1977 Movies

When children are born, they cry. No, they are screaming. For what ? Would birth be as scary and terrifying for the child as giving birth was for the...

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 o...

Action movie.

From super 8mm original. ... is a drawing about a morning routine. It's about waking up, visually, first seeing details that are detached from meaning...

This film juxtaposes extreme close-up film of the activity of ants in the tunnels of an ant farm with a narration by a middle-aged, middle-American ma...

Illustrates the manufacture of flaked and ground stone tools among Duna speakers in Papua New Guinea, and shows the use of the tools in making bows an...

17 minutes, silent, colour. 1977

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 not...

'Stand together!', a film on the "mass day of solidarity" on 11 July 1977, was made in 1977 for the Grunwick Strike Committee by the Newsreel Collecti...

Filmed 2 years before his death, this documentary portrays New Brunswick folk artist Joseph Sleep (1913-1978) in his later life. He was born at sea an...

Sequences of magazine advertisements from the seventies create a fantastical and erotic universe.

Through mordant social commentary and symbolic irony, Amiralay focuses this film on the chicken farming industry in the rural Syrian village of Sadad....

Taking its title from the sea nymphs in Homer’s Odyssey—the treacherous spirits whose sweet voices lured sailors to their death upon the rocks—Sirens...

A portrait of power as natural gas was vented and burned from an oil field in the jungle of eastern Ecuador.

A Portuguese film by Rogério Ceitil.

A woman makes her home in a supermarket, for there hardly seems any reason for her not to. Shot in 16mm, Sara Dowse's collaboration with the Canberra...

Kunitoshi Manda's first film. A monologue and dialogue about love.

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 g...