Cinematic Era: 1977 Vintage

A study of the desert plain that is not left out of foliage or geological structures, inviting us to compare it with the plain of the sea and the horizon of the previous film. Near Coober Pedy is divided into three parts: "Heat Waves": camera fades combined with the heat flickers of the horizon; "Horizon Play": compositions of the horizon line within the frame; "Fields of Vision": a view from a moving vehicle exploring the tendencies of the flat landscape, revolving around a point on which the eye is fixed. The camera systematically scans the plain, which gets closer and closer, disappearing into the horizon. (Arthur Cantrill & Corinne Cantrill)

This film is a presentation of the best of four hundred television commercials submitted in a competition. Aims to assist in the study of television advertising and its influence on modern society and culture. The selected commercials were selected from over 400 winners of CLIO AWARDS from 1969-1976.

Jorge Reina, a libertine and ambitious man, takes advantage of his ability to seduce and influence women to climb the ranks. He finally achieves his goal by marrying the rich heiress of the owner of the newspaper where he works and serving as its editor-in-chief. Drama based on Bel Ami by Guy de Maupassant.

A young suburban man who takes the same train every day, except on Sundays and holidays. When he his briefcase stolen in the rush hour he has some trouble recovering it.

A lyrical report about passengers on the Tallinn commuter train. A meditative film about life's journey and the change of generations, which is born by observing the train passengers. The spring landscape, buildings and slogans opening from the train windows mix associatively with what is happening in the carriage. Paul-Eerik Rummo wrote the words for Tõnu Naissoo's music in the film, Urmas Alender sings.

Still longing for love and beauty Nani Papali died at the age of twenty, leaving his diary containing the words of love he feared to speak about openly about his fellow student. In 1938 this diary was rewritten into a book, and was the first novel to deal with the subject of gay love in Slovenia. Scandalous for its day, it caused a great stir and met with considerable disapproval. The film Boys, based on this novel, depicts the intimate world of boys’ affections.

A humorous grotesque about an average man who asks himself a basic philosophical question about the meaning of existence.

Takashi Ito's first film. Little information exists other than specifying it as a "collaboration."

The production is a poetic impression, its tone is mournful. The film shows the landscape of Vietnam two years after the end of the war. There is no commentary in the production, the image is accompanied by Mozart's composition.

Documentary about the history of Užice and its role in WW2 as the first territory liberated in Nazi occupied Europe and the fighters of the Yugoslav partisan movement the town gave birth to.

A stroll through East Berlin in 1977 - unique original recordings of the GDR capital by day and night, summer and winter, accompanied by music, offer a comprehensive insight into the diversity of urban life at that time. Numerous sights, famous buildings and squares, such as the television tower, the Red City Hall, the Palace of the Republic, Alexanderplatz and Unter den Linden, are shown. Popular places for leisure and recreation are also filmed, including the zoo, Volkspark Friedrichshain, the Christmas market on Alex and the Pankow outdoor pool. The film team also interviews a wide variety of Berliners, giving an impression of the lifestyle and everyday life of the capital's inhabitants at the time. The cityscape is rounded off with insights into new housing developments, renovated streets, businesses, restaurants and stores as well as official political events, military parades and memorial ceremonies.

Read first, see later. Read, watch, then read? Get up! Comrade.

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.

The Mainstreeters initiated a number of commercial enterprises. Support Modelling was a modelling agency comprised of members of the local art and punk rock scene. To promote the project, Paul Wong made a three-channel video (later adapted to single channel) that featured certain Mainstreeters in various states of undress, accompanied by a disco soundtrack. Support Modelling also appears as a series of concept ads (weddings, funerals) in Ennui magazine.

The Washington DC conference in 1975 was organized by Jan Peterson, Nancy Seifer and Barbara Mikulski to bring women's concerns and perspectives to discussions on urban policy and civil rights. One hundred and fifty women from the National Congress of Neighborhood Women meet, share their stories and describe the work they have been doing in their neighborhoods.

The moon swirls happily around, watching strange animals enjoying themselves and dancing to gramophone music in its light. Then, suddenly, the moon falls out of the sky, and a greedy dragon drags it into his cave and forces it to give him light while he eats all the cakes. When the nights stay dark, the animals come up with a plan. Otto Sacher, East Germany’s legendary animation director and co-founder of the DEFA Studio for Animation Film, was the artistic advisor for this film, the first of Dammbeck’s animated works.

The first film in Robert Beavers' Sotiros trilogy

The first part of the film consists of hand painted and scratched film, the second part introduces the use of negative space and the third part incorporates photographic imagery into the increasingly complex images.

"...Sousa begins with the footage of performers in the midst of their activities. She then alters the choreography (via optical printing and extensive processing) into a slower, sometimes nearly still, dance of colors and shapes freed of lifelike requirements. Her concern with physicality divides its targets equally between the performing bodies and the film within which they are activated. The Circus flattens the flamboyant action into graphic details, dissolving those details further into mere traces, striations of color, and the pure movement of film grain." B. Ruby Rich, Chicago Reader, 1979

Following Antal Végh's sociography the members of amateur film studio Cinema 64 recorded a 90 min 8mm film in the village of Penészlek in 1968. During a return to the village eight years later they have the chance to compare the changes from past to present in the lives of the local residents.

Jean, a musician living in exile in Paris, returns to his hometown of Sète to bury his mother. This intimate film traces the journey of four friends under the sun of the peninsula.

A last look at the London Filmmakers' Co-op when it was housed in an old Victorian dairy. 'In the dark room, single imagess [sic] succeed eachothers [sic] in a continous [sic] motion towards the dairy, where she and the other english filmmakers stayed in an area of demolishing. she penetrates with the camera in rapid flicks, hesitates at single things, and glides on in a staccato flow. that is how she works, annabel nicolson, goes into a room and gives sigth [sic] of everything.' —Helge Krarup, Denmark, 1976

This is a film about change and contemporary life in Shungnak, a village on the Kobuk River in northwestern Alaska, 75 miles north of the Arctic Circle. The film reveals that life along the Kobuk River is still inextricably linked to the harsh and starkly beautiful land, where the December sun rises at 11 a.m. and sets three hours later. An old man shares his feelings about the changes he has seen: "Long ago, forest fires put themselves out. Today, even when men fight them, they burn. I think our earth is getting old, and when things get old and dry they burn. Our earth is the same way," he adds. "It's ready to burn. I think it's coming close to the time when we will have a new one."

Chitrakathi is about the folk artists of western India who narrate with the help of leather puppets. Mani takes us to the sleepy Konkan coastal village and introduces us to the family that has preserved this unique art for several centuries.

The minutes before the train departs: time pauses.

Concert for which Toebosch only invited the renowned jazz critic Ruud Koopmans and a photographer. As usual the concert ended dramatically confusing.

In the mid 1970s the EMI company were preparing to market the newly developed video disc. Being uncertain as to what content would be appropriate, and looking for innovative ideas, EMI commissioned four postgraduate film students, including myself, to make short films for market research purposes. As the disc would be expensive to produce and would necessarily retail for a high price, EMI were looking for content that viewers would want to watch on multiple occasions, bizarrely setting the brief that the films had to be based on the Guinness Book of Records. I decided to make a multi-layered piece that was so dense that multiple viewings would be required in order to assimilate all of its information.

In this fourth film, Norman McLaren explains and illustrates composite motion, where two of the categories of motion occur simultaneously in one action, such as the motions of jointed or pivoted parts (as occur in animal and human movements). Also shown is a human gesture with increasing amounts of emotion; and finally, the phenomenon of 'strobing' in animation is examined.

An overview of Turkey in the Seventies, with some stunning images

A young girl receives the gift of her Cherokee heritage from her great-grandmother while spending the summer on the reservation.

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Examines the manifestation of aggressive instincts in animals and in humans. Discusses ways in which both animals and humans impose limitations on their violent impulses.

17 minutes, silent, colour. 1977

Master craftsman Richard Gorbacher celebrates his 65th birthday and announces an unusual decision on this day: he wants to adopt Eva, Marion and Renate, three young women from his company. As they are struggling with so many difficulties in their lives, he wants to be their father from now on and support them in all situations. However, the young women react differently to Richard's offer than expected. But Gorbacher perseveres and fights for "his" daughters and their true happiness.

The headman for Kampung Tanjung Pura, Demang, falls ill and is saddened by this because he has no person in mind to take over his position and his wealth. At this very critical moment he remembered about a person whom he wed secretly a very long time ago who has a child living at Permatang Tinggi. Due to this threat Alang Pendekar, Deman’s brother in law, whois afraid that he wont inherit his riches, sends his followers to the village to destroy the living blood that still remains of Demang.

A short film by Caroline Heyward

A creative documentary showing the absurdity of Polish reality in the 1970s. The dramatic axis is the story of a man who, in the middle of the Polish People's Republic, decided to start a mushroom cultivation and processing plant—a profitable business, and therefore, from the point of view of the decision-makers of the time, suspicious and dangerous.

Ahmad Ramzi steals from a company's safe. But someone informs the police...

Professor Jang has spent a fortune to create a robot that mimics the abilities of Maruchi and Arachi while possessing other powers such as super sensitive hearing, vision, and strength. However, even with all its powers, the Electric Man 337 still needs the help of Maruchi and Arachi to defeat a pair of giant robots bent on world conquest.

Constructed as a visual simile, Sherman's film utilizes a water faucet as the central image in a mysterious vignette that subverts conventions of causality and temporality. Alternating between interior and exterior locales and the stylized actions of a man (the filmmaker) and a woman, the film "is rhythmic in an almost musical way, developing images of water from glass to tub to ocean, through clusters of oppositions such as water/fire, man/woman, turning on/turning off, inside/outside." At the end, the protagonists achieve unity and stasis as they sit together on bentwood chairs facing the ocean.

A group of factory workers in post-independence Mozambique perform a ritual of song describing their work in South African gold mines and decrying the evils of apartheid.

Woman grabs a guy's penis and twists it like a rope, finally rolling up the scrotum and tying everything in knots.

A short film by Iván Zulueta.

Shortly after his 1977 Daily Mirror reports on dissidents in the Soviet Union, John Pilger entered Czechoslovakia undercover to film A Faraway Country… a people of whom we know nothing, a title taking the words that British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain used to describe Czechoslovakia dismissively in 1938 when it was invaded by the Nazis.

A Sydney derelict lies drunk in an alley and is beaten up by thugs. A friend helps him find refuge in a night shelter. As he lies dying he has a vision of himself flying about the room. The man dies and after the cremation of his corpse, his spirit returns to the footpath.

A musical and entertainment program about children's dreams with puppets by members of the Modus group.

The film depicts 1977 South Africa: uprisings in the black townships, the extensive military build-up, U.S. support of apartheid, and South African undermining of Zimbabwe and Namibian independence. A ilm by Boubakar Adjali about the liberation struggle in South Africa.

A sexagenarian transvestite in his room, confronted with his fantasies and his solitude.

There is a small town in Georgia called Sarkineti. The main advantage of this glorious town is that everyone sings here without exception. Among the Sarkinetians, even children are born with a polyphonic song on their lips. Moreover, Sarkinet children sing everything: their repertoire includes songs from all corners of the globe and, they say, even America. Therefore, it is not surprising that every year, on the first Sunday of October, a grand celebration is organized for children - a competition of young talents named after the unsurpassed and unforgettable Sarkinet singer Tseretso Nizharadze...

The story revolves around a pickpocket and the organization led by Beniman. There are certain taboos, such as not pickpocketing transvestites and pregnant women. Many of their operations fail, either due to incompetence or because they break these taboos. Beniman himself starts dating Ida, whom he met after she was pickpocketed by one of his men. The stolen wallet is returned to her. The repeated failures prompt Beniman to hold a congress of pickpockets, where they decide to rob a bank. However, a police intelligence officer infiltrates the gang and provides them with guns without bullets, causing the operation to fail. Beniman is arrested, and the officer interrogating him is Hamid, Ida's father.