All Films

Morinouta

1977 • 12 min • Japan

Touching! Tears! Romance! The beginning and the end of the film are linked in a repeat. A fox, a baby mushroom, and a poisonous mushroom scurry across the screen.

Hitler's Secret Weapon

1977 • 58 min

NOVA traces the development of Hitler's V-2 rocket through rare footage obtained from the National Archives—some never broadcast before on television.

The Mission of Ismet Kozica

1977 • 23 min • Yugoslavia

As the small factory grows, the young worker Ismet Kozica has to visit the mountain villages to find new female workers.

A Quiet Afternoon with Strangers

1977 • 5 min • United States of America

“A ‘silent’ interview, QUIET AFTERNOON is the most strange and moving of Turkle’s films, documenting the year-round garage sale of an eccentric, elderly Ohio couple. The omission of sound and the focused, grainy attention of their legacy of bric-a-brac, discarded appliances and collected curiosities adds greatly to the film’s ultimate emotional effect.” – Frank Young, Florida Flambeau.

Anima

1977 • 4 min • Switzerland

Since the time immemorial, man bears a woman-image within himself. And from birth to death, that image deteriorates at the rhythm of life, in the manner of a train gone wild: the end of its acceleration only comes with the abrupt breakdown of its worn-out mechanism.

Revenge of the Objects

1977 • 7 min • Canada

An animated short subject on how, if man does not want to respect objects, those objects will rise up in revolt.

Ich widerspreche mir nicht...

1977 • 45 min • Germany

A 1977 made-for-television documentary about the German writer Ernst Jünger.

Prepariamoci alla notte

1977 • 10 min • Italy

Zeitraum

1977 • 7 min • Switzerland

"My windows were shuttered; for two months I had to live in the dark in order to experiment and study the light. When the blackout ended and the light flooded my studio again the film was made. The camera was attached like a pendulum, counting the time, bending the studio, constantly changing points of view." (Alfons Schilling)

Portrait (Monica Sjöö)

1977 • 12 min

A portrait of the artist Monica Sjöö, observing her creative and domestic world, as she reminiscences on her life so far.

Complex Wave Forms

1977 • 5 min • United States of America

Produced without camera input, this intense electronic landscape transports the viewer into a world that is an abstract study in machine-generated imagery. Produced at the Experimental Television Center.

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1977 • 18 min

Short film by Michele Sambin.

Some Exterior Presence

1977 • 8 min

[This film is] structured on the four-handed nature of film: original footage (outtakes from a television documentary I was directing in the spring of 1975 in the South Bronx and Brownsville) manipulated, then optically printed, then manipulated again. - AC

Shining Breeze

1977 • 11 min • Japan

In Kō-Fū, Touch Me transformed everyday snapshots into a world of intense luminosity by applying frame-by-frame optical processing using an optical printer he made himself. Kō-Fū translates as “Shining Breeze” and refers to “a scene of rice fields just after a typhoon has gone, when it is still windy and the leaves of rice are waving in the stream of wind with raindrops which are shining by reflecting the sunlight." The repetitive, flickering images and minimalist music create a psychedelic trip effect in this film, which is made up of short, high-contrast black-and-white footage processed through precise frame-by-frame optical processing.

Ensaios

1977 • 8 min

Documentary narrative about the process of making animations with accessible materials, such as cardboard, paper, gouache paint, an improvised light box, and the result of the filmed artworks.

The White Rock Blues

1977 • 10 min • United States of America

Animated short.

8 Panoramen NY 77

1977 • 8 min

A film by André Lehmann

Westside Highway NY 77

1977 • 9 min

A film by André Lehmann

The Aggressive Impulse

1977 • 19 min

Examines the manifestation of aggressive instincts in animals and in humans. Discusses ways in which both animals and humans impose limitations on their violent impulses.

Diogene

1977 • 2 min • Italy

"In 1977 I left for a solitary journey from the Venetian countryside. My home is the car. The camera is my eye. The journey is completed but only the beginning of the planned film remains." (M.S.)

Temporidentitàs

1977 • 10 min • Italy

Carolina, Vincenzo and I duplicate our reflection an endless number of times, as if one were mirrored in the other. Material time and psychological time blend in an exhausting oriental repetition of gestures.

A 5' writing

1977 • 5 min • Italy

Four speeds in writing associated to four physical movements that become louder and louder. The word returns to gestures and the body to survive. The real time of screen-writing makes the time of poetic action coincide with the time of the reader, reflecting the biological rythm of life into the experience of language and writing.

Dai Diari Di Anaïs Nin

1977 • 14 min

Short graduation film inspired by Anaïs Nin's private manuscript diary and Antonin Artaud's "Letters From Rodez".

DIKTAT: Il Tempo Del Titano

1977 • 25 min

Four integrative short films for a multimedia theatre play.