All Films

Small Big World

1977 • 14 min • Poland

Portrait of Andrzej Mleczko - cartoonist and painter. Andrzej Titkow, a documentary filmmaker, is interested in Mleczko's satirical drawings which were extremely popular in the 1970s. With a seemingly reporter-like camera, he films the opening of an exhibition of his works and stages the situations drawn by the artist.

The McIntyre Block

1977 • 20 min • Canada

A turn of the 20th Century office block at Portage and Main. What was once Winnipeg's most prestigious commercial address has become a catch-all for the marginalized and history's leftovers. A snapshot of a fading era, now gone for good.

Homo Screenicus

1977 • 4 min • Yugoslavia

Human obsession with television is presented through 17 different situations and the same number of shots.

Overdose

1977 • 17 min

This program is an overview of best practices to keep a person who has overdosed alive between discovery and hospitalization. Practices include quickly finding or identifying the substance the person on which the person has overdosed and traveling to a hospital or other treatment site immediately. Several simulations of different situations are shown, and the narrator asks the viewer what he or she would do differently. It provides an excellent overview of the basic prehospital approach to an overdosed patient. The initial field management of a patient is covered, accompanied by well-done scenarios illustrating incorrect technique. Although the inclusion of more medical detail would have been beneficial, this is a compelling presentation which is highly recommended for use.

Documentazione Della Settimana Internazionale Della Performance

1977 • 18 min

“Before the eyes of all, at least of those present, the naked and direct exhibitions of the body take place with all its extensions; but the naked eye of the spectators who circle is promptly doubled by the many mechanical or electronic eyes of the photographic equipment and of the 'cameras' which, with their clicks and their tenacious buzzing, form the background” Renato Barilli

Tailor Beso

1977 • 11 min • Soviet Union

The adventures of tailor Beso who works wonders.

Chronique Des Années Tristes

1977 • 57 min • France

Here is a film that is, to say the least, singular. A fiction filmed under Giscard, in two farming families, one in Brittany and the other in Languedoc. One sees the Catholic mass and the mass of the television news, one hears the Benedicite and the Internationale, a rural class struggle is played out, daily peasants against the aristos in the middle of a hunt...Chronicle of the Sad Years tells the story of the new forms of subjection suffered by the workers of the land, discovering the perverse effects of the CAP and the growing influence of agribusiness. A film in which the director, Alain Aubert-Dechartre, stages a historical turning point, the forced conversion of peasants into technicians of farms of which they will be the first to be exploited

Monkey Dream

1977 • 13 min

Inspired by a dream of a monkey who tells "stories" by waving a stick that emits abstract shapes, light and movement, this is the "story" of a sculptor making sculpture. It is also a form of dreaming with Cinema. Constructed in lush, layered images, we see sculpture, Jon von Bergen at work but the true subject of this filmic tapestry is the elusive and enigmatic quality of the creative process. By Dave Gearey (1977, 16mm, 13 mins., color, sound)

Las tres ventajas de Ponte

1977 • 15 min

A short comedy film, among the first films directed by Pedro Almodovar

That's No Lady

1977 • 14 min

An early work by the Co-op, this hard-hitting short unpicks the links between a casually misogynist culture and the lived reality of women experiencing domestic abuse.

Complementos

1977 • 15 min

A short comedy film, among the first films directed by Pedro Almodovar

Poppin' Flesh

1977 • 4 min

Satirical look at the making of a Pillsbury Doughboy commercial

Space Time Structures

1977 • 33 min

In Space Time Structures the evershifting fields of line and shape created illusionistic depth which denied the planar surface of the movie screen. Here was a pocket of space floating in the dark of the cinema, energised by fragments of strobing, flickering light, organised as a multiplicity of coloured bands, shapes and veils.

Better, Comfier

1977 • 7 min

A man is tempted with the finer things in life.

City Map

1977 • 16 min

Through the personal memories of István Szabó we can became the observers of the life of Budapest.

An Unjustifiable Risk

1977 • 26 min

The potential dangers of nuclear weapons and the planned new breed of plutonium-fuelled reactors are the subject of An Unjustifiable Risk, made in 1977. John Pilger begins by explaining that just a speck of plutonium, the main component of an atomic bomb, can cause cancer, but there is no absolutely safe way of storing, protecting or transporting it. Although the government is planning to build the first commercial nuclear power station fuelled by plutonium – a so-called fast-breeder reactor intended to solve the country’s energy problems – an independent royal commission has declared the process dangerous.

A City Grows: The Skyscraper

1977 • 10 min • United States of America

The film is a documentary on the construction of a skyscraper, narrated by the project's architect, crane operator, and various specialists. It details the process from planning to completion, emphasizing the efficient use of limited urban space by building upward. Key phases include laying deep foundations, constructing a massive steel frame, and installing interior and exterior elements. The building, featuring high-speed elevators, escalators, stores, and restaurants, functions as a self-contained urban hub. The project, culminating in a "topping out" ceremony, symbolizes the collaborative effort of hundreds over two years, resulting in an 82-story building that significantly contributes to city life.

Anima 2

1977 • 12 min • United States of America

the first procedural computer animated short film.

Tapestry I

1977 • 2 min • Poland

First of 24 animations done with traditional tapestries, each based on a folk proverb. "Every dish of mine tastes better than wine."

Die Haut

1977 • 15 min

Eduactional film about the sensual and erotic nature of skin.

Fatal Stop

1977 • 24 min • United States of America

Designed to develop an awareness in the viewer of why pre-trip inspections are required and the potential consequences of not doing a thorough inspection every time a bus is to carry students.

Dormouse

1977 • 17 min • Yugoslavia

A short wildlife documentary about dormouse.

A Passing Meeting

1977 • 35 min • Soviet Union

It's been three years since their last meeting. She is calm, confident and happy because she has a son growing up, their son. She has a business trip ahead of her and she hopes that they will meet again, even if this meeting will be a passing one.

The Last Straw

1977 • 10 min • Soviet Union

About a greedy man who has lost his sense of proportion.