All Films

Sunday

1977 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Dedicated to the contradictions of scientific and technical progress, warning against one-sided technical developments that turn a person into an involuntary consumer.

For the Flick on the Forehead

1977 • 3 min • Soviet Union

About that, how a young hare clicked all on a forehead, while did not meet with a ram.

A Hell of a Note

1977 • 28 min • United States of America

A couple of friends get fired from their job and end up at a bar.

Poets on Film No. 1

1977 • 9 min • Canada

This short film brings together animated interpretations of four poems by great Canadian wordsmiths: "Riverdale Lion" by John Robert Colombo, "A Kite Is a Victim" by Leonard Cohen, "Klaxon" by James Reaney and George Johnston’s "The Bulge."

Whale Hunting (Qilaluganiatut)

1977 • 10 min

Mosha Michael's third film follows six Inuit hunters from Frobisher Bay, N.W.T. setting out on a spring whale hunt. Once again, Michael documents the process on Super 8 film, from pushing the canoes out over the thin spring ice to open water, to the killing and cleaning of the whale and storing the meat. An original score features music and songs in Inuktitut by the filmmaker himself.

Brave Inspector Mamochkin

1977 • 8 min • Soviet Union

A story how traffic inspector Mamochkin punished someone who had disturbed public order.

Murder at Moorstones Manor

1977 • 30 min

Sir Clive Chiddingfield invites his family to his birthday party at lonely Moorstones Manor but in the course of the evening half of those present are murdered one by one and the remaining survivors except for Lady Chiddingfield each admit to being the killer,eventually shooting each other.

Here We Come A-Wassailing

1977 • 50 min • United Kingdom

A documentary on the surviving syncretic pagan midwinter customs of the British Isles, focusing on nine ritual celebrations ranging from the Moray Firth in the north, the Somerset Levels in the south, Humberside in the east, and County Kerry in the west. Featuring music by the Albion Band and narration by John Tams.

Libre Propos Sur La Fonction De Mère – Papa Comme Maman

1977 • 40 min • France

The parents' violence on their children. Father and mother can each have hidden violence in the family universe.

N. N.

1977 • 6 min • Yugoslavia

N. N. wanders alone in the environment in which he lives, He tries to find a soul mate. In vain. N. N. remains alone - for the rest of his life. Dying. Funeral. Coffin covered with flowers. A solemn, sublime atmosphere. An endless crowd of people see off N. N., a man and friend whom everyone loved and respected.

Well, Just You Wait! Fascinating Shoes

1977 • 4 min • Soviet Union

After putting on the shoes from the store, the wolf chases the hare, but soon they both lose the shoes on the way. The issue raises the problem of poor quality shoes produced in the Soviet Union at that time.

Scott Joplin: King of Ragtime Composers

1977 • 15 min

A short 1977 documentary about the originator of the ragtime rhythm.

Deja vu czyli skąd my to znamy

1977 • 11 min • Poland

Professor tries to explain his patients's mental anomalies.

Flora: Scenes from a Leadership Convention

1977 • 58 min

This feature documentary offers an incisive look at Canadian politics at the 1976 Progressive Conservative Party leadership convention. Cape Bretoner Flora MacDonald is campaigning for the Party’s leadership, the first woman to do so. We follow MacDonald behind the scenes as she works with her staff to prepare policy, speeches, and strategies to win the race. We also get a glimpse of MacDonald’s sprightly and upbeat attitude as she puts her best foot forward in front of voters, media, and the Party’s elite.

Well, Just You Wait! 11

1977 • 9 min

Volk goes to a circus only to find Zayats there. The nature of subsequent events can be easily predicted.

Dream On

1977 • 4 min • France

An anti-music video for a Patrick Juvet song.

The Ancient Folk-Tale of Ólafur Liljurós

1977 • 35 min

Drama shot. Based on the authors' personal reflections on the ancient folk-tale of Ólafur Liljurós.

La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe

1977 • 31 min • Germany, Guadaloupe

Werner Herzog takes a film crew to the island of Guadeloupe when he hears that the volcano on the island is going to erupt. Everyone has left, except for one old man who refuses to leave.

Gut gemeinter Zuruf oder Das Kleefest

1977 • 20 min • East Germany, Germany

A village in the Republic celebrated its traditional clover festival in the summer of 1976. In the form of a political feuilleton, the film conveys to the viewer the new attitude to life of the people in the countryside.

Dressing for Pleasure

1977 • 24 min • United Kingdom

Documentary about fetish clothing scene in 70s Britain.

Dört Ateşli Yosma

1977 • 47 min • Turkey

The adventures of four friends who graduated from the same school.

On the Marriage Broker Joke as Cited by Sigmund Freud in Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious, or Can the Avant-Garde Artist Be Wholed?

1977 • 18 min • United States of America

“Freud established that jokes were structurally akin to dreams in their use of condensation, displacement, representation by opposites, punning and ‘nonsense’. All of these strategies are much in evidence in (Land’s) marvelously duplicitous ON THE MARRIAGE BROKER JOKE… [...] so clever and original a filmmaker as to make most others – not to mention his critics – seem flat-footed by comparison. ON THE MARRIAGE BROKER JOKE harks back to Bunuel’s early work. Not only is it structured like a dream and filled with sexual imagery, but like Un Chien Andalou, it smacks of being an insider’s joke played upon the avant-garde. Where Bunuel used the insights of psychoanalysis to satirize Christianity, Land– with an almost equal perversity – reverses the process and uses Christianity to send up Freud.” – J. Hoberman, American Film

Picknick

1977 • 6 min • Netherlands

A man drives his blind wife to a picnic spot he hopes she won't return from, but she won't get out of the car.

Trois Visage

1977 • 11 min

Music by Frank Lewin. Study of the mood changes between three heads with slow moving subtle differences. Two heads are made of wood. The third head is of the artist L.S. UNESCO sponsored exhibition in Paris in 1978. Award in international competition – Japan, 1980 . Sponsored by Victor Co., JVC, Burston-Marstellar agency.