All Films

Art Lives Series: Joan Miro

1978 • 55 min

With his seemingly naïve, symbolic paintings, Joan Miró formed a new artistic language in the 20th century. Brought up in Barcelona, the painter, graphic artist and sculptor was drawn to Paris and, under the influence of the surrealists, developed his unique style and poetic imagery that unite Catalan folk art and fantastic elements. Robin Lough followed the 85-year-old Miró to theatre rehearsals and went to see him in his studio on Majorca. There he met with an amazingly creative and disciplined artist, whose visionary pictures paved the way for abstract expressionism.

Inside Women Inside

1978 • 21 min • United States of America

This film exposes the daily humiliation regularly faced by women in U.S. prisons using firsthand accounts of inmates at the North Carolina Correctional Center for Women and the Correctional Institute for Women at Riker's Island, New York.

Alternative

1978 • 10 min • Bulgaria

A tourist bus is driving along the road. In front of him is a man who wants to tell the passengers something. On the bus are drunk men, a writer, an Arab sheikh, a prostitute, a priest, a hunter, a boxer, and a Japanese woman. None of them pays attention to the warning. They even mock the person and threaten him. Only when the bus falls into the abyss does it become clear that the person wanted to prevent the disaster.

Ciné regards: Jacques Tourneur

1978 • 27 min • France

Interview with film director Jacques Tourneur which first appeared on the French television series "Ciné regards".

Still Moving/Patti Smith

1978 • 13 min • United States of America

Short film by photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. A portrait of Patti Smith.

Olivia

1978 • 60 min • United States of America

This one hour special, aired May 17, 1978, features Olivia singing many of her hits with special guests Andy Gibb, ABBA, the Southern Californian Community Choir, and Gary Frank.

The Magino Village Story: Pass

1978 • 43 min • Japan

This rural documentary features poet Jin Makabe. Thoughts about agriculture, memories, landscapes.

Hip Hip Parade!

1978 • 28 min • United States of America

Hip Hip Parade! was a primetime special promoting the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, originally broadcast on PBS stations throughout Thanksgiving week 1978. Hosting the special were Kermit the Frog and Fozzie Bear, of The Muppet Show fame.

Magnus och Brasse: Det är serverat

1978 • 60 min • Sweden

DET ÄR SERVERAT inspelad 1978 på Berns Salonger i Stockholm. Härenstam och Brännström framför sketcher som "Ouvertyr med arg servitör", "Goddag, God dag", "De ä bar å åk! I helvete heller!" "Kirurgerna".

Wood Mountain Poems

1978 • 28 min • Canada

In this short documentary, Canadian poet Andrew Suknaski introduces us to Wood Mountain, the south central Saskatchewan village he calls home. In between musings on his poetry, which is tinged with nostalgia and the vast loneliness of the plains, the poet discusses the area’s multicultural background and Native heritage, as well as the customs and stories of these various ethnic groups.

Rätt ut i luften

1978 • 52 min • Sweden

An actress is interviewed in front of a studio audience by a "TV personality".

Pink and Shovel

1978 • 7 min • United States of America

The Pink Panther buries a $5 bill, and tries to get it back after a hotel is built on top of it.

Vertical Features Remake

1978 • 45 min • United Kingdom

Vertical Features Remake is a film by Peter Greenaway. It portrays the work of a fictional Institute of Reclamation and Restoration as they attempt to assemble raw footage taken by ornithologist Tulse Luper into a short film, in accordance with his notes and structuralist film theory. The footage consists mostly of vertical landscape features, such as trees and posts, shot in the English landscape.

J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai vs. Gorenger

1978 • 23 min • Japan

While investigating a UFO in the Sky Ace, J.A.K.Q. is caught off guard by the return of Iron Claw, with the Big Four now leading the remnants of Crime and the Black Cross Army.

Père Lachaise Cemetery

1978 • 5 min

Sarah Maldoror’s camera roams the famous flagstones and foliage of Père Lachaise, visiting its nooks and cats, to the sound of poems such as Liberté, by Paul Éluard.

The Cask of Amontillado

1978 • 18 min

The classic story of horror and revenge, involving a specially prepared chamber where prized amontillado is supposed to be stored, is told in pictures with narration.

Perry Como's Early American Christmas

1978 • 43 min

Perry Como celebrates an early American Christmas in Williamsburg VA with John Wayne and Diana Canova.

Harness the Wind

1978 • 12 min • Canada

The wind is one of the strongest natural forces around us. Because it is generated by temperature differences in air masses, wind power is, in fact, a form of solar energy. Harness the Wind traces the history of attempts to control and use wind energy, and projects into the future to visualize the potential of wind-power technology.

The Red Dress

1978 • 27 min • Canada

Kelly is a Métis man without treaty or hunting rights, struggling to sustain his traditional life. His daughter Theresa longs for a red dress from France that she believes will give her power and strength, as the bear claw once did for her great-grandfather Muskwa. When Theresa escapes an assault and Kelly turns his back on his daughter, he realizes that he must reconnect with his culture in order to make things right. Today, the red dress is a powerful symbol recognizing over 1000 missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada.

The Soviet Union: A New Look

1978 • 24 min • United States of America

This film discusses conditions in the Soviet Union, including party activity and influence, the shortage of consumer goods, the roles of children and women, the status of religion, and the purpose of Soviet realist art.

Peeping Times

1978 • 55 min • United States of America

Peeping Times is a comedy special that aired on NBC on January 25, 1978. Co-produced, written and directed by Rudy De Luca and Barry Levinson, the special featured an early broadcast network appearance of David Letterman. David Frost was co-executive producer. The show was a spoof of TV news magazine programs.

Christmas Snows, Christmas Winds

1978 • 28 min • United States of America

Memories of Christmas, especially those of childhood long past, can bring both joy and sorrow. This depiction of one person's bittersweet recollections, set in a small 1930s western farming community, echoes with the excitement of anticipation, the comfort of beloved family traditions, and the years of regret for a moment of childhood cruelty.

And What if It Works!

1978 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Parrot sets forth for a nest. But he foots. Appears he is afraid to fly, because he never tried.

Incision

1978 • 30 min

Ulay is fixed to a wall by a fixed rubber cord, while Marina stands at the limit of Ulay's expansion.