All Films

Looking at Alice

1977 • 28 min • United Kingdom

A lonely young man obsesses over the flirty young model who lives in the building opposite, but fails to realise that she is dealing with anxieties of her own.

Halloween Hall o' Fame

1977 • 60 min

Jonathan Winters stars as a night watchman working late at Walt Disney Studios on Halloween night. He is accompanied by his dog, Peanuts. The night watchman, bitter about working on Halloween night, stumbles upon the prop room at the studio and begins acting out scenes with various props. Eventually, he finds a crystal ball containing a talking Jack-o'-lantern (also played by Winters). Jack-o'-lantern is hiding out from Halloween because it's no longer scary like it was back in "the olden days".

Seans : hommage á Antonin Artaud

1977 • 60 min • Sweden

A seance in which Antonin Artaud can be seen as a swirling depiction of a theater of freedom in the rubble of the hateful counter between actor and audience. Percival is the author of many books in Swedish and English. He has exhibited his paintings and photographs, composed experimental world music and directed some of his own plays and a play by Beckett.

Auntie Kathleen's Old Clothes

1977 • 29 min

A boy reflects on time he spent staying with his aunt and uncle.

Solitude of One Divided by 880,000

1977 • 43 min • Japan

A lonely man in Tokyo. Friendly gestures from strangers and sudden encounters with old friends are the only pillars available for the man about to slip into the abyss of absolute loneliness.

The Fat Albert Halloween Special

1977 • 23 min • United States of America

It's Halloween for Fat Albert and the Junkyard Gang, and everyone's all set for trick-or-treating. While searching for costumes a store clerk kicks them out, leaving the gang to comes up with their own home-made costumes. Then they are off to the movies to scare old Searchlight Johnson, then more hijinks with Mudfoot Brown, and old lady Bickwell. As you can probably guess, things don't go too well and they learn their lessons... Searchlight catches them up to no good in the theatre and throws them out. Mudfoot Brown eats most of their candy, and old lady Bickwell turns out to have the best Halloween treats in town.

Mountain Summiters

1977 • 19 min • Soviet Union

Having met road workers, a sports instructor convinces them to sign up in the mountaineering section and begin to conquer the surrounding peaks.

MA (Intervals)

1977 • 10 min • Japan

In the general classification, this was a complete abstract film and a kind of experimental movie as well, only black film, which blocks light, and clear film, which is totally transparent, were used as the basic materials.

Lemon Cake

1977 • 17 min • Soviet Union

Road masters Abessalom, Beso and Gigla decide to enjoy lemon cake for dessert.

The Secret of the Count of Kaunitz

1977 • 37 min • Germany

Five camping youths see at night a ghostly woman, which leads them to the castle of Count Kaunitz, in what will reveal itself to be a gruesome trap. Schlingensief was 15 years old when making this film.

Penny

1977 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Well, Just You Wait! 10

1977 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Hare buys glasses at the store, on the way out Wolf lures him to his house. At home they want to drink juice from the new glasses, but the glasses start to break right in their hands. The episode raises the problem of poor quality splintering glasses.

Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas

1977 • 53 min • Canada, United States of America

A poor otter family risks everything for the chance to win the cash prize of a talent contest for Christmas.

Women Are Naturally Creative: Agnès Varda

1977 • 46 min • Germany

A documentary about French film director Agnès Varda on the set of her 1977 film ONE SINGS, THE OTHER DOESN'T. It includes interviews with Varda and the lead actors in the film.

Beautiful Lennard Island

1977 • 24 min • Canada

Butterfly

1977 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A short story about three cheerful road workers who help a beautiful girl catch butterflies.

Travel and Description of the Guanabara River on the Occasion of Antarctic France

1977 • 16 min • Brazil

Inspired by "Voyage to the land of Brazil" by Jean de Léry, this short follows the adventures of Nicolas Durand, from Villegagnon, and the estabilishment of a French colony in 16th-century Rio de Janeiro.

Catalog of Memory

1977 • 3 min

Shuji Terayama starts a poem, and then ships his pencil to Herbie Yamaguchi in the UK. Herbie ships the pencil back to Terayama, who then finishes his poem.

Relation in Space

1977 • 58 min • Italy

In the first 58 minute Performance, Relation in Space, which took place in July 1976 at the Biennale in Venice, Abramovic/Ulay, both naked, walk towards each other from opposite ends of a room, touching as they pass each other, and then they repeat the movement while their bodies collide and one of them (Marina) falls over under the impact, until they are both exhausted. A statically mounted video camera simultaneously filmed the touching of the bodies in the middle of the room.

Island for 6,000 Alarm Clocks

1977 • 6 min • Czechoslovakia

The first professional animated film by Petr Sís, who later became the great children's author-illustrator Peter Sís after emigrating to America. Based on an odd satiric story by Miloš Macourek; purportedly banned in Czechoslovakia upon its release.

Little Hero of the Reed Marsh

1977 • 17 min • China

During the War of Resistance Against Japan, there was a boy named Maverick in the northern countryside who, under the leadership of the Party, participated in the struggle against the enemy. Once, Uncle Ma, a traffic officer of the Eighth Route Army, sent information to the guerrillas and encountered devils and puppet soldiers on the way. Maverick tactfully diverted the enemy away and made Uncle Ma out of danger.

Tom Thumb

1977 • 18 min • Soviet Union

A poor old couple adopts a tiny boy who helps them with farming and housekeeping. One day a greedy nobleman passes by, and so the boy decides to make some easy money for his new parents.

John Hus

1977 • 55 min • United States of America

A faithful recounting of the ministry, trial and martyrdom of the fifteenth century Bohemian priest John Hus, who built on the reforms of John Wycliffe, taught the Bible in the vernacular and who influenced Martin Luther a century later.

Relation in Time

1977 • 12 min

Marina Abramovic's performance 'Relation in time', with her long time partner Ulay. "We are sitting back to back, tied together by our hair, without any movement for 16 hours. Then the audience came in. We continued sitting for one hour."