All Films

Intuition

1976 • 5 min

"This film was generated in the Image Processing Laboratory of the University of Southern California, and was the first computer-generated film made there. The image consists of a single black and white frame of a digitized glass container and then rotated in color following the gray levels of a computer (crt). The sound consists of an original dripping water composition, performed in a dark room in black and white. The film is part of a larger work entitled Manifestations of A Cube, which also includes photographic images and a book." –Sheila Pinkel

Untitled

1976 • 4 min • Soviet Union

Rarely seen, this gem of Armenian avant-garde art is a gesture of deviance; a political commentary that positively reverses the image of isolation current among cultural pessimists, as a seizure of space in a world of standardization, of the mass society.

Christiane et Monique - LIP V

1976 • 30 min • France

Monique (an advertising assistant) and Christine (a semi-skilled worker) talk about how difficult it is for a woman working in a struggling factory (Lip), about issues of internal democracy within the trade union and the end of work in the current situation.

The Centuries Surround Me with Fire

1976 • 47 min

A documentary, originally produced for Dutch television, on the life and works of Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938), the groundbreaking Soviet poet and dissident.

La Lisière de la miséricorde

1976 • 33 min • France

Impératrice

1976 • 7 min • France

Big Tip/Back Up/Shout Out

1976 • 10 min • United States of America

Lynda Benglis was a visiting artist at CalArts in 1973 when she encouraged then-student Susan Mogul to explore video as a medium. "Big Tip/Back Up/Shout Out" is a direct monologue to the camera about the economic impossibilities of being an artist, especially as a woman. “Her extroversion is so extreme that her story leaps from the vacuum around her, over the camera and off the screen entirely.” —Artforum, from a review after the premiere of this video at Anthology Film Archives in 1976, as part of a program curated by Shigeko Kubota.

On the Radio, on the Screen

1976 • 8 min • France

The Good Old Oar

1976 • 5 min

A short film about an oar and the motor engines that should replace it.

Cardinal Fires

1976 • 8 min • United States of America

Peter Wiehl: Artwork 1975-2018 (2018) featured Cardinal Fires and Arrowcatcher, among other digitized films, paintings, and sculptures. The exhibition was held at the Mark W. Potter Gallery, Taft School, Watertown, Connecticut. Arrowcatcher was the subject of a 2007 spotlight presentation by the non-profit screening space Oporto, Lisbon, Portugal. After a couple of years in the San Francisco Bay Area, Wiehl moved and worked in the film industry. Wiehl has performed and exhibited at such venues as La Mamelle, San Francisco, Exile Art Gallery, Los Angeles, Spokane Art Center, Washington, Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York City, Albright Knox-Museum, Buffalo, New York, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, among others. Wiehl currently lives and works in Bridgewater, Connecticut.

Film for Log Hill Dogs: The Log Hill Story

1976 • 2 min • United States of America

Constantly changing forms, a plains landscape. One of two films based on David and Diana's life in their house in Colorado, which had just burned down. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2008.

Greek Community in Heidelberg

1976 • 30 min • Greece

The Greek guest workers -gästarbeiter- in the industrially developed central and northern Europe in the mid 70s.

Zoomfilm

1976 • 28 min • Australia

An experimental film dedicated to the "blink". Dynamic abstractions (created through the use of prodigious optical printing and directly working the film frame) investigate the nature of human optics. Music by Maurizio Kagel.

Game

1976 • 15 min • Netherlands

A man and a woman are in a desolate landscape. The camera spies on them; they look around, and stare out into space. The accompanying barrel organ music is overwhelmed by a bombardment of lightning bolts or shellfire.

Ruffs

1976 • 15 min • Soviet Union

Interesting and fancy spring tournaments are commencing on the beach meadows. The male ruffs gather here for their spectacular and complex lekking. It is the content of their life. The male bird's plumage beats the cleverest fashion designer's fantasies. We can distinguish the main players, showing off their bright collars, from their satellites and the rejected. In contrast to many other lekking games, the ruffs' lekking has lost its combative character and become completely ritualistic.

Skyworks: "Light, Lighten, Lightning" (Three Mile Drop)

1976 • 16 min • United States of America

16mm film (color, sound); 16 min.

The 36 Dramatic Situations of an Earlier Time and a Different Place

1976 • 4 min

The film consists of a pencil-sketch animation which depicts a story in which all of the thirty-six dramatic situations listed occur in the order above. Some of the situations recur or continue during others, and are indicated in parentheses. The film is narrated by a woman who identifies herself as "Pam Held" (no spelling given).

The Butterfly

1976 • 14 min

A poetic encounter between a child and a butterfly

Lost Shoe Blues

1976 • 4 min • United States of America

In Lost Shoe Blues, the camera walks looking over weeds growing in landfill sand dumped to extend the edges of Battery Park City. We hears a song about losing shoes and losing time as nature forces persist. At this time in New York City, there actually were lost landscapes strewn with single cast off shoes, weeds, and other bits of life.

30 Days: Speed Or Gravity

1976 • 23 min

Drawing—Black

1976 • 3 min • Japan

A Film by Keiji Uematsu.

Ruckus Manhattan

1976 • 60 min

Grooms' sculptural masterpiece "Ruckus Manhattan" took thirteen months to contruct. It was originally meant to encompass all of Manhattan Island up to the Cloisters, but time and money ran out of Midtown Manhattan. The work was desinged for 88 glass-enclosed space with thirty-foot high ceilings. To prepare for this huge environmental sculpture "celebrating" in Karen Cooper's words, "the gritty glamour and chaotic beauty that is New York City," Red and Mimi Grooms hiked and rode through Manhattan, making sketches and taking photographs. Then they collected collaborators and went to work, using tons of hardware, paints, elastic, steel, and fabric.

El Animalito Torpe

1976 • 6 min • Cuba

A children’s short directed by one of the most well-known figures in Cuban animation.

Cetacean

1976 • 9 min • United States of America

A quiet mediation on the sea (and what might lie beneath the surface?) from the late 70s.