1977 Movies

Documentation and experimentation in real time, "Orbital Obsessions" is an example of early video self-portraiture, eerie and calm in its radical impl...

An adult educator arrives in the small-town factory with loads of books, energy and a freshly received diploma. The honest young man with dreamy eyes...

Pat Rocco's fictionalized document of the 1977 Christopher Street West carnival and parade.

A female voice identifies a lone man in a room. The shots cut closer, revealing he is holding a cassette recorder, playing Beethoven's "Ghost" Piano T...

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

A film about Poesia Viva, an idealized street art happening/event directed by Paulo Bruscky and Unhandeijara Lisboa, on March 14 (National Day of Poet...

Digitally restored by Pentimenti in 2016, this long lost documentary short profiles painter Mark di Suvero, an abstract expressionist sculptor. Part o...

A turn of the 20th Century office block at Portage and Main. What was once Winnipeg's most prestigious commercial address has become a catch-all for t...

The year is 1952. Dilemma of a Southend family when marriage promises to take the eldest daughter to Mau Mau-racked Kenya.

An 11-year-old boy survives a serious car accident but remains mentally and physically disabled for the rest of his life. The film depicts the situati...

Pearl fishermen from Red Sea, scuba harpooners from Polinesia, Japanese diver women expose themselves every day to attacks by sharks infesting their w...

This begins the fourth chapter of The Book of Film and entertains directly the considerations of chapter two (THE WEIR-FALCON SAGA, THE MACHINE OF EDE...

Bhola Moira, a singer from rural Bengal, wins a musical contest. However, when a special person from his past resurfaces, he is left disturbed.

Christina has to deal with a corrupt bank president father, a cutthroat and backstabbing sister, an unfaithful lover and a gigolo plotting to rob the...

Daan and his brother, Dingetjie, travel to Cape Town in search of Doctor McDonald to cure Dingetjie's shy nature. They encounter a conman who introduc...

After war broke out in Lebanon in April of 1975, few expected that it would spread to ruin the country and that it would still be continuing several y...