncle Ben

1978 • 27 min • United States of America
Nancy is about to receive her college degree and she has a special request for Dr. McFarland about the commencement proceedings, where parents are always given special honor. She starts to reminisce about what has led to her successful graduation, and that of her two brothers Jim and Tommy before her, despite having lost both parents long ago. After being widowed when Nancy is only two years old, her mother Laura works hard night and day to support her young family. Their only relative is Laura's brother, and Uncle Ben is a favorite of the children with his story-telling ability and easy charm. However, his own life is dominated by alcoholism, and he finds it difficult to hold a job and be a responsible member of the community. When Laura suddenly passes away, the children beg Uncle Ben to take care of them. He wishes to do so, and fights to gain custody of his young niece and nephews, but his addiction is standing in the way of his fulfilling the role of a parent.