1977 Movies

“I wanted to make grass grow...to show the life force of a tree. Bark-Rind was shot totally single-frame...each shot exposed three times...close-up, m...

"Good Evening Everybody" does not construct a world, but projects a personality. Burckhardt's camera observes life in a way characteristic of someone...

A short 1977 documentary about the origins of our current folk art tradition.

Animation and real world combined—a uniquely inventive film that is fun for children while adults can ponder its paradoxes of life vs. art, and real v...

Documentary about director Konrad Wolf and the making of his film "Mama ich lebe"

While a group of workers demolish a building in the Providencia district, the director of the documentary talks with a stucco worker, accompanying him...

Pyramid Drawings opens with a white screen and a narrow floor area at the bottom. From the left, a performer enters, carrying a bucket of paint. The f...

"In this film there is a simple accessible constant which you will have no difficulty in recognizing. There is an equally apparent variable. So your q...

"Yesterday I took another look at the three film prints I own by Gary Doberman, FISHERIES, THE RHYME and THE MOIETIES and satisfied myself that, yes,...

A process of gradual revelation - while it is not a measured and sequential revelation, the viewer must collect and correlate fragments of visual info...

"The direction of Western Culture's advance has been WXN, and now no further planetary geography remains into which to penetrate. Today there is talk...

portrays the Bruder working class family, whom she met during her time as a social worker in the Märkisches Viertel. Equipped with a Super-8 camera by...

Record of an artistic intervention by Ana Hatherly at the Quadrum gallery, in Lisbon.

"This is the fifth and final section of the 1977 film WEST BY NORTH. I feel it can stand by itself as a complete, if enigmatic statement. A casual bro...