All Films

Dream On

1977 • 4 min • France

An anti-music video for a Patrick Juvet song.

The Ancient Folk-Tale of Ólafur Liljurós

1977 • 35 min

Drama shot. Based on the authors' personal reflections on the ancient folk-tale of Ólafur Liljurós.

La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe

1977 • 31 min • Germany, Guadaloupe

Werner Herzog takes a film crew to the island of Guadeloupe when he hears that the volcano on the island is going to erupt. Everyone has left, except for one old man who refuses to leave.

Gut gemeinter Zuruf oder Das Kleefest

1977 • 20 min • East Germany, Germany

A village in the Republic celebrated its traditional clover festival in the summer of 1976. In the form of a political feuilleton, the film conveys to the viewer the new attitude to life of the people in the countryside.

Dressing for Pleasure

1977 • 24 min • United Kingdom

Documentary about fetish clothing scene in 70s Britain.

Dört Ateşli Yosma

1977 • 47 min • Turkey

The adventures of four friends who graduated from the same school.

On the Marriage Broker Joke as Cited by Sigmund Freud in Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious, or Can the Avant-Garde Artist Be Wholed?

1977 • 18 min • United States of America

“Freud established that jokes were structurally akin to dreams in their use of condensation, displacement, representation by opposites, punning and ‘nonsense’. All of these strategies are much in evidence in (Land’s) marvelously duplicitous ON THE MARRIAGE BROKER JOKE… [...] so clever and original a filmmaker as to make most others – not to mention his critics – seem flat-footed by comparison. ON THE MARRIAGE BROKER JOKE harks back to Bunuel’s early work. Not only is it structured like a dream and filled with sexual imagery, but like Un Chien Andalou, it smacks of being an insider’s joke played upon the avant-garde. Where Bunuel used the insights of psychoanalysis to satirize Christianity, Land– with an almost equal perversity – reverses the process and uses Christianity to send up Freud.” – J. Hoberman, American Film

Picknick

1977 • 6 min • Netherlands

A man drives his blind wife to a picnic spot he hopes she won't return from, but she won't get out of the car.

Trois Visage

1977 • 11 min

Music by Frank Lewin. Study of the mood changes between three heads with slow moving subtle differences. Two heads are made of wood. The third head is of the artist L.S. UNESCO sponsored exhibition in Paris in 1978. Award in international competition – Japan, 1980 . Sponsored by Victor Co., JVC, Burston-Marstellar agency.

Mother's leave

1977 • 58 min • Kuwait

Aisha decides to take leave from the burdens of the house, and when her husband (Abu Bassam) refuses, she leaves the house. Then he and his son (Bassam) and his daughter (Mona) are forced to do all the homework, but they find it very difficult in it and miss the presence of their mother (Aisha).

A Difficult Journey

1977 • 53 min • Albania

Miti, an old worker, and Sokol, a young driver, undertake a long journey to transport a huge metallic tower from the Durrës harbor to an important plant.

Zhikharka

1977 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A cartoon based on a Russian fairy tale. About the adventures of girl Zhikharka living with a Cat and a Rooster.

The Rose and Joe

1977 • 21 min • Japan

Hopelessly in love with a pure red rose, a humble mutt pledges his life to protect the object of his affection from every peril, from a mean-spirited crow to the very elements of nature.

There Was One Mouse

1977 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A kind wizard wants to help a cowardly mouse to overcome his fears but the mouse has to prove he deserves a helping hand.

Every Revolution Is a Throw of the Dice

1977 • 11 min • France

A tribute to Mallarmé that not only asserts the continuing relevance of his work but also confronts its literary ambiguities with political and cinematic ambiguities of its own. In outline, the film could not be more straightforward: it offers a recitation of one of Mallarmé’s most celebrated and complex poems (it was his last published work in his own lifetime, appearing in 1897, a year before his death) and proposes a cinematic equivalent for the author’s original experiment with typography and layout by assigning the words to nine different speakers, separating each speaker from the other as she or he speaks, and using slight pauses to correspond with white spaces on the original page.

We Have a Newcomer

1977 • 29 min • Soviet Union

A new worker appears at the construction site—the lively and principled Shura Rusakova. Her open dissatisfaction and intolerance for disorder at the construction site elicit understanding and sympathy from the foreman.

Striptease

1977 • 2 min • Italy

As a live woman performs a striptease, she's cheered on by an audience of small cartoon men. Some of them pop in the excitement as she brings down the house.

Milovitsa

1977 • 10 min • Soviet Union

I Don't Know

1977 • 47 min • Poland

The confession of a man who was the director of a factory in Lower Silesia. "He was a Party member but opposed to the Mafia-like organization of Party members which was active in that factory and region. Those people were stealing and debiting the factory account. He didn’t realize that people higher up were involved in the affair. And they finished him off.’ (Krzysztof Kieslowski)

Raimundo Fagner

1977 • 15 min • Brazil

In the late 1970s, young filmmaker Sérgio Santos from Rio de Janeiro lived in Santa Teresa and was a neighbor and friend of singer Raimundo Fagner from Ceará, who was beginning to reap the first fruits of a solid and long career that he would build over the following decades. Sérgio then decided to make a short film to record moments of the rising star.

Lucas, the Ear of Corn

1977 • 4 min • United States of America

The story of Lucas, a young ear of corn, from his days in the cornfield with his mother to the moment he ultimately meets his fate as a meal for a young boy.

Příhody Ferdy mravence

1977 • 16 min • Czechoslovakia

For Liberty and Union

1977 • 22 min • United States of America

At the beginning of the American Civil War in 1861, delegates from Unionist counties of northwestern Virginia decided to break away from the Confederacy and form a new government loyal to the United States that two years later would be officially recognized as the new state of West Virginia. This historical reenactment was commissioned to mark the restoration of the Wheeling Custom House -- the actual site of the delegates' conventions, featured within the film.

Expansion in Space

1977 • 14 min • Germany

In 'Expansion in Space' (1977, Dokumenta 6, Kassel), Ulay and Abramovic do not collide with each other, as they did in Relation in Space (1976), but with two free-standing pillars twice their individual body weight. Their goal is to make the pillars move by means of their naked bodies, and in this way to expand the space of action