All Films

Forced Response

1976 • 2 min • Poland

In "Forced Response", Jolanta Marcolla goes out to the crowded city streets with a camera operator to confront passersby with the camera and provoke their reactions, thus shaking them out of the fast-paced rhythm of urban everyday life.

Sequels in Transfigured Time

1976 • 11 min • Canada

The principle of stillness in Sequels in trasfigured times is like a botanical drying procedure for film which conserves a fixed but superb memory of the shapes.

Herança

1976 • 9 min • Brazil

Aramprunyà

1976 • 19 min • Spain

Love, fantasy and legend are almost exceptional words in the filmography of Els 5 QK’s, and that is what makes Aramprunyà so special. A poetic short film where our hero arrives at the ruins of a castle to discover that in his past life he was a passionate princess.

Midas

1976 • 5 min • France

Susan Through Corn

1976 • 2 min • United States of America

Local Minneapolis based filmmaker Kathleen Laughlin's short experimental film follows her sister on a spirited excursion through a tall August cornfield about to be harvested.

Magic Bird

1976 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Roze Stiebra's animation film based on Latvian folktales.

Rain Seeds

1976 • 1 min • United States of America

Described by Beams as an “apology film” created after accidentally killing a friend's beloved cactus, this short work weaves text and image to depict the life cycle of a plant.

Acts of Revolution

1976 • 6 min • United States of America

Concluding that “nothing is too small for a revolution,” Macdonald proposes that simple things like listening, reading to one’s children, and crying can be revolutionary acts.

Fire Silueta

1976 • 6 min

A film by Ana Mendieta

Backyard

1976 • 15 min • Australia

“This was my first film using the matte-box. Using images of my own backyard, I found that I could create a kind of mysterious story, an almost supernatural effect. The mystery is never revealed, but there is something there. By photographing tiny vertical slivers through different mattes and lenses, carefully rewinding the film in the camera, then exposing bit by bit, I achieved this ‘corrugated’ effect. All of a sudden you get motion in something where there is no motion.” (Paul Winkler)

Software

1976 • 7 min

A meditative study of the human hand. Coupled with our intelligence it serves as the genesis of success as a species and the ability to destroy ourselves.

Nigun

1976 • 9 min

Very early film by Andrea Gomez. 1976. Unorthodox interpretation of Genesis Adam and Eve story.

Amass

1976 • 30 min • Canada

A 4 channel video installation (Hill, Wall, Cliff, Roof). A video dance work based on the accumulation 24 movements. The multi-layered effect is structuralist and sculptural, exploring the elements of real, delayed, edited and inherent video time.

Little Red Riding Hood Told by 160 Dutch People

1976 • 19 min • Netherlands

Residents of the same street in Haarlem, and acquaintances and relatives of Kees Hin, together tell the story of Little Red Riding Hood, each in fifteen words.

A Day at the Central Market

1976 • 25 min • Taiwan

When Taipei is still quiet and asleep, trucks after trucks emerge in the dark with fresh fruits and vegetables, seafood and meat. Intermediate wholesalers' auction chants rise and fall; the Central Market is getting ready to feed the city's population. The film offers a glimpse into the lively hustle and bustle of the Market in the 1970s, but was likely banned from broadcast due to its perceived display of the unhygienic conditions.

Gilgamesh

1976 • 17 min • Poland

Sportflesh

1976 • 3 min • Netherlands

In a series of transformations, a boy with a football under his arm is transformed into increasingly aggressive-looking sportsmen.

Switch! Monitor! Drift!

1976 • 4 min • United States of America

B&W Vasulka project with a rotating camera, keyed and alternating directions. This experiment is excerpted in their 1977 work Orbital Obsessions.

Lubusz Land

1976 • 53 min • Poland

A travel and nature documentary showing the history and post-war achievements of cities and towns in the Lubusz Region, including the attractions of Miedzyrzecz, Gorzow, Zielona Gora, Lubniewice, and Lagow.

Images

1976 • 10 min

A succession of visual emotions in a sort of “filmed rotogravure,” where sequences and segments follow an ironic and dramatic logic that highlights the obsessions, the poverty, and the myths that shook the neoconsumerist society of those years. This approach frames, but at the same time transcends, pure reportage, venturing into a reflection on the meaning of seeing and imagining. The techniques employed range from direct rotoscope to works-in-progress, from citationism to photographic contamination.

Honeymation

1976 • 5 min • Hungary

A young man calls his friend, goes to war, returns wounded and reunites with his friend.

Perisphere

1976 • 15 min

A traffic circle (in North Berkeley). The forcefield around the centre. Single-framed over the course of about 9 months.

Moments

1976 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Peeter Tooming's photofilm about the history of photography in Estonia.