All Films

Paul Revere Is Here

1976 • 7 min • United States of America

In the summer of 1975, with a mobile rotoscoping station in tow, Mary Beams and Susan Hodara recorded locals and tourists alike musing on Paul Revere beneath his statue in Boston. With cerulean-washed frames and shifting white outlines of visitors, the documentary soundtrack creates a unique portrait of place and time.

What If We Had A Fire?

1976 • 12 min

A fire safety short with a funky seventies soundtrack

Ladybug, Ladybug, Winter Is Coming

1976 • 10 min

A talkative ladybug learns what to do in case of winter.

To Gelekaki

1976 • 7 min

Ka(te)rina wants to see the manager of the bookstore. On the way see will meet all her personal ghosts. Her anguish: Will she destroy him or get destroyed by herself?

Families: Earning And Spending

1976 • 16 min

An educational short about families from around the world, how they work to earn money and what they spend it on.

Families: Food And Eating

1976 • 16 min

An educational short about families from around the world, what they eat and how they cook.

Rhythms 76

1976 • 17 min • France

This is my first film based on the unity of the photogram, started in the fall of 1975 and finished at the very beginning of the following year. What to do after Sharits, Kubelka, Kren? How to continue their contribution to cinema? Refusing to accept a cinema where the randomness of images would be the rule, I imagined myself inspired by the musical model. [...] I imagined starting from a fixed photograph that was the vision of my window and building from this image chromatic variations that would select parts of the image. The film was written entirely with the help of a score and was inspired by Steve Reich's repetitive music composition models. [...] - JMB

Chantilly

1976 • 12 min • France

To construct a film in an atomic way, starting from simple elements which combined with each other will produce a whole. Taking the dot as an elementary unit is not a coincidence if we think that the notion of pixels with video images began to occupy people's minds in the 70’s, decades before the arrival of giant led screens. [...] 9, and then 16 screens within one same screen allow an impressive process of simultaneous abstract sequences. The film partition shows a combinatorial process between monochrome colours in the background and pointillist compositions in the foreground. As many sequences as screens; each one is a reflection on abstract images: pointillism, geometrism, "nuagisme" or informal abstraction , are all nods to the history of abstraction in painting: Vassili Kandinsky, Paul Klee, or Augusto Giacometti seem to have been called together within a mondrianesque grid. JMB

Windchimes, Window, Tree

1976 • 2 min • United States of America

Footage of trees swaying in the sunlight, as seen from a window. A windchime in silhouette periodically obscures the trees.

Street Film Part Zero

1976 • 35 min • United States of America

A cascading tapestry of sight and sound, rejecting nothing, clinging to nothing, saturating and ultimately defeating the discriminating mind, until unstructured primary space begins to unfold within the viewer.

Street Film Part III

1976 • 32 min • United States of America

Arctic Desire

1976 • 7 min • United States of America

Compositions of abstract forms and calligraphic lies, these films are natural outgrowths (and perhaps ultimate realisations) of abstract expressionist painting.

Film with Sun

1976 • 19 min • United States of America

‘Here Bodger demonstrates how shots of a single light bulb, the sun and clouds can become, through the use of different laboratory treatments, magnificent abstract tableaux.’ C. Brunel

Hennepin County Park I, II, III, IV

1976 • 12 min • United States of America

Dis/cours

1976 • 14 min • France

Edge Forces

1976 • 11 min • United States of America

EDGE FORCES is an abstract collage of rapid nebulous forms and calligraphic lines. The frame is used as a "canvas" for thousands of fleeting images that try to expand beyond its confines. Viewers are compelled either to comprehend the dynamic flow of the images, or to make free subjective associations with them.

Molten Shadow

1976 • 8 min • United States of America

"Bruce Wood's films are among the most sensual of any "abstract" animated work ever made. Projected, they generate a fluid stream of organic images in a carefully controlled post-cubist space comparable to the work of painters like Jackson Pollock. Viewed one frame at a time, (which is the way much of the footage is shot), they recall the rich lines and textures of such master etchers as Rembrandt. Wood's use of camera movement during the exposure of each individual frame - like drawing - together with the illusion of movement in projection make his films both beautiful and unique." -Bill Judson, Curator of Film, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute.

Permutations

1976 • 10 min • United States of America

The artist's sister is the subject of this structuralist film. Cha herself appears in a single frame.

For Dürer

1976 • 4 min • Yugoslavia

Stop-motion recording of a pillow being folded and crumpled.

Monumental Art of Kazakhstan

1976 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Documentary about monumental art in Kazakhstan, produced by the Central State Archive for Film, Photo, and Audiorecordings of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Miradwie

1976 • 21 min

Running

1976 • 34 min

The film tries to 'destroy time' by the cyclical reworking of a short period of time. Gradually the image becomes less discernible and the flashing positive and negative images force the viewer to stare rather than looking at the film. As the film progresses the viewer becomes trapped in a short period of time.

Ruth Stout's Garden

1976 • 23 min

Rythmes de passage

1976 • 3 min • France

Filmed in a public place in a still shot, rhythms are created by pedestrians and cars moving, stopping or disappearing. The light, very white, induces a sensation of their passage.