Cinematic Era: 1977 Vintage

A César award nominated short documentary.

The film revolves around a contest held each year in Westport, Connecticut, in which the participants, both serious and foolish, race to collect garbage for a $1000 prize.

A playful narrative both above and below street level, focusing on the employees who maintain the underground communications of the city of Riga.

In 1977, Ignacio Julià shot his last film in Super-8, Nomad, a 43-minute medium-length film with three protagonists and a fourth in the shadow, the author himself. The idea of assembling static portraits arose from reading a chapter on "off-screen space" - everything that does not appear on the screen but whose absence enhances the shot and the story - in Noël Burch's book Praxis del cine. The film shows the decisive influence of Andy Warhol and Phillipe Garrel's cinema. The soundtrack is by The Velvet Underground and the poster was by the Madrid artist Ceesepe.

A story about a young hooligan whose parents were away on a long voyage, and whose teacher wanted to summon them to school. In order not to disturb his grandmother, the boy decided to introduce fake parents.

The film follows a pregnant woman on the path to her decision to have an abortion, from the talks with her mother and doctor, to the medical care after the abortion.

The films concerns the "duration" (or non-duration) of one frame, as the title indicates, the minimum unit of film in space (dark and light) with sound (or silent) and their various combinations.

1929: The little girl Józia has to go a few days without her mother, who is traveling abroad for political reasons. Another story is told to the neighbors after Józia visits her relatives in the country. But 10 days can be an eternity for a small child.

Judit Ember returns to follow the life of Nóra Szabó, the heroine of her documentary film 𝘛𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘰̈𝘳𝘵𝘦́𝘯𝘦𝘵 ("Instructive Story", 1975). The troubled young woman who formerly attempted to commit suicide by jumping off a fourth floor is now an unmarried and pregnant mother with two children. Her own mother also brought up her children in similar circumstances, in a closed community without men. But Jenő, the unflaggingly energetic labourer and father of Nóra’s third, as yet unborn child, brings change into their lives.

Kopenhagen/1930 presents a different attitude to the seductions of content, to the signifying processes that are repressed in the rigorous procedures of the structural/materialist film. Its material is "images by George Gidal, Copenhagen 1930": photographs, their grounding and their signification.

Stavros and Charlotte - i.e. the director and his partner in life and art, Charlotte van Gelder - are wandering the streets of a burdensome reality like immigrants, tracing the world around them through friendships, journeys and political quests. Made with minimal means with a few rolls of black and white film they managed to scrape together, this is a thoroughly unconventional film that defies traditional narrative structures, spectacularly revealing the director's true vision: a primordial cinema full of imagery that comes out of nowhere and communicates freely, like a small wonder. A large slice of the international film critic community - including Frenchman Louis Skorecki who described the film as a comet - will adore "Coatti" and continue to support Tornes' lonely path until the end.

The Key West Picture Show is a fast-paced satire of the 1950's travelogues, exploring the unconventional island with honesty and humor. Winner of three Gold Medals at the Miami International Film Festival. The Filmax Award from the L.A. International Film Expo. The Cine Golden Eagle award for film excellence.

Animato is a compilation of short films by Mike Jittlov, making extensive use of stop motion, pixilation, kinestasis, animation, and multiple exposures. It features the films The Interview, Swing Shift, Rocketman, The Leap, Time Tripper, and Fashionation. It was screened at Filmex in 1977.

The man, after a lot of jokes on his side, accuses his wife of giving birth to only girls, but she tells him that the heirs deserve fathers like real men, and leaves, taking daughters with her. Her husband's friends are trying to reconcile them, but the proud mountain woman does not intend to return home.

The film tells the story of a 15-year-old country girl Katarin (Anna Straface) who starts to become a woman. Here the director (Cecil Satariano) brings before us a village girl with all the contrasts between the innocent life of the typical Maltese village and the modern world of that Malta was shifting into at that point in time.

A poem about the poetic pursuit that in a harmonious way longs for death to occur. Life's desires and worries have done much harm to the poetic self and the person sees death as a help to loosen a large weight from their shoulders.

The blacksmith Vakula is going to propose to the beautiful but vain Oksana. Since it is the night before Christmas, the devil is free to roam around and torment people as he pleases, so he decides to find a way to get back at Vakula, because he paints religious art in the village church.

Cannes Film Festival 1975

b/w, 16mm film

Pink film by Satoru Kobayashi.

Produced for NBC by Joan Konner, this documentary investigates the problem of radioactive waste generated by nuclear reactors and weapons programs. The film examines existing disposal methods, the increasing volume of radioactive waste, and the scientific and political challenges involved in developing long-term storage solutions.

Unaired TV food program from Canada. Filmed in Maui/Hawaii/USA and Fiji Island in May 1977.

Roger Whittaker, in concert, singing in the typically relaxed and gentle style that has made him so popular. The programme, recorded in Canada, includes several of his hits, including 'Durham Town', 'The Last Farewell', 'Mexican Whistler' and 'Mammy Blue'. His guests are folk artist Catherine McKinnon and David Gates of the folk-rock group Bread.

During the American bombings in 1972, a group of workers remain to protect a power plant in the north of Hanoi.

16mm film made by UCLA student.

"ADS-7 Good Friday Easter Appeal Marathon" was a hosted horror and fantasy movie marathon with Hedley Cullen as "Deadly Earnest" screened on ADS Channel 7, Adelaide, South Australia on 3 April 1977.

Marina: we even use our car in the performance, in '77, for the Paris Biennale in the front of the museum we made this piece called Relation In Movement, which Ulay is driving the car and I had the megaphone out of the window, and I would say the numbers of the circle as we was passing, because it was just going in a circle, on and on and on. The idea was the car collapsed or we collapsed. and after 16 hours, the motor burned out and created this minimal trace on the marble as a black circle. For us each circle was a kind of imaginary year.

Birth Rites documents Julia Lauder giving birth at home surrounded by her family. Her film focuses on women’s agency during homebirth in contrast to some women’s experiences in a hospital setting. It shows the value of physical and psychological support during labour, and the importance of touch in establishing bonds with newborns directly after birth.

The last expedition of Nemadi in Mauritania. Years of drought have drastically reduced the game in some areas of Africa. However a hunting expedition is organized by a group of Nemadi in the "Akle" area, on the initiative of Professor Gabus.

People from the future conjure these two ghosts from the past, who fade back into the past as the film ends. Here, Karl Marx and John D. Rockefeller debate their philosophies of private versus public ownership, free versus regulated markets, revolutionary versus evolutionary change.

A distinctly Chicago tale of marital infidelity made by Central Cinematographers, a Chicago cine-club made up of “advanced amateurs” who met once a week to produce short narrative films. Chuck and Mary Ann, both married, are having an affair. Chuck gives Mary Ann a fancy necklace, giving her a key and telling her that he will put the necklace in the corresponding locker in Union Station. Mary Ann is to give the key to her husband claiming she found it, and he will presumably get the necklace and give it to her. She does this, but her husband brings her back the box with a cheap pocket watch in it instead. Mary Ann blames Chuck and calls him angrily, claiming she knows his game—meanwhile, Mary Ann’s husband has given the necklace to a woman he’s having an affair with, along with the key to fool her husband. Locations include establishing shots of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Marina Towers, as well as one short scene shot presumably in Union Station.

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)

A test for motion by painting on film.

From its origins in Trinidad and Tobago to its status as one of the world’s most popular musical instruments, musicians such as Ellie Mannette and Pete Seeger talk shop and explain what they love about this extraordinary instrument.

Low-caste Nathu becomes a proud father of a son, and is asked to fetch some water to clean the child. When he goes to the well, he finds it dry, and goes on to a private pond, owned by Zamindar Jaimal Singh. In Jaimal's house too there is merry-making as his wife has given birth to a baby boy as well, and preparations are made to name the child. When Jaimal finds out that Nathu has polluted the water, he takes his men and severely beats up Nathu, leaving his crippled, and sets fire to the entire village. Nathu loses his son, and is unable to locate his pregnant wife. Angered at this injustice, he abducts Jaimal's son, and disappears into the night. Years later, crippled Nathu has nurtured Jaimal's son, named him Shera, and has taught him how to be a thief. Shera has learned well, but is apprehended and arrested by the police and sent to jail. After his return, Nathu tells him the atrocities inflicted by Jaimal, and Shera swears to avenge th

Early animation from Lisze Bechtold

Three examples are used to critically examine what is often used in education under the banner of progress. An analysis of three attempts to bring about innovation in education and schools.

Strobe Ode is an exercise in video feedback and analog imaging, in which a circular image-field is modified and abstracted by strobe flashes.

Several episodes from the series Przygody misia Colargola edited into a single movie.

Ratmi’s “warung pojok” (street corner food stall) is always busy. She runs it together with her niece, Neneng, and is often helped by Neneng’s boyfriend, Latif, a tyre repairman whose kiosk is near the food stall.

Experimental film on 16mm by Ioan T. Morar as part of Kinema Ikon.

Documentary by Hans-Dieter Grabe.

On December 12, 1945 Maria Stadler got (as one of the first from the American occupying power) the license to operate a movie theater. At first she ran a traveling cinema, which went so well that she opened on 30 October 1953 Maria's Kino in Bad Endorf, which still exists today. In the winter of 1976/77 students of the Munich University of Film and Television made a documentary about the idealist, who had since become a movie legend.

The film portraits a writer-amateur Bora Joksimović, a heating maintenance mechanic in the Zrenjanin theatre. Unhappy with the shows he sees in his theatre, he decides to try his luck as a playwright. And as a result he has written 53 plays with "mighty plots", like "Hitler and Stalin Conversations in Hell", "Life of a Croat Woman in Belgrade", "Fratricide" etc.

Two women living in the same apartment block are drawn to each other as if through the power of a shared fantasy.

A group of German medical students is discussing the influence of various factors on the human psyche. Pharmacological agents can not only restrict an individual's freedom and destroy their free will, but also plunge them into fear and cause the disappearance of normal human reactions. This mechanism of psychological enslavement by political dictatorship was illustrated by the example of Lucia, a Chilean girl and supporter of President Allende, who was persecuted by the Pinochet regime.

Under pressure from their bloodthirsty boss, several working-class women, employed by manufacturer Mr. Duralac in a remote French countryside factory, are subject to vampirization while accomplishing their night shift.

MISCONCEPTION is composed of six parts that together chronicle the experience of one woman and her husband during the course of her natural childbirth. The film communicates the precision and care with which it has been assembled. [The] structure lends the film a pacing rhythm that has less to do with traditional cinema-verité documentary or film journalism than with the pacing and rhythm of poetry.

To a percussive soundtrack, a succession of more complex animals forms and is consumed by their successors (all formed from beads). Finally, We reach man, who develops ever more sophisticated forms of war.