All Films

Andrés Segovia: The Song of the Guitar

1977 • 48 min • United Kingdom

In this stunning film by Christopher Nupen, Segovia returns to the Granada of his youth, site of his personal and musical formation. The world-famous Alhambra—empty of tourists, between midnight and 4 AM—plays host to a deeply moving selection of Segovia’s signature pieces, many in his own arrangements, all imbued with the meditative, profoundly soulful qualities that lifted him to the pinnacle of artistry and helped him redefine what was considered possible for guitarists.

Life of Ermiles

1977 • 37 min • Soviet Union

Ermile , the head of a small railway station, finds himself at the center of a confrontation between two forces, and much depends on his decision

Prairie Fire

1977 • 30 min

The first short film in John Hanson and Rob Nilsson's "Prairie Trilogy"

El Negro, El Indio

1977 • 15 min

A meditation on the intersection of Afro-Caribbean and Indigenous American existence.

The Sorcerers of Elthradin

1977 • 33 min • United States of America

"A King's daughter is abducted by an evil magician who is attempting to take over the world. After having his army destroyed by several terrible beasts in an attempt to regain his daughter, the King finally seeks the aid of an old wizard and his apprentice." - Cinematic V1 Issue 11

'Twas the Night Before Christmas

1977 • 45 min

The story of the Cosgrove family on Christmas Eve in a New England town in the late 1890s.

One Way Boogie Woogie

1977 • 60 min • United States of America

Sixty one-minute shots with no camera movement. This tension between painterly and cinematic space is not only experienced as an intellectual contrast but is also felt as a dialectic between permanence and impermanence.

Autoportrait d’un schizophrène

1977 • 22 min • France

A document of the mental universe of a schizophrenic. Starring Pierre Clémenti.

The Runaways Live in Japan

1977 • 44 min

During the summer of 1977 The Runaways took the unsuspecting nation of Japan by storm becoming the fourth most popular imported musical act behind Led Zeppelin and The Beatles. Unfortunately most of the available video footage from their two month tour is of fifth or sixth generation bootleg quality.

The Executioner

1977 • 2 min • Poland

An executioner prepares to work. His red gloves turn into blood, and a cut tree symbolises his victim.

Coal people

1977 • 30 min

Coal workers are one of the professions that disappeared in our time due to the rapid technological development of industrial society. The film refers to the survival problems faced by both the coal traders and its producers, mainly the coal miners. Black and white emphasizes not only the product of production, coal, but also the acuteness of the problem. In addition, he follows the latter throughout the production of charcoal in the forests of Evia, where they move as a family. It describes the different phases of the production process, alongside the different phases of their reflection on the future, the whole family together and each member separately. Alinda Dimitriou does not use a questionnaire to elicit their thoughts – she lets the conversation "unravel the tangle of confessions", as she typically said.

Benny Hill Down Under

1977 • 60 min • Australia

A one-off special starring Benny Hill, filmed entirely in Australia. Includes a sketch about "Benny Kelly," son of infamous Australian outlaw Ned Kelly; "Hold Back the Wind" (a Tennessee Williams parody); "Archie's Angels" (a spoof of Charlie's Angels); and "Lady Godiva." Also: a vagabond dreams of moving up to the high life; an interview with Chow Mein; a dance routine set to the themes from The Avengers, M*A*S*H and Hawaii Five-O; and closing hijinks around the beach.

Conversa com Cascudo

1977 • 30 min • Brazil

Kevin Alec

1977 • 16 min • Canada

In the mountainous country near Lillooet, British Columbia, eleven-year-old Kevin Alec of the Fountain Indian Reserve learns to make fishnets with his grandfather, and skin and tan hides with his aunt. He goes fishing with his grandmother and horseback riding with his brother. Life is full of wonderful things to do and to learn. Will Kevin eventually abandon his traditional way of life or will it be a source of continuing enrichment? This film is part of the Children of Canada series.

No Apple for Johnny

1977 • 10 min • Canada

This animated short is the visual enactment of the year-long obstacle course run by a teacher trainee. Rich in humor and anecdote, it is a comedy of educational manners seen through the autobiographical and unflinching eye of the trainee-turned-filmmaker.

Strangers at the Door

1977 • 28 min • Canada

This drama tells the harrowing story of an immigrant family in the New World. On arrival in Canada, their hopes for a better life were dashed when immigration officials refused to grant entry to their daughter. During a routine medical examination it was found that Kasia had contracted an infectious eye disease. She is separated from her family and sent back to Europe alone.

Uarei

1977 • 25 min

UAREI, made between 1972 and 1977 in San Francisco, London and Vienna, is Marc Adrian's last abstract film and unfolds a psychedelic-meditative effect. The film is preceded by a quote ("human existence being an hallucination containing in itself the secondary hallucinations of day and night it will becomes any man of sense to be concerned at the illusory approach of the supreme hallucination known as death.") from the fictional Irish author Flann O'Brien fictional philosopher and scientist DeSelby, who is "quoted" in O'Brien's novel The Third Policeman. (Anna Artaker)

Frame

1977 • 10 min • United States of America

Provincetown, Cape Cod. A reconstructed 'landscape' ... inspired by a drive down 6A. The norm when driving of watching the landscape approaching and receding, and the side-show of dioramas.

Rapid Eye Movements

1977 • 12 min • United States of America

Psychedelic animated film follows a hip celebrity and his underworld lifestyle through casinos, hotel rooms, parties and odd characters.

I, Blaga Micanova

1977 • 11 min • Yugoslavia

The documentary follows the life path of Blaga Micanova, who as a young village girl, growing up through work actions leaves the village and becomes the first woman in Macedonia to work with a bulldozer.

Liberté provisoire

1977 • 23 min • France

Liberté provisoire takes from everyday life, transforming the ordinary into a sensory delight. Walks in the Belleville district, Ménilmontant, leading to Père Lachaise cemetery, to the tombs of Piaf and Sarapo.

Mammals With Hoofs

1977 • 10 min • United States of America

Surveys the hoofed mammals, called ungulates, including those which are even-toed, such as hippopotami, pigs and deer and those which are odd-toed, such as rhinoceroses and horses. Describes their diets, feeding habits, special adaptations and usefulness to man.

Murder Research

1977 • 16 min • Canada

“Early in the morning on Thursday Feb 26, 1976, a young First Nations man named Eugene Lloyd Pelly was fatally stabbed in an apartment at 4272 Watson Street, east of Main near 28th. After escaping out a window Pelly collapsed in the middle of the road and, as snow fell, succumbed to his injuries. That same morning Jeanette Reinhardt noticed Pelly’s bloody body from her window. Paul Wong, whom she was living with at the time, shot a roll of 35mm film documenting the scene – first from their window, and later at roadside. The quiet violence of the scene captivated Wong, and together with collaborator Kenneth Fletcher, the two embarked on a project to research the crime in full detail." – Allison Collins & Michael Turner, Mainstreeters: Taking Advantage 1972-1982

A la vuelta del grito

1977 • 41 min

A production by the spanish Colectivo de Cine de Clase (Class Cinema Collective), which illustrates the formation of a union.