1977 Movies

"My windows were shuttered; for two months I had to live in the dark in order to experiment and study the light. When the blackout ended and the light...

A film dealing with feminism, bureaucracy and gayness that reflects a number of emotions.

In 1976, Hubert Smith set out with a group of researchers to visually document Yucatec Maya society within the village of Chican. This project resulte...

A test for motion by painting on film.

This performance, presented for German TV's first live satellite transmission marking the opening of the Documenta VI in Kassel on 24 June 1977, is a...

Nothing is left of the Lithuanian village of Ablinga. Destroyed by Wehrmacht soldiers in 1941, a forest of sculptures was erected in 1972 to commemora...

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...

Using performance as a means of personal transformation and catharsis, Mitchell’s Death mourns the death of Montano’s ex-husband. Every detail of her...

A 1977 made-for-television documentary about the German writer Ernst Jünger.

Human obsession with television is presented through 17 different situations and the same number of shots.

A young woman comes home and discovers that she has her period. She is forced to change her sanitary napkins continuously, while her husband eats eggs...

An animated short subject on how, if man does not want to respect objects, those objects will rise up in revolt.

This film focuses on I-OMANTE ritual that is to liberate the souls of the Gods from the furs and meat and send them back to the Land of the Gods. The...