All Films

Otto Messmer and Felix the Cat

1977 • 24 min • United States of America

Documentary short on cartoonist Otto Messmer, co-creator of Felix the Cat

Mr. Michel's Dog

1977 • 16 min • France

In 1977, after working as an assistant director on several features, BETTY BLUE filmmaker Jean-Jacques Beineix directed the following short film about a man and his dog.

I Am Flying to You as a Memory...

1977 • 30 min • Soviet Union

The film is based on the drawings and manuscripts of A.S.Pushkin.

How the Ladies Pay (Lou Reed)

1977 • 7 min

Unusual interview on the occasion of Lou Reed's concert in Vienna . Highly personal, funny and rambling.

Souvenir

1977 • 8 min • Soviet Union

This soviet stereoscopic puppet animation short is a propaganda film condemning imperialist aggression against the freedom-loving peoples of the world.

24 Frames Per Second

1977 • 3 min • United States of America

A highly edited work complimenting an exhibit on Persian art in the Los Angeles Museum of Art.

The Domain of the Moment

1977 • 15 min • United States of America

Four films in contemplation upon those events which are so centered upon one moment that chronology seems almost obliterated or at least unimportant in remembrance.

A Tale of Two Critters

1977 • 48 min • United States of America

A bear cub and a raccoon become fast friends when they're swept away down a river, away from their families.

The Misadventures of Dracula Von Barreto in the Lands of the Agrarian Reform

1977 • 7 min • Portugal

To the tune of "A terra a quem a trabalha", an Alentejo peasant girl is attacked by a vampire but rescued afterwards by workers and peasants armed with sickles and hammers. Filmed during the 1977 Festa do Avante, with a collective of participants linked to cinema and theatre, this film is a critique of the legislative process led by António Barreto, Minister of Agriculture between 1976-1978, which put an end to the agrarian reform occupations.

Faust's House

1977 • 12 min • Czechoslovakia

A film story based on the old Prague legends. It tells about a poor student lured by wealth, which he prefers to knowledge. In the end, he sells his soul to the evil powers. The Devil takes him to hell and since then there is a blackened hole on the ceiling of a Prague house.

Aimé Césaire at the End of Daybreak

1977 • 57 min • France

Documentary on the négritude movement through one of its founders, Aimé Césaire.

The Sniffler and the Pug

1977 • 28 min

Two parents get to know each other on a neonatal unit. One has a baby with Down's syndrome.

The Magic Lantern

1977 • 43 min • Soviet Union

A musical program about the history of the development of the art of cinema.

Pankararu de Brejo dos Padres

1977 • 41 min • Brazil

The ritual of the ‘umbu festival’ and the daily activities of the Pankararu indigenous people, dedicated to subsistence farming. Located 100 kms from Paulo Afonso, in the backlands of Pernambuco.

A Faraway Country

1977 • 27 min

Shortly after his 1977 Daily Mirror reports on dissidents in the Soviet Union, John Pilger entered Czechoslovakia undercover to film A Faraway Country… a people of whom we know nothing, a title taking the words that British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain used to describe Czechoslovakia dismissively in 1938 when it was invaded by the Nazis.

Daft Mam Blues

1977 • 30 min

As sisters, Gladys and Iris never agree about anything - but on one point they're clear: their old mam can't hear a word of their arguments, can she?

...but the clouds...

1977 • 16 min

A woman left behind by a man. Based on a script by Samuel Beckett.

Castle of Otranto

1977 • 17 min • Czechoslovakia

An adaptation of the 1764 work of the same name, the first Gothic novel. In this mockumentary, the amateur archaeologist Dr. Vozáb has set to prove that the supernatural ghost love story takes place not in Italy, but in Otranto Castle near Náchod in Czechoslovakia.

Waifs and Strays

1977 • 30 min

Patricia's children have flown long since; so Brenda's baby, Winston, revives long forgotten feelings.

The Singer and the Dancer

1977 • 52 min • Australia

An older woman relives the bitter memories of her past, through her friendship with a younger girl who is experiencing a very insecure relationship with her boyfriend.

The Achurch Letters

1977 • 60 min

1889: young Bernard Shaw falls under the spell of actress Janet Achurch. An important and highly charged relationship develops.

Charged Space

1977 • 12 min

When the speed and the spinning becomes too much for them, they let go and collapse..

Marusya's Carousel

1977 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A story about a toy horse named Marusya who found something she truly loved to do.

Made in 76

1977 • 12 min

Kunitoshi Manda's first film. A monologue and dialogue about love.