All Films

There Was a Hedgehog

1977 • 8 min • Soviet Union

On a festive day, all the little animals are happy with balloons — everyone except the hedgehog, because his needles make the balloons burst.

Support Modelling

1977 • 4 min • Canada

The Mainstreeters initiated a number of commercial enterprises. Support Modelling was a modelling agency comprised of members of the local art and punk rock scene. To promote the project, Paul Wong made a three-channel video (later adapted to single channel) that featured certain Mainstreeters in various states of undress, accompanied by a disco soundtrack. Support Modelling also appears as a series of concept ads (weddings, funerals) in Ennui magazine.

Experiments in Love

1977 • 28 min

Mariwin Roberts and Linda Gordon star as a pair of sexy scientists who explore the secrets of sexuality with a sci-fi third dimension experiment.

Leaf Fall - November

1977 • 10 min • Soviet Union

About a bunny's meetings with forest inhabitants preparing for winter.

Söndagsseglaren

1977 • 26 min • Sweden

A wordless comedy about the tribulations of a novice sailor.

Hello, Jailoo!

1977 • 19 min • Soviet Union

A film about the life of herders and shepherds on summer distant pastures, known as the jailoo. It tells the story of people in a demanding profession, which gives the film a distinctive national flavor.

Girl In Vortex

1977 • 10 min • Japan

A short film by Katsuhiro Yamaguchi.

Le gant de l'autre

1977 • 15 min • France

Exploration of bodies. Point, counterpoint. A black glove goes in search of a red glove.

Halloween Safety

1977 • 11 min • United States of America

An 11-minute educational short from the director of Carnival of Souls teaching children safe Halloween practices. Through a playful story, it demonstrates costume safety, trick-or-treating in groups, checking treats, and other tips for a fun and secure holiday.

Twin Peaks

1977 • 50 min • United States of America

While working as a delivery driver, artist Al Wong became captivated by the meditative qualities of the looping roads around San Francisco’s Twin Peaks. But rather than a simple documentation of these journeys, this long-form structural film utilises Wong’s conceptual explorations to create a stunning, sensual work of pure cinema that continually upends our perceptual expectations. On the soundtrack, we hear the continual lapping of ocean waves. A student of the legendary Sōtō Zen monk Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, Al Wong here creates a film which perfectly symbolises the endless cycles discussed in Zen Buddhist philosophy. A monumental, largely-unseen masterwork 1970s avant-garde film, restored in 16mm by the Pacific Film Archive.

Spare Wheel

1977 • 20 min • Soviet Union

Gogi is on his way to celebrate the New Year. On the snowy road, he meets a beautiful girl whose car broke down. Gogi gives the tire of his car to beautiful stranger, and he himself, fascinated by his own behavior, meets the New Year alone in the car on a deserted road.

Untitled 77-A

1977 • 10 min • South Korea

The film contains the despair of an artist’s desire for creation on ruthless censorship, rebel, and anxiety in the mid-70s when it was politically and socially depressed.

Pekka Siitoin and the Patriotic People's Front

1977 • 34 min • Finland

"I am a hardcore racist, sadist and fascist. The New Testament is true, the Old Testament is not. Spirits informed me that I will be born again in my next life in the United States, then as president." - Pekka Siitoin (1944 - 2003) was an occultist and a neo-Nazi from Naantali, Finland. In his youth he studied at the Theatre Academy of Finland and was a disciple of Finland's best known clairvoyant, Aino Kassinen. In the 1970s he became a neo-Nazi and founded several organizations. He saw himself as the leader of the Finnish Nazi movement but got at most a few dozen supporters. Siitoin also wrote books about politics and occultism.

The Merry Widow

1977 • 1 min • Austria

Through the use of a time lapse effect (single frame shots), the changes in a face covered with a cream cheese mask for 30 minutes are condensed into one minute. (E.S.jr.)

The Wigan Casino

1977 • 26 min • United Kingdom

Documentary covering the famous Wigan Casino northern soul venue and the working class kids who spend all their money not on alcohol but on records and dancing all night.

Andrés Segovia: The Song of the Guitar

1977 • 48 min • United Kingdom

In this stunning film by Christopher Nupen, Segovia returns to the Granada of his youth, site of his personal and musical formation. The world-famous Alhambra—empty of tourists, between midnight and 4 AM—plays host to a deeply moving selection of Segovia’s signature pieces, many in his own arrangements, all imbued with the meditative, profoundly soulful qualities that lifted him to the pinnacle of artistry and helped him redefine what was considered possible for guitarists.

Life of Ermiles

1977 • 37 min • Soviet Union

Ermile , the head of a small railway station, finds himself at the center of a confrontation between two forces, and much depends on his decision

Prairie Fire

1977 • 30 min

The first short film in John Hanson and Rob Nilsson's "Prairie Trilogy"

El Negro, El Indio

1977 • 15 min

A meditation on the intersection of Afro-Caribbean and Indigenous American existence.

The Sorcerers of Elthradin

1977 • 33 min • United States of America

"A King's daughter is abducted by an evil magician who is attempting to take over the world. After having his army destroyed by several terrible beasts in an attempt to regain his daughter, the King finally seeks the aid of an old wizard and his apprentice." - Cinematic V1 Issue 11

'Twas the Night Before Christmas

1977 • 45 min

The story of the Cosgrove family on Christmas Eve in a New England town in the late 1890s.

One Way Boogie Woogie

1977 • 60 min • United States of America

Sixty one-minute shots with no camera movement. This tension between painterly and cinematic space is not only experienced as an intellectual contrast but is also felt as a dialectic between permanence and impermanence.

Autoportrait d’un schizophrène

1977 • 22 min • France

A document of the mental universe of a schizophrenic. Starring Pierre Clémenti.

The Runaways Live in Japan

1977 • 44 min

During the summer of 1977 The Runaways took the unsuspecting nation of Japan by storm becoming the fourth most popular imported musical act behind Led Zeppelin and The Beatles. Unfortunately most of the available video footage from their two month tour is of fifth or sixth generation bootleg quality.