All Films

33 Yo-Yo Tricks

1976 • 8 min

A Yo-Yo expert does 33 tricks for the camera, one after the other.

Prologue

1976 • 3 min • Canada

The film features a dance of the elements, filmed in the woods, beach and cliffs of British Columbia with the contemporary troupe of dancers from the University of British Columbia. The special effects, obtained by caches placed in front of the camera, dissolve, giving the images a symbolic impact, insofar as they geometrically evoke alchemical symbols.

Werkstatt Zukunft II

1976 • 37 min • East Germany, Germany

People discuss their ideas of the future. In this 2nd episode of the film series, the problem of "beauty" in our current and future ideas is discussed. The demand for beauty is not just a demand on the arts, but on the various areas of life.

Le radar cherche

1976 • 7 min • France

The radar looks for an off-screen which is created from scratch and which is what one wants it to be. So we start from there, research, we find something or we do not find anything. We use the plans in their entirety, the images recorded there or elsewhere are deprived of their meaning. They are reconstructed in the overall movement of the film which is summed up (condenses) to its technical characteristics: S8 colors, 18 fps, 8mn, magnetic track lying down. The sense / sense that takes place here for 8 minutes is only the sum / combination of random elements having their own weight but which cancel each other out / add to each other / divide / multiply each other. (CJC)

Bone China

1976 • 2 min

In the tautly poetic Bone China (1976) a colourfully plumed painted bird flaps frantically around a china plate to the sound of beating wings.

Moondance I

1976 • 4 min • United States of America

One of Varela's luminous abstractions of the moon.

Bambi's Revenge

1976 • 2 min

A Great White Bird

1976 • 51 min

This film documents the efforts of a group of Canadians and Americans to save the whooping crane from extinction. They display great determination in their dealings with this independent, pre-Ice Age creature. The issues of wild animals imprinting on people and the preservation of wild animals in captivity are examined in this film. Produced in cooperation with the Canadian Wildlife Service and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service.

Firelight

1976 • 10 min • Canada

A highly personal and impressionistic piece of work, Firelight explores time. Long dissolves and pastel shades reflect time's ephemeral nature, its steady progression and the constancy of its cycles. It's a gentle film that sets the mind adrift.

Bird Lady vs. the Galloping Gonads

1976 • 1 min

"A springtime Fantasy," everything comes joyfully together in mirthful mythic warmth as Bird Lad's white line on black background richly sprouts, blossoms and bursts with pantheistic fertility.

Jacqueline et Marcel - LIP VI

1976 • 30 min

A couple working at Lip: she is a semi-skilled worker, he is head of production line. They discuss the problems regarding the women's situation, their working conditions, and internal democracy within the union. Charles Piaget gives his point of view, at a screening organised at the factory, about what Jacqueline and Marcel have said.

Motion Picture

1976 • 12 min • Hungary

Effects of refractional experiments put in the language of the film.

Resa till jordens medelpunkt

1976 • 27 min • Sweden

Interview with artist Jan Håfström about his art.

George Crumb: Voice of the Whale

1976 • 54 min • United States of America

A 54-minute portrait of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer George Crumb featuring a performance of his "Vox Balaenae for Three Masked Players."

Tales

1976 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A portrait of the prominent Latvian painter Maija Tabaka, showcasing her work process and life of artists from that time.

Zginął pies

1976 • 20 min • Poland

Tomek is searching for a lost dog.

Perpetual Motion

1976 • 6 min • Italy

Jacki

1976 • 30 min • East Germany

Andrees’ graduation project approaches the perky 14-year-old Jacki mainly through her social environment: the stressed patchwork family mother, the solitary long-distance truck driver father, the eclectic neighbourhood. The closer the film gets to its protagonists, the freer the movements of the camera become, gliding through a studio as if in a trance or flying over the nocturnal motorway as if over a UFO landing strip.

Bowl

1976 • 3 min

USPS workers go bowling.

Oremus

1976 • 3 min • Sweden

Abstract animation. The sound is recorded during a show at Gröna Lund in Stockholm, where Edmundo Zanolini and Michel Laub performs. (Filmform)

Artificial Reality

1976 • 15 min

The work resulted from one of photographic and film seances, as the artist called them. The use of the procedures of multiplication and the mutual overlapping of semitransparent images on photographic film produces the impression of movement: veiling and unveiling the private parts of the body, but also a sense of artificiality and subversion inherent in photography and film that records the image of reality and “falsifies” it at the same time.

Opinions from the Road

1976 • 5 min • Poland

The film shows new PKS equipment being introduced on routes.

E Ancora

1976 • 10 min

Experimental film by Gianni Bertini.

Suite California Stops & Passes Part 1: Tijuana to Hollywood via Death Valley

1976 • 46 min

The first part of what was intended to be a three-part experimental travelog for Nelson’s home state of California, this film covers the Mexican border, Death Valley, and Hollywood/Los Angeles.