All Films

The Richard Pryor Show Volume I

1977 • 60 min • United States of America

An American comedy series hosted by comedian Richard Pryor

We are Alone in his Coffin

1977 • 42 min • Belgium

On est tout seul dans son cercueil is a fake satirical documentary in which Philippe Simon expresses his deep disgust for the film production system, mercantile and inept.

Ostbahnhof

1977 • 8 min • East Germany, Germany

The minutes before the train departs: time pauses.

Chronoma

1977 • 22 min • France

"Chronoma was conceived as a follow-up to Rythmes 76: its composition is still inspired by the repetitive processes of Steve Reich's music, with their gradual progression. This time, we have a sequence of photographs taken with a motorized camera (a proto movie camera) in a circular movement around a high-voltage electric tower in northern Paris. The initial image is in itself a drawing of lines intersecting to form angles." -JMB

L'Ultime dissonance

1977 • 30 min • France

Frozen Flight

1977 • 32 min • United States of America

'Bruce Wood in the few short years he has been working in film, has produced an amazing body of work. He is practically alone in a genre (black and white silent abstractions) which has its antecedents in the likes of Eggeling, Richter and Leger. What I find most interesting in his work, amid the concern with textures, shape and space, is his ability to produce works of even tension. Doing away with concepts of beginning, middle and end, he presents a broad landscape, piece by piece, until he has exhausted the source of his subject matter and the whole scene lies there naked and revealed.' - Carmen Vigil, Director, The Cinematheque, San Francisco Art Institute.

The Bridge of Heaven

1977 • 32 min • United States of America

Bridge of Heaven is a playful combination of several types of abstract imagery. Everything flows naturally from one image to the next, uniting several different elements into a critical composition.

Celluloid Heroes

1977 • 7 min • France

Putting a camera between myself and my life. It can go badly. Cinema as a thérapy.

La Plage à distance

1977 • 15 min • Japan

Josiane Before Warhol

1977 • 3 min • France

2 Films Super

1977 • 4 min • France

Agripino

1977 • 50 min • Peru, Sweden

Depicts the struggle of the Peruvian indigenous people to get their land right, taken from them by a white landowners.

C'est Fou !

1977 • 12 min • France

Sequences of magazine advertisements from the seventies create a fantastical and erotic universe.

Autoportrait en blanc et en noir

1977 • 6 min • France

Ganamos la paz

1977 • 28 min • Argentina

Propaganda documentary in which the Armed Forces try to justify the Argentinian military coup d'état of 1976.

Primeiros Cantos

1977 • 4 min • Brazil

Very Soon You Will

1977 • 28 min

The room is dark and a recording of 14 tuning forks is playing in the room. The subject is asked to lie on a cot and relax. An overhead spotlight illuminates the face. She is asked to imagine a soft focus screen behind her eyelids where images will come and go and she is to describe what she sees. She is then told that she "will very soon" experience a violent form of death and I ask her if she is surprised this is happening to her. A consistent set of conditions begin to set in and the dialogue description of the images she is seeing and experiencing takes place. A mild form of hypnosis seems to set in.

12 Uhr Mittags - High Noon

1977 • 4 min • Austria

A person sticks it out for 24 hours in front of the camera. Every ten minutes a short clip was recorded, 8 frames per second (which is then projected at a speed of 24 f.p.s.). The tiredness of 24 hours in a time lapse of 4 minutes. (E.S.jr.)

Just After Christmas

1977 • 3 min

"A sculptural and quasi-performance piece involving discarded Christmas trees. A meditation on passing and the things-left-behind." –RM

Give That Person There a Camera

1977 • 2 min

"I used to wander the streets of Vancouver very early in the morning experiencing sights, sounds and people going about their business. Somewhere along the way I imagined a narrative attempting to be genuine." –RM

Silk

1977 • 25 min • United States of America

In Silk [James Herbert] films a man and a woman, exploding the quality of silk out of the house into the back yard, where everything becomes a sheen of texture. It too has great sensuosity, but it’s like tearing silk, like being up against silk, your face wrapped in it as you watch the screen. (Stan Brakhage)

About Media

1977 • 25 min

Ramos' astute deconstruction of television news focuses on the media coverage of President Jimmy Carter's 1977 declaration of amnesty for Vietnam War draft resisters, and his personal involvement with the issue. Ramos, who had served an eighteen-month prison sentence for draft resistence, was interviewed by New York news reporter Gabe Pressman. Using repetition and juxtaposition, he contrasts the unedited interview footage — and patronizing comments of the news crew — with Pressman's final televised news report. In his ironic manipulation of the material, Ramos exposes the illusion and artifice of television news.

Maladie d'Amour

1977 • 6 min

Cabane

1977 • 3 min