All Films

Larger than Life

1977 • 57 min • Hungary

Endriade's wife died in a tragic car accident 10 years ago. The scientist now lives in a secret laboratory high in the mountains under close military supervision. He and a few other scientists have created an artificial super-brain that knows everything. Outwardly, this higher knowledge looks like his long-deceased wife, but in addition to its appearance, it also received her personality, which rebels against its creators and begins killing them.

Etna

1977 • 45 min

Documentary about Etna volcano based on Haroun Tazieff volcanology investigations done in 1975.

Rubbish By Rail

1977 • 6 min • United Kingdom

How to dispose of the 23 million tons of household rubbish produced each year in Britain.

Gurdeep Singh Bains

1977 • 12 min • Canada

Gurdeep is a thirteen-year-old Canadian Sikh whose family runs a dairy farm near Chilliwack, British Columbia. They have retained their language and religion. Attendance at the Sikh temple, playing soccer with his schoolmates, and working on the farm are all part of Gurdeep's well-integrated life, but sometimes he feels a little different from the other children because he wears a turban. This film is part of the Children of Canada series.

The Curse of the Claw

1977 • 30 min • United Kingdom

Sir Kevin Orr is anxious to return the Sacred Claw of the Naga hills given him as a child by his uncle Jack but warned that unless it is returned before his sixtieth birthday the curse of the claw will kill him. He sets sail to return it but falls for the ship's female officer, who throws the claw overboard, killing everybody but Kevin. Years later the claw has returned and on his sixtieth birthday Kevin finds his wife Agatha dead, the claw beside her. He finally sends the claw back to the Naga hills, breaking the curse but sending him back in time to his childhood, his relatives still alive.

Mother of Many Children

1977 • 58 min • Canada

This film is an album of Native womanhood, portraying a proud matriarchal society that for centuries has been pressured to adopt different standards and customs. All of the women featured share a belief in the importance of tradition as a source of strength in the face of change.

The Stowaway

1977 • 23 min

Peter stows away on a ship from Italy, and arrives in New York, pursued by the ship's captain. He is advised that he will find other Italians in Little Italy, so he goes there, where Gepetto takes him in, after he attempts to steal some food. He tries to be good, but gets in trouble for stealing, so Jimmy the pizza man has to show him the way and get him to school. He thinks he isn't important, so he tells tall tales, scratching his nose each time. He tells people that Gepetto is a big important politician, so people automatically want to support him, though Gepetto is not running for anything.

Architect Athfield

1977 • 54 min • New Zealand

Examines the practical philosophy, the achievements and frustrations of one of New Zealand's most lively and innovative architects, Ian Athfield. The film provides a portrait of the architect and his work both in New Zealand and his project to design housing for 140,000 squatters from the Tondo area of Manila in the Philippines, for which Athfield won an international competition in 1975.

Kudzu

1977 • 16 min • United States of America

Kudzu, or Pueraria Thunbergiana, is a vine threatening to take over large portions of the Southern landscape. Imported from Japan by the Departement of Agriculture in the 30's for erosion control, its spreading growth has become a problem of menacing proportions. Kudzu is an off-beat, witty, informative documentary about the vine that is devouring the South. Featuring the Kudzu Queen, the Kudzu rock band, a cast of real-life characters and an appearance by former President Jimmy Carter, it illustrates how Southern cultural traditions have quickly grown up around a botanical pest. The eminent American poet and novelist James Dickey ("Deliverance"), recites three stanzas of his poem, "Kudzu."

Le Passe-muraille

1977 • 56 min

A man learns one night that he can walk through walls, and uses this skill to get back at a nasty new boss, to rob banks, and to romance an overly protected lady.

Limite

1977 • 12 min • Mexico

Monochromatic music, lineal narrative in first person and editing based on disolvences, all try to give a global vision of Escher's graphic work.

The Four Sources

1977 • 35 min • Morocco

Ahmed Bouanani’s Al-Manabe' al-Arba'a (1974), a very low-budget fantastical adaption of a poetic fable, features his wife Naïma Saoudi, who also worked as an art director and set designer. It is his only film in colour, which convinced him that his vocation was to work in black and white.

Nach Bluff

1977 • 10 min • Germany

Bastian Clevé - 10 mins - 1977

The Phone Call

1977 • 24 min • United States of America

Scott starts work at a drive-in burger and ice cream restaurant when his paper route proves inadequate to raise the money he needs for a mail order karate course. He has determined that this course will help him gain the self-confidence he needs to get up the courage to call and ask Pam out to see a movie. Although at first just commenting on his mistakes, Becky, a co-worker, offers to help him make the crucial phone call. In the process Scott offers insights about how Joe is abusive in his relationship with Becky.

Lucy Calls the President

1977 • 60 min • United States of America

Homemaker Lucy Whittaker calls up President Carter to complain about a local political issue—and to her astonishment, he agrees to come dine at her house. Now Lucy has her hands full as family, friends and Secret Service agents invade her home in preparation for the big dinner summit.

Hey Mum, Let's Shoot a Movie

1977 • 24 min • Germany

A satire about an ambitious amateur filmmaker decides to make a movie, enlists his family, uses the entire town as a backdrop, and still fails.

The Iron Fortress

1977 • 60 min • East Germany

Weeks after the victory in Vietnam, first pictures of a new humanity are captured: old and sick people preparing for their future, children on their way to school.

Bugs Bunny in Space

1977 • 30 min • United States of America

Bugs Bunny in Space is a parody of "Star Wars" that features a compilation of science-fiction themed clips from Warner Brothers cartoons starring Bugs Bunny and other characters.

Dogada

1977 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Based on a Russian fairy-tale joke about stupid men.

Copyright Film Polski MCMLXXVI

1977 • 3 min • Poland

An apple is squished to the soundtrack of its amplified demise.

Either We Are or Aren't

1977 • 41 min • Yugoslavia

Luka Šušmek, a servant, daily laborer and a bit of a vagabond, makes his way through life with his favorite phrase – “either we are, or we are not”, but it causes nothing but troubles to him.

Family Drama

1977 • 48 min • Soviet Union

The man, after a lot of jokes on his side, accuses his wife of giving birth to only girls, but she tells him that the heirs deserve fathers like real men, and leaves, taking daughters with her. Her husband's friends are trying to reconcile them, but the proud mountain woman does not intend to return home.

The Machine-Men

1977 • 7 min • France

Predecessor of the movie Gandahar released 10 years later, only time will tell us what unfolds in this mysterious utopic universe.

The Sex of the Angels

1977 • 45 min • France

A fantasia on the inner lives of gay teenagers in '70s France.