All Films

Canada Vignettes: Stunt Family

1978 • 3 min • Canada

This short film from the Canada Vignettes series profiles a unique French-Canadian family, the Fourniers, 12 of whom work as stunt men and women for films.

Seer Was Here

1978 • 60 min • Canada

Made for the landmark anthology series, For the Record, Seer Was Here is an example of the bold dramatic programming made at the CBC in the mid-70s, while theatre director John Hirsch was serving as the head of the drama department. Saul Rubinek plays an inmate of a cruel Vancouver prison who brings humour, warmth, a little joy and self-understanding to the fellow prisoners of his cell block. An irreverent satire also featuring Eric Peterson and Martin Short. “Absolutely great, It’s also funny. Very Funny. Very Warm. Very touching… in some ways, a Canadian One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” (Calgary Herald, 1978)

Sluice

1978 • 6 min • United States of America

It is a wooden silver-retrieving sluice, thus light-catch awash with something like "cheek and jowl clippings of Argentine bulls" (as Hollis Frampton reminds us) and many chemical residues of earth. My mind has grown TREE out of the forest of all of it.

The Flintstones: Little Big League

1978 • 46 min • United States of America

Fred manages a little league baseball team that seems absolutely hopeless, except for a player that he blindly refuses to recognize.

Aaa-aaa

1978 • 10 min

The video tape shows the half-length portraits of Abramović and her husband Ulay standing opposite each other, looking at each other and producing a long sound with open mouths.

The Ice House

1978 • 35 min • United Kingdom

After his wife leaves him, Paul seeks solace at a sophisticated health spa run by a pair of sinister siblings. Strangely attracted by the scent of a vine that grows on the old ice house in the spa's grounds, Paul is drawn ever deeper into a horrifying mystery.

Postman's Tale

1978 • 17 min • Soviet Union

Based on the tale of the same name by Karel Capek about postal gnomes.

Pink Z-Z-Z

1978 • 7 min • United States of America

A constantly meowing alley cat keeps the Pink Panther awake.

Zannin renzoku gokanma

1978 • 60 min • Japan

Pinku from 1977

The Story of Noah

1978 • 42 min • United States of America

A man of God follows his faith to populate a new world in 'The Story of Noah', a powerful story of devotion, courage and triumph.

How the Myth Was Made: A Study of Robert Flaherty's Man of Aran

1978 • 59 min • United States of America

American documentary film-maker George C. Stoney visits the Aran Islands to try and unravel some of the myths surrounding a film that had engrossed him as a youngster - Robert Flaherty's famous documentary "Man of Aran" released in 1934.

Pcp

1978 • 21 min

Drug educational film about the effects of PCP, also known as phencyclidine or angel dust. It was originally developed as a general anesthetic but became a popular substance in the 1960s and 1970's.

American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince

1978 • 55 min • United States of America

Martin Scorsese spends an evening with larger-than-life raconteur Steven Prince—a former drug addict, road manager for Neil Diamond, and actor—as he recounts stories from his colorful life.

20 Times More Likely

1978 • 25 min

Teenagers Sandy and Alan are keen motorcyclists, but while Sandy insists on getting proper training, Alan refuses, even though this makes him twenty times more likely to have an accident.

Rotten

1978 • 30 min

Two extraordinary days in the life of young Beatles-fan Kevin - as he drifts in space between yesterday and today.

All Wonders of the World

1978 • 59 min • Yugoslavia

A now-adult man remembers of one winter of his childhood - 1949.

Ghosts of the Dolls

1978 • 54 min • Japan

A high school girl is invited to an old family's historic Hinamatsuri (Girls' Festival), but becomes entangled in an anomaly caused by the curse of the Hina dolls.

Frank Zappa: We Don't Mess Around

1978 • 58 min

Tracklisting: 1. Pound for a Brown 2. Baby Snakes 3. Deathless Horsie 4. Dancin' Fool 5. Easy Meat 6. Honey Don't You Want A Man Like Me 7. Keep It Greasey 8. Why Does It Hurt When I Pee? 9. Sofa #2 10. Vinnie's Seal Call Fusion Music 11. Bobby Brown 12. Conehead 13. Dead Air/I'm On Duty 14. St. Alphonzo's Pancake Breakfast 15. Father Oblivion 16. Rollo 17. Bamboozled Outro

A Visit from Miss Prothero

1978 • 37 min • United Kingdom

Arthur Dodsworth has recently retired. He lives alone except for his budgie and memories of his late wife Winnie. One afternoon his nap is interrupted by the doorbell; his former secretary, Peggy Prothero, has come to visit. A brash, charmless woman who seems to take no pleasure in anything but putting people down, Miss Prothero wants to fill her old boss in on all the changes that have taken place at work since he left. Dodsworth isn't very curious, and as the visit wears on it puts a little strain on his politeness and patience. Miss Prothero doesn't enjoy it much either, but lingers on as there's a bombshell she wants to drop. The docketing system Dodsworth introduced thirty years earlier, which revolutionised the firm, has been scrapped by her adored new boss Mr Skinner. The crowning achievement of Dodsworth's career has just become obsolete, and she wants to tell him all about it.

Pink U.F.O.

1978 • 6 min • United States of America

The Pink Panther catches a butterfly for his collection, but it turns out to be a small UFO.

Night People

1978 • 59 min

A classical string quartet stop at a motorway cafe in early hours. Among the people they meet are a football supporter, a commercial traveller and an elderly couple on their way to Gretna Green to get married.

Buns

1978 • 21 min • United States of America

A mentally disturbed "Hamburger Killer" stalks the streets murdering unsuspecting fast food diners in this 1978 low budget comedy-horror short.

Thomas Hardy: A Haunted Man

1978 • 54 min • United Kingdom

Drama documentary from 1978 exploring the private feelings of novelist Thomas Hardy through the poems of love and remorse that he wrote after the death of his first wife, Emma.

The Lower Depths

1978 • 25 min • Soviet Union

Musical fantasy based on the play by M. Gorky.