All Films

Disaster

1976 • 30 min

Disaster, a two-screen Super 8 film made in San Francisco, has been called the first situationist film made in the U.S. As an antidote to Hollywood’s 1970s disaster films like Earthquake, Millner and cowriter Ernie Larsen turned their attention to the disaster of everyday life.

The Premiere of Platypus Duck

1976 • 11 min • United States of America

The history of Platypus Duck, the oldest surviving mammal (And a mixed-up one at that...), and a quest of one such Platypus Duck and his kids to rescue his wife after she gets swept away in a flood to Sydney.

Graffiti - Fun or Dumb?

1976 • 13 min • United States of America

Using kids' own arguments (both pros and cons), film presents overwhelming evidence that vandalism is dumb. Shows that graffiti-type vandalism costs over $20,000,000 a year.

Kornstock: Anything for a Buck

1976 • 30 min • Canada

The Kornstock comedy troupe sang song parodies, ad-libbed one-liners and transformed themselves into manic characters for appreciative audiences on TV, in night clubs and at fairs across North America from 1973 to 1976. This CBC National TV special was produced in 1976 about 5 months before their final performance.

Some of the Palestinians

1976 • 55 min • Palestinian Territory

A 55-minute documentary directed and edited by Mamoun Hassan when he was stationed with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in Lebanon in 1974. The film opens with a day in the life of Dr Murad, a Palestinian doctor appointed by the UNRWA to look after the health of the Palestinian people in a Syrian refugee camp. It progresses to a recently bombed camp in Lebanon to the West Bank, via Jordan.

Kisses

1976 • 55 min • Canada

"Betty Ferguson's 'Kisses', an hour-long anthology of film clips presented without titles or voiceover, is the sweetest and, in avant-garde terms, the most conventional film on the program. Although the kiss reached its supreme expression as the on-screen replacement for copulation in post-Code Hollywood, Ferguson's material is drawn largely from silent classics and the less-fetishized European cinema of around 1960. She compares her film to a patchwork quilt, but it's basically morphological, cataloguing clusters of shots where kisses are delivered to the hand, the neck, rained down on a beloved face, perfunctorily bestowed on a spouse, awarded to dogs, dolls, gun, etc." - J. Hoberman, Village Voice

Cygne II

1976 • 10 min • France

Constructed like an animated painting in a single fixed shot where light, voice, music and movements interfere.

The Sensitive Plate

1976 • 58 min • Netherlands

The Sensitive Plate consists of 1250 filmed black-and-white photo portraits made between 1913-1969 by the Amsterdam photo studio Merkelbach, ran by father and daughter Jakobus and Mies Merkelbach. The sequence of faces is interrupted only by the year in which the photos were taken. In this chronology, each year consists of one minute of film time. Each photo is displayed for two seconds; 57 years are displayed in 57 minutes.

Seven Women: Rosalina Chan

1976 • 50 min • Hong Kong

The fifth episode of Patrick Tam’s anthology series “Seven Women” (1976), which was the only episode not directed by Patrick Tam but by renowned critic Law Kar

Meetings, Bloody Meetings

1976 • 30 min

John Cleese shows that, properly planned and organised, a meeting can achieve more in a short time than any other method of internal communication. Makes people aware of the damage that can be done by approaching a meeting without preparation. Demonstrates techniques and disciplines that can make meetings shorter and more productive.

Christo Running Fence Reels: Hard Art Hats

1976 • 7 min

The coffin

1976 • 28 min • Spain

A group of thieves pretend to be men carrying an empty coffin and ask some rich people in the town to let them leave the dirty coffin there because it was raining and it could get wet.

Donne emergete

1976 • 12 min

Self-produced film on the feminist movement

Roslyn Romance

1976 • 17 min • United States of America

A personal and experimental film by San Francisco Bay area avant-garde filmmaker, Bruce Baillie. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.

Nocturne

1976 • 12 min • Yugoslavia

Visions of war in a ruined village of Štanjel in Karst. A monochrome 8mm masterpiece of melancholic still lives and multi-exposure imagery.

Võsakurat

1976 • 14 min • Soviet Union

Peeter Simm's diploma film about a forest-guard and a Kyrgyz Red Army soldier in Estonia during the German occupation.

Sarah's 6th BDay

1976 • 11 min

Home movie capturing the 6th birthday party thrown for Palazzolo's daughter, Sarah Marie, who was born in 1972. Features scenes of children eating chocolate cake, laughing, and dancing to popular kid-friendly songs of the day. Palazzolo's wife, Marcia Daehn, and his son, Todd Benjamin (then a baby), as well as their daugther, Amy, also make an appearance in the film.

Subways

1976 • 13 min • United States of America

Super 8mm. Black and white. Sound. 13 minutes.

Tails

1976 • 3 min

A series of tail ends of varied strips of film, with sometimes recognizable images dissolving into light flares, appear to run through and off of a projector. A romantic "narrative," suggesting an "ending," is inferred. This film can be projected at either sound speed (3 minutes) or silent speed (5 minutes).

Expiration

1976 • 14 min • Yugoslavia

Short experimental film.

Aspiraciones

1976 • 6 min • Argentina

The slow rhythm of regular breathing determines an analogous rhythm in the image: the fugue of a candle flame toward a virtual infinity generated by a lens with variable focal length. Each appearance of this vector (successive fixed positions of the zoom) corresponds to an equivalent interval of darkness, an identical number of unexposed stills. An attempt at metric cinema. The position of the flame varies slightly with each successive apparition and the displacement seems to stop for just a few seconds in order to introduce alternating stills in reverse order.

My Land

1976 • 8 min • Soviet Union

Sensitométrie VII

1976 • 6 min • France

A barbaric feast of "Mad Masters" of our country hardly unexplored, originally on a very repetitive "kraft" music ....

As if by Beckett

1976 • 22 min • Germany

A married couple is having a caustic argument in front of a camera.