All Films

The Yellow Wallpaper

1977 • 14 min • United States of America

A 1977 short based on Charlotte Perkins Gilman's story of a woman's mental breakdown.

Le poulailler des temps perdus

1977 • 14 min • Canada

A giant chicken sows panic in the city of Montreal.

The Barrier

1977 • 6 min • Poland

Animated, various techniques. A bareer is slowly moving down at the railroad. It prevents people from passing across the road. While waiting, people start to think and dream. Their dreams influence a guy who watches them from a tiny house nearby.

A Negative

1977 • 15 min • Poland

Professional sport also has its negative sides which are injuries. The pictures in the film refer to X-ray images in terms of aesthetics, and the off-screen commentaries explain the characteristics of injuries in various fields of sport.

The Cherry Tree with Gray Blossoms

1977 • 42 min • Japan

The poignant focal point for this film is a cherry tree that is over 1400 years old. Beginning with the tree, the director then explores the families and environment around the tree. The editing and music contribute to the sense of a haunting past contained within the solid structure of an ancient natural wonder.

Bedtime Stories: Cat

1977 • 4 min • Germany

"As if pictures could think! Einschlafgeschichten doesn't really speak of bridges or railroads but rather of two girls filling the space between daytime and dreamtime with a poetic game, an endless game, a game with no end. A game which can fade out without becoming fragmentary. "Are you asleep?", one of them asks at the end of a clip – and the final shot is of the two, asleep; the game is over. The girls are played by Lara and Anna, Farocki's daughters." - Hans J. Wulff

Songs for Lines/Songs for Waves

1977 • 39 min

This performance consists of ten songs in which music, language and images are equally important. In most of these songs, Anderson plays the violin, accompanied by her own singing and an audiotape (with spoken text, more singing or more violin music). Her songs are often combined with a film projection: she is framed by the light from the projection, and is playing with the shadows cast by her body and her violin. Anderson makes experimental music, and she often find solutions in technological inventions, as with the song 'a man, a woman, a house and a tree'. The music for this piece is created with the help of a ‘slow-scan’ machine, which registers visual information and transforms this into sound. These experiments are not only about music, but also abou language: anagrams, play on words and poetic stories. The introductory anecdotes that Anderson tells are just as important as the song itself.

Island Shunters

1977 • 14 min

Short documentary on the shunters in the Darling Island, Sydney, Australia railyard. Filmed in 1977.

Tribute to the Teachers

1977 • 17 min • Iran

A documentary featuring interviews with teachers and officials on the profession of teaching and what it means to them.

Emmylou Harris: The Beat Club

1977 • 40 min

Emmylou Harris and The Hot Band smoke the stage at the Beat Club, Radio Bremen on March 26th, 1977.

Los dioses de cara blanca

1977 • 15 min • Venezuela

Documentary inspired by the book by Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano "Open Veins of Latin America".

Ivana, Markisha's Wife

1977 • 58 min • Yugoslavia

A monodrama featuring Montenegrin village woman.

Tiding over till Tomorrow

1977 • 35 min • United States of America

Originally debuted in 1977, where it took the form of a dual slide projection with live piano accompaniment by the artist. In the 2012 installation version at the Buffalo AKG, the slides were transferred to digital projection and Conrad’s live accompaniment was replaced by a contemporaneous recording of him playing piano. The piano accompaniment belongs to a larger durational performance project that Conrad called Music and the Mind of the World. Between 1976 and 1982, the artist—who was known as a violinist and had no formal piano training—recorded himself experimenting at length on the piano. The photographs that make up Tiding over till Tomorrow were taken by Conrad and are joined by a number of enigmatic texts slides by the artist Anne Turyn.

Flare - A Ski Trip

1977 • 20 min • New Zealand

A short documentary about freestyle skiing made for the New Zealand Tourist and Publicity Department.

Barbie

1977 • 10 min • United States of America

Barbie comes home from shopping. She takes her groceries out of the bag and unwraps a little Barbie doll. She fries up the Barbie doll and eats it.

Point of Departure

1977 • 25 min

Masoud has a stutter. His young uncle believes that, as the doctor said, the only solution to this problem is a lot of practice and repetition, while Masoud’s grandmother advises him to eat pigeon and turtle eggs...

Bedtime Stories: Bridges

1977 • 3 min • Germany

"As if pictures could think! Einschlafgeschichten doesn't really speak of bridges or railroads but rather of two girls filling the space between daytime and dreamtime with a poetic game, an endless game, a game with no end. A game which can fade out without becoming fragmentary. "Are you asleep?", one of them asks at the end of a clip – and the final shot is of the two, asleep; the game is over. The girls are played by Lara and Anna, Farocki's daughters."

Be a Good Neighbour

1977 • 6 min • United Kingdom

A dog on holiday is shocked to discover his kennel has been burgled. He learns about the ways in which he can protect his home through the Good Neighbours Scheme.

Die Reise

1977 • 10 min • Germany

My Funeral an Experience

1977 • 1 min • Austria

This film is a combination of body art, re-making and reconstructing a "film genre" from the early era of filmmaking (series "Comic Faces", 1898, Director: G.A. Smith): Making faces in front of the camera. (E.S.jr.)

Grohnde - 19. März 1977

1977 • 13 min • Germany

Documentary short.

Rocking Horse Cowboy

1977 • 24 min • United States of America

A seasoned cowboy reminisces about his experiences, challenges, and the changing nature of cowboy culture. He expresses nostalgia for the past when cowboying was a way of life filled with camaraderie and hard work. The cowboy shares stories of his adventures, struggles with aging, and the decline of traditional ranching practices, ultimately revealing a sense of loneliness and the longing for meaningful connections.

The Smallest Elephant in the World

1977 • 5 min

Mocked throughout the jungles of India due to his small size, the smallest elephant in the world--no bigger than a house cat--has decided enough is enough. After all, if he's no bigger than a house cat, then a house must be where he belongs! After a long journey in the hold of a ship, this smallest elephant in the world finds himself a home with a nice little boy inside. But he must disguise himself as a cat to satisfy the boy's mother, and disaster strikes when he is confronted with his first mouse... Little does he know that the perfect home is waiting for him, in a circus where differences are celebrated, not scorned.

The Moon

1977 • 6 min • East Germany

The moon swirls happily around, watching strange animals enjoying themselves and dancing to gramophone music in its light. Then, suddenly, the moon falls out of the sky, and a greedy dragon drags it into his cave and forces it to give him light while he eats all the cakes. When the nights stay dark, the animals come up with a plan. Otto Sacher, East Germany’s legendary animation director and co-founder of the DEFA Studio for Animation Film, was the artistic advisor for this film, the first of Dammbeck’s animated works.