All Films

Preparation

1977 • 12 min • Japan

Based on strict shooting notes for each photogram. A special camera was designed to erase the sequential decomposition of the still images. 300 still images, including rotating images, are replaced one after the other by scanning.

Prologue/Epilogue

1977 • 5 min • Japan

I made this in 1977 because I wanted to show a "Prologue" at the beginning and an "Epilogue" at the end of my solo exhibition. I used stock photographs from "Preparation."

Mish-Mash

1977 • 38 min • Yugoslavia

Several animated sketches by the hand of Macedonian animator Darko Markovikj.

A Time of Change

1977 • 60 min • United States of America

Woman Alive! #202

Hammer

1977 • 5 min • Japan

The inside of the screen is a fictional space separated by a frame, and the screen is the surface of that fictional space. I created this piece with the idea of ​​trying various approaches to that surface from within the fictional space. Sliding the surface sideways, grabbing it and taking it inside, or conversely, making what's inside match the surface. As for the technique, I cut and pasted together a series of prints onto paper to create a series of photographs that corresponded to the surface of the fictional space, and then filmed them frame by frame.

Meridian Passage

1977 • 5 min • Japan

The film was shot at the Osanbashi Pier in Yokohama and then re-shot on a matte. The mattes were changed so that parts of the landscape were partially visible and partially hidden, and the projector lens was left open and closed to create a random effect. When the film reached the end, I rewound it, replaced the matte, and shot again. I repeated this process. It was a six-fold exposure with five mattes and a mask. I created this with the image in mind of a clear shape passing through an unclear screen that is sometimes visible and sometimes not, tracing the perspective.

The Smell of Death

1977 • 16 min

The Smell of Death is the last in a series of moving image creations made as an extension of the Abstract Expressionist painting movement. The film’s structure reveals the interaction of abstract textures and lines punctuated by blackness. The pace and rhythm are purely visual, without dependence of narrative or auditory structure.

Dialectic Definitions

1977 • 9 min

Dana seemingly records a fellow professor reading each word in an encyclopedia.

Sunny Island

1977 • 49 min • Soviet Union

A young woman, disillusioned with her beloved, leaves for a mountain village. Her connection with nature and with wise, sincere people brings her a sense of wholeness in life, something she thought was lost forever.

Operação Boa Colheita

1977 • 26 min

A film by Luís Gaspar.

I want to be Joan

1977 • 32 min

I want to be Joan was made after Stephanie Beth was asked to document a womens conference. The subsequent film interviewed women who attended the conference but chose not to speak at the event. Amongst their testimony the film-maker interwove song and images of paintings by contemporary female artists including Jacqueline Fraser.

Supertot

1977 • 42 min • Spain

Supertot leads a double life as a journalist and hero, in love with Gladys and competing for her affection with Jimmy, a coworker. Adaptation by the U de cuc theater company of the original play by Josep Maria Benet i Jornet.

SRTV 340 - Filme Histórico - Nelson Pereira dos Santos

1977 • 11 min

Film director Nelson Pereira dos Santos reflects on cinema and history in an interview with SRTV.

Fosca

1977 • 10 min • Spain

Portrait of a dark night in Barcelona, where a group of queer people take to the streets and nightclubs to claim their sexual freedom.

The Sky Above... The Earth Below

1977 • 30 min

Documentary following Icelandair Flight 230 from Keflavik to Glasgow, Loganair Flight 2356 from Barra to Glasgow, and Aerlingus Flight 223 from Glasgow to Dublin, detailing how pilots, air traffic controllers, and staff at Prestwick Airport work together to passengers on these planes - and hundreds of other flights - safely to their destinations.

Spring film observations

1977 • 15 min

North. Expedition to one of the inflows of cold Pechora. The film crew doesn't know yet with that this land will please them. The most amazing thing in the world is life itself in all its expressions even the smallest.

Agueda Martinez: Our People, Our Country

1977 • 16 min

The film documents the remarkable woman, Doña Agueda Martinez from Medanales, New Mexico and her lifestyle that ran in harmony with nature and reliance on tradition and proven values. The film depicts Agueda Martinez's deep-rooted relationship with both the land and her family. Agueda Martinez is shown farming her fields of green chile, gathering herbs, cooking and talking to her grandchildren and weaving at the loom. Doña Agueda says, I love to weave and I never get tired doing this work. I will weave until the day I can no longer move. Until then Me va hallar bailando en el telar" (You will find me dancing on the loom).

Charleen or How Long Has This Been Going On?

1977 • 54 min

In Charleen, documentarian Ross McElwee looks at the life of a North Carolina poet and teacher who acts as a muse to a motley crew of artists and musicians.

A Fistful of Yen

1977 • 31 min

Two martial arts styles meet (or, should we say, clash) when a small army of well-trained patriots defend their homeland against an invading army of merciless trained killers. Who can say who will hold sway when the powerful tiger fist meets the elegant crane fist. One thing's for sure -- it'll be a bad case of fisticuffs! Originally part of The Kentucky Fried Movie, a Fistful of Yen was one of the sketches it included.

Sydney Harbour Bridge

1977 • 13 min • Australia

“Tourists, postcards, different views of the same icon. The Bridge is a piece of geometry so I figured the film had to be geometric, too. The matte box allowed me to create postcards within postcards within postcards. It was all done in-camera…very demanding, it took all winter! The matting had to be carefully calculated and each image rewound by hand, then rephotographed, in the right position and at the right exposure. I surrounded the Bridge with a mass of water…vertically and horizontally. The water is by turns soft and then metallic as it reflects in the low winter sun. The movement, the steel and the water create an interplay as harbour sounds, wind chimes, boats…tinkle.” (Paul Winkler)

The Sandwich

1977 • 11 min • Egypt

Explores the daily life and work of children in Abnoud, a rural village located 600 kilometres to the south of Cairo, where the trains that carry the tourists to the south of Egypt pass through without stopping. A boy outsmarts the meagerness of his circumstances by dripping goat’s milk on a piece of stale bread and turning it into a special sandwich.

O Rei do Cagaço

1977 • 8 min • Brazil

The act of defecating, filmed in an explicit and impactful way, introduces the parodic story of a demonstrator who evacuates in various institutions in Bahia.

Antes que Eu me Esqueça

1977 • 16 min • Brazil

"Before I Forget" is a short film by Jairo Ferreira. It was filmed in 1977, during the release of the book of the same name of Roberto Bicelli. The poet is part, along with Cláudio Willer and Roberto Piva, of the surrealist group of São Paulo. Also participating in the short Jorge Mautner and Nelson Jacobina.

Hidden Memories

1977 • 10 min • United States of America

A woman remembers an unwanted teenage pregnancy.