All Films

The Doctor's Dream

1977 • 24 min

"The editing procedure was to count the number of shots and start the film off with the numerically middle shot and then, after that, the shot that had preceded it, and the shot that had followed it, and to keep fanning further and further out until one saw the first shot of the film followed by the last shot" -Ken Jacobs

The Great Goddess

1977 • 22 min

A child, two youths, a mother and three crones spin spirals, joining rituals of birth, death and rebirth. Filmed in Mendocino, California, where the water snake appeared on each shooting day, where the river flooded the sand spiral, where earth, air, fire and water met.

Neil Diamond: I'm Glad You're Here with Me Tonight

1977 • 60 min • United States of America

The majestic Neil Diamond live! Prepare to melt.

Noh

1977 • 4 min • Japan

Made when I was simply beside myself with excitement from seeing Toshio Matsumoto's ATMAN. I placed photographs of Noh masks in a variety of backgrounds and pulled the camera aimed at the photographs towards them and away from them, circled it around them and into them as if the camera had gone mad. I wanted to express my weird, eerie feelings towards Noh masks with brutal images. (Takashi Ito)

Forward March, Time!

1977 • 19 min • Soviet Union

Soviet animation from Vladimir Tarasov.

I'm a Fool

1977 • 36 min • United States of America

Traveling from town to town during the summer of 1919, young Andy (Ron Howard) has left his Ohio home in search of adventure and romance as a horse trainer on the country fair racing circuit. Ashamed of his occupation, Andy leads Lucy to believe he's wealthy. Soon one deception leads to another... until there is no way to tell Lucy the truth.

The Shirley MacLaine Special: Where Do We Go from Here?

1977 • 60 min • United States of America

A speculative look forward at the United States' next 200 years.

Book of Splendors, Part Two, Book of Levers: Action at a Distance

1977 • 3 min

Foreman’s longtime friend Ken Jacobs situated himself in the audience of the legendary Ontological-Hysteric theater space at 491 Broadway to shoot this whiplash-inducing single-frame study of a dynamic play filled with frantic action, full frontal nudity, and so much more. Newly digitized from the camera roll discovered in Foreman’s archives.

5 Weeks in a Balloon

1977 • 60 min • Australia, United States of America

An elderly English doctor and his 14-year old American nephew go on a perilous journey to Africa in an hot air balloon with an African guide, to retrieve a precious diamond from the top of a volcanic rock, as a gift for Queen Victoria.

Rudolph's Shiny New Year

1977 • 50 min • United States of America, Japan

Rudolph must find Happy, the baby new year, before the midnight of New Year's Eve.

The Obelisk

1977 • 30 min • United Kingdom

A seaside resort in 1938. For Hilda, it seems as if romance almost died when she married school teacher Ernest. Only the movies can keep this spark alive. As she follows her pompous husband up the cliff walk to visit the obelisk, she wonders how he will react to the two sailors who want to join them.The boisterous Tiny is rather coarse, but his friend Stan has lovely manners and such very blue eyes....

The Popovich Brothers of South Chicago

1977 • 60 min

In a small community of steel workers, truck drivers, and teachers on the South Side of Chicago, a musical group called the Popovich Brothers maintained the traditional music and rich culture of their Serbian homeland by performing in local venues. By the 1970s, when this documentary was made, the Popovich Brothers had been performing for almost 50 years, bringing this music to new generations.

Python's Grandmother

1977 • 8 min • Soviet Union

Boa's grandma came to visit her grandson.

The John Davidson Christmas Special

1977 • 60 min

The host and his family travel back in time to an early 19th century Christmas in England.

In The Dead Spell

1977 • 30 min

When Mr Coleman was alive he found it hard to talk to his son. Since his death he finds it strangely easier.

Otto Messmer and Felix the Cat

1977 • 24 min • United States of America

Documentary short on cartoonist Otto Messmer, co-creator of Felix the Cat

Mr. Michel's Dog

1977 • 16 min • France

In 1977, after working as an assistant director on several features, BETTY BLUE filmmaker Jean-Jacques Beineix directed the following short film about a man and his dog.

I Am Flying to You as a Memory...

1977 • 30 min • Soviet Union

The film is based on the drawings and manuscripts of A.S.Pushkin.

How the Ladies Pay (Lou Reed)

1977 • 7 min

Unusual interview on the occasion of Lou Reed's concert in Vienna . Highly personal, funny and rambling.

Souvenir

1977 • 8 min • Soviet Union

This soviet stereoscopic puppet animation short is a propaganda film condemning imperialist aggression against the freedom-loving peoples of the world.

24 Frames Per Second

1977 • 3 min • United States of America

A highly edited work complimenting an exhibit on Persian art in the Los Angeles Museum of Art.

The Domain of the Moment

1977 • 15 min • United States of America

Four films in contemplation upon those events which are so centered upon one moment that chronology seems almost obliterated or at least unimportant in remembrance.

A Tale of Two Critters

1977 • 48 min • United States of America

A bear cub and a raccoon become fast friends when they're swept away down a river, away from their families.

The Misadventures of Dracula Von Barreto in the Lands of the Agrarian Reform

1977 • 7 min • Portugal

To the tune of "A terra a quem a trabalha", an Alentejo peasant girl is attacked by a vampire but rescued afterwards by workers and peasants armed with sickles and hammers. Filmed during the 1977 Festa do Avante, with a collective of participants linked to cinema and theatre, this film is a critique of the legislative process led by António Barreto, Minister of Agriculture between 1976-1978, which put an end to the agrarian reform occupations.