All Films

Portrait (Monica Sjöö)

1977 • 12 min

A portrait of the artist Monica Sjöö, observing her creative and domestic world, as she reminiscences on her life so far.

Complex Wave Forms

1977 • 5 min • United States of America

Produced without camera input, this intense electronic landscape transports the viewer into a world that is an abstract study in machine-generated imagery. Produced at the Experimental Television Center.

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1977 • 18 min

Short film by Michele Sambin.

Some Exterior Presence

1977 • 8 min

[This film is] structured on the four-handed nature of film: original footage (outtakes from a television documentary I was directing in the spring of 1975 in the South Bronx and Brownsville) manipulated, then optically printed, then manipulated again. - AC

Shining Breeze

1977 • 11 min • Japan

In Kō-Fū, Touch Me transformed everyday snapshots into a world of intense luminosity by applying frame-by-frame optical processing using an optical printer he made himself. Kō-Fū translates as “Shining Breeze” and refers to “a scene of rice fields just after a typhoon has gone, when it is still windy and the leaves of rice are waving in the stream of wind with raindrops which are shining by reflecting the sunlight." The repetitive, flickering images and minimalist music create a psychedelic trip effect in this film, which is made up of short, high-contrast black-and-white footage processed through precise frame-by-frame optical processing.

Ensaios

1977 • 8 min

Documentary narrative about the process of making animations with accessible materials, such as cardboard, paper, gouache paint, an improvised light box, and the result of the filmed artworks.

The White Rock Blues

1977 • 10 min • United States of America

Animated short.

8 Panoramen NY 77

1977 • 8 min

A film by André Lehmann

Westside Highway NY 77

1977 • 9 min

A film by André Lehmann

The Aggressive Impulse

1977 • 19 min

Examines the manifestation of aggressive instincts in animals and in humans. Discusses ways in which both animals and humans impose limitations on their violent impulses.

Diogene

1977 • 2 min • Italy

"In 1977 I left for a solitary journey from the Venetian countryside. My home is the car. The camera is my eye. The journey is completed but only the beginning of the planned film remains." (M.S.)

Temporidentitàs

1977 • 10 min • Italy

Carolina, Vincenzo and I duplicate our reflection an endless number of times, as if one were mirrored in the other. Material time and psychological time blend in an exhausting oriental repetition of gestures.

A 5' writing

1977 • 5 min • Italy

Four speeds in writing associated to four physical movements that become louder and louder. The word returns to gestures and the body to survive. The real time of screen-writing makes the time of poetic action coincide with the time of the reader, reflecting the biological rythm of life into the experience of language and writing.

Dai Diari Di Anaïs Nin

1977 • 14 min

Short graduation film inspired by Anaïs Nin's private manuscript diary and Antonin Artaud's "Letters From Rodez".

DIKTAT: Il Tempo Del Titano

1977 • 25 min

Four integrative short films for a multimedia theatre play.

Les hommes et les cocotiers de Coëtivy

1977 • 57 min

Family and industrial exploitation of the coconut tree and some scenes from the daily life of the inhabitants of Coëtivy in the Seychelles Islands.

Bateaux et modes de pêche aux Maldives

1977 • 50 min • France

The various technical phases in fishing for bonito ad tuna ; loking for live bait (young fish) under the coral reefs; intensive fishing on the banks (North Maldives); trolling (South Maldives).

Arc musical aux Seychelles

1977 • 33 min

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I Saw Their Angry Faces

1977 • 11 min

Cut-out, rotoscope, cell, flip card, and optical print animation. Produced by the Yellow Ball Workshop with a grant from the Center for Understanding Media and the National Endowment for the Arts. Based on poems by Dominic Falcone.

Musiques et chorégraphies des Maldives

1977 • 50 min • France

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Ascolto

1977 • 4 min • Italy

This work is based on an image-sound relationship of an emotional type that is not justified by any rational motivation. An electronically produced music and a particularly emotional image are put in relation to each other: the result is a very ambiguous image-sound relationship that manages to communicate all the tension that the video wants to express.

Looking for listening

1977 • 27 min • Italy

The construction of the image is simultaneous with the production of sound. The first recorded video is used as both visual and sound score for the second which, intended as a new score, determines the third. The procedure makes it possible to obtain an image-sound orchestration created by a single performer in real time in the presence of the spectators.

Il suono ci circonda

1977 • 5 min • Italy

The instrument used is a rubber tube with a sax mouthpiece. Unfortunately, in the video document it is impossible to perceive the spatialization effect, which is why the sound piece was composed.

Film Painting I

1977 • 19 min

A series of silent studies focusing on color portraiture.