All Films - Short Movie Database

Désir

1977 • 9 min • France

Barnaby the Dragon

1977 • 11 min • Poland

A fairytale about a dragon.

Fashionation

1977 • 3 min • United States of America

One of Mike Jittlov's greatest short films, also known as Animato: Fashionation (1977). The short was made using kinestasis and cutout animation, mostly from fashion magazines illustrating the lyrics of the song "I Know a Place" by Petula Clark. It also extensively used multiple exposures, pixilation and stop motion for the brief live-action sequence. The second half of the film opens The Wizard Of Speed And Time (1988) in a re-scored version.

Silent No More

1977 • 20 min

Pat Rocco's fictionalized document of the 1977 Christopher Street West carnival and parade.

Time 1

1977 • 7 min • Yugoslavia

A recording of a clock ticking for 7 minutes.

Globes

1977 • 3 min • United States of America

Cultural and perceptual contrasts are evoked in this non-linear mythic episode in which a hammer, a paintbrush, a bucket, a pile of clothes, a window full of globes and a couple are manipulated via the filmmaker/demi-urge.

The Tomb

1977 • 17 min • Egypt

The short film Al Dhareeh (1977) by Eltayeb Mahdi, founding member of the Sudanese Film Group, tells the story of a man who claims to be able to heal people.

The Ona People: Life and Death in Tierra del Fuego

1977 • 49 min • Argentina

Documents the life of the last generation of Selk'nam's. Their way of life, economy, rituals, chants, traditions, and their slow extinction after the colonization...

D'art moderne

1977 • 10 min • France

Sonoma

1977 • 7 min • United States of America

"I relocated to the Redwoods of Sonoma County upon graduation and in that relocation process the animation for Sonoma began. The design was built around the concept of the long wide horizontal 'pan' shot to express the concept of a dynamic landscape that passes across the screen like a traditional Chinese Scroll Painting. The deep personal meaning relates to the 'relocation' that was occurring within my own being after having done 2½ terms of active combat in the jungle as a carrier enlisted with the 82nd Airborne Division of the Army" -D. Pies. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

Places for People

1977 • 32 min • Ireland

Cultural documentary commissioned by Local Government for European Architectural Year, 1975. Focuses on "A Future for Our Past", a children's architectural exhibition, attended by President Cearbhall O'Dalaigh. Scenes from this event are intercut with footage of more than fifty architectural locations, past and present. A film for European Architectural Heritage Year 1975, whose objective was to stimulate people to look at the architectural context in which they live.

Step Style

1977 • 29 min

Alan Lomax and his associates, beginning in the late 1950s undertook a monumental study of the relationship between style in song and dance cross-culturally. It began with Cantometrics which developed a common language description for the many variables in performance style in the diverse cultures of the world and measured how those variables clustered geographically and in relation to means of subsistence and aspects of social organization. Choreometrics continued this investigation into dance and movement. A continuation of Alan Lomax & Forrestine Paulay's Choreometrics project, this film examines the use of the foot in dance cross culturally. Though this film comes from later in the project, below is an interesting article written by Lomax about the methodology he was developing for this sort of film.

Equilibres

1977 • 12 min • Belgium, France

A silent teenage girl who works as a tightrope walker tries to keep her balance while crossing Paris.

Self-Portrait As A City

1977 • 5 min

Assassination of a City

1977 • 14 min

A short film depicting Beirut during the civil war of Lebanon

Flor Cosmica

1977 • 15 min

Pola Weiss' first videoart. It shows a series of images in shape of a flower with different colors with experimental techniques.

Domicile

1977 • 9 min

"In this film there is a simple accessible constant which you will have no difficulty in recognizing. There is an equally apparent variable. So your question - to phrase it poorly - might be, what is it that is being measured here? The materials of this film are personal, comfortably so. Nothing in that way distorted or untoward. But the choices of the artist are both crucial and defining, and there is evident attention to what he has called boundaries. This ... is a beautiful film, factually, with a lovely shifting counterpoint in the pacing. Like an old slow blues, after some up-tempo number – so, read it and think." – Robert Creeley

Bark-Rind

1977 • 30 min • Australia

“I wanted to make grass grow...to show the life force of a tree. Bark-Rind was shot totally single-frame...each shot exposed three times...close-up, mid shot, long shot. I used the sound of insects, signifying pollination, life...and I tried to make their sound visible. The camera starts on the grass, flowers, then works its way up the trunk, into the crown of the tree, then onto the next tree. The film vibrates...switching from sound/film...film/sound. You wonder whether you're looking at a film image or at the sound itself.” (Paul Winkler)