Cinematic Era: 1977 Vintage

The young protagonist, Elżbieta, grew up in a small town bourgeois house. She rebels against the town's atmosphere and imagines that a love affair with a poet from a big city will liberate her. However, the love affair lasts only for a fleeting moment. It is the young engineers who arrive in the town to build a factory who are the real harbinger of changes in the town itself and the minds of its inhabitants. Based on a novel by Kornel Filipowicz.

Barcelona, Spain, June 1977. A chronicle of a demonstration held to demand the repeal of a 1970 Francoist law criminalizing homeless, prostitutes and homosexuals.

An interview with French film director Eric Rohmer.

A couple argue.

A primer in satellite system operation, Send/Receive extends the critique of media as commodity by asking questions concerning the people's right to access satellites. The objective of Send/Receive was specifically to connect groups of artists on the East and West Coasts via public satellite, and it was the first artist-initiated project to do so. Part I presents an in-depth study of the politics and possibilities of using satellite networks to establish a two-way communication system for public use, as opposed to the industry-driven, militaristic and mass media uses to which satellites are currently restricted. Part 2 excerpts a live satellite feed between New York City and San Francisco.

An animation film based on a story by Imants Ziedonis about the relationship between a human and nature.

This documentary brings together literary quotations, landscape photos, conversations with former farm workers, and memories of the concentration camps in Emsland.

MOJA: THE LAST AMERICAN is a cinematic statement about an obliterated old order and the decisions individuals will have to make about the shape of a new order. The Last Amencan here is not the last survivor of a holocaust as others appear in the film, but he represents a link between the old order, with its irrational urge to survive at any cost, and the possibilities of a peaceable new order.

A BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at the construction of the 800 mile long pipeline from the Alaskan oil field to the ice-free port of Valdez.

A portrait of nature put to the music of Antonín Dvořák's New World symphony. Using Antonin Dvorak’s NEW WORLD SYMPHONY as an interpretive point for this for this film essay, Richard Mangan presents an array of nature images to parallel the evolution of life on the Eart. Using color separations, jump cuts, filters, pixilation and layered images, the appearance of a new life form supersedes each previous life form with a new and greater plateau of consciousness. Eventually, a city appears with its myriad of intricate constructs, and finally, in the last moments of the film, mankind itself appear, culminating the Earth’s evolutionary consciousness to date.

Musicspecial about ABBA. Broadcasting service Veronica looks back at the band's history and brings the recently released Movie to attention.

A film of the popular composer Raimonds Pauls - with music, songs and open conversation about popularity, light and serious music

"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

Portrait about the legendary abstract painter Asger Jorn told by painter and poet Per Kirkeby.

Short film by Diego Rísquez.

Idemitsu handed four women who frequented the feminist gathering space Hōkiboshi a video camera to record whatever they wished as Idemitsu also recorded their actions. The whole group then watched all five videos on five monitors, which Idemitsu then also recorded.

Life of Giordano Bruno, including the infamous trial where he was declared as heretic, and the Inquisition issued a sentence of death.

Michio Okabe, considered an icon of 1960s Japanese underground cinema, pursued the principle of subjective cinema by combining images that interested him cinematically and roles that he wanted to play himself. In MEMOIR the artist’s fantasies of the late 1970s are featured in a chaotic chain of images. (Go Hirasawa)

Don Luis is the owner of an industry and all his family work in it, allowing he to become a staunch patriarch.

Rosita is a girl from an disharmonious family who tries to find her identity. He falls in love with Bambang, but both of them come from families that are also messy. Rosita is involved in a covert prostitution office, which ruins her relationship with Bambang. When Bambang, who was again a delinquent, intended to commit suicide, Rosita rushed to wake him up. In her attempt, Rosita slipped, fell, and died.

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.

Follows the origin of geometry in Ancient Greece, about the contribution to the development of science made by Thales, Pythagoras, Plato, Eudoxus.

Documentary about war photographer Don McCullin.

"Before I Forget" is a short film by Jairo Ferreira. It was filmed in 1977, during the release of the book of the same name of Roberto Bicelli. The poet is part, along with Cláudio Willer and Roberto Piva, of the surrealist group of São Paulo. Also participating in the short Jorge Mautner and Nelson Jacobina.

Tinkerbelle and Nancy North interview Coty Awards nominees at the Cinandre Hair Salon in NYC.

A descrition of a game between two teams where one of the teams change the rules.

A short movie and university exercise about so-called "beat" — that is the name of nascent rock music in Soviet Union. It illustrates the difference between generation of sons and generation of fathers who do not understand the idea of this new culture. Featuring interviews with teenagers, adults and rock musicians. Rare videos of bands such as "Машина времени", "Рубиновая атака" and "Високосное лето".

In Variations, Angelidi creatively activates her knowledge of the history of the cinematic image and connects it to a global artistic language of an alternative, poetic cinema, while still preserving the peculiarities of her own tradition and, especially, her personal concerns. Angelidi -who appeared with the film Idees Fixes - Dies Irae (Variations on the Same Theme) in 1977 is classified among the filmmakers who emerged in the seventies with films that were "different", from an aesthetic viewpoint, and who proposed "another" kind of narrative

Included as a bonus feature on The Clash's film Rudeboy

Bosundhora is a 1977 Bengali-language Bangladeshi film directed by Subhash Dutta. The film was based on the Alauddin Al Azad novel Taish Number Tailochitro. The films produced by Bangladesh Liberation War Welfare Trust. The film began shooting on 6 March 1977.

Ahmed Bouanani’s Al-Manabe' al-Arba'a (1974), a very low-budget fantastical adaption of a poetic fable, features his wife Naïma Saoudi, who also worked as an art director and set designer. It is his only film in colour, which convinced him that his vocation was to work in black and white.

Hocking's earliest completed experiment with video switching––a video nod to the tradition of the classic nude (and Sherry Miller Hocking's legs).

The film consists of two identical prints shown simultaneously, one projected inside the image of the other. The inner image is out of sync one second in advance of the larger image creating a dynamic inter-play between the overlapping frames.

Images of a beautiful mountain sunset overlaps images of a crowd walking in a hurry.

Barda Mandrawata (Ratno Timoer), also known as The Blind Man From the Ghost Cave, is in the Sarpala area which is being hit by a disaster created by the vile magician Tarub. After finishing his business, Barda intends to leave but is given Narisa, a child who is to be returned to his biological parent, Labone, the leader of Sarpala who has fallen in love with Barda despite being betrothed to Latongga (Torro Margens). Meanwhile, Latongga himself is being chased by Radina (Mila Karmila), a female child from the ascetic Sakti. Narisa is wanted by many warriors from various circles, including Tarub, and once he escapes from Barda's hands, Barda is forced to look for him.

A boy sets out to prove the world is round by walking in one direction and ending up where he started.

East German documentary short about Somalia in 1976.

A woman performs domestic chores, watched by a television displaying the image of her own eye. The home is recast as a space of surveillance, control and repetitive labor.

Solitary young man, dominated by his mother, lives in a daydream. He buys a toy gun and impersonates a crime book personage.

A documentary about Eddy, a Toronto garbage man who can't speak.

two schoolgirls play after school with eachother.