All Films

The Secret of the Count of Kaunitz

1977 • 37 min • Germany

Five camping youths see at night a ghostly woman, which leads them to the castle of Count Kaunitz, in what will reveal itself to be a gruesome trap. Schlingensief was 15 years old when making this film.

Penny

1977 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Well, Just You Wait! 10

1977 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Hare buys glasses at the store, on the way out Wolf lures him to his house. At home they want to drink juice from the new glasses, but the glasses start to break right in their hands. The episode raises the problem of poor quality splintering glasses.

Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas

1977 • 53 min • Canada, United States of America

A poor otter family risks everything for the chance to win the cash prize of a talent contest for Christmas.

Women Are Naturally Creative: Agnès Varda

1977 • 46 min • Germany

A documentary about French film director Agnès Varda on the set of her 1977 film ONE SINGS, THE OTHER DOESN'T. It includes interviews with Varda and the lead actors in the film.

Beautiful Lennard Island

1977 • 24 min • Canada

Butterfly

1977 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A short story about three cheerful road workers who help a beautiful girl catch butterflies.

Travel and Description of the Guanabara River on the Occasion of Antarctic France

1977 • 16 min • Brazil

Inspired by "Voyage to the land of Brazil" by Jean de Léry, this short follows the adventures of Nicolas Durand, from Villegagnon, and the estabilishment of a French colony in 16th-century Rio de Janeiro.

Catalog of Memory

1977 • 3 min

Shuji Terayama starts a poem, and then ships his pencil to Herbie Yamaguchi in the UK. Herbie ships the pencil back to Terayama, who then finishes his poem.

Relation in Space

1977 • 58 min • Italy

In the first 58 minute Performance, Relation in Space, which took place in July 1976 at the Biennale in Venice, Abramovic/Ulay, both naked, walk towards each other from opposite ends of a room, touching as they pass each other, and then they repeat the movement while their bodies collide and one of them (Marina) falls over under the impact, until they are both exhausted. A statically mounted video camera simultaneously filmed the touching of the bodies in the middle of the room.

Island for 6,000 Alarm Clocks

1977 • 6 min • Czechoslovakia

The first professional animated film by Petr Sís, who later became the great children's author-illustrator Peter Sís after emigrating to America. Based on an odd satiric story by Miloš Macourek; purportedly banned in Czechoslovakia upon its release.

Little Hero of the Reed Marsh

1977 • 17 min • China

During the War of Resistance Against Japan, there was a boy named Maverick in the northern countryside who, under the leadership of the Party, participated in the struggle against the enemy. Once, Uncle Ma, a traffic officer of the Eighth Route Army, sent information to the guerrillas and encountered devils and puppet soldiers on the way. Maverick tactfully diverted the enemy away and made Uncle Ma out of danger.

Tom Thumb

1977 • 18 min • Soviet Union

A poor old couple adopts a tiny boy who helps them with farming and housekeeping. One day a greedy nobleman passes by, and so the boy decides to make some easy money for his new parents.

John Hus

1977 • 55 min • United States of America

A faithful recounting of the ministry, trial and martyrdom of the fifteenth century Bohemian priest John Hus, who built on the reforms of John Wycliffe, taught the Bible in the vernacular and who influenced Martin Luther a century later.

Relation in Time

1977 • 12 min

Marina Abramovic's performance 'Relation in time', with her long time partner Ulay. "We are sitting back to back, tied together by our hair, without any movement for 16 hours. Then the audience came in. We continued sitting for one hour."

Quartet 'Kva-Kva'

1977 • 9 min • Soviet Union

About frogs who created a musical ensemble.

Termin Spirale Eins

1977 • 30 min • East Germany, Germany

Documentary short about the construction of the Markersbach Pumped Storage Power Plant in East Germany.

National Geographic: The Volga

1977 • 60 min • United States of America

Film cameras cruise the Soviet Union's mighty Volga River, providing a view of the Russian people along its 2300-mile length, including looks at the fishing industry, a rural village, a manufacturing town and the wedding of two factory workers.

Twelve Off the Belt

1977 • 30 min

Grand Challenge pie-eating contest : ' Winner finishes most whole pies off the belt in half-an-hour. Ties decided on a raw cabbage '. The Bedworth Hog faces tough competition.

Styx

1977 • 10 min • United States of America

A very unusual exploration of the Philadelphia subway and its riders, which creatively utilizes black and white photography.

The Shetland Experience

1977 • 27 min • United Kingdom

The environmental measures taken by the oil industry at the Sullom Voe terminal in the Shetlands.

Journey Through History

1977 • 60 min • Italy

A journey through history

Father

1977 • 3 min • Japan

A naval officer makes love to his wife while his son, the director of the film, watches them.

The Fat Albert Christmas Special

1977 • 23 min • United States of America

The Cosby Kids are rehearsing for a Christmas pageant at their junkyard clubhouse, which Tyrone, the mean old junkyard owner, is fixin' to tear down. That's when Marshall & his parents show up. With their car broken down, Marshall's mom is about to have a baby and his dad, without health insurance, inspires the gang to invite them in the clubhouse for shelter. Tyrone agrees to let them stay until the baby is born, in exchange for Fat Albert working for him as a sidewalk Santa. "Ho-ho-ho's" in Fat Albert fashion ensue. After the old hobo, Mudfoot, gives Tyrone a lecture about how he's been grumpy at the world ever since his wife died, the junkyard owner has a change of heart and promises to keep the gang's clubhouse in tact.