All Films

Rotura

1977 • 6 min

Record of an artistic intervention by Ana Hatherly at the Quadrum gallery, in Lisbon.

Pyramid Drawings

1977 • 12 min

Pyramid Drawings opens with a white screen and a narrow floor area at the bottom. From the left, a performer enters, carrying a bucket of paint. The film is in negative therefore everything light is dark and everything dark is light. The performer begins to draw black lines on what appears to be a white wall. The drawing gradually becomes to be a pyramid seen in perspective. The performer leaves and the drawing is left for contemplation by the viewer. The performer re-enters with a pair of scissors and cuts what appeared to be lines. The lines fall to the floor. The performer then commences to build a new pyramid with new strings stretched back and forth in the space.

Headprints

1977 • 11 min

A mind altering journey that uses dream states and unconscious images to propel the viewer into another dimension.

Ardon

1977 • 10 min • France

To make ARDON, Jean-Jacques Jouët placed a transparent window in front of the camera lens, on which he drew a rectangular frame. The delimited space has the proportions of a 16mm film frame. A frozen lake is framed through this device. The extreme fixity of the frozen photogram is gradually disturbed by changes in focal length.

You in Public Service: Good Grooming

1977 • 28 min

Examines why well-groomed people are more likely to get jobs, keep jobs, and earn promotions. Uses animation and other techniques in giving advice on proper skin, nail, and hair care, care of mouth and teeth, good posture, the importance of neat, clean clothing, and choice of appropriate clothing and hairstyles.

You in Public Service: Applying for a Public Service Job

1977 • 28 min

Examines the diversity of jobs held by local, State, and Federal public service employees. Discusses application procedures, ways to learn about job openings, what to do during an interview, and promotion policies.

Spring Has Come

1977 • 18 min • Japan

Movie Stills

1977 • 44 min

"The more recent MOVIE STILLS (1977) is a melancholy procession of frozen moments being born, ripening, beginning to die before our eyes. Murphy selected 16 frames from a found home movie, photogrpahed them with a polaroid camera, then filmed the three minutes it took each image to materialize. Because of the higher contrast caused by this rephotography, the pictures seem to be darkening past their prime just as Murphy cuts to the enxt. Every shot starts out white and there's a key element of suspense as one's retitnal afterimages compete with the emerging forms of the developing photo. After a while, the ghost of an anecdote – a woman and two men mugging for the camera, an odd flirtation – develops too. 'A photograph is a secret about a secret,' Diane Arbus once wrote. '"–J. Hoberman, Village Voice.

Cucarrecord

1977 • 9 min • Spain

A succession of humorous sketches in which a critique of machismo is articulated through the use of transvestism and parody of the roles of gender to thus draw attention to a series of characteristics of the consumer society that favor androcentrism and that make social behaviors and consumption habits pass as natural that are actually constructions devised from the approaches of patriarchy.

Areia, Lodo e Mar

1977 • 58 min • Portugal

A documentary about a small touristic village in Algarve, Southern Portugal.

F.n.g.

1977 • 12 min

Stark black & white combat drama, depicting a baptism by fire.

Ron Amok (Dog Party)

1977 • 4 min

An overview of six pooches interacting at an all-dog birthday party. A prizewinner in the 1977 Ann Arbor Film Festival that documents the lack of discipline possible when dogs establish a pecking order (shot in time-lapse so that the basic rhythms and patterns of the dogs' movements are more apparent).

Femmes d'Aubervilliers

1977 • 28 min

In 1975, the "Year of the Woman" was celebrated for the first time. An opportunity for Claudine Bories to make her first film to the glory of the women of Aubervilliers... Workers, employees, hairdressers, young girls met in the street or in the squares... This film is a black and white videogram, filmed on the sly, a little wildly. It is a "film of the streets" as one says "song of the streets", realized with a freedom and a cheerfulness full of hope. - Films-Documentaire.fr

Cold Cows

1977 • 2 min

What ice storm? All this cows can think about are their past lives.

Pup y pup

1977 • 3 min • United States of America

Two very cute puppies peer unblinkingly into Michael Rudnick's camera.

Metro Means of Conveyance

1977 • 7 min • Sweden

In 'Metro Means of Conveyance', Hedman refines the non-literary and visually poetic idiom. Time and motion has been sculpted in graphic black and white on the two-dimensional screen. Time and motion are fundamental dimensions for film as an art form. A pendulum movement, subjectively illustrating a measured length of time. Shadows, contrasts and abstracted light sources, further elaborated. Metro is based on impressions of Chatelet Metro station in Paris. It is individualistic and subtle portrayal of an atmosphere and setting as seen through the linguistic syntax of the film strip. (Filmform)

Wedding

1977 • 7 min • Poland

A grotesque story about life that is similar to a wedding feast. In the beginning it is joyful, later it becomes tiring and old. A young couple leaves a church and goes to their wedding feast. At the end of the animation, there is a bed in a plowed field. We could see an old couple wearing wedding clothes under the duvet.

Danubio Azul

1977 • 7 min • Argentina

One of the most complex animated short films by Rosario-born animator Luis Bras. It was filmed in 1977 in reversible Super 8 format with magnetic sound. He used more than 3000 cardboards with a printed grid of diagonal lines, painting with tempera paints the colour planes that form these intersecting lines.

Foi Pena Q...

1977 • 6 min • Brazil

The course of Brazil's discovery by Pedro Álvares Cabral. After a troubled journey, the Portuguese sailors spot a new land. On landing, happy and expecting to expand their empire, they face themselves with a disappointment...

Summer in Zabno

1977 • 20 min • Poland

The heroine of Kazimierz Karabasz's film is Maria Kolano, a first-year student at the Warsaw Agricultural University, who returns to her hometown of Żabno during the summer vacations to help her parents with their fieldwork. The documentary filmmaker equips Maria with a camera.

Memoir

1977 • 22 min • Japan

Michio Okabe, considered an icon of 1960s Japanese underground cinema, pursued the principle of subjective cinema by combining images that interested him cinematically and roles that he wanted to play himself. In MEMOIR the artist’s fantasies of the late 1970s are featured in a chaotic chain of images. (Go Hirasawa)

そら色のクレヨン

1977 • 55 min • Japan

In the sky, drawn with sky blue crayons, floating between the clouds, drawn with sky blue crayons, is an airplane, drawn with sky blue crayons. The one riding in it is me, drawn with sky crayons.

Glass no Kippu

1977 • 45 min • Japan

A young man appears to a young girl who dreams of escaping reality, deprived of her freedom. Eventually, the two set off in search of a new world.

美津絵讃歌

1977 • 40 min • Japan

A unique film about one girl's 20 changes, featuring only one performer despite its 40-minute running time.