All Films

Count to Four

1978 • 30 min • Japan

Canada Vignettes: Toronto

1978 • 1 min • Canada

An animated film depicting the evolution of the City of Toronto from 1749 to 1978.

Rip Van Winkle

1978 • 27 min

Rip Van Winkle, a lazy American man, wanders off one day with his dog Wolf into the Kaatskill mountains where he runs into an odd group of men drinking and playing bowls. He drinks some of their mysterious brew and passes out. When he wakes up under a tree he is astonished to find that 20 years have passed and things are a lot different. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

Horacio corazón de chileno

1978 • 45 min • Chile

A middle-class public employee becomes obsessed with the investment alternatives offered by the neo-liberal economic model that Chile has implemented in the late 1970s. Years later he shall face the consequences.of his past decisions.

Ancestors

1978 • 5 min • United States of America

Ancestors is a film about spiritual forefathers and mothers in a purely fanciful sense. These are classical figures, anatomical figures, fairy tale figures and romantic figures all thrown in together - all my creative root-sources, in a kind of playful tribute. Like part 2 of Duo Concertantes, it's a moving single picture, now doubled.

The Central Character

1978 • 16 min

"A woman's attempt to keep chaos at bay by naming, classifying, and ordering her domestic environment. This ultimately results in a total loss of ego and verbal capacity. Through the innovative juxtaposition of printed text, graphics, step printing, and disintegrating soundtrack, Gruben constructs a narrative breakdown that parallels the unconscious patterning of her character's mind." - Richard Stanford, National Gallery of Canada

Canada Vignettes: Newfoundland

1978 • 1 min • Canada

An examination of the Viking explorers who were the first Europeans to discover Canada.

Lady and the Tramp: A Lesson in Sharing Attention

1978 • 8 min

The film stresses the importance of sharing attention when a new baby joins a family.

End of term trip

1978 • 52 min

A group of school kids on a ski trip start hearing startling news from the radio.

James Brown Soul Brother No. 1

1978 • 59 min • United Kingdom

The James Brown Story

New Year's Eve

1978 • 17 min • Germany

A short film made by Sirk at the end of his life with one of his students. An adaptation of Schnitzler, with Hanna Schygulla: a night of New Year’s Eve, when the family meal is finished, Hanna is in a window while a young man entertains her and talks of the one he loves but can’t join at that time.

"The Journey", or The Memoirs of a Self-Confessed Surrealist

1978 • 25 min • United Kingdom

George Melly explores his lifelong relationship with surrealism in all its forms and prominent personalities.

Le Voyageur du silence

1978 • 26 min • France

Where he goes, he doesn't need luggage... A very talkative traveler settles in the only wagon occupied by a man with a strange diction. The train is moving forward, everything becomes worrying around it. Unable to get out of its cabin, the train runs at full speed. What if he didn't lead anywhere?

Césarée

1978 • 11 min • France

On images of the Tuileries Gardens, Marguerite Duras recalls Césarée, an ancient destroyed city.

The Living Sands of Namib

1978 • 60 min

Documentary on the extreme conditions of the Namib Desert in the southwest of Africa, and on the extraordinary creatures who thrive there. With temperatures at nearly double that of the warmest temperate climes, it seems nothing could survive. Yet life flourishes, miraculously.

Bröllopsfesten

1978 • 56 min • Sweden

A story about Frida, Jonas and their wedding in Småland.

Canada Vignettes: Bill Miner

1978 • 1 min • Canada

Bill Miner was a train robber in British Columbia at the turn of the century. This animated film depicts a disastrous episode in his career.

Sprinkle Me Pink

1978 • 7 min • United States of America

Trying to have a picnic, the Pink Panther tries to escape a cloud that keeps following and raining on him.

Matrosen in Berlin

1978 • 53 min • East Germany, Germany

The documentary tells the story of the Volksmarinedivision, which was formed by revolting sailors stationed in Berlin during the November Revolution. Starting with the November Revolution itself and the founding of the Volksmarinedivision, the main focus is on the political developments surrounding it and its involvement in the battles for the Berlin City Palace at Christmas 1918 and the unrest in January and March 1919, during which the Volksmarinedivision was smashed by the Freikorps and its members persecuted. Due to its proximity to the Spartacus League and the KPD, which had just been founded at the time, the Volksmarinedivision was an important point of reference for GDR historical politics and the patron saint of the GDR's Volksmarine.

The Silent Witness

1978 • 55 min

A documentary based on scientific investigations of the Shroud of Turin. Noted medical examiners, theologians, physicists and historians use modern science to trace the probable history of the cloth.

Mitzi... What's Hot, What's Not

1978 • 60 min

Mitzi Gaynor and her guests Gavin MacLeod (The Love Boat), John McCook (The Young and the Restless), and musician Benny Goodman explore trends of the 1970's ranging from Jazz and Disco to Soap Operas and King Tut-mania. Songs include "Satin Doll," "I'm Hip" (with Goodman), "Nice Work if You Can Get it," and "Can't Smile Without You."

A Hitch in Time

1978 • 57 min • United Kingdom

Two children help an eccentric professor test his new time machine.

Wiz on Down the Road

1978 • 13 min • United States of America

A short promotional film on the making of “The Wiz” (1978). Includes a brief history of Oz portrayals in film and behind the scenes interviews.

Rio, Carnaval da Vida

1978 • 13 min • Brazil

A documentary short on the 1978 Carnaval celebration in Rio de Janeiro, covering many aspects of the celebration's popular culture.