All Films

Merry Christmas

1977 • 56 min • Poland

Two men go to Warsaw to sell Christmas trees and meet old friends.

20 Years Later

1977 • 56 min • Canada

This film is about the Moroccan Jews who have come to Québec since 1956. It explodes the myth of Jewish unity, showing the Moroccans caught between the Ashkenazy Jews, English-speaking and long established, and the French-speaking Québécois. The film asks whether the Sephardic Jew can be Jewish and Québécois at the same time.

El Niño y la Cometa

1977 • 32 min • Uruguay

Science fiction story often read as an allegory for the disappearance of children under the Uruguayan dictatorship.

The Heavens

1977 • 4 min

"The Heavens"–Symmetrical chaos envelops a lone, topless man, whose symmetrical abstractions conjure up a psychadelic version of DaVinci's Vitruvian Man.

Marx and Rockefeller on Capitalism

1977 • 27 min

People from the future conjure these two ghosts from the past, who fade back into the past as the film ends. Here, Karl Marx and John D. Rockefeller debate their philosophies of private versus public ownership, free versus regulated markets, revolutionary versus evolutionary change.

Larga noche

1977 • 40 min

In 1976 an anarchist exiled in Paris returned to Spain. He feels disappointed, comparing the anarchism of Barcelona in 1936 and the situation of Western democracy today. it is the story of 'a long night' that ends, a night that he understands as dictatorship and repression. A night in which ideas, sensations and memories intermingle.

Stress!

1977 • 14 min • United States of America

This educational film teaches how to manage the tension and pressures of everyday living.

Domingo em construção

1977 • 9 min • Brazil

The Magic Flute

1977 • 8 min • Canada

An animated fable for children showing that things can be malignant or benign depending on how they are used--with good or evil intent.

There Was a Hedgehog

1977 • 8 min • Soviet Union

On a festive day, all the little animals are happy with balloons — everyone except the hedgehog, because his needles make the balloons burst.

Support Modelling

1977 • 4 min • Canada

The Mainstreeters initiated a number of commercial enterprises. Support Modelling was a modelling agency comprised of members of the local art and punk rock scene. To promote the project, Paul Wong made a three-channel video (later adapted to single channel) that featured certain Mainstreeters in various states of undress, accompanied by a disco soundtrack. Support Modelling also appears as a series of concept ads (weddings, funerals) in Ennui magazine.

Experiments in Love

1977 • 28 min

Mariwin Roberts and Linda Gordon star as a pair of sexy scientists who explore the secrets of sexuality with a sci-fi third dimension experiment.

Leaf Fall - November

1977 • 10 min • Soviet Union

About a bunny's meetings with forest inhabitants preparing for winter.

Söndagsseglaren

1977 • 26 min • Sweden

A wordless comedy about the tribulations of a novice sailor.

Hello, Jailoo!

1977 • 19 min • Soviet Union

A film about the life of herders and shepherds on summer distant pastures, known as the jailoo. It tells the story of people in a demanding profession, which gives the film a distinctive national flavor.

Girl In Vortex

1977 • 10 min • Japan

A short film by Katsuhiro Yamaguchi.

Le gant de l'autre

1977 • 15 min • France

Exploration of bodies. Point, counterpoint. A black glove goes in search of a red glove.

Halloween Safety

1977 • 11 min • United States of America

An 11-minute educational short from the director of Carnival of Souls teaching children safe Halloween practices. Through a playful story, it demonstrates costume safety, trick-or-treating in groups, checking treats, and other tips for a fun and secure holiday.

Twin Peaks

1977 • 50 min • United States of America

While working as a delivery driver, artist Al Wong became captivated by the meditative qualities of the looping roads around San Francisco’s Twin Peaks. But rather than a simple documentation of these journeys, this long-form structural film utilises Wong’s conceptual explorations to create a stunning, sensual work of pure cinema that continually upends our perceptual expectations. On the soundtrack, we hear the continual lapping of ocean waves. A student of the legendary Sōtō Zen monk Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, Al Wong here creates a film which perfectly symbolises the endless cycles discussed in Zen Buddhist philosophy. A monumental, largely-unseen masterwork 1970s avant-garde film, restored in 16mm by the Pacific Film Archive.

Spare Wheel

1977 • 20 min • Soviet Union

Gogi is on his way to celebrate the New Year. On the snowy road, he meets a beautiful girl whose car broke down. Gogi gives the tire of his car to beautiful stranger, and he himself, fascinated by his own behavior, meets the New Year alone in the car on a deserted road.

Untitled 77-A

1977 • 10 min • South Korea

The film contains the despair of an artist’s desire for creation on ruthless censorship, rebel, and anxiety in the mid-70s when it was politically and socially depressed.

Pekka Siitoin and the Patriotic People's Front

1977 • 34 min • Finland

"I am a hardcore racist, sadist and fascist. The New Testament is true, the Old Testament is not. Spirits informed me that I will be born again in my next life in the United States, then as president." - Pekka Siitoin (1944 - 2003) was an occultist and a neo-Nazi from Naantali, Finland. In his youth he studied at the Theatre Academy of Finland and was a disciple of Finland's best known clairvoyant, Aino Kassinen. In the 1970s he became a neo-Nazi and founded several organizations. He saw himself as the leader of the Finnish Nazi movement but got at most a few dozen supporters. Siitoin also wrote books about politics and occultism.

The Merry Widow

1977 • 1 min • Austria

Through the use of a time lapse effect (single frame shots), the changes in a face covered with a cream cheese mask for 30 minutes are condensed into one minute. (E.S.jr.)

The Wigan Casino

1977 • 26 min • United Kingdom

Documentary covering the famous Wigan Casino northern soul venue and the working class kids who spend all their money not on alcohol but on records and dancing all night.