All Films

Eugene Debs and the American Movement

1977 • 43 min

Eugene Debs & the American Movement is an educational video that documents fifty years of long-suppressed history. Using extensively researched photographs, drawings and newsreel footage, it tells a story of the bloody strikes and brutal government reaction to the American workers' attempts to organize. This film is movingly narrated in Deb's own words, read from his speeches and writings, by his friend and comrade, Shubert Sebree.

Gasoline Bottler

1977 • 28 min • Soviet Union

A young gas station attendant fills cars with spring water instead of gasoline. Miraculously, the engine runs perfectly and people become kinder.

Consequences

1977 • 47 min

Liza, a schoolgirl, meets and falls in love with her classmate's brother, Paul. When she discovers she is pregnant, they each must consider the consequences as outlined by their respective parents.

Hecho en Venezuela

1977 • 10 min • Venezuela

Experimental Super-8 film by Carlos Castillo.

How Long Does A Tree Live?

1977 • 11 min • Hungary

Tamás Almási's second-year college exam film based on a short story by István Örkény

Academic Still Life (Cézanne)

1977 • 6 min

As the title indicates this is a deliberately academic work, conceived in much the same way that a composer might make a 'study'. It is not about a Cezanne painting, but attempts to apply certain concepts related to the relativity of changing viewpoints in observation and recording. In much the same way as a Cezanne painting records within its image, the problem of stabilizing a perception and the way in which shifts in viewpoint modify the spatial experience, the film uses time lapse and time exposure to seek a filmic equivalent for this aesthetic. –M. L. G.

Die Omegas

1977 • 9 min • East Germany, Germany

This short film depicts Omega, one of Hungary's most successful rock bands, on tour in the GDR.

In Repose

1977 • 6 min

Short film.

Do You Know Valeria M?

1977 • 15 min • Poland

A portrait of Waleria Mirecka, a teacher and social activist, known and respected by all the inhabitants of Racławice. She was awarded the Mother of the Village order. The woman also found both private and professional fulfillment in Racławice.

Step Forward Youth

1977 • 30 min

Rare archive footage of British born young people in the mid 70s, discussing issues of school, police, parents and what it is like to be black in a white world.

ABC - We Print Anything - In the Cards

1977 • 59 min • United States of America, Netherlands

Video documentation of performance of the work hosted by De Appel, Amsterdam, in 1977 and filmed by Miguel-Ángel Cárdenas. In ABC - We print anything - In the cards (1977) Schneemann documented dreams, advice and conversations relating to her shifting relationships. She collated 315 numbered cards, containing both text and photographic imagery, which she photographed from her domestic life. Schneemann (the ‘C’ in ABC) analyses her complex set of experiences separating from ‘A’ (artist Anthony McCall) while drawing closer to ‘B’ (publisher Bruce McPherson). The cards capture the dynamic, paradoxical, humorous and contrary aspects of relationships, forming an intimate yet measured set of information.

Academia Brasileira de Letras

1977 • 25 min • Brazil

The origins and activities of the Academy, culminating in the election of the first female academic: Rachel de Queiroz.

To the Dairy

1977 • 5 min

A last look at the London Filmmakers' Co-op when it was housed in an old Victorian dairy. 'In the dark room, single imagess [sic] succeed eachothers [sic] in a continous [sic] motion towards the dairy, where she and the other english filmmakers stayed in an area of demolishing. she penetrates with the camera in rapid flicks, hesitates at single things, and glides on in a staccato flow. that is how she works, annabel nicolson, goes into a room and gives sigth [sic] of everything.' —Helge Krarup, Denmark, 1976

Underground Doctors

1977 • 53 min

Not that long ago, crippling diseases were blamed on evil demons. What's more, nowadays, healing miracles are often considered to be natural events, misinterpreted by superstitious people. Despite the advances of modern medicine, many people still employ unorthodox means for achieving and maintaining physical and spiritual health. Some of these decidedly bizarre methods are the focus on this fascinating video hosted by Henry Fonda.

Robert Klein Revisited

1977 • 60 min • United States of America

Robert Klein returns to HBO for another hour of his classic comedy.

Because Roots Don’t Die

1977 • 53 min • Palestinian Territory

The siege of Tel al-Zaatar took place during the Lebanese Civil War on 12 August 1976. Tel al-Zaatar (The Hill of Thyme) was a UNRWA administered Palestinian Refugee camp housing approximately 50,000-60,000 refugees in northeast Beirut.

The Regiment

1977 • 50 min • United Kingdom

First transmitted in 1977, this documentary follows three months in the life of the 1st Battalion of the Royal Green Jackets (also known as the Black Mafia) as they move from their Dover barracks for a tour of duty at the Tower of London. The Royal Green Jackets are light infantry, trained to move fast. Above all they are riflemen and take pride in their reputation of being thinking fighting soldiers.

Homovie

1977 • 6 min • France

Trap for the voyeur, his expectations are thwarted each time, disappointed and yet he always hopes...

From Fiber to Fabric: Wool's a Natural

1977 • 15 min • United States of America

Explores the history of the woolen textile industry from earliest times until the present day.

Copihuito

1977 • 14 min • East Germany

This color documentary reports on young Chilean pioneers in the capital of the GDR. We experience the development of their pioneer newspaper from the first ideas to the printed new edition. Pictures by the Chilean painter César Olhagaray depict the struggle for freedom and the hopes of the Chileans, accompanied by excerpts from Pablo Neruda's "The Great Song" (Canto General).

The genetic epistemology of Jean Piaget

1977 • 41 min

A self-potrait of the influent Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget.

Confirmation

1977 • 27 min

Concerns a young boy's mystical experiences during his Confirmation. As the ceremony unfolds, figures from religion and mythology appear and impress on him the need to become a soldier of Christ.

Jahan-Nama Palace

1977 • 30 min

This rarely screened early short made for The Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults documents the complete restauration of the Jahan-nama Palace, one of the Shah's traditional residencies.

In Memory of the Land and People

1977 • 51 min

“…It is a film that tells in hurried film sequences and a resonant musical score juxtaposing the sublime, funereal despair of Bartok agains tthe gut-bare tones of folk music. Gates has through his filming technique and meticulously selected mining sites, captured all the outrage and sorrow and indignity to the land and its people that strip mining represents. The film is one that all Americans should see, for it shows extremely well the price we have to pay for strip mined coal.” - Dale A. Burk, The Montana “Missoulian”