Cinematic Era: 1977 Vintage

The films of Jorge O Mourão, a collection of autobiographical performance pieces, constitute visceral reactions to the authoritarian regime in Brazil and channel the paranoia and claustrophobia of his generation through the disjunction of sound and image.

Short documentary about the traditions, lives and culture of the Qadiri tariqa of Iran's Kurdistan

Monica J. Freeman's serene portrait of Hamilton Heights at the peak of its brownstone revival is a testament to the cohesion and spirit of an African-American middle class fighting hard for its place in a depressed city, and, in the process, returning a grand old neighborhood to its rightful splendor.

Treating the problem of anorexia nervosa from the parents' perspective, Rosler presents a mother and father speaking about the tragedy of their daughter's death as a result of dieting. The conversation turns toward the irony of self-starvation in a land of plenty and toward the international politics of food, where food aid is used as a negotiating tool. Confronting a serious issue, Rosler simultaneously sets into play the confessional form and the ghoulish staginess of talk show dramatics.

Together with Godfried Talboom, Nilsson traveled around Europe with a commitment: to film something every day, without having planned anything. The film also creates context where context does not exist.

Viola describes The Wheel of Becoming as concerning "the notion of the parallel nature of reality, that is, simultaneous events separated in space." A mandala-like form, divided into four quadrants, unifies four events by four individuals in four separate spaces. These alternately converge and separate through timed camera movements, coincident actions and common elements of the landscape.

Matta-Clark made a cut in a five-story commercial building located in front of the Steen, a tourist spot in Antwerp. (On Matta-Clark's death shortly after, an attempt was made to save the work as a future museum of contemporary art, but the building was demolished.)

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

Romanian Experimental Cinema

Young recruits in the military.

This is the expanded edition of the ultimate critical guide to Supertramp. The DVD spans the entire output of the band during the Hodgson years. This is the ultimate critical review of Supertramp during the years when the creative partnership of Davies and Hodgson propelled the band to world fame. Drawing on rare concert performances together with the views of a leading team of working musicians and critics, this highly entertaining and informative journey into the music of a great band is essential viewing for Supertramp fans everywhere Featured tracks include Dreamer, School, Bloody Well Right, Rudy, Give a Little Bit, The Logical Song, Lady and many more.

Full film record explores a pre-Columbian tradition of folk therapy known as in northern Peru. Based on seven years of ethnographic research by Douglas Sharon, the footage documents the activities of Eduardo Calderon, a Peruvian fisherman, ceramacist and (healer). Scenes of the healer in various daily interactions with members of his family and local community illustrate the impact of Eduardo's charismatic personality and serve to underscore the importance which a specific cultural context has upon the diagnostic and healing process. Also explored is the importance of the local pre-Columbian ceramic art and iconography to Eduardo's healing practice; the use of herbs (including the San Pedro cactus), divination with the use of a live guinea pig, and the various ritual manipulations of the healer on his (table). Featured are scenes from a number of "seances" or curing ceremonies. The edited film EDUARDO THE HEALER was produced from this footage.

An avant-garde meditation on the principles of the I Ching.

Bollywood 1977

Film starring Adoor Bhasi and Prem Nazir

Bollywood 1977

Bollywood 1977

Directed by Carroll Parrott Blue.

Filmed in the multiple-mirrored women's bathroom of the New York City Holiday Inn--in which the most visible object was myself looking at myself, looking at... In pursuit of contradictions.

Directed by Yanus Malik.

Short video art piece.

A look at artist Mark Hicks of Manhattan Beach, California, a quadriplegic since falling out of a tree at age 14. His work is examined, along with a discussion of his being a student at UCLA, culminating with his first gallery show in San Francisco.

River (Planet Earth) is a student's audio-visual presentation of a river system and the importance of water to humans, to his professor who hates to be bored. Both serious and humorous, the film shows how water sustains life, feeds industry, provides power and irrigates the land. It shows how water is inverted, dammed, used and expelled. It talks of pollution. The film demonstrates how water affects the economy, sociology and ecology of a country.

Remind drivers of the rules of vehicular traffic.

Galactic Supermarket Presents Cosmic Rainbows is a Yugoslavian (Slovenian) Short Documentary Film. It is defined as an experimental. It was directed by OM Produkcija.

A film by Ion Grigorescu.

Short film by Keith Lock.

Thanks to internal and public solidarity, the »wildcat strike« by the predominantly migrant female workers at the Neuss-based automotive supplier Pierburg in the summer of 1973 had led to wage increases for the female employees and thus became a step towards gender equality in the workplace.

Documentary about the Romney Hythe & Dymchurch Railway.

Illusionism and two-dimensionality collide in this film influenced by British filmmaker/theorist Malcolm LeGrice’s notions of repetition and pre-determined strategy. In addition Savage credits Gunvor Nelson as an influence in the timing of her editing Voyeur is an uncommon example of a film that consciously alters the shape of the screen’s traditional rectangle by using “wipes” drawn from the subject matter.

The coming-of-age story of a 23-year-old woman from West Berlin who, in particular, breaks free from her emotional dependence on her insensitive, selfish boyfriend, who doesn’t take her seriously. Due to her own relationship problems and depression, her mother attempts suicide. The young woman finds a new partner in an immigrant from Sudan.

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

Film by Roland Sabatier

Super-8 film by Venezuelan filmmaker Temístocles López.

Together is a biting political critique disguised as playful animation

Influenced by Andy Warhol’s “Screen Tests” I set about recording some of the artists who populated my world in Kansas City during the 70s.

The film is based on the poem of the same name by Abbas Makulu

An atmospheric film based on Paul Valery's poem of the same name.

The documentary is dedicated to the Ukrainian Soviet propagandist, writer, and Sovietophile. The film consists of three parts: “Halan's Violin,” “Courage,” and “Until the Last Minute.”

Something’s Rotten in Little Tokyo takes a critical dive into the economic, political, and social forces that threatened LA’s Little Tokyo in the 1970’s. Through a series of interviews, the Visual Communications team offers a critique of the market-driven push to gentrify low-income communities like Little Tokyo.

Protest on 22 September 1977 in Madrid (Spain) against the attack carried out at the Barcelona headquarters of the satirical magazine El Papus (1973-1986) Text extracted from La Digitalizadora de la Memoria Colectiva (The Digitiser of Collective Memory)

Fifty-four color slides of paper envelopes with press type containing origami paper, salt, ash, dirt, flour, and leaves.

the life of buffalo bill cody and the history of cinema

A lighthearted story and song about two friends: Jam and Jam Spread. Jam Spread tells Jam about his former great love for Jam, which left him with nothing but... mold.

A 16mm short film by David Wilson

A short contemplation on late autumn in Maine, mortality, windmills, and the music of Indian painter and musician Mohan Samant. Shot in Lincolnville, Maine, at Neil Welliver’s place.

A film commissioned between two municipal elections, St Leu, l’enjeu d’un quartier, tells the story of the neighborhood and what it means for its residents.

A short film by Greer Lankton