All Films

Savitüki lugu

1977 • 9 min • Soviet Union

A small piece of clay comes to life and eventually becomes a beautiful mug that brings joy to a child.

Menschenrechte

1977 • 2 min • East Germany

How the human right to freedom, dignity and inviolability are represented in practice - from the Middle Ages to the present day.

O Grande Circo Místico

1977 • 35 min • Brazil

The world of Alagoas poet Jorge de Lima, author of unforgettable verses, is in O Grande Circo Místico, from 1977, directed by João Carlos Horta.

The Killing of an Egg

1977 • 3 min • Netherlands

This animated short film is about a guy who is about to eat a soft-boiled egg. As he's cracking the egg, he can hear a voice coming from within--telling him to STOP! Every time he hits the egg, someone from within the egg yells at him.

The Guest

1977 • 5 min • United States of America

A woman reveals her inner thoughts as she performs various chores around the bedroom.

Наш добрый мастер

1977 • 9 min • Soviet Union

The Un-Calculated Risk

1977 • 14 min • United States of America

Produced by the American Red Cross Shows the things that can go wrong when people with little experience or training set off in canoes, rafts, and kayaks. Shows the dangers of underwater obstacles, treacherous currents, icy water, flow-through hazards, and unpleasant surprises around the bend. Stresses the need for pre-experience instruction as the best means for preventing accidents. Blue Ribbon winner, American Film Festival.

Nomad

1977 • 43 min

In 1977, Ignacio Julià shot his last film in Super-8, Nomad, a 43-minute medium-length film with three protagonists and a fourth in the shadow, the author himself. The idea of assembling static portraits arose from reading a chapter on "off-screen space" - everything that does not appear on the screen but whose absence enhances the shot and the story - in Noël Burch's book Praxis del cine. The film shows the decisive influence of Andy Warhol and Phillipe Garrel's cinema. The soundtrack is by The Velvet Underground and the poster was by the Madrid artist Ceesepe.

The Struggle

1977 • 3 min • Hungary

Metaphor about art, about time, or how art uses the artist's life in his quest to create his work, in which he was pouring his talent, his vigor, and the best years of his life.

Punky Night at Hinton St. George

1977 • 1 min • United Kingdom

Children parade through the streets of Hinton St George in Somerset on the last Thursday of October. Children have hollowed out pumpkins or mangelwurzels, a type of animal fodder turnip to make lanterns following a tradition in this part of West Somerset that coincides with Halloween. Punky or Punkie Night is thought to date from the turn of the 20th century or perhaps medieval times chanting rhymes and following a Punkie King and Queen.

Time Flow

1977 • 11 min

The Skilfull Master-Underwater

1977 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The continuation of the animation of The Skilfull Master

Tito's Užice

1977 • 31 min • Yugoslavia

Documentary about the history of Užice and its role in WW2 as the first territory liberated in Nazi occupied Europe and the fighters of the Yugoslav partisan movement the town gave birth to.

Manga

1977 • 7 min • Japan

A series of mini-stories satirising our world in the 20th Century.

Coffee

1977 • 8 min • United States of America

Silent, meditative film of an everyday object, a “cosmic love letter to coffee”.

Lia

1977 • 27 min • Italy

The intervention of a student at the "counter convention" at the Fabbrica della Comunicazione di Brera, against the convention on anti-psychiatry by A. Vermiglione.

Stand Together!

1977 • 52 min

'Stand together!', a film on the "mass day of solidarity" on 11 July 1977, was made in 1977 for the Grunwick Strike Committee by the Newsreel Collective, of which Chris Thomas was a member, and members of the Association of Cinematograph, Television and Allied Technicians (ACTT) and the Transport and General Workers' Union.

Cycles of 3s and 7s

1977 • 12 min • United States of America

“Cycles of 3s and 7s is a doubled statement. First and foremost, it is a commentary on computer art and the role of computers in video. Secondly, its arithmetic project has some bearing on the construction of musical scales. In reclaiming the computer as a performance instrument, I intended that the human operator must compete directly with the computer, doing what the computer does best. The selection of a simple hand calculator was a deliberate denial of the computer aesth/ethic of bigger, faster: computer art must be doable within even the most modest architecture. Cycles of 3s and 7s shows that it is not the answer that ‘counts,’ but the pleasure in getting there. Simple rote calculation is turned into rhythm and song; accuracy of gesture and count become a game. These are ‘stories’ about numbers, the kind machines should like to hear and tell—if they ‘liked.’” - Tony Conrad

The Lucky Bunny

1977 • 6 min • Soviet Union

An unlucky hunter falls into the trap of dreams and misses his long-awaited hunt.

Transporte en Madrid o El caos como beneficio del capital

1977 • 22 min • Spain

Documentary that critically analyzes the communications system of the city of Madrid in the 1970s, from a socioeconomic and clearly political perspective, questioning the capitalist system and the city model imposed by it.

The Honeymooners Specials: A Christmas Carol

1977 • 50 min • United States of America

Ralph Kramden directs a play version of "A Christmas Carol" for his boss' fundraiser.

The Silver Hoof

1977 • 10 min • Soviet Union

An old man Kokovanya took to live to itself in a forest hut orphan Darenka. In the forest they saw an unusual goat who had a silver hoof. At what point will he stamped with his hoof — there will be a gemstone.

The Unknown Force

1977 • 52 min

From martial art experts to caregivers, a hidden power flows through humanity. This film attempts to discover it.

Enigma

1977 • 60 min • United States of America

The exploits of secret agent Andrew Icarus who works for a world wide crime-fighting organization.