All Films

Fundsachen

1977 • 16 min

Two boys find a wallet containing DM 32.80 in front of a telephone booth. Should they keep the money?

Divination et justice chez les Kabiyè

1977 • 19 min

Divination and traditional justice among the Kabiyè of northern Togo. Recordings of several council sessions.

Greenfield

1977 • 13 min

Working and playing hard at a northern California commune – fast-paced cutting to Taj Mahal's "Happy to be just like I am."

Antonio Raimondi

1977 • 10 min

Approach to the life and work of the Italian scientist, scholar of the geography of Peru, Don Antonio Raimondi (1824 - 1890)

The Boxes

1977 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The boxes piled against the wall on one of the streets of Tbilisi fell down and disrupted traffic

Phoenix

1977 • 11 min • Yugoslavia

An animated short film based on the poem Barbara by Jacques Prevert about the effects of war on humanity.

Our Animal Neighbors (Second Edition)

1977 • 11 min • United States of America

Get acquainted with small animals which live in our parks, roadsides, back yards or homes - the rabbit, squirrel, chipmunk, gopher and others.

Puhdys II (Disco-Film 22)

1977 • 6 min • East Germany

This is the second installment in the Disco Film series to feature the Puhdys, a popular East German rock band. Their songs "Sturmvogel" ("Petrel") and "Reise zum Mittelpunkt der Erde" ("Journey to the Center of the Earth") are interpreted using experimental animation in the style of the Beatles's "Yellow Submarine" music video.

Pong Man

1977 • 1 min • United States of America

the First polygonal full body animation

Beyond A Tangled Shore

1977 • 55 min

The story of the crofters who live on the island of North Uist - the reality of their relationship with the land, the elements, the wildlife and each other. Finlay J. Macdonald, an islander, narrates the story, interspersing legend and superstition with fact.

Seven and a Half

1977 • 14 min • Soviet Union

Because of the boy's prank, there is a chaos among adults at seven and a half.

The Middle East. Test Time

1977 • 57 min • Soviet Union

Documentary film covers issue of Middle East problem, its history and contemporary state of things.

Hobo At The End Of The Line

1977 • 23 min • United States of America

He lives on the road, "rides the rails" from season to season, job to job, and frequents the skid row missions for a little preaching and a free meal. This film portrayal of hobo life reveals an element of Americana nearing extinction.

The Grumbler

1977 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Animation short.

People at Work

1977 • 10 min • Finland

Meticulous documentary showcasing Felix-Filmi Oy's processes, personnel and, in particular, technical equipment used in film-making, including film cameras, vehicles, studio facilities, film editing tables, grease paint, focal lengths, star filters and even the bounties of the company's own kitchen.

Preparation

1977 • 12 min • Japan

Based on strict shooting notes for each photogram. A special camera was designed to erase the sequential decomposition of the still images. 300 still images, including rotating images, are replaced one after the other by scanning.

Prologue/Epilogue

1977 • 5 min • Japan

I made this in 1977 because I wanted to show a "Prologue" at the beginning and an "Epilogue" at the end of my solo exhibition. I used stock photographs from "Preparation."

Mish-Mash

1977 • 38 min • Yugoslavia

Several animated sketches by the hand of Macedonian animator Darko Markovikj.

A Time of Change

1977 • 60 min • United States of America

Woman Alive! #202

Hammer

1977 • 5 min • Japan

The inside of the screen is a fictional space separated by a frame, and the screen is the surface of that fictional space. I created this piece with the idea of ​​trying various approaches to that surface from within the fictional space. Sliding the surface sideways, grabbing it and taking it inside, or conversely, making what's inside match the surface. As for the technique, I cut and pasted together a series of prints onto paper to create a series of photographs that corresponded to the surface of the fictional space, and then filmed them frame by frame.

Meridian Passage

1977 • 5 min • Japan

The film was shot at the Osanbashi Pier in Yokohama and then re-shot on a matte. The mattes were changed so that parts of the landscape were partially visible and partially hidden, and the projector lens was left open and closed to create a random effect. When the film reached the end, I rewound it, replaced the matte, and shot again. I repeated this process. It was a six-fold exposure with five mattes and a mask. I created this with the image in mind of a clear shape passing through an unclear screen that is sometimes visible and sometimes not, tracing the perspective.

The Smell of Death

1977 • 16 min

The Smell of Death is the last in a series of moving image creations made as an extension of the Abstract Expressionist painting movement. The film’s structure reveals the interaction of abstract textures and lines punctuated by blackness. The pace and rhythm are purely visual, without dependence of narrative or auditory structure.

Dialectic Definitions

1977 • 9 min

Dana seemingly records a fellow professor reading each word in an encyclopedia.

Sunny Island

1977 • 49 min • Soviet Union

A young woman, disillusioned with her beloved, leaves for a mountain village. Her connection with nature and with wise, sincere people brings her a sense of wholeness in life, something she thought was lost forever.