Top 16 Short Movies Fan Favorites from 1978

While spending a weekend at a remote cabin, Bruce desecrates an Indian burial ground and becomes re-animated, making way to kill his friends. Details on Within the Woods / IMDB / YouTube

Ordered by his father to sell his old, small donkey, named Small One, a boy in ancient Palestine takes the donkey to the Nazareth market. Finding no buyers there, the boy is about to give up when he meets a kind man named Joseph. Info on The Small One / IMDB / YouTube

This is a short parody of the movie Star Wars. See more about Hardware Wars / IMDB / YouTube

A woman and an engineered man are sent in a gigantic sentient starship to search space for a place to start a new life cycle. Raj decides to take a look around the ship. He comes across a gigantic robotic cleaner. Combat ensues. See more about Xenogenesis / IMDB / YouTube

A featurette sponsored by Pepsi-Cola that was originally intended to be released in Summer 1978 as a promotion for the Southern Rock outfit's planned musical roots LP. The plane crash in 1977, which claimed the lives of lead singer Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines and backup vocalist Cassie Gaines, transformed the album into an epitaph entitled First - and Las. Get info on A Tribute to Lynyrd Skynyrd / IMDB / YouTube

Fictional film that simulates being a documentary about filmmakers who exploit the misery with mercantilist purposes. It is a scathing criticism porno-misery and the opportunism of the dishonest documentary making socio-political documentaries in the third world to sell them in Europe and win prizes. Explore The Vampires of Poverty / IMDB / YouTube

A 10 minute long journey of emotions that befall children faces. Fear, Curiosity; a Smile. They all sit in a dark theater. What they see, we don't; we can only guess from their faces. Info on Par desmit minutem vecaks / IMDB / YouTube

Snoopy has a nightmare of being an arctic sled dog. Check out What a Nightmare, Charlie Brown! / IMDB / YouTube

Originally part of The Star Wars Holiday Special, this short follows Chewbacca searching for a cure to the virus that put his friends to sleep. He encounters an unexpected ally: bounty hunter Boba Fett. Check out The Story of the Faithful Wookiee / IMDB / YouTube

A nightmare vision in which a man is transformed into a living artwork. Learn about The Forbidden / IMDB / YouTube

The pure and unconditional love that parents have for a child is admirable, but, in this case, there is also value in letting go. Learn about Oh My Darling ... / IMDB / YouTube

Bullied boy, left by his father, supported by a over-optimistic and naive mother, tries out life in a new school. Info on The Suicide / IMDB / YouTube

A young couple go for a picnic beside a lake in the grounds of an empty house. Three years before, the owner had murdered all his family, killed his animals and disappeared. Get info on The Lake / IMDB / YouTube

A vampire terrorizes a quiet English town. Info on Mrs. Amworth / IMDB / YouTube

This series of light-hearted episodes by Saul Bass illuminates the fantasy lives of those who daily watch, listen and dream in the worlds of television, movies, popular music and print. By turns lyrical and funny, it shows how the popular arts serve as vehicles for self-projection, experience, expansion and fantasy fulfillment. The video utilizes a variety of techniqu. Learn about Notes on the Popular Arts / IMDB / YouTube

A brief piece on one of the greatest Brazilian artists of all time, Antônio Francisco Lisboa, the Aleijadinho. An important representant of the Baroque period in Brazil, Aleijadinho was famous for his artistic sculptures and figures made in soapstone, part of the many historical churches and other architetural monuments all located in Minas Gerais. See more about O Aleijadinho / IMDB / YouTube