All Films

The Burks of Georgia

1976 • 53 min • United States of America

The Maysles profile a poor white Georgian family struggling to survive with the realities of thirteen children.

Super Bowl

1976 • 47 min • United States of America

A behind-the-scenes documentary about the events and personalities surrounding Superbowl X in Miami between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Dallas Cowboys. Features intimate portraits of the players and the CBS personnel who broadcast the events of Superbowl week. Produced with multiple lightweight video cameras in TVTV style, it is both informative and revealing of the extremes surrounding football culture and hype. With color commentary provided by Bill Murray and Christopher Guest.

Self-Trio

1976 • 8 min

Choreographic dance video created in 1976 by Ed Emshwiller.

The Winner

1976 • 29 min

A newspaper owner clashes with his editor and a state representative over the issue of the parimutuel gambling and the lottery.

Empty Hand

1976 • 32 min • United Kingdom

Financed by Paul McCartney, showcasing Wings' drummer Geoff Briton karate skills.

South Lebanon: The Story of a Village Under Siege

1976 • 13 min • France, Lebanon, Palestinian Territory

The cease-fire declared on October 21, 1976, gave the Fedayeen the opportunity to reclaim this area—Fatah territory until it was abandoned in 1970—from the right wing militia. But Syrians and Israelis joined together to neutralise this Palestinian “autonomous force” and imposed a siege on two Lebanese frontier villages, Hanine and Kfarchouba, before attacking them.

! Exclamation

1976 • 17 min

This short film tells a story in the form of a poem that calls for equality for children who lack opportunities. It was created by Surapong Pinijkhar, who submitted it to the Bangkok Bank Documentary Film Festival in 1977. Despite exceeding the standards of traditional Thai documentary films, the judges were too afraid to give it the top prize, but they also couldn't deny its brilliance, so they awarded it a special prize. This documentary film is a creative masterpiece of the nation. This film has been registered as part of the National Film Heritage, first edition, in the year 2011 (B.E. 2554).

While Revolved

1976 • 9 min

(This film has been referred to as both White Revolved and While Revolved.) Project at 18 fps. This film is concerned with the projected, not just light or the emulsion or the illusion or the projector or the camera, but all of them. The surface of the film, the grain, is remembered when a similar but illusionistic surface appears (just as magnified), crossing the frame. Other times the grain is left to itself. There are the idiosyncratic focusing qualities of shadows acting as diaphragms inside the image. The elusive background confounds itself with the foreground. The notions of appearances and disappearances transform themselves in notions of time. Made with a grant from the Canada Council.

Maratón de triciclos

1976 • 11 min • Peru

This "sports journalistic documentary" presents the Tricycle Marathon, an event conceptualized by artist Luis Arias Vera and organized by the workers of La Crónica newspaper as part of the workers' day celebrations in 1976.

Gerdy, the Wicked Witch

1976 • 10 min • Yugoslavia

8mm film by Ljubomir Simunic. Thrilling, haunting, eerie, and mesmeric; feels more authentically Luciferian than anything Kenneth Anger ever made. And what a rocking soundtrack!

Transmagnifican Dambamuality

1976 • 7 min • United States of America

The struggle of a teenage boy to assert himself amid the frenetic activity of a large family.

Lower East Side (LES)

1976 • 17 min

Lower East Side (LES) (2011/1976) Super 8mm transfer to digital, color, sound, 16:31 minutes. Documentary style critique of the Island of Manhattma’s fiscal state of affairs and the John Dough Cult. Written and directed by C. Fitzgibbon. Narrated by Robin Winters. Cast: Tom Sigal, Diego Cortez and Robin Winters.

Liberty: A Dozen or So Views

1976 • 12 min • United States of America

In an early work, video artist Dara Birnbaum records a cross section of fellow passengers aboard the Staten Island Ferry while en route to the Statue of Liberty. Asking subjects to use her video camera to capture their own views of the iconic monument, Birnbaum creates an homage to the immigrant experience.

Vi utmanar djävulen

1976 • 30 min • Sweden

"We Challenge Satan" - The devil is raging and his willing tools are spreading their poisons in press and posters, which are pasted into thousands of places in the city. But the people of God rejoice. Hallelujah. It's victory. Jesus won a perpetual victory on Calvary and in His name we will be victorious.

Ferdowsi and the People

1976 • 36 min • Iran

A documentary about Ferdowsi, the great Persian poet of 9th century, the creator epic Shahnameh (the book of kings). The film examines the impacts of the poet and his masterpiece, almost one thousand years after its creation, on Iran and Iranian people in the late 1970’s, the last years before the revolution.

Our Common Sense

1976 • 6 min • United States of America

One of two films of Macdonald’s about women’s liberation, in which he explores what an anti-hierarchical philosophy looks like in interpersonal relationships.

Britain is not for sale

1976 • 28 min • France

A tormented (but forbidden) history, a culture reduced to provincial folklore, economic difficulties, social conflicts, military and tourist vocations: such is the assessment that we have been able to make of this country. Luckily there were a few of them showing their anger.

At Home

1976 • 40 min • Poland

An elderly couple living in a quiet town receives news that their only son has arrived.

Food Observation Idea

1976 • 5 min

All observers need that which is not themselves to be themselves. All forms of energy channel the continual redistribution of energy in the universe.

City of Fear!

1976 • 29 min • United Kingdom

A crime writer, looking for inspiration, encounters a group of juvenile delinquents.

Paper Tale

1976 • 9 min • Soviet Union

The good residents of the fairy-tale paper town began to be harmed by old rusty scissors.

Queensland

1976 • 52 min • Australia

The allure of pleasant weather, a carefree lifestyle and better job prospects in Queensland appeal to Doug, a downtrodden factory worker from Melbourne.

Children of War

1976 • 10 min • France

A few days after a massacre in a shantytown near Beirut, the director finds the children who survived. She approaches them by offering them crayons to draw. A link is created between them. They let her film their violent games: they repeat the scenes of horror they saw unfold before their eyes ...

Night 'n' Day

1976 • 45 min • Italy

First of all, the music. The music in Night and Day by Gianni Castaglioni is in the repetitive rhythm of the images, usually very rapid (with some suddenly slowed down, figements, yet with a fiery intensity). And as each shot, (brief like those of Mekas or Brakhage), moves,; as the camera moves to the nervous rhythm of a wrist, the music becomes a sort of Free Jazz — and not only visually, since the soundtrack is composed of piano frenzies à la Elton John. The extreme close-ups that sprinkle this sort of intimate journal and which are among the most admirable - as well as the most rapid - ever made in cinema, don’t float adrift like the film’s music through a hundred flowing veins.