All Films

The Glitterball

1977 • 53 min • United Kingdom

When a group of small aliens accidentally abandons one of their own on Earth, adventurous kids Max and Pete stumble upon the "Glitterball" and attempt to return it to its mother ship. As the children learn more about the friendly alien and its magical powers, they must protect their new companion from an army corporal and a small-time thief who are both hunting the extraterrestrial for their own cruel purposes.

J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai: The Movie

1977 • 30 min • Japan

Ryu obsessively pursues a CRIME agent who steals a powerful new explosive and takes control of a powerful supercar. This is a theatrical presentation of episode 7 of the J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai television series.

Bo Widerberg

1977 • 51 min • Sweden

Documentary which follows Bo Widerberg during the making of 'Man on the Roof', 'The Butt' and a failed theater production.

The Pinballs

1977 • 45 min

Three orphans from very different backgrounds find themselves living with the same foster couple while waiting to be adopted.

Guadalcanal Requiem

1977 • 29 min • United States of America

One of Paik’s most overtly political and poignant statements, Guadalcanal Requiem is a performance/documentary collage that confronts history, time, cultural memory and mythology on the site of one of World War II’s most devastating battles.

Dancer 2

1977 • 10 min

The movements of a dancers body are recorded, studied, reshaped, to understand the anatomical ranges of joints. Music by Albert E. Miller.

Vermont Etude

1977 • 2 min

Layered tracing paper drawings, inspired by the effect of the mountain mist and by animal tracks softly disappearing in the falling snow.

Alternative 3

1977 • 53 min • United Kingdom

Purporting to be an investigation into the UK's contemporary "brain drain", Alternative 3 uncovered a plan to make the Moon and Mars habitable in the event of climate change and a terminal environmental catastrophe on Earth.

Nino

1977 • 5 min

Music by Albert E. Miller. Experimental work with dancer and musicians to combine and present an unusual choreography of performers and music as a unified force.

Sodom and Gomorrah, NY, 10036

1976 • 7 min

A documentary about the sex industry around 8th Avenue and 42nd Street.

American Shoeshine

1976 • 30 min • United States of America

American Shoeshine is a 1975 American short documentary film directed by Sparky Greene. It covers the history of shoe shining in the United States, interviews current shoe shiner, and describes rag popping, a form of music made with a shoeshine rag. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

Yesterday when I was Young

1976 • 31 min • Switzerland

Sensationalist documentary about the supposed dangers of motorcyle driving.

Un suono a testa

1976 • 7 min

Produced at the Motovun Video Meeting in Croatia, 1989. Screened in retrospective at Alternative Film/Video Belgrade Festival 2014.

Migration (for Jack Nelson)

1976 • 7 min • United States of America

Migration is an analysis of an image, a metaphorical exercise in perception and representation, illusion and reality, microcosm and macrocosm, nature and consciousness.

Way to Your Neighbor

1976 • 3 min • Poland

A weary traveller falls asleep next to a sign reading Weg zum Nachbarn. As soon as he dozes off the world turns on its head.

Instructions No. 1

1976 • 6 min • Yugoslavia

In the performance-video "Instrukcije br 1", Sanja Ivekovic draws 'instructional' lines for a facial and neck massage on her skin using ink. Instead of beautifying facial features, this massage becomes a blotchy, unattractive procedure.

The Space Between the Teeth

1976 • 10 min

The Space Between the Teeth is based on the structure of acoustic phenomena and the psychological dynamics of a man screaming at the end of a long dark corridor. With each successive scream, the camera point of view hurtles at high velocity along the length of the hallway in decreasing increments. The corridor and the cinematic structuring of the camera's advance act as metaphors for passage and transition between two worlds, bridged by the individual's cathartic screams. Ultimately, the image of the man at the end of the corridor is transformed into a Polaroid still that is literally washed away.

The Spider Will Kill You

1976 • 30 min

Director David Schmoeller's thesis film about a blind man who lives alone in a theater attic. He falls in love with a strange female mannequin who turns out to be quite animated and deadly.

This Is a Television Receiver

1976 • 8 min • United Kingdom

Commissioned by BBC TV as the unannounced opening piece for their Arena video art programme, March 1976. Programme produced by Mark Kidel, conceived by Anna Ridley and presented by David Hall. 'Richard Baker [the well known newsreader] describes the essential paradoxes of the real and imagined functions of the TV set on which he appears. The second shot is taken optically off a monitor, the third copied from the second, and so on, until there is a complete degeneration of both sound and image, removing the newsreader from his position of authority...' - Tamara Krikorian, Art Monthly, February 1984.

Interview Without Sound

1976 • 2 min • Austria

1976 short by Dietmar Brehm

I'll See You

1976 • 2 min

Part of BFI's "National Coal Board Collection".

You Pick the Moment

1976 • 2 min

Part of BFI's "National Coal Board Collection".

Wandsbek Gartenstück

1976 • 14 min • Germany

With Marcia Bronstein and Silke Grossmann. Hamburg, Wandsbek-Gartenstadt, May 1976.

Viewmaster

1976 • 4 min • United States of America

Inspired by Eadweard Muybridge's series of photographs entitled "Running Man", Griffin creates a whimsical animated poem, using a variety of graphic styles.