All Films

Sonoma

1977 • 7 min • United States of America

"I relocated to the Redwoods of Sonoma County upon graduation and in that relocation process the animation for Sonoma began. The design was built around the concept of the long wide horizontal 'pan' shot to express the concept of a dynamic landscape that passes across the screen like a traditional Chinese Scroll Painting. The deep personal meaning relates to the 'relocation' that was occurring within my own being after having done 2½ terms of active combat in the jungle as a carrier enlisted with the 82nd Airborne Division of the Army" -D. Pies. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

Places for People

1977 • 32 min • Ireland

Cultural documentary commissioned by Local Government for European Architectural Year, 1975. Focuses on "A Future for Our Past", a children's architectural exhibition, attended by President Cearbhall O'Dalaigh. Scenes from this event are intercut with footage of more than fifty architectural locations, past and present. A film for European Architectural Heritage Year 1975, whose objective was to stimulate people to look at the architectural context in which they live.

Step Style

1977 • 29 min

Alan Lomax and his associates, beginning in the late 1950s undertook a monumental study of the relationship between style in song and dance cross-culturally. It began with Cantometrics which developed a common language description for the many variables in performance style in the diverse cultures of the world and measured how those variables clustered geographically and in relation to means of subsistence and aspects of social organization. Choreometrics continued this investigation into dance and movement. A continuation of Alan Lomax & Forrestine Paulay's Choreometrics project, this film examines the use of the foot in dance cross culturally. Though this film comes from later in the project, below is an interesting article written by Lomax about the methodology he was developing for this sort of film.

Equilibres

1977 • 12 min • Belgium, France

A silent teenage girl who works as a tightrope walker tries to keep her balance while crossing Paris.

Self-Portrait As A City

1977 • 5 min

Assassination of a City

1977 • 14 min

A short film depicting Beirut during the civil war of Lebanon

Flor Cosmica

1977 • 15 min

Pola Weiss' first videoart. It shows a series of images in shape of a flower with different colors with experimental techniques.

Domicile

1977 • 9 min

"In this film there is a simple accessible constant which you will have no difficulty in recognizing. There is an equally apparent variable. So your question - to phrase it poorly - might be, what is it that is being measured here? The materials of this film are personal, comfortably so. Nothing in that way distorted or untoward. But the choices of the artist are both crucial and defining, and there is evident attention to what he has called boundaries. This ... is a beautiful film, factually, with a lovely shifting counterpoint in the pacing. Like an old slow blues, after some up-tempo number – so, read it and think." – Robert Creeley

Bark-Rind

1977 • 30 min • Australia

“I wanted to make grass grow...to show the life force of a tree. Bark-Rind was shot totally single-frame...each shot exposed three times...close-up, mid shot, long shot. I used the sound of insects, signifying pollination, life...and I tried to make their sound visible. The camera starts on the grass, flowers, then works its way up the trunk, into the crown of the tree, then onto the next tree. The film vibrates...switching from sound/film...film/sound. You wonder whether you're looking at a film image or at the sound itself.” (Paul Winkler)

Murilo Mendes: A Poesia em Pânico

1977 • 21 min • Brazil

Short film about the life and work of the poet Murilo Mendes.

Filet de bœuf Henri III

1977 • 6 min • France

The Gloomy Sea

1977 • 4 min • Yugoslavia

A short film about one of the auhor's favourite motifs - the visual allure of the sea's surface.

Bizarre disease Ⅱ

1977 • 5 min • Japan

『奇病Ⅱ』Bizarre disease Ⅱ：1977/5min

Bizarre disease Ⅰ

1977 • 3 min • Japan

『奇病Ⅰ』Bizarre disease Ⅰ：1977/3min

Poets on Film No. 3

1977 • 7 min • Canada

Animated interpretations of two poems by great Canadian wordsmiths: “Perishing Bird” by D.G. Jones, and “Mon école” by Sylvain Garneau.

Repossessing the City

1977 • 29 min • Italy

The film tries to demonstrate the way to regain possession of the city not so much with physical interventions but with behavioral and mental operations. "To live is to be at home everywhere: the phrase, almost a carousel slogan, opens the film as you start a poster, a sort of password to which the smiling face of Ugo La Pietra - all intent on the street making the beard reflected in the glass doors of a large door - offers the evidence of the images. Cinema for La Pietra becomes an indispensable means for analyzing and decoding the environment, recording the traces of an original creative activity, dismantling and reassembling the topoi of urban architecture, creating behavioral indications capable of giving life to "one's" city . (...) ". (Paolo Mereghetti, 1977).

Library

1977 • 3 min

Library is a one shot take looking down at the lobby of the New York University Library at Washington Square in New York City. Shot in 1977, re-edited 2019.

Screen Gems

1977 • 4 min

I found the pixel structures in extreme close-ups of my Sony Trinitron television’s screen surface to be an endless source of colorful kinetics, often more interesting than the presented program.

KMK Cane

1977 • 4 min

Making short, silent, single-subject films allows the specific forms and movements to be savored without the burden of a distracting drama or explanation. Filmed in Hawaii.

Navidad Guatemalteca

1977 • 3 min

Guatemala 1976: A metaphor of natural devastation and political violence. Amidst the earthquake-shattered walls of Luis Argueta's childhood home, a young girl drinks the blood of a turkey as the sound of a manual typewriter is drowned by machine gun fire.

Black Harmony, Hi-Fi

1977 • 5 min

A portrait of a place in the context of being an outsider; a personal travelogue working to concentrate the perceived qualities of life, light, and the spirit of the island. The textural dynamics of sound and image were strongly considered in the editing process to crystallize my observation and experience while there.

Octave of Fear

1977 • 5 min • Yugoslavia

Leo Fabiani's priceless muse about everyone having someone to fear.

Ceturtā dimensija

1977 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A film portrait of the poet Ojars Vacietis.

Pasajes de la cultura ecuatoriana

1977 • 20 min • Ecuador

Documentary that follows the popular expressions of five provinces of Ecuador.