All Films

Palast der Republik – Haus des Volkes

1976 • 18 min • East Germany

A documentary about the planning and construction of the Palace of the Republic, Berlin.

Yin Hsien

1976 • 10 min

“Yin Hsien” means “appear-disappear,” and Michael Whitney has translated this into film through the skillful movement of T’ai-chi Chuan and Kung Fu and use of a computerized optical printer.

Ritual Re-enactment of Childhood Memories

1976 • 11 min

A complex video piece for 1/2" video thru 4 video decks: Record-Play-Record2-Play2. Performance at Gutman Library, Harvard; 16mm camera by Andrew Harmon. A 2nd camera recorded the 4 monitors. Quad decks were used to record live and delayed sounds.

The Shilluk of Southern Sudan

1976 • 52 min • United Kingdom

This film presents a compelling visual and aural analysis of Shilluk kingship in 1975, and provides a very useful complement to Evans-Pritchard’s 1948 text, The Divine Kingship of the Shilluk. Although the Reth (king) has been reduced to the status of second-class magistrate in dispute settlement by the Sundanese government, he is still the focus of political and national identity for a Shilluk people composed of competing territorial groupings. At the death of the Reth, his spirit passes into the Nile.

Fall & loss of a dear family

1976 • 2 min • Italy

Violence and dependency, chance and madness in psychological and personal relationships. The family considered a paradigmatic knot.

After the Bohlen

1976 • 11 min • France

The drama of the East German tanker on the coast of the island of Sein and the bay of Audierne.

The disfigured forest

1976 • 8 min • France

The forest is burning. By man's fault. "Accused, look at your harvest of ashes" ; this simple sentence sums up the film.

Block Island Summer Paradise

1976 • 58 min

Cinéma Vérité Documentary on Block Island, the smallest town in the smallest state. Made in the mid-70s, the film provides a glimpse into the life of the unique island town.

Some People Have to Suffer

1976 • 42 min • Canada

Bridgeview, British Columbia is less than 30 kilometres from downtown Vancouver. The residents were promised a sewer system in 1953, but more than 20 years later the sewer system has yet to be built.

Pilotone Study No. 1

1976 • 10 min

I made this film in the course of a single day using a borrowed sync. set-up. Color and sequence of event has been preserved. My concerns in the film were to photograph and record events that were anticipated, but accidental, within the confines of a format that would provide a context of determined artificiality. [Overview Courtesy of The Film-Makers' Cooperative]

Quando l'immagine non ti è chiara: appunti

1976 • 8 min • Italy

As part of my artistic research, dating back to the years from 1975 to 1978, among the objectives I felt the need to give expressive autonomy to the film medium, understood no longer as a mere reproduction of a performance, a happening or a workshop . Looking, not as a director, but as a visual artist, to a certain underground and independent Cinema, this is the first of his films (in 8mm color film) by direct editing on the camera, with internal and external shots, entirely superimposed.

Sam's Shoe Service

1976 • 21 min • United States of America

Short documentary by Cindy Neal about Sam's Shoe Service shop on West Roscoe St. in Chicago.

Concerto per clarino e VTR

1976 • 3 min • Italy

The instrument is visually "played" through camera movements. In a second phase, the video composition is set to music with the sounds of the clarinet.

Autobiografia

1976 • 5 min • Italy

Closed in an empty room, a young artist gradually creates a sculpture made of air, which is then given as a present to the world by blowing it out through the door’s keyhole.

Skyworks: Multiple Mile Drop

1976 • 21 min

The final film in Bartok's series of "Skyworks" pieces.

Black Forest Trading Post

1976 • 5 min • Canada

"In Black Forest Trading Post, the postcard landmark itself travels the world, a winking subversion of the whole idea of ‘being-there’ and of the pilgrimages that postcards, or for that matter, other souvenirs, are meant to indicate."- Stephen Broomer

A vista d'occhio

1976 • 15 min • Italy

A film be Valentina Berardinone

Pocos son los que conocen el secreto del amor

1976 • 15 min • Argentina

"The secret of love well few know; they feel an eternal thirst and feel an unquenchable hunger" writes Novalis in his poem. In turn, Narcisa converses with Rafael Maino, protagonist of many films in the diary series, opening the way to images of places, objects and music that mark the life and work of the filmmaker.

Sprich mit uns! - Lektion 3

1976 • 6 min

Short educational film about language for pupils.

Orpheus and Eurydice

1976 • 12 min • Argentina

Orpheus' song tames scales and dolphins, dictates laws to the wind and sets the rhythm of the oars that move the sea. Those who listen to it remain motionless in contemplation. Between bodies, the Patagonian landscape and the crossing of boundaries with the private record of a vacation, Narcisa Hirsch and Rafael Maino unfold among the melodies of a passage from Orphee et Eurydice. This film also bears the name "Rafael, 1976" and can be considered part of the series of the diaries with "Rafael, agosto 1984".

Working to the Beat

1976 • 9 min

A group of women is pounding millet to the rhythm of a song, a farmer is hoeing his field in tempo, and a man is dancing to the sound of drums during a ritual of possession. Those are scenes taken from previous films by Jean Rouch. The three sequences illustrates in their own way the importance of song and music in everyday life in Niger, whether in everyday chores, in working the land or during rituals.

Chronique de Bercé

1976 • 44 min • France

A film about forestry workers in the Bercé forest.

Zuremingu

1976 • 4 min • Japan

This silent, 8mm film combines two camera procedures: time lapse and the zoom lens. It aims not for technical smoothness but a beguiling abruptness. Starting at the same time each evening, the camera records, in jerky leaps, the moment when the sky darkens and an urban streetlight turns on, illuminating the screen. Alternating zooms-in and zooms-out, Ranmaru Usui – part of a Japanese 1970s movement that explored 'cinema of the soul' – offers transcendence within the everyday. – Adrian Martin

Backstage de No toquen a la nena, de Juan José Jusid

1976 • 40 min • Argentina

Backstage of the movie "No toquen a la nena" directed by Juan José Jusid