All Films

Glauben Sie nicht, dass ich eine Amazone bin

1976 • 11 min

In Glauben Sie nicht, dass ich eine Amazone bin (Don't you believe that I am an Amazon), Ulrike Rosenbach evokes the history of female representation since ancient Greece. A closed-circuit-video projects the face of the artist and a cutout reproduction of Stefan Lochner's Madonna of the Rose Bower (1448) onto one another. The video-portrait of the 33-year-old artist practicing archery animates the icon of the holy virgin. Rosenbach shoots fifteen arrows into the face of the Madonna and simultaneously into herself. Representing the allegorical roles of women as "mothers, housewives, prostitutes, saints, virgins, or Amazons," the Madonna also evokes the myth of the Greek goddess Artemis.

Sweet & Sour

1976 • 12 min

Five individual sections set side by side with contrasting associations. Makes use of rephotography animation, motorized mattes and direct frame-by-frame interaction with the source footage.

The Door

1976 • 8 min • Soviet Union

Satirical cartoon-almanac, consisting of four stories: "Elevator", "Gossip Girls", "Fame" and "The Door".

The World of Franklin and Jefferson: The Opening Of An Exhibition

1976 • 6 min

A short film of the opening of the last museum exhibition prepared by the Eames. The exhibition was called "The World of Franklin and Jefferson" and was to celebrate the bicentennial of the American Revolution.

Isfahan

1976 • 25 min

The city of Isfahan, the ancient Persian capital and its stunning architecture, arts and traditions are featured in this documentary. Words and narrations are by the late Iranian poet, Ahmad Shamloo.

Bhoutan, un petit pays possédé du ciel

1976 • 54 min

A discovery of Bhutan, a tiny landlocked country in the Himalayas. An approach to its economy, one of the few on this planet that can pride itself on its self-sufficiency. A meeting with its people, characterized by their religiousness and their incredible propensity to happiness.

Returning Premiers

1976 • 15 min • Israel

Amos Guttman's short film follows one evening in the life of a boy who works in a puppet theater. The film, which blends reality with imagination and materialization and hallucination, describes the preparations for the premiere that will take place the day to come, the boy's connections with those around him, his loneliness and his dreams.

George Foreman vs. Ron Lyle

1976 • 35 min

George Foreman vs. Ron Lyle was a boxing match that took place on January 24, 1976 in Caesars Palace, Paradise, Nevada, U.S.

White Man Has Clean Hands

1976 • 30 min

"I was asking if language can express action in any meaningful way. I chose a structure for this film. In the first half, a set of images followed verbal commands. Each image served as an object to answer a command. Then I let the images play without the verbal framework. In the first half of WHITE MAN, seeing the image is shortened or constrained by having to answer to verbal demands. The relaxation of structure in the second half, releases emotional and narrative qualities in the images themselves and their positions. White man can’t be blamed for the action. White man can’t see." -- E.B.

Stroll

1976 • 10 min • Poland

A surreal story of a flexible, deforming ball wandering around a world full of contradictions.

Peaceful Atom of Dubna

1976 • 10 min • Soviet Union

It's No Joke Living in Barnsley

1976 • 26 min

Brian Glover meets up with locals like Arthur Scargill as he guides us round his home town.

Familia

1976 • 28 min • Romania

A father and his children prepare for the New Year.

Camelamos naquerar

1976 • 17 min • Spain

Camelamos naquerar (We Want to Speak) is an adaptation of the theatre play of the same name which was born out of a collaboration between Romani poet and university professor José Heredia Maya and Romani flamenco dancer and choreographer Mario Maya; the latter also performs in the piece, along with other artists. The title in Caló, the language used by Gitanos, translates as ‘we want to speak’, a revolutionary message that illustrates the efforts to reclaim a place in Spanish history for the Roma people and denounce the institutional injustice suffered by the community. It takes as its starting point the Pragmatic decrees signed by the Catholic Monarchs at the end of the fifteenth century, which heralded the long persecution of the Roma people, and continues right up to the twentieth-century Francoist laws.

El Subamericano

1976 • 14 min

Short film by Gustavo Valle

Flights Today, Flights Tomorrow...

1976 • 21 min • Soviet Union

This is My Berth

1976 • 45 min • Soviet Union

TV movie about family relationships, friendship and devotion.

A Implosão

1976 • 42 min • Brazil

Antunes Filho's TV adaptation of Consuelo de Castro's play "Implosão" where the author draws a parallel between the first implosion of a building in São Paulo, the Mendes Caldeira building, in November 1975, and the collapse of a marriage, suffocated by economic needs and relationship problems that end up leading them from a progressive separation to a loneliness as a couple.

Not So Much a Facelift…

1976 • 25 min • United Kingdom

A short documentary exploring the UK’s 1970s approach to urban renewal through General Improvement Areas. Mixing location footage from Blackburn, Norwich, and Oxford with unexpectedly quirky presentation, the film contrasts small-scale housing improvements with the sweeping redevelopment schemes of the post-war era. Produced as a government public information film and shown at meetings between planners, architects, and residents, it stands as a modest, humane entry in Britain’s civic-minded documentary tradition.

Hoy, función de gancho

1976 • 14 min • Colombia

The traveling circus as a symbol of freedom and nonconformity.

Barrier

1976 • 37 min • Soviet Union

On the progress of the police investigation into the railway robbery.

Dawn Creation

1976 • 11 min

Part 6 of the Creation Cycle

Many Voices

1976 • 10 min

People of many creeds and colors make up the USA on this, our bicentennial.

Mirror Road

1976 • 8 min

In Mirror Road, Hill uses the camera and image processing devices to explore the malleability of electronic colors and image density. Amorphous structures move across the monitor like drifting clouds, changing color and direction. From time to time structures of fantastic color landscapes move past one another in the lower and upper halves of the picture (the rearview mirror takes up the upper half of the frame), only to be recombined into an amorphous unity.