All Films

In/Contro/Luce

1977 • 9 min • France

A transition from total black to total white, dark to the light. The transformation of the image/trace/matter happens through an intrusion of light (gradual opening of the diaphragm), and a change of speed, space/depth. The light takes form due to the image/filter/occasion.

London-Cape Wrath-London

1977 • 10 min

This film is a travelogue which shows the relationship between the car and the weather. The focal point is the windscreen and the structuring elements, the rain and the windscreen wipers.

Another Day of a Housewife

1977 • 18 min • Japan

A woman performs domestic chores, watched by a television displaying the image of her own eye. The home is recast as a space of surveillance, control and repetitive labor.

Placeres de la Carne

1977 • 12 min • Argentina

"Oh––senseless acrobatics, cart-wheels in mid-air, unheard of songs they sing, distal the midnight vapors into wine––do pagan dances!"

Brasil 1.872.000 Minutes/Noves Fora?

1977 • 19 min

The films of Jorge O Mourão, a collection of autobiographical performance pieces, constitute visceral reactions to the authoritarian regime in Brazil and channel the paranoia and claustrophobia of his generation through the disjunction of sound and image.

Swimming

1977 • 3 min • United Kingdom

Columns

1977 • 3 min • United Kingdom

The Life of Sayat-Nova

1977 • 26 min • France

Documentary about the Armenian poet, Sayat-Nova. It first appeared as an episode of the French television series "Foi et traditions des chretiens orientaux (Faith and Traditions of the Oriental Orthodox Churches)."

Sombras

1977 • 14 min • Brazil

Notes about the time and the oldness, in an asylum from Belém, Brazil.

Beginning Responsibility: Taking Care of Your Own Things

1977 • 11 min • United States of America

How to take care of your own things, as narrated by a talking pillow.

The Maturing Woman

1977 • 14 min

A useful primer for managing the aging women in your life.

Choking: To Save a Life

1977 • 11 min

Illustrates techniques for emergency treatment of choking victims. Techniques are shown for adults, children, infants, self, and unconscious victims.

Jackson Junior High: The Party's Over

1977 • 14 min

14 year old Freddy fails at livening the party with wine.

Couleurs délicieuses sur fond bleu

1977 • 9 min • France

Anamorphoses of television images combined with fragments from Jerome Bosch’s Garden of Delights painting.

Are People All The Same?

1977 • 9 min

A short which teaches kids about race.

The Richard Pryor Show Volume I

1977 • 60 min • United States of America

An American comedy series hosted by comedian Richard Pryor

We are Alone in his Coffin

1977 • 42 min • Belgium

On est tout seul dans son cercueil is a fake satirical documentary in which Philippe Simon expresses his deep disgust for the film production system, mercantile and inept.

Ostbahnhof

1977 • 8 min • East Germany, Germany

The minutes before the train departs: time pauses.

Chronoma

1977 • 22 min • France

"Chronoma was conceived as a follow-up to Rythmes 76: its composition is still inspired by the repetitive processes of Steve Reich's music, with their gradual progression. This time, we have a sequence of photographs taken with a motorized camera (a proto movie camera) in a circular movement around a high-voltage electric tower in northern Paris. The initial image is in itself a drawing of lines intersecting to form angles." -JMB

L'Ultime dissonance

1977 • 30 min • France

Frozen Flight

1977 • 32 min • United States of America

'Bruce Wood in the few short years he has been working in film, has produced an amazing body of work. He is practically alone in a genre (black and white silent abstractions) which has its antecedents in the likes of Eggeling, Richter and Leger. What I find most interesting in his work, amid the concern with textures, shape and space, is his ability to produce works of even tension. Doing away with concepts of beginning, middle and end, he presents a broad landscape, piece by piece, until he has exhausted the source of his subject matter and the whole scene lies there naked and revealed.' - Carmen Vigil, Director, The Cinematheque, San Francisco Art Institute.

The Bridge of Heaven

1977 • 32 min • United States of America

Bridge of Heaven is a playful combination of several types of abstract imagery. Everything flows naturally from one image to the next, uniting several different elements into a critical composition.

Celluloid Heroes

1977 • 7 min • France

Putting a camera between myself and my life. It can go badly. Cinema as a thérapy.

La Plage à distance

1977 • 15 min • Japan