All Films

Christmas 1972

1976 • 9 min

The sight of pathos, madness and loneliness, Christmas 1972 - a time of Nixon, Agnew, Vietnam and Cambodia

The Magic Kingdom at... Walt Disney World

1976 • 10 min • United States of America

This fun travelogue takes us to Walt Disney World in Orlando Florida.

È solo a noi che sta la decisione

1976 • 33 min

The right to abortion is one of the central themes of Italian feminism in the 1970s. this film criticizes the interference of the Catholic church and the difficulties of arriving at a law legalizing it.

Film Without

1976 • 43 min • United Kingdom

This immersive experimental film work demonstrates the influence of collage and psychedelic light shows. Constructed using the Debrie contact printer at the London Filmmakers’ Co-operative, it employs a musical and associative editing style, introducing colour-fields and symmetrical effects that transform the diverse source material. Stuart Pound’s transitions gently toy with the viewer’s perception.

Meta-Marcel: Window (Flowers)

1976 • 4 min

Meta-Marcel: Window (Flowers) adapts Marcel Duchamp’s ready-made Fresh Window (1920/1964) to the realm of film. [Overview courtesy of TWO x TWO for AIDS and Art]

The Fire-Fairy

1976 • 30 min • Soviet Union

A film adaptation of Pavel Bazhov's short story.

Marten's Bar

1976 • 5 min

Night on the streets of New York. "Dawn enters the sunk city". A sonnet by Edwin Denby, who reads it and appears briefly in the distance. "old sixth ... the lunge of headlights ... the alive, the dead, answer, ask ..." — The Film-Makers' Cooperative

454 Villa Street

1976 • 10 min

UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Trapped in a tiny house with her oppressive husband, a woman's thoughts of freedom echo off the walls.

The Wolves and the Sheeps

1976 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The parable of a flock of sheep that defeated a pack of wolves.

Children's Heroes - Kevin Keegan

1976 • 1 min • United Kingdom

British Public Information Film about the importance of looking both ways before crossing the street.

Rabies Outbreak

1976 • 1 min

British Public Information Film detailing how to behave during the rabies outbreak of 1976.

The Anecdote about the Meter

1976 • 3 min

A visit to the cafe develops into a Dadaist parody of real socialist service.

Guguta the Postman

1976 • 9 min • Soviet Union

The story of how the boy Gugutse decided to help the rural postman.

Fight! Our Heroes' Great Gathering

1976 • 54 min • Japan

A special one-off program, featuring Toei's tokusatsu superheroes, which was broadcast on NET.

Sea Salt

1976 • 27 min • Soviet Union

The Cactus

1976 • 17 min • Soviet Union

A tale about a man who dreamed of growing a blue cactus and about a Hedgehog who dreamed of finding a friend.

… Pela Razão Que Têm!

1976 • 39 min • Portugal

Shortly after the fall of the Salazar dictatorship, in the early days of PREC, one of the first land occupations in the liberated country took place in the village of Quebradas (near Rio Maior). It was the first Basista occupation of that period. Soon after recovering the "land that was ours and was stolen from us", the workers elected a committee and formed a co-operative. There's a sense that the class struggle has reached its peak. …PELA RAZÃO QUE TÊM! is a rare case of a re-enactment documentary, in which the peasants themselves reenact the remarkable events of this claim, just after 25 November, when many of these operations were being reversed.

Un Miliardo di Segreti

1976 • 46 min

Super8 film by Marco Paolo Pavese.

A Prepared Text

1976 • 5 min

Shot in one continuous take and exclusively featuring Dana Hodgon's face and voice as he delivers an ironically edited monologue.

Aranhol

1976 • 1 min • Brazil

A brown spot grows and develops into the shape of a spider, which shrinks and enlarges in a repetition of frames. The spider transforms into a bird, which changes its head and performs a flying motion from the center of the screen to the lower left corner, where its shape degrades and recomposes itself into the shape of another bird, which flies toward the right side of the frame. The word “end” gradually appears, formed by small, discontinuous strokes. While writing the letter M, a hand holding a pen appears, writing. The small strokes are transformed into continuous letters, and the last movement is the transformation of the letter I into a stick figure waving, accompanied by a speech bubble containing the word “end” again.

24 Images Per Second

1976 • 11 min

The intriguing world of cinema, explored as both industry and technical art: production in a flash; the studio as ritual; location shooting; editing; sound; the laboratory; animation; fascination — all unfolding at 24 frames per second.

Take the 5:10 to Dreamland

1976 • 6 min • United States of America

Its slow somnambulic rhythm, its animalistic jungle sounds as well as the eerily mixed images create a dream mood that comes closest to my actual dreaming-feeling. The long black phases between the sequences are as important as the images themselves because they leave empty space where the "echo" of the last image can seep through without interfering with the following image. But our logical mind still somehow feels compelled to construe some kind of sense, parallel, or some erratic story out of it.

Addio Anatolia

1976 • 36 min • Greece

Staros Tornes' first non-fiction short combines a beautifully poetic text with a series of tracking shots in the streets of Rome, set to music by Charlotte Van Gelder. Somewhere between documentary and poetic essay, this film was born out of Tornes' love for Africa and the Orients, his never-ending agony over bloody revolutions and his passionate use of cinema to approach the Other

Labyrinth

1976 • 12 min • Italy

A man and a woman sit in a room and when the wind blows the window open, the man imagines what would happen if he kills the woman and the following drama blurs the boundaries between reality and fiction.