All Films

Little Fire

1976 • 10 min • Soviet Union

This story is about a little red foal who was recently born, and he is yet to become man's first friend and helper. And, as it turns out, for this it is not at all necessary to be the strongest, nor the fastest, nor the most dexterous. The main thing is to be kind, and then for your best friend you will always be the best.

True Friends

1976 • 11 min • Soviet Union

Little Mouse is finding new friends when his mother leaves him alone for a while.

Pro-Wrestling Star Aztekaiser

1976 • 24 min

In the pilot episode: Azteckaiser has a mystical gem on the forehead of his mask called the Star of Aztec, which grants the wearer incredible power (as well as turning him and his surroundings into anime).

O Aborto Não É um Crime

1976 • 45 min

Polemical short documentary, produced by Cinequipe.

Boy and Girl of Britain

1976 • 16 min

Introduces the English countryside, life in London, and examples of English institutions and values, with the typical experiences a boy and girl have in traveling from their village and in visiting London.

A Look at You: On the Bus

1976 • 8 min • United States of America

Puppets demonstrate the correct ways in which to board, ride and exit a school bus safely, and we are aided with live action examples of real children going through the same procedures. Filmed in Ft Worth.

The Accident

1976 • 25 min • Finland

Traffic education film.

Finger Film

1976 • 10 min

A taxonomy of manipulation, gesture, and touch for a computer research project with touch-sensitive displays, Super 8 film, MIT Architecture Machine Group.

Scarborough Bank Holiday

1976 • 26 min

A short documentary about a northern English seaside town on a public holiday.

At Seaside

1976 • 10 min • Soviet Union

How Curious defeated the sea robbers.

The Band Passed the Street

1976 • 9 min • Soviet Union

A movie about wonders of childhood, the transformative power of music, and sincere happiness.

Deniska-Denis

1976 • 27 min • Soviet Union

About the behavior of a three-year-old child in the family - for 20 days, the film crew observed the process of learning about the world around the baby. The film was shot with a hidden camera.

Triste alborada

1976 • 30 min • Mexico

Time & Motion Study

1976 • 13 min

The first of these is the simple domestic task of washing dishes, and the second is the aesthetic task of filming the first task. I, the filmmaker, am the protagonist in both acts, controlling the two cameras, which record the action. - M.L.G.

Once Upon a Time

1976 • 18 min • Soviet Union

A riff on "The Taming of the Shrew" inspired by Georgian folk tales.

Straszny Dwór

1976 • 34 min

Abridged film version of the Moniuszko's opera.

Stoned Vienna

1976 • 20 min

The theme is a wordless but nonetheless critical observation and juxtaposition of the historical and - at the time - modern architecture in Vienna with the decay, destruction and redesign of functional buildings, the beauty and ugliness of an old city and its pathos, and its new outskirts. In the second part of the film, a technique of double exposure, the superimposition of color negative and positive, is used as a kind of transfiguration of the situation. (...) Stoned Vienna was made around the same time as ViennaFilm 1896-1976 by Ernst Schmidt jr. That's why there are a number of parallels that came about by chance. A repeatedly exposed scene, the wax doll Dolly, a symbol of the way Vienna is treated, was made available to Ernst Schmidt jr. as a contribution to his ViennaFilm. (Moucle Blackout)

Les noces dérobées

1976 • 15 min • Belgium

The story of a dysfunctional family in a miserable butcher shop.

Winter Count

1976 • 7 min

"This film, narrated by an elderly woman, shows how Oglala Sioux pictorially recorded their calendar histories on buffalo hides, called 'winter counts.'" (US National Archives). Directed, produced, and edited by Oscar-nominated editor, Stephen E. Rivkin. The film was made with the Young Filmmaker Bicentennial Grant provided by the United States Information Agency.

Light Up Your Sun

1976 • 20 min • Soviet Union

Construction of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant.

Rubber Cement

1976 • 10 min

An anarchic collage of invention, Rubber Cement uses rotoscoped family footage together with found objects to create an almost free-form animation bursting with color and movement.

Miners

1976 • 25 min • United Kingdom

With footage shot deep within the mine, this is an account of life of an English mining town and what it is like to work below ground as told by the miners', and their wives' within their homes.

Cosas de mi vida

1976 • 25 min • Mexico, United States of America

Strand spent over twenty years documenting her friend Anselmo Aguascalientes’ life, eventually creating a stunning trilogy of films—Anselmo, Cosas de mi vida, and Anselmo and the Women—tender portraits that are also glimpses into poverty, resourcefulness, perseverance and patriarchy.

Trapline

1976 • 18 min • United Kingdom, Canada

Ellie Epp’s 12-shot study of a soon-to-be-demolished public bath in London, which “maps another way out of structural film toward a cinema of delicate implication".