Cinematic Era: 1977 Vintage

Using time lapse photography, the film gives an impression of the 1976 total eclipse of the sun over Melbourne.

The act of defecating, filmed in an explicit and impactful way, introduces the parodic story of a demonstrator who evacuates in various institutions in Bahia.

Directed by Ghaleb Chaath.

A tribute to the filmmaker Alberto Cavalcanti and a celebration of the 50th anniversary of his film En Rade. Made in the style of the lyrical documentaries of the 1920s, this is a work on the movement of all things. The youth of the image and the treasure of sound. The image­ pulsates through the special photograph­ic effects. Electronic music composed by ­Arthur Omar.

This documentary treats film fans to a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Midnight Express, the now-classic film about a young man arrested in Turkey for drug smuggling and thrown into a horrifying prison hell. Includes footage of the filming process, as well as interviews with members of the cast and crew, who give their insights into what it was like working together on this project and the efforts it took to bring the film to completion.

This animated short tells the story of J.B. Edwards, an Easterner who went west to create a fuel company called Consolidated Dragons. When the supply of dragons starts drying up, the company's profits are sorely affected and a solution has to be found.

"In the late spring of each year the Great Plains states of the U.S. experience a season characterised by destructive tornadoes of awesome force. This is the time of year when the underground film- and video-maker George Kuchar leaves his San Francisco home to make his annual pilgrimage to the nidus of these frightening storms. As hail and twisters batter the heartland, Kuchar holes up with his video camera in an inexpensive motel room somewhere in the vast prairies of Oklahoma and waits." - Jesse Lerner, Storm Squatting at El Reno (at cabinetmagazine.org)

A small piece of clay comes to life and eventually becomes a beautiful mug that brings joy to a child.

After the death of her husband, a woman becomes entangled in an extortion scheme.

Two boys find a wallet containing DM 32.80 in front of a telephone booth. Should they keep the money?

A woman is menaced in a house on a Greek island.

Short documentary set in North Sumatra, Indonesia.

A documentary on female prostitution featuring scenes with six different prostitutes, a male member of the vice squad, and Margo St. James. Made with an all-female crew.

A young man tries to sneak out of his house.

A seance in which Antonin Artaud can be seen as a swirling depiction of a theater of freedom in the rubble of the hateful counter between actor and audience. Percival is the author of many books in Swedish and English. He has exhibited his paintings and photographs, composed experimental world music and directed some of his own plays and a play by Beckett.

Short film by Hollis Frampton

There is a cinema in town. Masses of film-eager moviegoers are queuing in front of it. The cinema screens slapstick comedies, westerns, horror films and even some arthouse erotica. But when the local audience has had enough of traditional films, the door is open to an alternative lineup.

Unobtrusive propaganda of the feast culture, the story that alcohol can be not only harmful, but also useful, if you know how to handle it properly. If you want to look into the wine departments of the shops of that time, visit the winery's workshop, as well as at the tasting sessions of the Nectar bar.

Following a quarrel with the DEFA, the Sorbian animation and documentary filmmaker Jan Hempel established the independent IWT-Film studio in Dresden. Commissioned by the German Book Traders’ Association, these impressions of the 1977 International Book Art Exhibition were created there. Referencing Leipzig’s century-old tradition as a book city, the film presents production companies, publishers and, last but not least, the IBA itself.

A film about the life of herders and shepherds on summer distant pastures, known as the jailoo. It tells the story of people in a demanding profession, which gives the film a distinctive national flavor.

Imitating stars from French pop music is the only leisure activity of a village girl. She decides to go to Paris with her mother in order to try her luck in show business industry.

In Sydney in 1950 a young Polish woman waits for the arrival of Tadek, her prospective husband. She and her baby have come to Australia from a German refugee camp. Working as a night cleaner in a city office, she strikes up a casual friendship with the nightwatchman and waits for Tadek.

The difficulties of an Andean education teacher in fulfilling his mission in a Campa indigenous community.

Portrait of the Ayacucho violinist Máximo Damián Huamani.

This documentary showcases the work of farmers in the Chira River Valley who, by harnessing the region's natural resources (wind for mills and wood), are expanding their farmland. The documentary benefited from the expertise of Alfredo Oliveros and Guido Ucelli, wind energy specialists.

Korean Martial Arts movie starring Bobby Kim

With the animation of objects, or rather pantomime movements of the hands, five themes are depicted in five films: love, corruption, oratory, social problems, and bringing people together.

A documentary on Mariama, a teenage girl in Banjul, Ghana.

The camera takes in the Patagonian pastures, then the faces in an old warehouse, and transparent photos of Patagonian scenes. Everything is filtered by an amber light. (Narcisa Hirsch Filmoteca)

SLIDE SHOW is an experimental documentary film about a young California couple and their community, presented in the context of a dramatic event happening at a gathering of friends to view a slide show. It is an effort to provide an entertaining, honest, thought-provoking experience for the audience by experimenting with ideas of concept, structure, contrast, narrative technique, audience involvement, and the mixture of real and fictional events. It is intended for small, rather than large, audiences.

An overview of fascist tendencies in post-war western Germany, illustrated by various events and everyday examples, backed up with numerous interviews.

Examines the vastness of media and its effect on daily life. Explains that since the invention of the printing press, the availability of information has expanded rapidly.

How to dispose of the 23 million tons of household rubbish produced each year in Britain.

The Sydney suburb of Marrickville has Australia’s ‘first, largest and longest-surviving community centre’; it is shown here in the 1970s.

A short film by Iván Zulueta.

1977 DCI World Championships held in Denver, CO on August 19, 1977 1. Blue Devils (1st Place 92.05) 2. Phantom Regiment (2nd Place 90.30) 3. Santa Clara Vanguard (3rd Place 89.85) 4. 27th Lancers (4th Place 87.45) 5. Madison Scouts (5th Place 87.30) 6. Blue Stars (6th Place 84.30) 7. Cavaliers (7th Place 83.00) 8. Capitol Freelancers (8th Place Tie 82.40) 9. Seneca Optimists (8th Place Tie 82.40) 10. Kilties (10th Place 81.80) 11. Crossmen (11th Place 81.30) 12. Garfield Cadets (12th Place 78.15)

A unique blend of animation, live-action, and still photography, In Transit: The Chinese in California documents the history and experience of Chinese Americans on the West Coast from the 19th to mid-20th century. Featuring powerful narrative performances, this film offers an insight and perspective into Asian American history that was not often discussed in the mainstream at the time the film was made.

Recovered Zulueta short.

The eight-man rowing team is preparing for the next competition.

Carolina, Vincenzo and I duplicate our reflection an endless number of times, as if one were mirrored in the other. Material time and psychological time blend in an exhausting oriental repetition of gestures.

Four speeds in writing associated to four physical movements that become louder and louder. The word returns to gestures and the body to survive. The real time of screen-writing makes the time of poetic action coincide with the time of the reader, reflecting the biological rythm of life into the experience of language and writing.

Action by Gina Pane.

[This film is] structured on the four-handed nature of film: original footage (outtakes from a television documentary I was directing in the spring of 1975 in the South Bronx and Brownsville) manipulated, then optically printed, then manipulated again. - AC

Produced without camera input, this intense electronic landscape transports the viewer into a world that is an abstract study in machine-generated imagery. Produced at the Experimental Television Center.

An autobiographical film about my destiny, my love of San Francisco, and life here; it is an effort to explore and translate into film my various perceptions, emotions, and experiences.

A class assignment to capture the character of a street in San Francisco. I chose the street I've always wanted to live on.

After meeting with the imprisoned symbol of the oppression of black people and other world minorities, a French filmmaker makes a documentary about her fight for liberation.

is an informal, offbeat lesson in the electronics and mechanics of television. Sandin demonstrates basic video procedures, including use of the camera and editing decks, and explains the transmission of the television signal.

Film produced and directed by Ricky Leacock, Edward Pincus, and MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies documenting the Centerbeam kinetic sculpture project and its first installation at documenta 6 in Kassel, Germany in 1977

The rubble that piles up around the hole in the concrete plinth in the middle of the wasteland is just as insistent as the memories in Salvatore Dali’s famous painting Persistence of Memory. A meticulously crafted record of a surreal battle between an alarm clock and garbage ends with the victory of a ticking machine that manages to throw all the fragments of the past into a dark hole.

Music by George Kleinsinger. Choreographer Kei Takei structured the dance on a theme from "light Part Nine." Production was in cooperation with WNYC-TV, with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.

"An early experiment in video digitization as art. Made in collaboration with Curtis Schreier of Ant Farm when he was visiting Providence, RI." -ET

The misappropriation and use of information.