All Films

The Monument

1976 • 5 min • Yugoslavia

The clacking of heels on the floor, to the rhythm of a measured walk, accompanies the movement of a camera that scrutinises a man in close up. Slowly, the camera turns around him, from his feet on the floor to the top of his head. The man doesn't move a muscle, with his arms lying straight by his side, as though he has become an object under a woman's eye, identifiable by the sound of her footsteps. The closeness of the camera fragments and fetishises the body. There are no wide shots at any point that might enable the man to be identified. The fragments glimpsed by the camera do not provide any identifying markers, rendering the overall view disproportionate. Like a "monument", the figure is presented to the audience.

32/76: To W + B

1976 • 8 min • Austria

I took a photograph of the view out of the window and had a very large negative made from it, which I fastened to the lens hood attacement in front of the camera. I tried to bring the negative into alignment with the real landscape which I could see through the camera. Then I filmed for months, changing the focus from near to far and then back again. (K.K.)

A Beautiful Memory

1976 • 2 min

Part of BFI's "National Coal Board Collection".

The Wall

1976 • 14 min

In 1976 Matta-Clark left for Berlin claiming that he intended to blow-up the Berlin Wall as his contribution to the New York–Downtown Manhattan: Soho show. Friends dissuaded him from such a suicidal action, and so instead he created Made in America, a piece that reflects on the political origins of the Berlin Wall and the West’s fascination with consumerism.

Switch Back

1976 • 9 min

A nostalgic work, which attempts to reconstruct the materials of postwar 35 mm newsreel footage given by the filmmakers’ friend and old tinted picture postcards. He frankly describes in his own coherent style of filmmaking how he was moved when he saw these films and photographs for the first time. An attempt to rediscover fresh and new images in the past products.

Dutchman's Photographs

1976 • 7 min • Japan

Beginning with the grounded view of bare feet walking through shallow surf, the film then seizes and, in successively cumulative layers adds frames of image-within-image until we are watching the walking feet through a tunnel. The Dutchman's Photographs becomes a kinetic reiteration of itself and in doing so, succinctly detaches from spatial illusion, beginning a temporal experiment where still photographs are transformed into cinematic "action".

Substrait (Underground Dailies)

1976 • 35 min • United States of America

In this film, Matta-Clark explored and documented the underground spaces of New York City. The artist chose a range of sites (New York Central railroad tracks, Grand Central Station, 13th Street, Croton Aqueduct in Highgate, etc.) to show the variety and complexity of the underground spaces and tunnels in the Metropolitan area.

Frozen Flashes

1976 • 30 min • Germany

A series of still photographs, is various states of photographic exposure.

The Wind Blows Where It Wishes

1976 • 17 min • France

The floral park of Moutiers in Varengeville (Normandy).

Permutations and Combinations

1976 • 8 min

A close container for chance elements. Together with She Is Away, makes apparent some features of the material form of which the entire cycle would be composed.

Brave Horsemen

1976 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Mischievous boys, who consider themselves brave horsemen, teach the puppy Julbars to scare everyone. Once, to scare a neighbor girl, they painted the puppy as a tiger, and he caught a cold. Instead of helping their Julbars, the boys decided to take revenge on the girl for her kindness, and she cured the sick puppy. And she had one more friend. He who is kinder is braver, because he is kind!

Again About the Dragon and the Knight

1976 • 10 min • Soviet Union

An animated film based on an ancient Georgian fairy tale about a dragon that captured a spring and demanded a 'beautiful girl' in exchange for water every day. A brave knight defeated the dragon and returned the spring to the people. This is the content of the original tale, but the animated film also presents alternative versions of the events.

Carrier Fish

1976 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Barronhos

1976 • 52 min • Portugal

In the hot summer of 1975, in the middle of the revolution, in the heat of political and social conflicts, a crime is committed in a slum neighborhood on the outskirts of Lisbon. Analyzing this crime, as its causes, its protagonists, its local and national context, the film proposes a hot reflection on the Revolutionary Process in Progress (Processo Revolucionário em Progresso ) that throughout the year and throughout the country, and on how political contradictions, Social and economic rights that divided Portugal as a result of the military coup of 25 April 1974.

Treeline

1976 • 3 min • United Kingdom

Track

1976 • 3 min • United Kingdom

Fim de Semana

1976 • 31 min • Brazil

Documentary about the self construction in peripheral neighborhoods of São Paulo. It gathers statements of residents of three areas: Taboão neighborhood in São Bernardo do Campo; Jardim d’Ávila in Osasco and Jardim Castilho in Embu. The film registers the life conditions in those areas and the sacrifice the workers are committed to in order to fulfill their dream of having a house: building, little by little, with the help of friends and relatives, on the weekends.

Cup Piece

1976 • 3 min • Germany

Short experimental film from Heinz Emigholz, shot in 1976; sound, no dialogue. Damn fine cup of coffee.

Gilles, José, Marcel

1976 • 20 min

A film to prove something, not for art. The strange and erotic atmosphere of this film is accentuated by a process of re-filming sequences that 'gives grain' and tarnishes the colors worn on the bodies of young men caressing each other. Shadows and light zones move to the rhythm of the pleasure given.

Fireworks

1976 • 3 min • United Kingdom

This film uses the image of fireworks (as points of light) superimposed in the camera and in the optical printer until the surface of the film begins to bleach out.

Sensitométrie VI

1976 • 20 min

A test film shot in super 8 mm and 16 mm inflated for copying. A first film "long", made with nothing, "hypnotic", slow and repetitive as it was at the time fascinating and usual to do, as an exercise in style mandatory. A period film.

Courtesy Counts a Lot

1976 • 10 min

A magic viewer teaches a bully a musical lesson in courtesy.

Freedom on the Inside

1976 • 15 min • United States of America

Five San Quentin prisoners find self identity in spite of their surroundings.

Beirut, Never Again

1976 • 35 min • Lebanon

1976 marks the beginning of Beirut’s calvary. With a child’s eyes the filmmaker follows for six months the daily destruction of the city’s walls. Every morning, between 6 and 10am she roams around Beirut while the militia from both sides rest from their night of fighting.