All Films

Jackson Junior High: Route 1

1976 • 15 min

Students in an eighth grade science class at Jackson Junior High study types of alcohol.

The Pleasures of the Capital

1976 • 15 min

De Chirico in Legoland, perhaps. This film was part of the programme of a ‘happening’ on the same surrealist theme staged one night in the barns and grounds of a Suffolk farm. It seemed just right to conjure up the marvellous of the metropolis in the back of a rural beyond. Some of the opening shots are borrowed from Fritz Lang’s 1927 silent film. The textual passages in the voice-over come from Giorgio de Chirico’s 1929 ‘novel’, Hebdomeros. In 1976, my first child was six years old and mad on Lego. There was lots of it about the house and it was only a short step to using the white bricks to construct miniature versions of the master of melancholy’s towers, squares and arcades. And another short step to imagining a cluster of suspect scenarios acted out within these metaphysical spaces. RS

You in Public Service: Introduction

1976 • 27 min

Promotion film presents an overview to the series and to public service jobs.

O Mastro do Bino Santo

1976 • 10 min • Brazil

A film from Espirito Santo

A Day of Forgiveness

1976 • 18 min • Yugoslavia

The film is inspired and is an adaptation of the story "Forgiveness" by Blaze Koneski. We follow the pagan custom, the ritual with masks on the occasion of the Feast of Forgiveness, through the dream of a child who is obsessed with the severe illness of his sister.

Red Church

1976 • 17 min • Australia

“I wanted to make a sequel to Chants…the gold against black, but I wasn’t quite sure how. One day I went to St Mary’s Cathedral here in Sydney. After looking at the stained glass windows for some time, on the way out I noticed that they were selling slides of the interior…and whoever photographed the stained glass had used a red filter. This was the image I was after…red against black. By simply photographing and rephotographing the slide (up to 200 times, in some cases)…and varying the exposure by changing the distance between the light source and the slide, I was able to give the feeling of looking up…which is what you do in a church…from the knave up to the stained glass up to the ceiling…up to heaven in this red light. The upward motion was layered without visible edits by superimposing strips of the varyingly exposed film, in the lab.” (Paul Winkler)

Try-Angle Spiral Piano Boogie

1976 • 23 min

A short experimental film by Phil Morton.

Shuttlecock

1976 • 55 min

Sam likes his children to be grown-up chaps. So nine-year-old Harry is at a disadvantage in the battle of wits that develops...

Room

1976 • 17 min • Japan

Impressions

1976 • 14 min

The filmmaker threads together the pieces exhibited at the third TRIENNALE-INDIA held in New Delhi in 1975.

Blue Star Mine

1976 • 4 min

A high energy, twisted, psychedelic animation featuring unexpected transformations of various organic and non-organic forms. Produced at Cal Arts, ca. 1976.

El ama de casa

1976 • 15 min

A critical portrait of the life of housewives in a patriarchal society.

Another Life

1976 • 11 min • Japan

Head

1976 • 12 min • Soviet Union

Staggeringly simple films: a man itching his back, a man thinking, a man yawning, but like the works of Samuel Beckett, these minute gestures stand in as grand statements of the human condition, akin to the films of Bas Jan Ader and Marcel Broodthaers.

Display Simulations of 6-Legged Walking

1976 • 7 min • Soviet Union

A display simulation of a 6-legged ant-like walker traversing various paths and navigating obstacles. The research was aimed at a planetary rover that would get around by walking. Created by D.E. (D.I.?) Okhotsimsky, et al, for the Insitute of Applied Mechanics, USSR Academy of Sciences. Titles likely translated to English by Stanford AI Lab and edited together by Suzanne Kandra in 1976 for a Polish conference; The animation itself may date back as early as 1972.

Potters at Work

1976 • 30 min

Filmed in the traditional pottery making villages, Onda and Koishibara on the island of Kyushu in Southern Japan. The film presents the workshops of Shigeki Sakamoto in Onda and Kumao Ohta in Koishibara.

Skins

1976 • 7 min • United States of America

"Skins" is a silent film. No sound. I shot it on 8mm film in 1972 and finished it in 1976 as a 16mm film. The surface of motion picture film is organic matter, made from skin and hooves of cattle. Motion picture film, especially color film, has an emulsion of slightly varying thickness, so that the images on each physical frame can be seen in slight relief when looked at under reflected light. This surface structure is exploited in "Skins", through a slow process of soaking in water until dye layers (first yellow, then magenta, and last cyan) that constitute the images, lift off the film substrate and rearrange themselves in curtains of wrinkled matter. The effect is to reanimate the original subject matter of the film recording, taxidermy animals in a natural history museum diorama. Another effect is to unleash the organic matter of emulsion first animated by a living creature. (Barbara Lattanzi)

Hand and Body Transformations

1976 • 2 min

Byron Grush's first handmade film.

Last Supper Second Coming

1976 • 4 min

Tony Phillips film. 1976

Black & Decker Hedgetrimmer Murders

1976 • 15 min

Krogstad's second great animation film. The film is about such dubiously related topics as the Teamsters Union, necrophilia and premeditated murder.

Sound of One

1976 • 11 min

Financed by the National Endowment of the Arts. Prior to filming the SOUND OF ONE, Bartlett studied dance as a student enrolled at the Inner Research Institute. His teacher was Martin Inn. This student-teacher relationship evolved into a collaboration in which Barlett and Inn scripted a summer workshop course entitled The Application of T'si Chi Ch'uan to the Art of Filmmaking. SOUND OF ONE is the fruit of that program, a melding of the two disciplines. SOUND OF ONE records the short form of the T'ai Chi dance as a solo figure moves through changing landscapes – oceanside to forest to volcano peak – to represent the five elements: water, wood, fire, air and metal.

Fur (But Less Fun)

1976 • 15 min

Short work.

Action, Stone-Nail-String-Light

1976 • 15 min • Japan

A Film by Keiji Uematsu.

Brief Spring

1976 • 38 min • Iran

A mother takes her lazy son out of the house to work, the boy is on his sightseeing while lying by the river, notices flowers that are on the water, the flowers come from a garden where a young girl is imprisoned by a demon.