Cinematic Era: 1977 Vintage

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.

A useful primer for managing the aging women in your life.

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

Part 3 of Margaret Tait's 'Aspects of Kirkwall', covering special events in the town. These include the Orkney Agricultural Society County Show, boat race, and Remembrance Parade at St. Magnus Cathedral.

In the late 1970s, young filmmaker Sérgio Santos from Rio de Janeiro lived in Santa Teresa and was a neighbor and friend of singer Raimundo Fagner from Ceará, who was beginning to reap the first fruits of a solid and long career that he would build over the following decades. Sérgio then decided to make a short film to record moments of the rising star.

A film mocking the consumerist attitude towards life.

Dan, where ya at?

An idealistic young cellist becomes dissatisfied with her relationship with a poor student who thinks primarily of money.

The story of two men who look alike getting mixed up.

A document of the mental universe of a schizophrenic. Starring Pierre Clémenti.

St. Pauli, prostitution by advertisement, lesbianism, whipping, satanic rituals – all that makes a young farmgirl movieng to the big city where sexual adventures await her.

Luciano Emmer reconstructs the dawn of Italian TV advertising, in two parts: "Gli anni ruggenti" (The Roaring Years) and "Ma chi l'ha ucciso?" (Who Killed Him?).

Begun in 1971 in Essaouira, Morocco; continued during the filming of “The Birth of a Nation” in 1972 near Erfoud, Morocco; flickering parts based on a score called "PIXTURES - Basic Motion Picture Analysis - Part One - Camera Parameters," in which focal length, focus, aperture, exposure time, and filtering were permuted by a computer program, in 1975 in Brooklyn and Puerto Rico.

In the general classification, this was a complete abstract film and a kind of experimental movie as well, only black film, which blocks light, and clear film, which is totally transparent, were used as the basic materials.

Film by Julio Neri.

Animation commissioned by the Ministry of Gas Industry of the USSR.

First of 24 animations done with traditional tapestries, each based on a folk proverb. "Every dish of mine tastes better than wine."

『奇病Ⅰ』Bizarre disease Ⅰ：1977/3min

Todd Rundgren's Utopia Rockpalast WDR Studio-L Koln January 01, 1977 Pro-Shot Setlist: 01. Communion with the Sun 02. Sunset Blvd. / International Feel 03. Love of the Common Man 04. Sunburst Finish 05. Jealousy 06. Windows 07. Emergency Splashdown 08. The Verb "To Love" 09. Initiation 10. Singring and the Glass Guitar 11. Utopia Theme 12. Couldn't I Tell You 13. Just One Victory Musicians: Todd Rundgren - voc/g Kasim Sulton - b/voc Roger Powell - keyb/voc Willie Wilcox - dr/voc

Short comedy about Jimmy Carter and Pope John Paul II.

This DVD on the net called Rare Videos - Live at Granada Studios 1972/Live At East Germany Television 1977. As the Live At Granada Studios 1972 is exactly the same as the Slade Alive The DVD contains 16 tracks taped in the the East German town of Erfurt as well as some short clips of the boys goofing around in town and separate interviews with them. Most of the songs are hits like "Cum On Feel The Noize", "'Coz I Luv You" and "Far Far Away", but also songs like "Gypsy Roadhog", "When The Lights Are Out" and "My Baby Left Me"

A look at the raftsmen of Ceará and their craft - entangled by the fishing tradition and the bravery to face the sea, its perils and its mysteries.

Divination and traditional justice among the Kabiyè of northern Togo. Recordings of several council sessions.

“A portrait of a place: specifically, a waterfall in Scotland. However, more than just a recording of a landscape – it also captures a moment of experience – pure experience – pure cinema.” Program notes: Floating Beneath the Surface: Films of Ted Lyman, Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles

Documentary about working mothers who, without government support, have to struggle to care for their children. Through interviews and an intimate camera that wanders through the daily lives of the characters – a bus conductor, a woman who cares for more than ten children in a precarious home, a teacher at an improvised daycare center, among others – Lóes constructs a sensitive and precise argument about the division of care work.

Film by Michael Rudnick

Two children search for an indigenous treasure hidden in the mountains.

This documentary is the first film ever made by Bruno Monsaingeon. It was shot in the 1960s and early 1970s in grainy black and white and only average sound, when Boulanger was in her late 80s and still fearsomely in command of her abilities. Monsaingeon re-cut the film in 1977. This film remains one of the most important documents concerning this fabled teacher. She is seen at one of her fabled 'Wednesdays', a composition lesson held weekly in her apartment for almost six decades and attended by anyone who would come. In this particular session she talks illuminatingly with students about a small portion of Schumann's 'Davidsbündertanze'.

Neighbours...

Stars Patti Astor as a waylaid heroine fending for herself in the wild, filmed guerilla style in Central Park.

The artist speaks a word, which is quickly echoed in French, so that the words are only barely comprehended. Simple images — a bowl, a photograph of the ocean — appear and disappear.

The little bear got to the city. His mother ordered him to stay away from people, but the children who met him were kind and hospitable.

BBC TV special interviews Gene Kelly about his life and career.

Alan Ohashi explores the changing landscape of San Francisco’s Chinatown. Produced during a volatile period in which community re-development initiatives in cities threatened the unique community fabric of various ethnic communities, Chinatown: Portrait of a Working Community juxtaposes the vivacity of the people, businesses and community institutions of one of California’s first and largest Chinatowns against the violent closure, in August 1977, of the International Hotel, a low-income hotel abutting Chinatown along Kearny and Jackson Streets.

Documentary about acting

A grieving king seeks a new wife as beautiful as his late queen. Hunters present three candidates, but the chosen princess demands impossible gowns (sun, moon, stars) and a coat of many furs. She flees in the fur cloak, works in the palace kitchen under the name Allerleirauh, and secretly attends royal festivities in her enchanted dresses, leaving behind a ring and spindle as clues. The king uses these tokens to trace her identity, removes her disguise, and they marry.

Peripeteia I and Peripeteia II, shot by the artist in Oregon’s rainforest, alone and without electricity. "Navigation spiraling sunwards. Exploring the movement of forest and body, seeking the larger pattern of my digressive attendance. Filmed in the Oregon coastal rain forest, fall." - A.C.

Taking aim at the social standardization enforced particularly on women's bodies, Rosler critiques the politics of "objective" or scientific evaluation that result in the depersonalization, objectification, and colonization of women and Others.

After the death of his parents, Christian Pointner takes over their fishing business. He also feels that it is time to start a family of his own. He finds true love in his home village, of all places.

Short documentary film about the failed Teton Dam near Rexburg, Idaho and how residents pulled together to rebuild.

hong kong film

taiwan film

A woman slowly takes pills to commit suicide.

A breath-taking experience that lets the viewer glimpse the thrill of pitting oneself against great elemental forces - and succeeding. In a comparison among four sports (skateboarding, surfing, skiing and hang gliding, the similarities of handling body movement are elaborated. A "fall line" is the straightest, fastest line downward - whether it be down wave, slope or air corridor. The comparative ways in which a body acts to slow the descent and adapt to the unexpected are shown on land, air and water. Makes us aware that these exhilarating sports have been made possible by new technologies, and illustrates that challenging experiences need not necessarily be competitive or affect the environment adversely. An excellent motivational film. Champion surfer, Nat Young, compares body movements in four relatively new sports: skateboarding, surfing, skiing, and hang gliding. They all use the fall-line...the shortest way from the top to the bottom. 16mm

Documentary about the extraction and manufacture of charcoal, in Pompeu, Minas Gerais, focusing on charcoal burners in action, their lives, difficulties, relationships with bosses and the work carried out in a medieval process.

"A friend whose name I have regrettably forgotten (Beth?) took pictures of her grandmother making faces. I created a soundtrack looping her whispers and used a sound trigger video switching circuit to switch to the soundtrack. By switching 4 cameras and zooming in on the photos I created this video in real time. Creation date was around 1977. I played this in public schools during Artist in Residencies and scared too many kids." -ET

“The series of South American films...shot in Ecuador in 1976, such as Banana Leaves and Lago Agrio Gas Burn, speak to what one critic had earlier described as “an almost pantheistic reverence for [the] phenomenal world.”

To make ARDON, Jean-Jacques Jouët placed a transparent window in front of the camera lens, on which he drew a rectangular frame. The delimited space has the proportions of a 16mm film frame. A frozen lake is framed through this device. The extreme fixity of the frozen photogram is gradually disturbed by changes in focal length.

A shepherd named Charlie need a new cloak, so he shears a sheep and makes one from it's wool.

In this film Matta-Clark explores underground Paris. The artist shows the complexity of underground spaces with scenes of architectural ruins, car parks, tunnels, ossuaries, cellars, crypts and basements in the Opera district.

The third in a series of five colour films that offer an introduction to the basic techniques of film animation. McLaren explains and demonstrates different aspects of movement that are essential to the animator’s art. In this case it is the pause and irregular movement.

Eight years after May '68, they are all in their forties and all met to live in a small village in Provence: Julie, Simon, Alice, Maria, Gustave, Claude and Claudine.