Cinematic Era: 1977 Vintage

The city of Recife, work, childhood and youth.

This animated short is the visual enactment of the year-long obstacle course run by a teacher trainee. Rich in humor and anecdote, it is a comedy of educational manners seen through the autobiographical and unflinching eye of the trainee-turned-filmmaker.

The nearly two-hour film Origin of The Night (Amazon Cosmos) (shot between 1973–1977 and finished in 1982), which references a myth of the indigenous Tupi people, is a meditation on the South American rain forest that was filmed in its entirety along the Rhine near Düsseldorf Airport. In it, the dichotomies of day and night, new and old worlds, and nature and culture unfold glacially and immersively. Only at the very end, in the film’s closing credits, does Baumgarten reveal where the compelling and poetic images were shot.

Cultural and perceptual contrasts are evoked in this non-linear mythic episode in which a hammer, a paintbrush, a bucket, a pile of clothes, a window full of globes and a couple are manipulated via the filmmaker/demi-urge.

Bridge of Heaven is a playful combination of several types of abstract imagery. Everything flows naturally from one image to the next, uniting several different elements into a critical composition.

Notes about the time and the oldness, in an asylum from Belém, Brazil.

A symbolic comedy.

A study of sunlight refracted through drinking glasses.

One gentleman did not give rest to ordinary people, all his offerings and dues were not enough. On purpose, he went home with the poor, taking the last thing he found. It was the turn of Ivan, who did not grieve that they took away their hard-won possessions, but decided to punish the impudent villain and his henchmen, resorting to one trick…

Conceived in 1922, but not realised until 1977.

Explore the rich history of Melbourne through the National Gallery of Victoria site in St Kilda Road, Melbourne, via its various uses, as a circus site in 1887 to the landmark cultural centre it became. Mixes found footage, stills and contemporary footage.

Short fiction film about the overwhelming experience of a helpless old woman who has been torn from her familiar social environment and can no longer find her way in a monotonous suburban landscape.

Jirair is an Armenian punk who falls in love with a beautfiul, but poor maid, Anahid. They promise to marry each other against her father's wishes. Jirair moves to America with his uncle while Anahid is pregnant with Jirair's child. The pregnancy shames Anahid's family, who wishes that she marries a rich American.

BBC TV Special broadcast on Apr 26, 1977. Recorded live at Old Grey Whistle Test Studio. Setlist: (1) Bob Harris Introduction, (2) Hello Old Friend, (3) Sign Language (4) Alberta, Alberta, (5) Tell The Truth, (6) Can't Find My Way Home (vocals Yvonne Elliman), (7) Double Trouble, (8) I Shot The Sheriff, (9) Knocking On Heaven's Door, (10) Further Up The Road, (11) Badge. Musicians: George Terry (Guitar), Dicks Sims (Keyboards), Carl Radle (Bass), Jamie Oldaker (Drums), Sergio Pastora Rodriguez (Percussion), Yvonne Elliman (Backing Vocals), Marcy Levy (Backing Vocals)

The culmination of a controversial war. The troops return home and aid in disaster relief.

Images of Arguedas as a child are interspersed with contrasting testimonies from a mine worker and a priest about the Chitulla and Santa Bárbara hills; for the former, they are alive, for the latter, they are merely myths. The same worker recounts a catastrophe that occurred years earlier during a mining operation, revealing that Chitulla “does not want to be opened.” After we see another priest teaching peasant children how to make the sign of the cross, we hear the narrator's voice asking: “Has the Christian cross truly conquered our fearsome hills, or do the wamanis, the mountain-gods, still live on, those still venerated by the people of the Andes?”

The prying eyes of town are quick to notice the growing friendship between a new teacher and the headmistress.

Pink film directed by Sôjirô Motoki.

An educational piece produced for the Forest Industry Employers’ Union shows the working conditions and future prospects of the foresters and machine drivers.

"An archival companion to My American Cousin, Wilson's Growing up at Paradise fashions a charming flashback of a family and an era from her father's home movies." -- Festival of Festivals

Color UCLA Student Animation Workshop Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Mixed live action and stop motion absurdist animation of a desert traveler who encounters a Godzilla-like monster emerging from a Coca-Cola can. Directed by animator and special effects artist Hoyt Yeatman, known for visual effects on The Fly (1986), Armageddon (1998), The Abyss (1989), and for directing G-Force (2009).

High up north, in the Stralsund People’s Dockyard, Gitta Nickel encounters a youth brigade whose members speak frankly: “I’m 27 now. Judging from my own example I can say: it’s been nothing but work, really nothing. I can really say that about me, stark and stiff.” Stralsund as the focal point of socialist conditions of value creation: A ship may be completed every two weeks, but housing, let alone leisure facilities aren’t. The diagnosis: The quality-of-life to performance ratio is less than ideal. The brigade’s team spirit, though, is still strong, even if, as some think, there are some shortcomings on the “ideological side”.

It takes place in Buenos Aires, during the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1871. It's the only Sandro film considered lost.

In Sister's Bay Christmas Morning, Sandin transforms natural landscapes, merging image-processed material with unaltered images of snowfall. In Wandawega Waters, a kinetic ode to nature, Sandin processes images of the surface of a lake until they are transformed into an abstracted study of light and movement.

Filming for a movie that will never be made, starring Gianni Celati and Roberto Freak Antoni of Skiantos, shot at Montagnola in Bologna in the winter of 1977.

A bare foot rests on the monitor, while at the same time the screen of the same monitor shows another foot. This picture, however, is upside-down (suggesting a mirror effect) so as to hint that both feet are one and the same. Consequently this symmetry partly conceals the contrast between the two feet: dressed and bare, reversed positions within and outside the video screen, recorded and again registered.

Layered tracing paper drawings, inspired by the effect of the mountain mist and by animal tracks softly disappearing in the falling snow.

Video art by Ernest Gusella made between 1975 and 1980

Winner of the CINE Golden Eagle Award, this 60-minute documentary contains footage of Fuller never seen before in any other film. Made for the United States Information Agency in 1977 by Academy Award winner Robert Snyder and Jaime Snyder, the film gives us a substantive look at Fuller and his work. It also contains a wonderfully intimate sequence with Fuller talking about his childhood. Buckminster Fuller was an architect, engineer, geometrician, philosopher, futurist, inventor of the famous geodesic dome, and one of the most brilliant thinkers of his time. His legacy becomes ever more relevant, providing us a road map to steer our planet away from oblivion and toward a sustainable future for all humanity. Fuller was renowned for his comprehensive perspective on the world's problems. For more than five decades he developed pioneering solutions reflecting his commitment to the potential of innovative design to "do more with less" and thereby improve human lives.

The course of Brazil's discovery by Pedro Álvares Cabral. After a troubled journey, the Portuguese sailors spot a new land. On landing, happy and expecting to expand their empire, they face themselves with a disappointment...

"De eevwigheid duurt een oogwenk./ De ti jd duurt maar door." – A. Roland Holet. "This film is in several short sections. Most are set in a single location or 'space'; the editing introduces a temporal element into that space. In the third section, for example, the setting is a European cafe; Chomont cuts between different shots that seem to be adjacent to each other in this single space, but various cues–such as the change in characters' positions–tell us that the shots were taken at different times. Chomont is exploring here a fundamental paradox of cinema: that time and space are interdepent, that one camera can film space in a way that make different parts of it seem simultaneously present, cut this simultaneity is an illusion – the time of the filming and of the strip of film in projection is always moving forward." – Fred Camper, The Chicagoan, March, 1978.

Based on María Vesterinen's drawings, it tells the story of the kidnapping of men and women in Chile and the search for their missing relatives.

A study in analog imaging and the relation of sound to image, Color Fields Left merges moving bands of color with electronic sounds in an increasingly complex pattern.

Two conflicting views of our late(great?) two-hundredth birthday by a novice filmmaker.

Ayers Rock is examined in the light of its ancient human and animal associations. It is seen under various light effects which create different colour and texture impressions. The timelessness of the monolith is suggested by negative colour, the result of using fine-grain Eastmancolour print stock in the camera, a slow speed material which required the intense Central Australian light for adequate exposure. A half-speed recording of the local bird call and insects contributes to the sense of cross eras. Human perception of time, colour and sound is questioned. As Einstein said: 'The distinction between past, present and future is only an illusion, even if a stubborn one.'

Eight months after meeting Ulysses in Rio, Pascale decided to bring him to Paris. The plane ticket Ulysses receives takes him to Europe. When he arrived at Roissy airport, he was welcomed with open arms by Pascale, who was determined to win him back. Ulysses, if he is indeed seduced by Pascale's attitude, is nevertheless less inflamed than she is.

Music by Frank Lewin. Study of the mood changes between three heads with slow moving subtle differences. Two heads are made of wood. The third head is of the artist L.S. UNESCO sponsored exhibition in Paris in 1978. Award in international competition – Japan, 1980 . Sponsored by Victor Co., JVC, Burston-Marstellar agency.

A father’s desire to win at any cost changes his son’s innocent challenge into a dangerous race. Sparkling entertainment for kids and parents. RIDE THE WIND is the story of two families who learned what true winning is all about.

In this hilarious act filmed at Club Bene in New Jersey, stand-up comedian and actor Pat Cooper reflects on his childhood growing up in an Italian-American family, using much of this as the foundation for his sidesplitting routine. Peppered among his family stories are entertaining bits of true-life experiences as an up-and-coming touring comic, experience that gave him a broad outlook on the world, or at least, the world according to Cooper.

An exploration of the Centre Georges Pompidou and its surroundings on its opening day in 1977.

Two martial arts styles meet (or, should we say, clash) when a small army of well-trained patriots defend their homeland against an invading army of merciless trained killers. Who can say who will hold sway when the powerful tiger fist meets the elegant crane fist. One thing's for sure -- it'll be a bad case of fisticuffs! Originally part of The Kentucky Fried Movie, a Fistful of Yen was one of the sketches it included.

This is a documentary that records the actions of the elderly who makes straw shoes. It was filmed in Bongcheon-dong for a day before the urban redevelopment that area. It sharply contrasts the primitive labor of agricultural society and the modern urban labor with bold close-ups and cross editing. Against the backdrop of a poor hillside village in Seoul, it contains young filmmakers’ criticism on labor and society with an anthropological perspective. The film is the last one of the total seven short films made by director Kim Hongjun and Hwang Juho using a self-taught Super 8mm camera for a year from 1976 to 1977 before the founding of Yalasheng, a film society of Seoul National University. The film was selected at the 3rd SIFF.

A series of sketches that show how filmmaking can be taught through research and experimentation. Instead of focusing solely on the concept, the stories are designed to stimulate creativity while illustrating the different modes of cinematic storytelling.

Antology of political animations by Armando Arce.

Festival of Popular Solidarity with Latin America, held on 12 October 1977 at the San Blas football ground (Madrid, Spain)

Educational short film about traffic accidents.