All Films

Why Me?

1978 • 10 min • Canada

Nesbitt Spoon, who's a bit of a nebbish, tells us about his day, which is fairly average up until the moment that his doctor tells him he has only five minutes left to live.

Les Mains négatives

1978 • 14 min • France

Duras narrates a short story while the camera travels through the streets of Paris with short interludes of solemn music.

Carmen Suite

1978 • 44 min • Soviet Union

The plot centres on the tragic fate of Carmen, a gypsy girl, and Jose, a soldier who has fallen in love with her and whom Carmen leaves for the young Torero.

A Bicha de 7 Cabeças

1978 • 31 min • Portugal

A Pink Christmas

1978 • 30 min • United States of America

It's holiday time, and while New York City bustles with yuletide celebrations, the Pink Panther suffers one misadventure after another... all in hopes of finding a warm heart and a warm meal! Finally, the Panther learns the true meaning of Christmas... and friendship.

Antonioni visto da Antonioni

1978 • 23 min

An interview with Antonioni about his film career, shot in 1978 by eminent film critic, film historian and founder of the Pesaro Film Festival, Lino Miccichè. Karlovy Vary IFF 2012

The Last Bride of Zmey Gorynych

1978 • 18 min • Soviet Union

Pica-Don

1978 • 8 min • Japan

An animation documentary describing the tragic consequences of the A-bomb explosion in Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945. The flash of the A-bomb, 100 times brighter than the sun, is called "PICA", and the enormous shock wave which came right after the flash is called "DON". At the time this film was completed, it was the very first attempt in the world to deal with such a sensitive subject of Hiroshima using animation media.

Hydro Poles by Helicopter

1978 • 4 min

Poles, presumably to be used to carry electricity wires, are seen being carried over a wintry landscape by helicopter in Sandwick, Orkney.

La fonderie artisanale

1978 • 28 min • Canada

Toys

1978 • 12 min • Argentina

This short film, filmed at the Rural Exhibition, is a testimony that, based on 70 interviews with girls and boys of 9 and 10 years old, investigates the behavior guidelines imposed by conventional education and the results obtained. Boys are educated in a specific way, with very different life goals, and toys reflect this discrimination: kitchens, dolls, hairdryers, cosmetic equipment, the whole domestic world for girls. Creative games, those that awaken the imagination (trains, cars, building games, men in space), are intended for boys.

In Between

1978 • 53 min • United States of America

Footage from 1964-1968 that did not find its way into the Walden reels is joined in this classic period piece. Mostly centered in New York, it also includes travel footage and appearances by David Wise, Salvador Dali, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Smith, Shirley Clarke, Jane Holzer and more. Mel Lyman plays his banjo on the roof.

City Archives

1978 • 28 min

Avant garde film from 1978, by playwright and filmmaker Richard Foreman.

Salem and the Scarlet Letter

1978 • 10 min

Documentary on Salem, MA that was shot in 1978 but not released until 2023.

My Town, My Youth

1978 • 43 min

My Town, My Youth is an inspiring film shot twenty years after the official recognition of the disease and focuses on a group of young people (many born with the disease) as they mobilise to keep their cause visible by organising a concert by the popular enka singer Ishikawa Sayuri.

Dancers

1978 • 29 min • United Kingdom

The members of the Ballet Rambert seen through their daily activities, including backstage, during rehearsals and performances, as well as in class and home settings.

All the Troubles of the World

1978 • 22 min • United States of America

Depicts the not too distant future when computers have been so perfected that the largest directs the world's economy, science and human psychology. Presents a story about an assassination threat against Multivac, a computer that directs much of the world's economic and human existence, and how this threat draws everyone together.

Three from Prostokvashino

1978 • 17 min • Soviet Union

Little Fedor brings a cat to home despite his mother's distaste for cats. He runs away with his talking cat, to make more friends on the way.

The Back Page

1978 • 30 min

And a warm welcome to a very cold valley! Charlton Athletic are playing Notts County and things are livening up in the Press Box.

Lucia Chase Vignette

1978 • 2 min

Lucia Eames chases a little boy after he steals her diary. It is one of 6 shorts made to display the use of Polavision.

Travellers

1978 • 30 min

As Old William stands in an autumnal Yorkshire graveyard at his wife's funeral, a young man's face strikes an uncanny chord and brings back memories of his past

Ad vitam aeternam

1978 • 10 min • Belgium

A man remains dazed and confused after his wife's death. Strange things start happening in his house. The next day the undertaker comes to collect the body.

Miracles in the Sieve

1978 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A bizarre cartoon based on English nursery rhymes.

Prisoners of Conscience

1978 • 45 min • India

An early Patwardhan documentary completed in 1978, Prisoners of Conscience focuses on the state of emergency imposed by Indira Ghandi from June 1975 through March 1977. During this time over 100,000 people were arrested without charge and imprisoned without trial. They were released only by the government that replaced Ghandi's. The film also shows that political prisoners existed in India before the state of emergency and continued after the new government was elected.