All Films

Josiane Before Warhol

1977 • 3 min • France

2 Films Super

1977 • 4 min • France

Agripino

1977 • 50 min • Peru, Sweden

Depicts the struggle of the Peruvian indigenous people to get their land right, taken from them by a white landowners.

C'est Fou !

1977 • 12 min • France

Sequences of magazine advertisements from the seventies create a fantastical and erotic universe.

Autoportrait en blanc et en noir

1977 • 6 min • France

Ganamos la paz

1977 • 28 min • Argentina

Propaganda documentary in which the Armed Forces try to justify the Argentinian military coup d'état of 1976.

Primeiros Cantos

1977 • 4 min • Brazil

Very Soon You Will

1977 • 28 min

The room is dark and a recording of 14 tuning forks is playing in the room. The subject is asked to lie on a cot and relax. An overhead spotlight illuminates the face. She is asked to imagine a soft focus screen behind her eyelids where images will come and go and she is to describe what she sees. She is then told that she "will very soon" experience a violent form of death and I ask her if she is surprised this is happening to her. A consistent set of conditions begin to set in and the dialogue description of the images she is seeing and experiencing takes place. A mild form of hypnosis seems to set in.

12 Uhr Mittags - High Noon

1977 • 4 min • Austria

A person sticks it out for 24 hours in front of the camera. Every ten minutes a short clip was recorded, 8 frames per second (which is then projected at a speed of 24 f.p.s.). The tiredness of 24 hours in a time lapse of 4 minutes. (E.S.jr.)

Just After Christmas

1977 • 3 min

"A sculptural and quasi-performance piece involving discarded Christmas trees. A meditation on passing and the things-left-behind." –RM

Give That Person There a Camera

1977 • 2 min

"I used to wander the streets of Vancouver very early in the morning experiencing sights, sounds and people going about their business. Somewhere along the way I imagined a narrative attempting to be genuine." –RM

Silk

1977 • 25 min • United States of America

In Silk [James Herbert] films a man and a woman, exploding the quality of silk out of the house into the back yard, where everything becomes a sheen of texture. It too has great sensuosity, but it’s like tearing silk, like being up against silk, your face wrapped in it as you watch the screen. (Stan Brakhage)

About Media

1977 • 25 min

Ramos' astute deconstruction of television news focuses on the media coverage of President Jimmy Carter's 1977 declaration of amnesty for Vietnam War draft resisters, and his personal involvement with the issue. Ramos, who had served an eighteen-month prison sentence for draft resistence, was interviewed by New York news reporter Gabe Pressman. Using repetition and juxtaposition, he contrasts the unedited interview footage — and patronizing comments of the news crew — with Pressman's final televised news report. In his ironic manipulation of the material, Ramos exposes the illusion and artifice of television news.

Maladie d'Amour

1977 • 6 min

Cabane

1977 • 3 min

Rotura

1977 • 6 min

Record of an artistic intervention by Ana Hatherly at the Quadrum gallery, in Lisbon.

Pyramid Drawings

1977 • 12 min

Pyramid Drawings opens with a white screen and a narrow floor area at the bottom. From the left, a performer enters, carrying a bucket of paint. The film is in negative therefore everything light is dark and everything dark is light. The performer begins to draw black lines on what appears to be a white wall. The drawing gradually becomes to be a pyramid seen in perspective. The performer leaves and the drawing is left for contemplation by the viewer. The performer re-enters with a pair of scissors and cuts what appeared to be lines. The lines fall to the floor. The performer then commences to build a new pyramid with new strings stretched back and forth in the space.

Headprints

1977 • 11 min

A mind altering journey that uses dream states and unconscious images to propel the viewer into another dimension.

Ardon

1977 • 10 min • France

To make ARDON, Jean-Jacques Jouët placed a transparent window in front of the camera lens, on which he drew a rectangular frame. The delimited space has the proportions of a 16mm film frame. A frozen lake is framed through this device. The extreme fixity of the frozen photogram is gradually disturbed by changes in focal length.

You in Public Service: Good Grooming

1977 • 28 min

Examines why well-groomed people are more likely to get jobs, keep jobs, and earn promotions. Uses animation and other techniques in giving advice on proper skin, nail, and hair care, care of mouth and teeth, good posture, the importance of neat, clean clothing, and choice of appropriate clothing and hairstyles.

You in Public Service: Applying for a Public Service Job

1977 • 28 min

Examines the diversity of jobs held by local, State, and Federal public service employees. Discusses application procedures, ways to learn about job openings, what to do during an interview, and promotion policies.

Spring Has Come

1977 • 18 min • Japan

Movie Stills

1977 • 44 min

"The more recent MOVIE STILLS (1977) is a melancholy procession of frozen moments being born, ripening, beginning to die before our eyes. Murphy selected 16 frames from a found home movie, photogrpahed them with a polaroid camera, then filmed the three minutes it took each image to materialize. Because of the higher contrast caused by this rephotography, the pictures seem to be darkening past their prime just as Murphy cuts to the enxt. Every shot starts out white and there's a key element of suspense as one's retitnal afterimages compete with the emerging forms of the developing photo. After a while, the ghost of an anecdote – a woman and two men mugging for the camera, an odd flirtation – develops too. 'A photograph is a secret about a secret,' Diane Arbus once wrote. '"–J. Hoberman, Village Voice.

Cucarrecord

1977 • 9 min • Spain

A succession of humorous sketches in which a critique of machismo is articulated through the use of transvestism and parody of the roles of gender to thus draw attention to a series of characteristics of the consumer society that favor androcentrism and that make social behaviors and consumption habits pass as natural that are actually constructions devised from the approaches of patriarchy.