All Films

Ensemble #1

1977 • 3 min

Music by Albert E. Miller. Combination of musicians and dancers in free form movements captured by computer-controlled-video which permits distortions and variations of the imagery. Continued experimentation with Rock Music and performers.

Silver Blaze

1977 • 31 min • Canada

1977 adaptation of Conan Doyle's The Adventure of Silver Blaze

Kinderseele

1977 • 40 min • Germany

A boy returns home from school, goes upstairs into his father's room where he steals sugared and dried figs out of his dad's chest of drawers. In spite of some remorse, he does not confess it to his father.

Fracture

1977 • 13 min • France

Fracture (1977) is a short animated film from France by the Brizzi Brothers (Paul and Gaëtan), a duo better known for their work on feature-length animated films such as Asterix versus Caesar (1985), and a number of films for Disney. Fracture is their earliest work, and isn’t remotely Disney-like, delivering an SF / fantasy scenario of alien inexplicabilities that makes it an animated counterpart of the comic strips that were running in Métal Hurlant (and its US counterpart, Heavy Metal) in the late 1970s.

Spinnolio

1977 • 10 min • Canada

A lonely woodcarver longs for a son, so he builds a wooden puppet and names it Spinnolio

The Making of Star Wars

1977 • 49 min • United States of America

Learn the incredible behind-the-scenes story of how the original Star Wars movie was brought to the big screen in this fascinating documentary hosted by C-3PO and R2-D2 which includes interviews with George Lucas and appearances by Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher.

Cesur Yabancı

1977 • 54 min • Turkey

The story of two men who look alike getting mixed up.

Great Day

1977 • 30 min • United States of America

Pilot that was not picked up by ABC about the escapades of skid-row bums living at an inner-city mission.

Night Call

1977 • 27 min • United Kingdom

A dramatised road safety film. Following a fatal motorway crash, a doctor talks to a journalist about what makes a good driver. But the journalist turns out to be the ghost of the man killed in the crash.

The Glitterball

1977 • 53 min • United Kingdom

When a group of small aliens accidentally abandons one of their own on Earth, adventurous kids Max and Pete stumble upon the "Glitterball" and attempt to return it to its mother ship. As the children learn more about the friendly alien and its magical powers, they must protect their new companion from an army corporal and a small-time thief who are both hunting the extraterrestrial for their own cruel purposes.

J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai: The Movie

1977 • 30 min • Japan

Ryu obsessively pursues a CRIME agent who steals a powerful new explosive and takes control of a powerful supercar. This is a theatrical presentation of episode 7 of the J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai television series.

Bo Widerberg

1977 • 51 min • Sweden

Documentary which follows Bo Widerberg during the making of 'Man on the Roof', 'The Butt' and a failed theater production.

The Pinballs

1977 • 45 min

Three orphans from very different backgrounds find themselves living with the same foster couple while waiting to be adopted.

Guadalcanal Requiem

1977 • 29 min • United States of America

One of Paik’s most overtly political and poignant statements, Guadalcanal Requiem is a performance/documentary collage that confronts history, time, cultural memory and mythology on the site of one of World War II’s most devastating battles.

Dancer 2

1977 • 10 min

The movements of a dancers body are recorded, studied, reshaped, to understand the anatomical ranges of joints. Music by Albert E. Miller.

Vermont Etude

1977 • 2 min

Layered tracing paper drawings, inspired by the effect of the mountain mist and by animal tracks softly disappearing in the falling snow.

Alternative 3

1977 • 53 min • United Kingdom

Purporting to be an investigation into the UK's contemporary "brain drain", Alternative 3 uncovered a plan to make the Moon and Mars habitable in the event of climate change and a terminal environmental catastrophe on Earth.

Nino

1977 • 5 min

Music by Albert E. Miller. Experimental work with dancer and musicians to combine and present an unusual choreography of performers and music as a unified force.

Sodom and Gomorrah, NY, 10036

1976 • 7 min

A documentary about the sex industry around 8th Avenue and 42nd Street.

American Shoeshine

1976 • 30 min • United States of America

American Shoeshine is a 1975 American short documentary film directed by Sparky Greene. It covers the history of shoe shining in the United States, interviews current shoe shiner, and describes rag popping, a form of music made with a shoeshine rag. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

Yesterday when I was Young

1976 • 31 min • Switzerland

Sensationalist documentary about the supposed dangers of motorcyle driving.

Un suono a testa

1976 • 7 min

Produced at the Motovun Video Meeting in Croatia, 1989. Screened in retrospective at Alternative Film/Video Belgrade Festival 2014.

Migration (for Jack Nelson)

1976 • 7 min • United States of America

Migration is an analysis of an image, a metaphorical exercise in perception and representation, illusion and reality, microcosm and macrocosm, nature and consciousness.

Way to Your Neighbor

1976 • 3 min • Poland

A weary traveller falls asleep next to a sign reading Weg zum Nachbarn. As soon as he dozes off the world turns on its head.