All Films

Areia, Lodo e Mar

1977 • 58 min • Portugal

A documentary about a small touristic village in Algarve, Southern Portugal.

F.n.g.

1977 • 12 min

Stark black & white combat drama, depicting a baptism by fire.

Ron Amok (Dog Party)

1977 • 4 min

An overview of six pooches interacting at an all-dog birthday party. A prizewinner in the 1977 Ann Arbor Film Festival that documents the lack of discipline possible when dogs establish a pecking order (shot in time-lapse so that the basic rhythms and patterns of the dogs' movements are more apparent).

Femmes d'Aubervilliers

1977 • 28 min

In 1975, the "Year of the Woman" was celebrated for the first time. An opportunity for Claudine Bories to make her first film to the glory of the women of Aubervilliers... Workers, employees, hairdressers, young girls met in the street or in the squares... This film is a black and white videogram, filmed on the sly, a little wildly. It is a "film of the streets" as one says "song of the streets", realized with a freedom and a cheerfulness full of hope. - Films-Documentaire.fr

Cold Cows

1977 • 2 min

What ice storm? All this cows can think about are their past lives.

Pup y pup

1977 • 3 min • United States of America

Two very cute puppies peer unblinkingly into Michael Rudnick's camera.

Metro Means of Conveyance

1977 • 7 min • Sweden

In 'Metro Means of Conveyance', Hedman refines the non-literary and visually poetic idiom. Time and motion has been sculpted in graphic black and white on the two-dimensional screen. Time and motion are fundamental dimensions for film as an art form. A pendulum movement, subjectively illustrating a measured length of time. Shadows, contrasts and abstracted light sources, further elaborated. Metro is based on impressions of Chatelet Metro station in Paris. It is individualistic and subtle portrayal of an atmosphere and setting as seen through the linguistic syntax of the film strip. (Filmform)

Wedding

1977 • 7 min • Poland

A grotesque story about life that is similar to a wedding feast. In the beginning it is joyful, later it becomes tiring and old. A young couple leaves a church and goes to their wedding feast. At the end of the animation, there is a bed in a plowed field. We could see an old couple wearing wedding clothes under the duvet.

Danubio Azul

1977 • 7 min • Argentina

One of the most complex animated short films by Rosario-born animator Luis Bras. It was filmed in 1977 in reversible Super 8 format with magnetic sound. He used more than 3000 cardboards with a printed grid of diagonal lines, painting with tempera paints the colour planes that form these intersecting lines.

Foi Pena Q...

1977 • 6 min • Brazil

The course of Brazil's discovery by Pedro Álvares Cabral. After a troubled journey, the Portuguese sailors spot a new land. On landing, happy and expecting to expand their empire, they face themselves with a disappointment...

Summer in Zabno

1977 • 20 min • Poland

The heroine of Kazimierz Karabasz's film is Maria Kolano, a first-year student at the Warsaw Agricultural University, who returns to her hometown of Żabno during the summer vacations to help her parents with their fieldwork. The documentary filmmaker equips Maria with a camera.

Memoir

1977 • 22 min • Japan

Michio Okabe, considered an icon of 1960s Japanese underground cinema, pursued the principle of subjective cinema by combining images that interested him cinematically and roles that he wanted to play himself. In MEMOIR the artist’s fantasies of the late 1970s are featured in a chaotic chain of images. (Go Hirasawa)

そら色のクレヨン

1977 • 55 min • Japan

In the sky, drawn with sky blue crayons, floating between the clouds, drawn with sky blue crayons, is an airplane, drawn with sky blue crayons. The one riding in it is me, drawn with sky crayons.

Glass no Kippu

1977 • 45 min • Japan

A young man appears to a young girl who dreams of escaping reality, deprived of her freedom. Eventually, the two set off in search of a new world.

美津絵讃歌

1977 • 40 min • Japan

A unique film about one girl's 20 changes, featuring only one performer despite its 40-minute running time.

Morinouta

1977 • 12 min • Japan

Touching! Tears! Romance! The beginning and the end of the film are linked in a repeat. A fox, a baby mushroom, and a poisonous mushroom scurry across the screen.

Hitler's Secret Weapon

1977 • 58 min

NOVA traces the development of Hitler's V-2 rocket through rare footage obtained from the National Archives—some never broadcast before on television.

The Mission of Ismet Kozica

1977 • 23 min • Yugoslavia

As the small factory grows, the young worker Ismet Kozica has to visit the mountain villages to find new female workers.

A Quiet Afternoon with Strangers

1977 • 5 min • United States of America

“A ‘silent’ interview, QUIET AFTERNOON is the most strange and moving of Turkle’s films, documenting the year-round garage sale of an eccentric, elderly Ohio couple. The omission of sound and the focused, grainy attention of their legacy of bric-a-brac, discarded appliances and collected curiosities adds greatly to the film’s ultimate emotional effect.” – Frank Young, Florida Flambeau.

Anima

1977 • 4 min • Switzerland

Since the time immemorial, man bears a woman-image within himself. And from birth to death, that image deteriorates at the rhythm of life, in the manner of a train gone wild: the end of its acceleration only comes with the abrupt breakdown of its worn-out mechanism.

Revenge of the Objects

1977 • 7 min • Canada

An animated short subject on how, if man does not want to respect objects, those objects will rise up in revolt.

Ich widerspreche mir nicht...

1977 • 45 min • Germany

A 1977 made-for-television documentary about the German writer Ernst Jünger.

Prepariamoci alla notte

1977 • 10 min • Italy

Zeitraum

1977 • 7 min • Switzerland

"My windows were shuttered; for two months I had to live in the dark in order to experiment and study the light. When the blackout ended and the light flooded my studio again the film was made. The camera was attached like a pendulum, counting the time, bending the studio, constantly changing points of view." (Alfons Schilling)