Cinematic Era: 1977 Vintage

The widow and singer Karminem is bored of life in the city and returns to the village. But then, she is faced with the disapproval of the village women who do not like her profession.

Rowing rider Klas Miggelsen is upset because his coach Breiting puts him in a boat together with amateur Heiner , How should he ever celebrate sporting successes with the beginner?

This film is a combination of body art, re-making and reconstructing a "film genre" from the early era of filmmaking (series "Comic Faces", 1898, Director: G.A. Smith): Making faces in front of the camera. (E.S.jr.)

An animated short about the titular event.

The first part of the film consists of hand painted and scratched film, the second part introduces the use of negative space and the third part incorporates photographic imagery into the increasingly complex images.

Joan Bakewell visits Haworth in Yorkshire, home of the Brontës, to see the setting in which the novelists worked.

"One of a series of films that investigates qualities of sound that can be generated directly from the image track. The images that you see are simultaneously scanned by the optical sound reader in the projector, which converts the into sound. This particular film makes use of the aural effect of visual perspective; the steeper the perspective on the railings, the closer the intervals of black and white, and the higher the frequency of sound. I also wanted to find out what freeze frames and visual strobe would 'sound' like. Visual strobe is created both in the camera (camera shutter v. railings) and in the printer (printer shutter v. slipping frames)." -G.S.

The initial idea was to make a children’s film about chocolate-covered marshmallows. How they are made, what they are made of, where they are made, who manufactures them under what conditions. The women who work on the assembly line are happy to tell us all about themselves. We are a welcome diversion. We noticed that the men have the better jobs and also earn more money. The women don’t entirely let themselves be taken in by the meritocracy. Talking, goofing off, and singing, they help each other to get through their 8-hour day. We like that. We drop the idea of a children’s film. In this film we tried out a documentary film form that deliberately does without interviews, relying instead largely on the effect of the images. From today's perspective the film alsooffers a glimpse into the history of migration in West Germany.

Zero-One is a figurative animation film consisting of thirty short animations. Luyken consistently begins with a triangle. From this triangle, new forms arise that eventually revert back into a triangle. This is a primitive version of morphing, a technique derived from the computer world: it is the gradual fading of one image into another image. In the animation, this technique was already known; an example of an animated film in which the images flow into one another is Pas a deux by Gerrit van Dijk and Monique Renault. The drawings were made on a roll of numbered entrance tickets that were used at the Cinémathèque cinema in Paris. The numbers run from 99 to 0, but not all of the numbers are used in the animation.

A History & The City

The tragedy of an African Princess who turned her back on love which money buys.

Following Antal Végh's sociography the members of amateur film studio Cinema 64 recorded a 90 min 8mm film in the village of Penészlek in 1968. During a return to the village eight years later they have the chance to compare the changes from past to present in the lives of the local residents.

14 year old Freddy fails at livening the party with wine.

How to take care of your own things, as narrated by a talking pillow.

A creepy synthesizer score underlines the melodramatic horror of this cautionary mini-drama. It's a "great day for the beach" when our handsome, likable California surfer-blond hero runs into some pals. Unused to alcohol, he gets very high on buddy Joe's vodka (stashed in a 7-Up bottle), leaving him ill-equipped to drive the car he's just brought home. Things get ever more ghoulish as he witnesses the bleak and tearful events that follow his tragic demise. One assumes many a classroom was left either giggling or traumatized (or both) as he screams his final pleas to God as he's being buried. That's edutainment!

A three-part video epic in which avant-garde artist Vito Acconci explores the relationship between the self and national mythology. Through multiple vignettes, Acconci brings together a collage of music, photographs, diorama, experimental theater and his own profile, to tell a semi-autobiographical narrative that, in turn, becomes a critique of the alienated quality of American mythology.

1977 Czech experimental short by Petr Skala

Gay mothers argue for the right to custody of their children.

This film follows the story of young orphaned woman of the slums. Although she is given a chance to improve her life, she stumbles into a series of misfortunes, enslaving herself in the company of characters in the underworld. Teetering on the brink of self-destruction, a ray of hope offers her redemption.

An old frustrated bird who cannot fly tries to ventilate his anger by attacking a worm.

Mapping extreme close-ups of Broughton's body, the camera slowly becomes a tool to reveal the erotic beauty of the body and the sensual pleasure in loving oneself. The ecstasy and power of sexual gratification are celebrated by the camera, as it probes, reveals, and visually caresses. Broughton's song is a praise of his body as divine androgyne, and an acceptance of this higher, sexual power.

Art film part of the REWIND + PLAY, An Anthology of Early British Video Art box-set.

A surreal encounter at Père Lachaise cemetery between brightly coloured jelly pudding and Mickey Mouse.

"The editing procedure was to count the number of shots and start the film off with the numerically middle shot and then, after that, the shot that had preceded it, and the shot that had followed it, and to keep fanning further and further out until one saw the first shot of the film followed by the last shot" -Ken Jacobs

A journalist decides to investigate the murder of his close friend, a playwright who had written a satirical political cabaret show that managed to anger several militant factions. The police detective in charge of the investigation is trying to cover the whole thing up under the guise of a robbery gone wrong; however, the journalist’s independent investigation leads him to a hard right underground organisation.

An experimental short film by Derek Jarman cuts together disparate footage.

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.

Eurocrime/Poliziotteschi movie from 1977

Chitrakathi is about the folk artists of western India who narrate with the help of leather puppets. Mani takes us to the sleepy Konkan coastal village and introduces us to the family that has preserved this unique art for several centuries.

In this short animation film, Norman McLaren presents the first 3 of the 5 categories of motion: constant, accelerated and decelerated. Various types of acceleration and deceleration are demonstrated, and examples are shown of how these types of motion may be applied in regard to gesture, gravity and perspective.

Hollis Frampton alludes to origins and creation as he cuts between a garden featuring a bride and groom and an 1902 film entitled "A Little Piece of String."

The story of a widower as presented by the people surrounding her.

Documentary that critically analyzes the communications system of the city of Madrid in the 1970s, from a socioeconomic and clearly political perspective, questioning the capitalist system and the city model imposed by it.

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.

This short film brings together animated interpretations of 4 poems by great Canadian wordsmiths: “From the Hazel Bough” by Earle Birney, “Travellers Palm” by P.K. Page, “Death by Streetcar” by Raymond Souster, and “A Said Poem” by John Robert Colombo.

1977 film from India in the Malayalam language!

Directed by Yanus Malik.

The Academy Award nominated documentary short subject "OF TIME, TOMBS, AND TREASURE: The Treasures of Tutankhamun" tells the story of the discovery of the now-legendary tomb of the Pharoah Tutankamun. J. Carter Brown, Director of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., serves as the on-camera host and takes viewers to Egypt to follow in the footsteps of archaeologist Howard Carter as he traces the clues to a hidden tomb in Egypt's Valley of the Kings.

A harpist (Pedro Llana) is seen positioning his harp near a waterfall. The narrator's voice says, "We knew that harpists went to the mountains to learn new melodies from the waterfalls." The harpist falls asleep, and some children climb up to steal his harp. The harpist wakes up and throws them off. A priest (Father Fausto Pusa) says that the story of harpists, mermaids, and waterfalls is pure fantasy. [He is referring to the belief that harpists receive help from mermaids in those places to tune their instruments.]

From the series Ancient Cultures of Peru. Inca Cusco.

Documentary photo about the life of Daniel Alcides Carrión (1857-1885), martyr of Peruvian medicine.

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.

This documentary was censored by COPROCI (the Film Promotion Commission) of Juan Velasco's government, which argued that it presented a savage view of peasants reenacting a ritual battle to maintain the fertility of the land in the Chiaraje plains (4,700 meters above sea level), in the province of Canas. The production company, without the filmmaker's permission, converted the film into a series of short films; however, a 35mm copy still exists.

Antology of political animations by Armando Arce.

The plot follows a musician, Appanna, who falls in love with a dancer, Basanti, with the story exploring themes of power and resistance.

An in-depth interview with Grzegorz Królikiewicz, one of the great cinematic innovators of the 20th century (anyone who thinks this is excessive hyperbole need only seek out his Na wylot or Dancing Hawk).

Through an interview with Professor Leonid Abalkin and the Anikeev family, the documentary's proposal is to present the quick improvement of life felt by the Soviet population, obtained with the increase of the population's income and expansion of social rights. With still dynamic growth, the Soviet economy was consolidating mass production in several economic sectors. The examples used in the documentary, the ZIL, KamAZ factories and the construction of the Baikal-Amur railway (BAM) seek to demonstrate the development of this centralized economy. Attention was also paid to the new technologies of integrated circuits, which enabled economic calculations, previously impossible to be processed manually. The automation of industries was also addressed by the documentary. The marxist idea presented was that the automation of industries in Soviet Union don't promoted layoffs, as a result of the contradictions between work and capital, which occur in capitalist countries.

Altai Kasim came to Germany as a guest worker and eventually brought his family with him. Today, they all have a job in Germany. Nevertheless, they are not happy. They miss their homeland.

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.

A short wildlife documentary about dormouse.

Witkacy under the tent, or "Crazy Locomotive" at the STU Theater, staged by Krzysztof Jasinski. The first Polish musical based on Witkacy's texts, directed by Krzysztof Jasinski. The beautiful and frantic music of Marek Grechuta and Jan Kanty Pawluśkiewicz, performed by the STU Theater orchestra, enchanted not only the audience, but also the actors themselves. The performance took place in a tent on Rydla Street in Cracow. The documentary shows the immense amount of work that the actors, musicians, writers and director had to put into preparing this astonishing performance.