1977 Movies

when poptarts attack

Festival of Avignon 1977. In the main courtyard of the Popes' Palace, actors rehearse a play by Shakespeare, Coriolan. The director is inspired by th...

In 1975, the "Year of the Woman" was celebrated for the first time. An opportunity for Claudine Bories to make her first film to the glory of the wome...

Leo Fabiani's priceless muse about everyone having someone to fear.

I first started by taking a black 16mm film leader and holding a magnifying glass above the film. I then used the sunlight to burn each frame in the f...

Dan, where ya at?

A portrait of a place in the context of being an outsider; a personal travelogue working to concentrate the perceived qualities of life, light, and th...

Shown at the Ann Arbor Film Festival

Screened at the Ann Arbor Film Festival

Guatemala 1976: A metaphor of natural devastation and political violence. Amidst the earthquake-shattered walls of Luis Argueta's childhood home, a yo...

What ice storm? All this cows can think about are their past lives.

Scenes from student conjugal life.

Looking at the fittingly-named Advanced Garbage Film, we see a slop of drawing, scratching, and any number of direct cinema interventions on what look...

Stark black & white combat drama, depicting a baptism by fire.

Early animation from Lisze Bechtold

This film has taken one of the many tragedies buried in American history which befell the American Indian and through the voice of Dennis Banks, creat...

An overview of six pooches interacting at an all-dog birthday party. A prizewinner in the 1977 Ann Arbor Film Festival that documents the lack of disc...

Shown at the Ann Arbor Film Festival.

Screened at the Ann Arbor Film Festival

A mechanical dream is told in a series of elaborate tableaux. Machines, interiors, objects, re-composed pop imagery, fashion models, wrestlers and sle...