All Films

Flashing Yellows

1976 • 10 min • United Kingdom

Explaining the procedural changes to speed regulations on British railways, using signals with animated diagrams, models, and footage of trains and drivers.

Matinée 3:15

1976 • 25 min • Venezuela

A parody of a movie, including commercials and a surreal trailer. They are the striking prologue to a disappointing film, which consists of the presentation of the characters of a story that is not told. The type of estrangement that the director seeks, to which is added the direct appeal to the public, is a questioning of the role that this type of spectacle assigns to the spectator, and of the conditions that make him distinguish cinema itself from advertising and allow him to enjoy detective narrative. The mockery, moreover, is directed equally at the consumer society and at the radicals who believe they can combat it with graffiti.

Digging into the Past (Archaeology)

1976 • 14 min • United States of America

Shows students and archaeologists unearthing the remains of an ancient Indian culture in southwestern Illinois.

PSI: Boundaries of the Mind

1976 • 18 min • United States of America

Reports on an unexplained, extra sensory type of communication that researchers refer to as Psi. Shows experiments being conducted to explore and define the Psi phenomena.

Protest

1976 • 8 min

A 16 mm film shot in three sequences. First exhibited at Winchester School of Art in 1976, then at the New Contemporaries– Live Show, Acme Gallery in London (1976). The film was sent to the International Festival of Women Artists, Film Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1980. It languished in the archives in Denmark until its re-discovery by the KØN – Gender Museum Denmark in 2021. A new 4k digital scan was made by the DJCAD Media Preservation Lab at the University of Dundee in October 2021.

Christo Running Fence Reels: Acetate-Scapes

1976 • 11 min

Christo Running Fence Reels: Christo

1976 • 6 min

Christo Running Fence Reels: Charlie I

1976 • 9 min

Christo Running Fence Reels: Camera Reels

1976 • 16 min

Christo Running Fence Reels: Tape-Splice Mystery

1976 • 7 min

Struggle in New York

1976 • 57 min • United States of America

Borba u Njujorku was shot in October and November 1976 in New York. The film consists of 12 parts organised around the subject of ‘art and society’, with a strong anti-capitalist message.

The Great Blue Heron

1976 • 12 min • United States of America

Provides, through onsite study and observations of a young biologist, an introduction to the life cycle and habitat of the blue heron. Shows its cycles of migration, reproduction and growth and obstacle to survival.

Orange Bowl 1976

1976 • 28 min

Activities surrounding the Orange Bowl Festival in Miami are captured in this film. Clips of the International Junior Golf and Tennis tournaments, the Junior Orange Bowl Parade in Coral Gables and the Coronation Ball are included. The King Orange Parade, whose theme was ‘Odyssey to Freedom- 1976’ is displayed, plus the Orange Bowl game itself with Oklahoma 14, and Michigan 6.

Alkohol am Steuer

1976 • 16 min

Educational film about drunk driving.

The Column

1976 • 6 min • Bulgaria

Who will be idolized at the top of a column?

奥会津の木地師─福島県田島町針生─

1976 • 55 min • Japan

A documentary directed by Tadayoshi Himeda

None Saved

1976 • 18 min

Based on the idea of Indonesian shadow puppet plays, which combine popular songs and Hindu mythology with political satire and broad comedy, None Saved satirically plays off of the events and mass emotions surrounding Jimmy Carter’s drive for the presidency in 1976. In the film, a Javanese-style monster rises up through several incarnations until it reaches a kind of shadow-cultural Nirvana. I often made paper shadow puppets based on images of white people I found on Chinese and Japanese toy packaging, thus reversing a trend in American animation to stereotype Asian features. None Saved was strongly influenced by Harry Smith’s Heaven and Earth Magic, which presented similar tactics of disassociation and, according to the artist, a trek to heaven and back.

The Construction of Empingham Reservoir

1976 • 30 min

The construction of Empingham Reservoir (which was later known as Rutland Water).

Start of a Race, end of a show, etc.

1976 • 3 min

Footage of a yacht race and a (Highland?) Show in Kirkwall, as filmed by Margaret Tait. [this is possibly incomplete footage from her 'Aspects of Kirkwall' series?] See also Additional Information file at 11/1/455. Paper Archives 4/5/119, 4/11/651, 4/5/92. The Tait papers are deposited in Orkney Archives. Currently being catalogued. For any enquiries please contact Principal Archivist. The British Artist's Film and Video Study Collection at http://www.bftv.ac.uk/avantgarde based at Central St. Martin's College of Art and Design holds an artist's file on Margaret Tait. The British Film Institute National Library http://www.bfi.org.uk holds many of the published articles on her and her work. In 1979 Margaret Tait was the subject of a BBC Scotland 'Spectrum' arts programme.

Safe Play: Danger Places

1976 • 14 min

Presents, through the use of pantomime, the potentially dangerous places where children are apt to play or hide. Portrays the children playing hide-and-seek with a mime, and shows the unsafe locations in which the children choose to hide: the trunk of a car, a construction pipe, an abandoned house, a railroad car, and an unused freezer. Concludes open-endedly as the mime fails to find the children.

Human Trafficking at the Northern State Border

1976 • 15 min • East Germany

Reconstruction of a smuggling operation exploiting the transit agreement by the human trafficking gang Mierendorff: This Stasi training film reenacts the operational procedures of an escape attempt. Where did they meet? Where were people hidden in the car? What tricks were used?

Rex The Pal

1976 • 9 min • Poland

Rex and his master (a boy) read a mushroom atlas together, then they set out for the forest. The dog is very careful, sniffing for edible mushrooms. After some time, he finds a huge boletus. Rex can’t believe his eyes – there’s a dwarf underneath a toadstool. A storm blows up, the friends go home.

There's Wood in my Yard

1976 • 56 min

Emma

1976 • 6 min • United States of America

A cat climbs a screen, men squat on the pavement to gamble behind a 7-11, solarized film warbles in and out. A personal, quiet diary film, portraying an early apartment, an early cat, an early relationship in Kansas City. Uses self-conscious Eisenstein cutting to convey the indolent, charged air-before-a-storm atmosphere that pervaded that era.