Cinematic Era: 1977 Vintage

A film by Adele Friedman

Animated, various techniques. A bareer is slowly moving down at the railroad. It prevents people from passing across the road. While waiting, people start to think and dream. Their dreams influence a guy who watches them from a tiny house nearby.

An unreleased Bollywood film

Report narrated by a local resident about the conflict between residents of the Pilar neighbourhood and the construction of a shopping centre in the area known as La Vaguada by the French company La Henin in 1977. Text taken from La Digitalizadora de la Memoria Colectiva

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The 1977 film adaptation of the Cebuano radio play of the same name focuses on a rags-to-riches tale of a local man who is accompanied by a chicken given to him by Angel during a brief visit to Heaven. Please note that this film is entirely in Cebuano and English as MovieDB doesn't have Cebuano as one of their available languages.

Macedonian TV drama.

Experimental historical film, with documentary elements. A study of the conceptual development of the young hero Julio Antonio Mella, founder of the Communist Party of Cuba, from the process of the Student Reforms to his assassination in Mexico at the age of 25, in the arms of the Italian photographer Tina Modotti.

This short documentary offers a humorous look at horse-pulling contests in Ontario and the people who prepare for them. We travel from the farm to the contest, where excitement runs high and the quips do not lack in local colour. Which of these magnificent creatures will be able to pull the heaviest load and win the prize?

"The film's title takes into account meanings and implication of the word 'chamber', as well as of the heart, intimate music, darkness, room, camera, prison, gun part...both empty and loaded. CHAMBER provided my conversion from painter to filmmaker." -JB

Many animals live in the forest. They all have their own characters and ambitions, the relationship between themselves and the settled way of life. One day a Bear decided to prove to everyone that he is the most important one. How will animals perceive such brazen statements? Will they be frightened and obey or put the high-handed insolent in his place?

Aided by her daughter (Shauna Farrell) and a mute servant boy (Stelio Calagas), phony medium Madame Flora (Maureen Forrester) swindles her unsuspecting clients using simple parlor tricks -- until a supernatural force reaches out and grabs her by the throat. An eerie ambiance permeates this 1977 televised production (staged at the Comus Music Theatre in Toronto) of composer Gian Carlo Menotti's first major opera.

A young married couple in the midst of divorce proceedings is unexpectedly visited by the mother of one of the spouses. The woman is unaware of the crisis devastating the family. The young couple decides to maintain the pretense and pretend to be a loving couple.

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The wife of a depressed sailor explains what it is like to wait for her husband and then not be able to find any common ground.

A Labour government imposing cutbacks on the National Health Services is the theme of Dismantling a Dream. Pilger recalls the establishment of the NHS in 1948 and Health Minister Aneurin Bevan’s declaration that the “silent suffering” of the old, young, chronically sick and handicapped had no place in a civilised society. But, in December 1976, an official report revealed that thousands of children who could be saved were dying.

A study of the face of a man ruined by alcohol. His difficult experiences and age are well-visible. A round mark on the forehead, deep furrows, lack of symmetry of facial features. The melancholy trumpet theme is accompanied by a continuous, disturbing sound.

Early colour video recorded on ½ in. Part of The Mainstreet Tapes (1976-1980) a series of autobiographic tapes documenting Wong & friends “youth & angst”. 7 day Activity – 7 days of facial treatments for acne. Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the vainest of them all. 1970′s body/art. Digitally Re-Mastered & Re-Edited in 2008, the process of restoring the picture & sound elements included shortening the work from the original length of 13 minutes to 8.5 minutes.

A mysterious airship attacks the towering city in the sky and only comedian Max Beeza can save the day.

When going from a painting job to a cinematographic work, I felt the need to establish the basic concepts of my creative activity. The day before I left the workshop where I had been working for two years, I decided to make a film about the glances thrown by the passers-by of the rue Louis-Blanc in the window of this room. —Jakobois

Música Negativa has its origin in a 1965 performance by E. M. de Melo e Castro, being re-interpreted by himself in 1977 to be recorded on film by Ana Hatherly.

A film story about the composer and musician Bo Hansson, once half of Hansson & Carlsson. Bo Hansson is now better known abroad than in Sweden. He has composed numerous books including Tolkien's 'Lord of the Rings'.

Filmed in 16 mm, 25 (Vinte Cinco) is a production that involved the collaborative effort from people from Brazil, Mozambique, Portugal and France. It follows the decolonisation process of Mozambique (the aftermath of the colonial war and of the fall of the fascist dictatorship in Portugal, which collapsed on the 25th of April 1974) and the geopolitical organisation of both Africa and Mozambique (that became independent on the 25th of June, 1975.)

Živka, a kitchen helper at a restaurant where visiting sports teams eat, is in love with basketball star Mensur. Late at night, on a deserted street, the two meet by chance and he spends the night with her in a dormitory.

Subir is a professional singer with a soaring career. He does not plan to marry-until he meets Uma.

Analyzes alternatives in the farming profession in the 1970's. Expresses the opinions and values of two families which exemplify the changes occurring in farming.

Geographic features of a great frontier land, including scenes of the exciting new capital, Brasilia.

The instrument used is a rubber tube with a sax mouthpiece. Unfortunately, in the video document it is impossible to perceive the spatialization effect, which is why the sound piece was composed.

A group of artists prepares an Open Gallery on the town square in Krapkowice in Silesia. After a year, the first parts of it are already in a deplorable condition. Whose fault is it?

The filmmaker travels by train from France to Berlin. In six short chapters, we see the journey and the city. These are short still lives that remove the sense of anonymity from the everyday.

Jenny is a teenage girl in a same-sex relationship, and JENNY lets her speak plainly about it. She talks about what the relationship means to her, how she sees the lesbian scene, and how others see her. There’s no sweeping drama or moral panic – just an honest portrait of one young person navigating identity, attraction and assumptions. Made in 1978, it’s one of the rare screen documents of queer youth from the era – clear-eyed, unsentimental and ahead of its time.

Super-8 animation film by Ricardo Jabardo.

Film analyzes the economic relationship in 1977 between Puerto Rico and the United States. Impositions of short term economic changes (brief migrations of farm workers) and explotation of island natives by corporations are examined. Puerto Rican life in New York City and Puerto Rican nationalism are also discussed.

Film about the Latvian Red Riflemen, and life story of August Daume.

Stolen money, a love intrigue and a police chase unite with the main theme, which is a day in the life of an old woman who scratches out a living collecting used pop bottles and picking through back alleys. She is not too poor, however, to return a kindness.

Stone Age. The caveman goes out hunting. Escaping from a wild animal, he throws a stone axe at it. Then he drags the animal's body back to his cave, where he plays a wooden flute. While the man was walking, a ball falls from the sky, and he gets the idea to build a machine in his head. At first it was just a cart. Time flies quickly, and the man finds himself in the 20th century, where he transforms the cart into a car and tests it.

Short film about a trade with a flashlight.

A duet of Jonathan Hollander, choreographer-dancer, and a video synthesized image of one of the "Chase Kinetic Sculptures for Dance." The original synthesized image was generated with the assistance of Steve Rutt.

Leo Fabiani's priceless muse about everyone having someone to fear.

Depicts the struggle of the Peruvian indigenous people to get their land right, taken from them by a white landowners.

A simple metaphor for life - a donkey toiling away at a mill.

Kochberg Castle was once owned by the von Stein family and Goethe visited Charlotte von Stein there several times. On the occasion of the "1000 years of Weimar" celebrations, the castle, which has been converted into a memorial, is being opened to the public. At the inauguration ceremony, students of the Weimar Academy of Music will give a large festive concert. On the basis of old engravings and personal letters and pictures the audience learns more about the relationship between Goethe and Charlotte von Stein.

The dark recording of a heliography revolves around the annihilation of the essence of being human, as people are forced to compromise on an increasing number of issues. The main character returns to his hometown and comes up against the past. In the words of the director himself, the film includes "few images, that talk about the loneliness of a man who always stood apart."

Documentary about a village that's to be submerged by the building of a dam.

Report in Quechua of the massive processional parade of Christian saints in which the people of Cusco conceal the traditional veneration of the mummies of the Incas of Tawantinsuyo.

North/South employs a dual split-screen format to present an interesting set of travels, one north (right) and one south (left), toward and away from the Loop on Lake Shore Drive and Michigan Avenue, accompanied by seemingly natural sounds of traffic and car radios. - B. Ruby Rich, Chicago Reader

An introduction to the cast of this educational series about Economics, and how desire for more motivates the economy.

The life and death of the fictional star Wilma Montesi is reported in the form of a staged newsreel. Excerpts from films of various genres and eras are juxtaposed with "documentary material" about the star's public and private life. By stringing together clichés and cinematic quotations, a certain reporting and narrative style about the glamor and misery of show business is presented in a critical and ironic, but at the same time entertaining way.

Interviews with former generals of the South Vietnamese Army in the Quang Trung re-education camp, shortly after the end of the Vietnam War.

A person’s internal journey to the penetralia, the innermost place.

Scenes from student conjugal life.

Sketches of Japan.

"The more recent MOVIE STILLS (1977) is a melancholy procession of frozen moments being born, ripening, beginning to die before our eyes. Murphy selected 16 frames from a found home movie, photogrpahed them with a polaroid camera, then filmed the three minutes it took each image to materialize. Because of the higher contrast caused by this rephotography, the pictures seem to be darkening past their prime just as Murphy cuts to the enxt. Every shot starts out white and there's a key element of suspense as one's retitnal afterimages compete with the emerging forms of the developing photo. After a while, the ghost of an anecdote – a woman and two men mugging for the camera, an odd flirtation – develops too. 'A photograph is a secret about a secret,' Diane Arbus once wrote. '"–J. Hoberman, Village Voice.

Documentary on the négritude movement through one of its founders, Aimé Césaire.

A man drives his blind wife to a picnic spot he hopes she won't return from, but she won't get out of the car.