All Films

Terzake

1977 • 44 min • Netherlands

Political texts from the journal In Search, edited by M.S. Arnoni (Wim Schlebaum)

Esmeralda

1977 • 52 min • France

With Esmeralda, Hernandez shifts to the romantic mythology, but this descriptive aspect is secondary in the filmmaker's work, whose purpose is the constitution, by interposed myths, of a baroque cinematographic language. From this point of view, he joins the approaches of other contemporary filmmakers like Bene or Schroeter. In Esmeralda, he introduces masks from his creation to work on the physical and not only the filmic material. But Hernandez adds to his series of aesthetic variations of "stock-shots" of war plans, desolations, genocides, which brutally fall within the visual framework of his film. The filmmaker thus points out the cracks that overflow the myth in its darkest areas: the historical and social reality that obsesses us, that terrorizes us every moment.

A Visit to the Underground Cities of Mars

1977 • 59 min • United States of America

Take a psychic voyage and see for yourself the underground cities of Mars! Our neighbors on Mars have developed a peaceful lifestyle that is technologically and spiritually far in advance of our own. This amazing film, completed before the Viking lander’s photographs revealed what appear to be the remains of an ancient civilization on the surface of Mars, portrays beautiful underground cities. Discover how the Martians learned to live in peace and harmony.

Sur Faces

1977 • 58 min

Emshwiller writes that Sur Faces is a "stylized collaborative videotape in which actors working with (the artist) explore sexual politics as expressed in styles of drama from Shakespeare to 19th-century social theater, early 20th-century Freudian work, and contemporary fictional autobiographical improvisation. A video collage juxtaposing different ways of using video to express psychological states and conflict." In a synthesis of densely processed, textural images with documentations of dramatic role-playing from sources as varied as Richard III, Strindberg, and the Open Theater, Emshwiller undertakes an inventive inquiry into the transformation and representation of male/female relationships, via video and theater.

Made for Denise

1977 • 5 min • United States of America

Through the use of original and appropriated video footage, Auder translates a religious sermon into an expression of love for this strikingly beautiful woman. This lovers tale opens with a photograph of Denise that is alternately caressed and crushed in the palm of her lover's hand; a gesture oscillating between affection and an obsessive and irrational desire for possession. Auder builds on the increasing grandeur of the sermon's metaphors, extending them into the realm of destruction. The mood undergoes a violent shift as what was once fruit and flowers abruptly gives way to catastrophe. Featuring the music of Philip Glass, whose acquaintance Auder made in the early 1970s while producing work for The Kitchen.

Radioactive Phenomenon

1977 • 20 min • Soviet Union

Educational film for students in the "Chemistry of radioactive transformations."

La tasse

1977 • 19 min • France

A sexagenarian transvestite in his room, confronted with his fantasies and his solitude.

Berlin

1977 • 15 min • Netherlands

The filmmaker travels by train from France to Berlin. In six short chapters, we see the journey and the city. These are short still lives that remove the sense of anonymity from the everyday.

Malik

1977 • 8 min • France

Egypte

1977 • 12 min • Canada

ÉGYPTE is a meditation on ancient time and space. Inspired by the Tibetan Tantric chants of the Lamas (which also comprises the sound track), this impressionistic piece presents the ancient sense of 'mystery' without recourse to narration or didactic (historical) interpretation.

Stagnation

1977 • 50 min • France

A girl uses spiritualism to escape her loneliness and neurasthenia. Inspired by practices more or less close to magic, she tries to create two characters that will be part of herself. She will be able to live without being alone, while fleeing the external reality. But little by little, the two beings that she created appear to be detached from her, as if the figure three could not agree to the harmony of the group. Her fantasies seem to turn against her, increasing her sense of isolation.

The Anna Contract

1977 • 30 min

A scientist arrives from Eastern Europe to London. A man, hired to kill her, takes up a sniping position in a terraced rooming-house opposite the building in which the scientist is closeted with an interrogator.

Autopsy of Forgetting

1977 • 5 min • Romania

Experimental film on 16mm by Ioan T. Morar as part of Kinema Ikon.

Color Fields Left

1977 • 8 min

A study in analog imaging and the relation of sound to image, Color Fields Left merges moving bands of color with electronic sounds in an increasingly complex pattern.

A Ride Through the Fields

1977 • 13 min

A woman on horseback discovers several books out in a field that transform into the people they represent from a myriad of time periods and cultures. As the people interact their need to communicate creates both friction and the changing of perceptions.

A Way to Neighbour

1977 • 1 min • Iran

Neighbours...

Roger

1977 • 12 min • United States of America

Wakefield Poole’s fifth short is an intimate portrait of a man named... Roger.

Orbital Obsessions

1977 • 24 min • United States of America

Documentation and experimentation in real time, "Orbital Obsessions" is an example of early video self-portraiture, eerie and calm in its radical implications for the medium. The Vasulkas were interested in the building of control systems for the manipulation of electronic signals, resulting in their collaborations with several designers and engineers. One such example was the Multi-Level Keyer, a tool designed in 1973 by George Brown at the request of the Vasulkas, who were interested in expanding their range of source imagery. Steina’s manipulation of the image through keying, layering, and the manual control of luminance is seen here.

Safranbolu'da Zaman

1977 • 40 min

In 1976, Suha Arin was a tutor at the faculty of Social Sciences of Ankara University at the Press and Publishing Department (today's Communication Faculty). Like many of his films, the documentary "Safranbolu: Reflections of Time" was filmed with the help of a group of enthusiastic students. Safranbolu presents some of the few surviving examples of striking traditional Turkish architecture. The beauty of houses as well as the negative impacts of the passage of time are reflected in the documentary "Safranbolu: Reflections of Time" one of the aims of the film was to raise public awareness of the need for protection for culture and nature.

Raimonds Pauls. Portrets ar mūziku

1977 • 20 min • Soviet Union

A film of the popular composer Raimonds Pauls - with music, songs and open conversation about popularity, light and serious music

Dossier Réincarnation

1977 • 27 min

In rural Belgium, a police inspector investigates a series of murders that may be connected to sinister supernatural forces.

空白の衝動

1977 • 20 min • Japan

A woman is abandoned by a man, gets hurt, and... In the end, a woman is abandoned by a man, she is hurt, and...

Yucatec Maya Deaf Sign

1977 • 31 min

In 1976, Hubert Smith set out with a group of researchers to visually document Yucatec Maya society within the village of Chican. This project resulted in the 4-part series, The Living Maya. During filming, however, it was impossible to ignore the use of sign language in the village. Smith and his team saw a lot of the deaf residents, filmed them often, and went back to have these sign exchanges translated. Now it is time to share a story solely about them.

ハンバーグとキャベツ

1977 • 28 min • Japan

An uncool but funny love struggle between a worldly-minded young man and a quiet, serious young man for a kind-hearted madonna.