All Films

Healthcaring from Our End of the Speculum

1976 • 32 min

Healthcaring is a short documentary that focuses on the historical and contemporary abuses women have suffered at the hands of mostly male practitioners, and depicts solutions women find to lack of access to comprehensive health care in the 1970s.

Agulana

1976 • 15 min • Belgium

Agulana, February 29th, 3 P.M... That day, a concert took place at the Opera, broadcasted on radio and speakers set up in the streets. The entire population was captivated. So they didn't notice when strange incidents started to happen... (kg)

Glass Shadows

1976 • 13 min • United States of America

"Glass Shadows is a sensual formalistic diary, filmed in the early morning light of my studio. The primary images are of my Bolex-filming nude reflection set within window frames, a pane of glass, and light projected by the rising sun. The film moves forward via on-going exploration of reflected and overlapping images––sustained by light, color, and the rhythmic pulse of a leaky kitchen faucet. A fusion of form and subject is inevitable within a work that is the story of its making." - Holly Fisher

Color of Korea

1976 • 8 min • South Korea

It shows Korea’s traditional colors and culture through the use of superimposing. It is an experimental film, which not only tries to show Korean traditional culture through the use of color, but also tries to show the modern history of Korea.

America of the seventies. Two New York City

1976 • 50 min • Soviet Union

New York is the largest city in the modern world. In greater New York, together with the suburbs, in the 1970s, sixteen million people live, and in the city itself there are about ten million. Americans speak differently about New York - some argue that New York is not America, others, on the contrary, are convinced that this is the most American of all American cities. Apparently both are right...

Rock Garden

1976 • 10 min • Canada

A two-channel installation from the Modern Television Loop series. Rock Garden shows two continuous shots of stone piles. On one monitor we see a close-up of hands grasping stones off the pile and tossing them off until the pile dwindles. The second monitor is a long shot of tossing stones to yet another pile.

Congruent Triangles

1976 • 7 min • United States of America

In this melding of art and science, the Cornwells create a quasi-hypnotic take on a mathematical construct.

The Tale of the Man, the Wheel and the Plane Tree

1976 • 29 min • Soviet Union

About the purpose of man on earth, about man's awareness of the need to fight for his happiness.

At the Blue Bay

1976 • 52 min • Soviet Union

About the last days of the poet Maxim Bogdanovich's life (1891 — 1917).

Pour vous servir

1976 • 40 min • Belgium

1976: a university hospital in Brussels. Old women gather in a common room. Sick? Perhaps. Lonely, above all. The film is also the perspective of a North African woman on other women, nurses and patients. The medical staff discuss their working conditions, and the filmmaker questions, challenges and bears witness to what she sees in this ‘death ward’. Another illness. Unclassified. A very malignant tumour. A tumour that proliferates in a society ‘proud’ of its social security system but which creates a ghetto of the unproductive, the ‘left behind’, the elderly who hurt themselves by contemplating their loneliness in a hospital ward.

Negret un oficio

1976 • 9 min • Colombia

Documentary following the work of Colombian sculptor Edgar Negret.

Mal-ander

1976 • 52 min • Netherlands

A power ritual at a house and a power struggle during a journey over land and water.

Born for Hard Luck: Peg Leg Sam Jackson

1976 • 29 min

A portrait of Arthur "Peg Leg Sam" Jackson --black harmonica player, singer, and comedian who made his living "busking" on the street and performing in patent-medicine shows touring southern towns. Footage includes excerpts from one of his last medicine shows, videotaped at a county fair in 1972, and material filmed near his home in South Carolina in 1975. The performance includes harmonica solos, songs, a parody of a chanted sermon, folktales and reminiscences, and three buck dances.

Merce by Merce by Paik Part One: Blue Studio: Five Segments 1975-1976

1976 • 15 min • United States of America

Blue Studio: Five Segments is a groundbreaking work of videodance by postmodern master Merce Cunningham and his then filmmaker-in-residence, Charles Atlas. In a series of short pieces choreographed and performed specifically for video space, Cunningham is multiplied, overlaid and transported from the studio to a series of unexpected landscapes. Cunningham's gestural dance is manipulated to the accompaniment of a disjunctive audio collage that includes the voices of John Cage and Jasper Johns.

Sidewinders Delta

1976 • 21 min • United States of America

Experimental film with desert scenes in which optical printing is used to achieve unusual effects.

As You Like It

1976 • 22 min • Hungary

The director has visited tens of cemeteries. He records monuments above mass graves and memorials that people pile above the ground where the dead bodies lie.

Cube and Room Drawings

1976 • 13 min

Cube and Room Drawings begins with a view looking down at an angle toward grey paper covering the floor. A performer enters from the back of the scene and begins drawing lines on the floor. The lines are the beginning of a drawing of a distorted cube. The performer leaves the scene. The paper begins to rotate on the floor. As the paper rotates the cube gradually becomes correctly oriented, as if it were drawn on a vertical piece of paper. The performer enters again and draws another cube that corresponds to the perspective of the other cube. After leaving and re-entering the performer draws red receding lines on the floor. He leaves and the paper rotates and the red lines become a grid that corresponds to the vertical screen. The film continues with several additional actions that continue this theme. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

Rude Awakening

1976 • 36 min

Sonbert's vivid color palette enhances the ritualistic nature of each action observed. Set against this lush panorama, Sonbert subverts the expectation of classic cinematography with a liberal sprinkling of avant-garde techniques. The incorporation of the materiality of film, the treatment of light, and the use of a hand-held camera, all suggest the influence of Stan Brakhage (Sonbert's "hero"). Sonbert's use of the shot as the foundation of his silent montage works parallels the use of the frame as the basic filmmaking unit in the films of Gregory Markopoulos (Sonbert's "mentor"). -- Jon Gartenberg. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 1998.

Musical Holdouts

1976 • 47 min

An expansive survey of American musical subcultures that steadfastly refuse to be blanded by mainstream consciousness.

Microworld

1976 • 15 min • United States of America

Back in 1976, microprocessors had a maximum of 8.5K transistors for 64bits of memory. The Queen of England sent her first email, and Steve Wozniak designed the Apple I. And a post-Star Trek but pre-TJ Hooker William Shatner made this film for AT&T about the future of microprocessors.

High Fidelity

1976 • 3 min • United Kingdom

In this animated short, a half-naked woman dances with her black-suited partner.

Art Education

1976 • 8 min • United States of America, Austria

Feministic interpretations of famous paintings by Vermeer, Michelangelo and others.

These Bright Northern Nights

1976 • 15 min • Norway

Erik Løchen struggles to find the midnight sun.

Biljana Returned from London

1976 • 6 min • Yugoslavia

A man’s female friend who just came back from London spends time on the river shore.