All Films

Operação Boa Colheita

1977 • 26 min

A film by Luís Gaspar.

I want to be Joan

1977 • 32 min

I want to be Joan was made after Stephanie Beth was asked to document a womens conference. The subsequent film interviewed women who attended the conference but chose not to speak at the event. Amongst their testimony the film-maker interwove song and images of paintings by contemporary female artists including Jacqueline Fraser.

Supertot

1977 • 42 min • Spain

Supertot leads a double life as a journalist and hero, in love with Gladys and competing for her affection with Jimmy, a coworker. Adaptation by the U de cuc theater company of the original play by Josep Maria Benet i Jornet.

SRTV 340 - Filme Histórico - Nelson Pereira dos Santos

1977 • 11 min

Film director Nelson Pereira dos Santos reflects on cinema and history in an interview with SRTV.

Fosca

1977 • 10 min • Spain

Portrait of a dark night in Barcelona, where a group of queer people take to the streets and nightclubs to claim their sexual freedom.

The Sky Above... The Earth Below

1977 • 30 min

Documentary following Icelandair Flight 230 from Keflavik to Glasgow, Loganair Flight 2356 from Barra to Glasgow, and Aerlingus Flight 223 from Glasgow to Dublin, detailing how pilots, air traffic controllers, and staff at Prestwick Airport work together to passengers on these planes - and hundreds of other flights - safely to their destinations.

Spring film observations

1977 • 15 min

North. Expedition to one of the inflows of cold Pechora. The film crew doesn't know yet with that this land will please them. The most amazing thing in the world is life itself in all its expressions even the smallest.

Agueda Martinez: Our People, Our Country

1977 • 16 min

The film documents the remarkable woman, Doña Agueda Martinez from Medanales, New Mexico and her lifestyle that ran in harmony with nature and reliance on tradition and proven values. The film depicts Agueda Martinez's deep-rooted relationship with both the land and her family. Agueda Martinez is shown farming her fields of green chile, gathering herbs, cooking and talking to her grandchildren and weaving at the loom. Doña Agueda says, I love to weave and I never get tired doing this work. I will weave until the day I can no longer move. Until then Me va hallar bailando en el telar" (You will find me dancing on the loom).

Charleen or How Long Has This Been Going On?

1977 • 54 min

In Charleen, documentarian Ross McElwee looks at the life of a North Carolina poet and teacher who acts as a muse to a motley crew of artists and musicians.

A Fistful of Yen

1977 • 31 min

Two martial arts styles meet (or, should we say, clash) when a small army of well-trained patriots defend their homeland against an invading army of merciless trained killers. Who can say who will hold sway when the powerful tiger fist meets the elegant crane fist. One thing's for sure -- it'll be a bad case of fisticuffs! Originally part of The Kentucky Fried Movie, a Fistful of Yen was one of the sketches it included.

Sydney Harbour Bridge

1977 • 13 min • Australia

“Tourists, postcards, different views of the same icon. The Bridge is a piece of geometry so I figured the film had to be geometric, too. The matte box allowed me to create postcards within postcards within postcards. It was all done in-camera…very demanding, it took all winter! The matting had to be carefully calculated and each image rewound by hand, then rephotographed, in the right position and at the right exposure. I surrounded the Bridge with a mass of water…vertically and horizontally. The water is by turns soft and then metallic as it reflects in the low winter sun. The movement, the steel and the water create an interplay as harbour sounds, wind chimes, boats…tinkle.” (Paul Winkler)

The Sandwich

1977 • 11 min • Egypt

Explores the daily life and work of children in Abnoud, a rural village located 600 kilometres to the south of Cairo, where the trains that carry the tourists to the south of Egypt pass through without stopping. A boy outsmarts the meagerness of his circumstances by dripping goat’s milk on a piece of stale bread and turning it into a special sandwich.

O Rei do Cagaço

1977 • 8 min • Brazil

The act of defecating, filmed in an explicit and impactful way, introduces the parodic story of a demonstrator who evacuates in various institutions in Bahia.

Antes que Eu me Esqueça

1977 • 16 min • Brazil

"Before I Forget" is a short film by Jairo Ferreira. It was filmed in 1977, during the release of the book of the same name of Roberto Bicelli. The poet is part, along with Cláudio Willer and Roberto Piva, of the surrealist group of São Paulo. Also participating in the short Jorge Mautner and Nelson Jacobina.

Hidden Memories

1977 • 10 min • United States of America

A woman remembers an unwanted teenage pregnancy.

Night Waves

1977 • 6 min • United States of America

Filmmaker Richard Baily was offered a position at Robert Abel & Associates based on his work in this award-winning early computer animation film, made while a student at CalArts.

Father Movie

1977 • 7 min

33/77 No Danube

1977 • 8 min • Austria

Kurt Kren short

Song of the Godbody

1977 • 10 min

Mapping extreme close-ups of Broughton's body, the camera slowly becomes a tool to reveal the erotic beauty of the body and the sensual pleasure in loving oneself. The ecstasy and power of sexual gratification are celebrated by the camera, as it probes, reveals, and visually caresses. Broughton's song is a praise of his body as divine androgyne, and an acceptance of this higher, sexual power.

Damned Queers

1977 • 21 min • Sweden

A group of independent filmmakers in Sweden brought together this anthology about homosexuality and homophobia.

About the Pipe and the Bird

1977 • 8 min • Soviet Union

Two funny stories about little ones and for little ones.

Carolyn I

1977 • 10 min • France

The first part of the Carolyn Carlson cycle. Between her and herself. Three images of the dance are repeated, come up against opacities that do not let themselves be crossed, are lost in transparencies from which there is no reflection. The sound describes their inevitable journey: this motionless movement.

Retrato de Classe

1977 • 42 min • Brazil

A funny chronicle of the São Paulo middle class in the 1970s, based on a simple but effective premise: a primary school class meeting, 20 years later. Retrato de Classe starts from a photo of the junior class of a private school, in a middle class neighborhood of São Paulo. He searches for and gathers former colleagues and a teacher, in order to recreate the group's trajectories, to draw the profile of the country's metropolitan bourgeoisie. A country in crisis and a middle class that was experiencing the collapse of the economic miracle. Frustrations, desires, prejudice and futility are part of this universe of people and their life trajectories.

Makwayela

1977 • 20 min • Canada, France, Mozambique

A group of factory workers in post-independence Mozambique performs a ritual of song describing their work in South African gold mines, and decrying the evils of apartheid.