All Films

Going to Work

1976 • 7 min • United States of America

Daily morning trudge and trolley through snow and ice; pigeons, other winter beauties.

Libertários

1976 • 29 min • Brazil

A documentary about the history of the anarchist-led workers' movement in Brazil. It shows the transformation of immigrants into the first urban workers and chronicles the most important strikes, the successes and defeats of the movement, from the end of the 19th century until 1922.

About the Gnome Which Left the Home

1976 • 9 min • Soviet Union

The story about the gnome and his anthropomorphic house which is afraid of the dark.

In contextus

1976 • 28 min • France

Around three boys accomplices to playful and shy grace, Stéphane Marti inaugurates his cinematographic writing.

Rabade Vaikuses

1976 • 15 min • Soviet Union

Estonian primitive and untouched bogs and folk songs. Composer Lepo Sumera, singer Anne Maasik.

Nutrition: The All-American Meal

1976 • 11 min • United States of America

The increasing reliance of 1970's America on fast food meals is examined, and ways to improve on this diet are suggested.

Highs

1976 • 17 min • United States of America

Mid-period Brakahge short. "Haiku cartoons."

Journey

1976 • 6 min

Images of the filmmaker on a train are intercut with shots of an ice cream parlour, shops, a woman glancing at herself of the mirror, etc suggesting the filmmaker’s reverie as she looks out of the train window.

Handcrank Clock

1976 • 3 min • United Kingdom

Four Sided Tape

1976 • 3 min

Here, Peter Campus explores video, not as a demonstration of special effects, but as a way of placing his own body in the presence of an immediate double.

Courtesy: A Good Eggsample

1976 • 10 min • United States of America

An animated film which uses eggs to show the role and importance of courtesy at school.

Piano Film

1976 • 4 min

A derelict piano in the yard outside the old Film Co-Op. The keys had come loose and floated off. I play it, moving the keys and listening carefully.' - AN.

Ain't We Having Fun?

1976 • 4 min

Short comedy by Chuck Statler.

La Valse Waltz

1976 • 14 min

The whirl of the dance is like a reincarnation. From time to time, the dancer sits down to drink tea. But when the music starts, the waltz recalls.

The Body Sculpters

1976 • 54 min • Canada

This documentary was made at the request of Vidéographe on the occasion of the Montreal Olympic Games and as part of the series Sports à part. A broad perspective on the world of bodybuilding, it calls on cultural analysts and trainers as well as a few of those vying for the title of Mr. Montreal to give the viewer insight into the mindset and motivations of the bodybuilder.

Trio

1976 • 7 min • United States of America

A woman and two men talking, seen one by one, in a montage of three movements that make up a fast-slow-fast cycle. The second movement is composed of footage of Stan Brakhage shot by filmmaker Bruce Baillie. (Marilyn Brakhage) "P.S. Images of myself in TRIO are by Bruce Baillie."–S.B.

A Report to an Academy

1976 • 41 min

A short TV film in which Carles Mira adapted a piece by Franz Kafka.

The Marshes

1976 • 45 min • Iraq

The Marshes area is a cultural extension of the Sumerian civilization by more than seven thousand years. It is the largest ecosystem of its kind in the Middle East and West Asia and constitute two-thirds of southern Iraq. In the year 1975, director Kassem Hawal decided to make a film about the Iraqi Marshes. He then wrote the script, shot the film and completed a 45 minutes documentary. But in 1985 the Iraqi regime had begun to dry it, resulting in humanitarian, cultural, environmental and natural disasters in the area with the disappearance of tens of thousands of residents, air, water and soil pollution and the extinction of countless species of birds, plants and animals. The Government have also burned the original film material, luckily, Kassem kept a copy to share it with the world.

Street Film Part I

1976 • 20 min • United States of America

"Street Film : Part One" is a metaphor for modern post-industrial life.

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow – Let Them Swing

1976 • 20 min • Germany

Housework seen from a radically subjective point of view. The film shows a woman’s hands busy washing the dishes, which include a white porcelain cup in the shape of a woman’s body. Monika Treut said of the film in 1978 that “something very familiar suddenly comes at us from the screen as something completely unusual”. It was shot with Margaret Raspé’s famous “camera helmet”, which had an Agfa Super 8 Microflex camera attached to it, placing the viewfinder in front of the eye.

The Tennis Lesson

1976 • 9 min

A brief, passionate encounter between an attractive woman and - a tennis ball machine. On the face of it, this 1975 short film is a breezy spoof on the tennis craze. But "The Tennis Lesson" also serves as a commentary on the machine age, in which human beings increasingly depend on technology to meet all their needs. Produced and directed by Steve Karp and executive producer Tom Gallagher.

Pasteur³

1976 • 22 min

What happens to a corporeal system when it's exposed to rabies and yellow fever.

Gros Loup

1976 • 6 min

Document

1976 • 8 min

16mm transfer to digital, b/w, sound, 8:22 minutes. Taking it public: micro text film of records (warrants, debts, bank checks, etc.)(2011/1976)