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Punky Night at Hinton St. George

Punky Night at Hinton St. George

1977 • 1 min • United Kingdom
Children parade through the streets of Hinton St George in Somerset on the last Thursday of October. Children have hollowed out pumpkins or mangelwurzels, a type of animal fodder turnip to make lanterns following a tradition in this part of West Somerset that coincides with Halloween. Punky or Punkie Night is thought to date from the turn of the 20th century or perhaps medieval times chanting rhymes and following a Punkie King and Queen.
Time Flow

Time Flow

1977 • 11 min
The Skilfull Master-Underwater

The Skilfull Master-Underwater

1977 • 10 min • Soviet Union
The continuation of the animation of The Skilfull Master
Tito's Užice

Tito's Užice

1977 • 31 min • Yugoslavia
Documentary about the history of Užice and its role in WW2 as the first territory liberated in Nazi occupied Europe and the fighters of the Yugoslav partisan movement the town gave birth to.
Manga

Manga

1977 • 7 min • Japan
A series of mini-stories satirising our world in the 20th Century.
Coffee

Coffee

1977 • 8 min • United States of America
Silent, meditative film of an everyday object, a “cosmic love letter to coffee”.
Lia

Lia

1977 • 27 min • Italy
The intervention of a student at the "counter convention" at the Fabbrica della Comunicazione di Brera, against the convention on anti-psychiatry by A. Vermiglione.
Stand Together!

Stand Together!

1977 • 52 min
'Stand together!', a film on the "mass day of solidarity" on 11 July 1977, was made in 1977 for the Grunwick Strike Committee by the Newsreel Collective, of which Chris Thomas was a member, and members of the Association of Cinematograph, Television and Allied Technicians (ACTT) and the Transport and General Workers' Union.
Cycles of 3s and 7s

Cycles of 3s and 7s

1977 • 12 min • United States of America
“Cycles of 3s and 7s is a doubled statement. First and foremost, it is a commentary on computer art and the role of computers in video. Secondly, its arithmetic project has some bearing on the construction of musical scales. In reclaiming the computer as a performance instrument, I intended that the human operator must compete directly with the computer, doing what the computer does best. The selection of a simple hand calculator was a deliberate denial of the computer aesth/ethic of bigger, faster: computer art must be doable within even the most modest architecture. Cycles of 3s and 7s shows that it is not the answer that ‘counts,’ but the pleasure in getting there. Simple rote calculation is turned into rhythm and song; accuracy of gesture and count become a game. These are ‘stories’ about numbers, the kind machines should like to hear and tell—if they ‘liked.’” - Tony Conrad
The Lucky Bunny

The Lucky Bunny

1977 • 6 min • Soviet Union
An unlucky hunter falls into the trap of dreams and misses his long-awaited hunt.
Transporte en Madrid o El caos como beneficio del capital

Transporte en Madrid o El caos como beneficio del capital

1977 • 22 min • Spain
Documentary that critically analyzes the communications system of the city of Madrid in the 1970s, from a socioeconomic and clearly political perspective, questioning the capitalist system and the city model imposed by it.
The Honeymooners Specials: A Christmas Carol

The Honeymooners Specials: A Christmas Carol

1977 • 50 min • United States of America
Ralph Kramden directs a play version of "A Christmas Carol" for his boss' fundraiser.
The Silver Hoof

The Silver Hoof

1977 • 10 min • Soviet Union
An old man Kokovanya took to live to itself in a forest hut orphan Darenka. In the forest they saw an unusual goat who had a silver hoof. At what point will he stamped with his hoof — there will be a gemstone.
The Unknown Force

The Unknown Force

1977 • 52 min
From martial art experts to caregivers, a hidden power flows through humanity. This film attempts to discover it.
Enigma

Enigma

1977 • 60 min • United States of America
The exploits of secret agent Andrew Icarus who works for a world wide crime-fighting organization.
Games for Married Men

Games for Married Men

1977 • 9 min
A distinctly Chicago tale of marital infidelity made by Central Cinematographers, a Chicago cine-club made up of “advanced amateurs” who met once a week to produce short narrative films. Chuck and Mary Ann, both married, are having an affair. Chuck gives Mary Ann a fancy necklace, giving her a key and telling her that he will put the necklace in the corresponding locker in Union Station. Mary Ann is to give the key to her husband claiming she found it, and he will presumably get the necklace and give it to her. She does this, but her husband brings her back the box with a cheap pocket watch in it instead. Mary Ann blames Chuck and calls him angrily, claiming she knows his game—meanwhile, Mary Ann’s husband has given the necklace to a woman he’s having an affair with, along with the key to fool her husband. Locations include establishing shots of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Marina Towers, as well as one short scene shot presumably in Union Station.
Le Grand Silence

Le Grand Silence

1977 • 20 min • United States of America
Preparing for an evening out, the sexual tension between Armande and Benny turns sour, Benny's ulterior motives for their union subtley apparent.
Therefore Hangs a Tale

Therefore Hangs a Tale

1977 • 45 min • Iran
The film's story is about a school that is expecting the arrival of an inspector, and everyone is anxious about the inspector’s visit. This film is a loose adaptation of The Government Inspector by Nikolai Gogol.
La Drague

La Drague

1977 • 30 min • France
The city belongs to men, especially at night: between false courtesy and aggression, there is room only for parallel solitudes.
De-evolution: The Men Who Make The Music

De-evolution: The Men Who Make The Music

1977 • 18 min
Not to be confused with the longform video of the same name first released in 1981, this earlier film was filmed as a prototype for that later piece and features DEVO in greyish-blue janitor uniforms. It includes songs such as Huboon Stomp, The Words Get Stuck In My Throat and Too Much Paranoias.
Petit Mal

Petit Mal

1977 • 18 min • United States of America
"Petit Mal is a kind of double-portrait: both Bromberg and her subject insisting on moving freely, to open up space in an environment that would prefer to constrain and define”. – Vera Brunner-Sung, Millennium Film Journal Vol. No. 67 “Petit Mal is a raw, everything-but-the-kitchen-sink movie: choppy street scenes, a girl clowning, subway sequences enlivened by artless overexposures and split screens. What holds it together is the strong and unobtrusive audio track, a mélange of confessional rapping, nondescript mood music and slyly gratuitous sound effects.” – J. Hoberman, Art Forum
What a Man Lumberjack

What a Man Lumberjack

1977 • 19 min • Finland
An educational piece produced for the Forest Industry Employers’ Union shows the working conditions and future prospects of the foresters and machine drivers.
Concert for Michelangelo

Concert for Michelangelo

1977 • 60 min • Italy
Rossellini explores the frescoes in the Sistine Chapel during a concert by the chorus of the Cappella Musicale Pontificia conducted by Monsignor Domenico Bartolucci.
Silent Partner

Silent Partner

1977 • 32 min
In effect, it turns the spectator loose in a problematic textual system which includes both narrative and non-narrative clues; the puzzle cannot be resolved because its terms are systematically ambiguous. The actual filmic material related closely to that used by Gidal in previous films: hand-held shooting in domestic interiors, with tight framing, frequent zooms and re-focusing, aspires to a kind of 'pre-predicative' flux, in which full representation is held in abeyance. However, this material is now fragmented by the regular interruption of black leader, so that it appears as a series of discrete segments which are not, in any syntactic sense, shots - single takes clearly extend across more than one segment.