All Films

Mother's leave

1977 • 58 min • Kuwait

Aisha decides to take leave from the burdens of the house, and when her husband (Abu Bassam) refuses, she leaves the house. Then he and his son (Bassam) and his daughter (Mona) are forced to do all the homework, but they find it very difficult in it and miss the presence of their mother (Aisha).

A Difficult Journey

1977 • 53 min • Albania

Miti, an old worker, and Sokol, a young driver, undertake a long journey to transport a huge metallic tower from the Durrës harbor to an important plant.

Zhikharka

1977 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A cartoon based on a Russian fairy tale. About the adventures of girl Zhikharka living with a Cat and a Rooster.

The Rose and Joe

1977 • 21 min • Japan

Hopelessly in love with a pure red rose, a humble mutt pledges his life to protect the object of his affection from every peril, from a mean-spirited crow to the very elements of nature.

There Was One Mouse

1977 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A kind wizard wants to help a cowardly mouse to overcome his fears but the mouse has to prove he deserves a helping hand.

Every Revolution Is a Throw of the Dice

1977 • 11 min • France

A tribute to Mallarmé that not only asserts the continuing relevance of his work but also confronts its literary ambiguities with political and cinematic ambiguities of its own. In outline, the film could not be more straightforward: it offers a recitation of one of Mallarmé’s most celebrated and complex poems (it was his last published work in his own lifetime, appearing in 1897, a year before his death) and proposes a cinematic equivalent for the author’s original experiment with typography and layout by assigning the words to nine different speakers, separating each speaker from the other as she or he speaks, and using slight pauses to correspond with white spaces on the original page.

We Have a Newcomer

1977 • 29 min • Soviet Union

A new worker appears at the construction site—the lively and principled Shura Rusakova. Her open dissatisfaction and intolerance for disorder at the construction site elicit understanding and sympathy from the foreman.

Striptease

1977 • 2 min • Italy

As a live woman performs a striptease, she's cheered on by an audience of small cartoon men. Some of them pop in the excitement as she brings down the house.

Milovitsa

1977 • 10 min • Soviet Union

I Don't Know

1977 • 47 min • Poland

The confession of a man who was the director of a factory in Lower Silesia. "He was a Party member but opposed to the Mafia-like organization of Party members which was active in that factory and region. Those people were stealing and debiting the factory account. He didn’t realize that people higher up were involved in the affair. And they finished him off.’ (Krzysztof Kieslowski)

Raimundo Fagner

1977 • 15 min • Brazil

In the late 1970s, young filmmaker Sérgio Santos from Rio de Janeiro lived in Santa Teresa and was a neighbor and friend of singer Raimundo Fagner from Ceará, who was beginning to reap the first fruits of a solid and long career that he would build over the following decades. Sérgio then decided to make a short film to record moments of the rising star.

Lucas, the Ear of Corn

1977 • 4 min • United States of America

The story of Lucas, a young ear of corn, from his days in the cornfield with his mother to the moment he ultimately meets his fate as a meal for a young boy.

Příhody Ferdy mravence

1977 • 16 min • Czechoslovakia

For Liberty and Union

1977 • 22 min • United States of America

At the beginning of the American Civil War in 1861, delegates from Unionist counties of northwestern Virginia decided to break away from the Confederacy and form a new government loyal to the United States that two years later would be officially recognized as the new state of West Virginia. This historical reenactment was commissioned to mark the restoration of the Wheeling Custom House -- the actual site of the delegates' conventions, featured within the film.

Expansion in Space

1977 • 14 min • Germany

In 'Expansion in Space' (1977, Dokumenta 6, Kassel), Ulay and Abramovic do not collide with each other, as they did in Relation in Space (1976), but with two free-standing pillars twice their individual body weight. Their goal is to make the pillars move by means of their naked bodies, and in this way to expand the space of action

Looking at Alice

1977 • 28 min • United Kingdom

A lonely young man obsesses over the flirty young model who lives in the building opposite, but fails to realise that she is dealing with anxieties of her own.

Halloween Hall o' Fame

1977 • 60 min

Jonathan Winters stars as a night watchman working late at Walt Disney Studios on Halloween night. He is accompanied by his dog, Peanuts. The night watchman, bitter about working on Halloween night, stumbles upon the prop room at the studio and begins acting out scenes with various props. Eventually, he finds a crystal ball containing a talking Jack-o'-lantern (also played by Winters). Jack-o'-lantern is hiding out from Halloween because it's no longer scary like it was back in "the olden days".

Seans : hommage á Antonin Artaud

1977 • 60 min • Sweden

A seance in which Antonin Artaud can be seen as a swirling depiction of a theater of freedom in the rubble of the hateful counter between actor and audience. Percival is the author of many books in Swedish and English. He has exhibited his paintings and photographs, composed experimental world music and directed some of his own plays and a play by Beckett.

Auntie Kathleen's Old Clothes

1977 • 29 min

A boy reflects on time he spent staying with his aunt and uncle.

Solitude of One Divided by 880,000

1977 • 43 min • Japan

A lonely man in Tokyo. Friendly gestures from strangers and sudden encounters with old friends are the only pillars available for the man about to slip into the abyss of absolute loneliness.

The Fat Albert Halloween Special

1977 • 23 min • United States of America

It's Halloween for Fat Albert and the Junkyard Gang, and everyone's all set for trick-or-treating. While searching for costumes a store clerk kicks them out, leaving the gang to comes up with their own home-made costumes. Then they are off to the movies to scare old Searchlight Johnson, then more hijinks with Mudfoot Brown, and old lady Bickwell. As you can probably guess, things don't go too well and they learn their lessons... Searchlight catches them up to no good in the theatre and throws them out. Mudfoot Brown eats most of their candy, and old lady Bickwell turns out to have the best Halloween treats in town.

Mountain Summiters

1977 • 19 min • Soviet Union

Having met road workers, a sports instructor convinces them to sign up in the mountaineering section and begin to conquer the surrounding peaks.

MA (Intervals)

1977 • 10 min • Japan

In the general classification, this was a complete abstract film and a kind of experimental movie as well, only black film, which blocks light, and clear film, which is totally transparent, were used as the basic materials.

Lemon Cake

1977 • 17 min • Soviet Union

Road masters Abessalom, Beso and Gigla decide to enjoy lemon cake for dessert.