All Films - Short Movie Database

Sitting

1977 • 2 min

Analogies: Studies in the Movement of Time

1977 • 14 min

Analogies: Studies in the Movement of Time uses a variety of multiple screen formats to create an intriguing series of visual riddles. The film consists of a series of simple camera movements that are rendered "diachronically"- several different aspects of the action are presented on the screen at once. By playing with time delays between these images, new kinds of space, action, gesture, and temporality have been found. Generated from structural principles, the film is both lyrical and sensual and provokes a new understanding of time and cinema.

Fiction

1977 • 42 min • Greece

Made for Expo Arte at Bari.

Sensation '77: Mimicry

1977 • 8 min • Argentina

A woman hides in the forest, attempting to become one with the landscape.

Wisdom and Wealth

1977 • 8 min • Soviet Union

One day, Wealth and Wisdom argued about which of them is more necessary for a person's happiness. Having tested the poor boy Tazshi, Wealth became convinced that Wisdom is above all riches.

Miracle on Sunset Boulevard

1977 • 8 min

A campy abbreviated remake of Sunset Boulevard.

Scrambled Legs

1977 • 3 min • United States of America

Hocking's earliest completed experiment with video switching––a video nod to the tradition of the classic nude (and Sherry Miller Hocking's legs).

In the Best Interests of the Children

1977 • 53 min

Gay mothers argue for the right to custody of their children.

The Night of Departed Bridges

1977 • 17 min • Soviet Union

Short movie about a young group of friends walking around Leningrad at night

In/Contro/Luce

1977 • 9 min • France

A transition from total black to total white, dark to the light. The transformation of the image/trace/matter happens through an intrusion of light (gradual opening of the diaphragm), and a change of speed, space/depth. The light takes form due to the image/filter/occasion.

London-Cape Wrath-London

1977 • 10 min

This film is a travelogue which shows the relationship between the car and the weather. The focal point is the windscreen and the structuring elements, the rain and the windscreen wipers.

Another Day of a Housewife

1977 • 18 min • Japan

A woman performs domestic chores, watched by a television displaying the image of her own eye. The home is recast as a space of surveillance, control and repetitive labor.

Placeres de la Carne

1977 • 12 min • Argentina

"Oh––senseless acrobatics, cart-wheels in mid-air, unheard of songs they sing, distal the midnight vapors into wine––do pagan dances!"

Brasil 1.872.000 Minutes/Noves Fora?

1977 • 19 min

The films of Jorge O Mourão, a collection of autobiographical performance pieces, constitute visceral reactions to the authoritarian regime in Brazil and channel the paranoia and claustrophobia of his generation through the disjunction of sound and image.

Swimming

1977 • 3 min • United Kingdom

Columns

1977 • 3 min • United Kingdom

The Life of Sayat-Nova

1977 • 26 min • France

Documentary about the Armenian poet, Sayat-Nova. It first appeared as an episode of the French television series "Foi et traditions des chretiens orientaux (Faith and Traditions of the Oriental Orthodox Churches)."