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Lights

Lights

1976 • 20 min
Manipulating the way the camera captures light and the use of filters, this film configures a kaleidoscope of abstract lights of different colours, reflections, fragmented irises, peepholes, circular forms, flashes of lights in the dark punctuated by images of almost white skies.
Boomerang

Boomerang

1976 • 5 min • Argentina
One of the most productive nods of amateur cinema in Argentina was the Peña Foto Cine 8mm Club in La Plata, which organized national festivals of Super 8 filmmakers in the Seventies. One of its most remarkable exponents was Julio César Otero Mancini, who capitalized his amateur origins and became a true independent filmmaker building a body of work as a Super 8 author by inventing his own mechanisms and aesthetics, challenging any technical or expressive limitations of the medium both technical and expressive aspects. Animation, documentary, science fiction, experimental, all at the same time or by separate, Otero Mancini’s short films multiply the audiovisual experience with his radical freedom and incorruptible originality. His biggest creation is probably Boomerang, an answer to the violence of the 1976 military coup made in collaboration with guitarist Skay Beilinson on harmony vocals, an agit-prop cinematographic affront that still surprises for its courage and vigor.
R

R

1976 • 3 min • France
R is a very simple film, flickering and panning which in its silence induces a fugue of rhythms. The center part of the film is a transcription of one of J.S. Bach ’s Invention.
60 Unit; Bruise

60 Unit; Bruise

1976 • 5 min • Canada
Wong's first colour videotape bears the influence of several artistic genres popular in the 1970s, including performance and body art. We see Kenneth Fletcher draw several millilitres of blood from his arm and inject the contents of the syringe into Paul Wong's back, just under the skin. The camera closes in on this, observing the slow response of the immune system as the skin turns red and purple. What was originally intended as a sort of ritual uniting the young men as blood brothers, with implicit reference to drug use, has become a disturbing and dangerous act, when AIDS evokes our deepest fears and anxieties.
Noyes

Noyes

1976 • 4 min
A single action seen from alternative left and right perspectives, accentuating reversals, repetitions and persistence of vision. Rather than uniting opposites, rhythm is set up by the struggling eye, varying as the image is moved closer to and further from the screen's center. The sound, with its fragmentations and its implications of incompleteness, focuses attention on the impossibility of a resolution in the film's dichotomy. "Rather than crediting the camera with objectivity according to the usual convention in film, the viewer is confronted with the relativity of simultaneous multiple perspectives. The soundtrack underlines the arbitrary relationship between a sign and its signifier, as does Magritte's painting, Ceci n'est pas une pipe." – The Art Examiner
Mapas Elementares I

Mapas Elementares I

1976 • 3 min • Brazil
Journey to the Center of a Triangle

Journey to the Center of a Triangle

1976 • 9 min • United States of America
A purely visual exploration of the four different "centers" of triangles.
Itim: An Exploration in Cinema

Itim: An Exploration in Cinema

1976 • 20 min • Philippines
Doy del Muno’s documentary about the making of Mike De Leon’s Itim also features the only scenes to survive from De Leon’s now-lost debut film, the 16mm short Monologo (Monologue) (1975). De Leon recalls, “Itim was filmed in my grandmother’s hometown of San Miguel, in her family’s ancestral house where more than two decades later I would also shoot Bayaning 3rd World. Doy and his brother-in-law Gil Quito wrote the screenplay. It was Gil who suggested the use of spiritualism and spirit possession during the holy week.”
And If You Are a Woman

And If You Are a Woman

1976 • 7 min • Mexico
The film describes in a simple way the division between girls and boys through education by assigning them different behaviors based on their sex difference.
Double Beds

Double Beds

1976 • 4 min
Short film.
Seven Women: Ivy Ho, Yeung Si-Dai, Lee Yan-Yi

Seven Women: Ivy Ho, Yeung Si-Dai, Lee Yan-Yi

1976 • 50 min • Hong Kong
The third episode of Patrick Tam’s anthology series “Seven Women” (1976), with three short stories combined.
Turning the Thames

Turning the Thames

1976 • 12 min • United Kingdom
An informative short film from Thames Water providing an in depth look at their operations and how they supply water from the Thames River for a variety of uses.
Electric Light Orchestra: Fusion

Electric Light Orchestra: Fusion

1976 • 50 min
Electric Light Orchestra performing live in London.
The Red Inn

The Red Inn

1976 • 52 min • Soviet Union
Based on the novella of the same name by the French writer Honore de Balzac from the cycle "Philosophical Etudes".
Ancient Mesopotamia (Revised)

Ancient Mesopotamia (Revised)

1976 • 9 min • United States of America
Depicts the cultural legacy of the Sumerians, Semites, Babylonians, and Assyrians of the ancient Middle East using authentic locales including Babylon, Ur, and Nineveh.
A Woman Like You

A Woman Like You

1976 • 18 min • United Kingdom
A drama documentary illustrating the difficulties experienced by a married woman with two children who tries to get an abortion on the NHS. A series of slides show an outpatient abortion procedure and there are interviews with a local woman doctor and a consultant gynecologist. —Cinenova
Caution! Maoism!

Caution! Maoism!

1976 • 58 min • Soviet Union
A full-length documentary film directed by Alexander Medvedkin tells about the nature of Maoism, the events in China in the 1960s and early 1970s
Modern Iranian Art

Modern Iranian Art

1976 • 25 min
Documentary on Iranian modern art featuring iconic figures such as Jalali Sousan-Abadi, Jalil Ziapour, Marcos Grigorian, Behjat Sadr, and Sadegh Barirani; along with footage of art openings and studio life.
Mouse Klub Konfidential

Mouse Klub Konfidential

1976 • 16 min
An exposé of the shocking life of Mouseketeer-turned-gay bondage pornographer Buddy Wilson. Are Wilson and his degenerate films merely an aberration, or is there more to “the happiest place on Earth” than meets the eye?
The Stolen Portrait

The Stolen Portrait

1976 • 10 min • Czechoslovakia
A sarcastic horror parody of comic book series from the 1930s.
Żelazna obroża

Żelazna obroża

1976 • 53 min • Poland
Kozyra - a former athlete wants to return to the circus arena, where young Błażyce is successful.
The Water That is Passed

The Water That is Passed

1976 • 28 min
Elderly friends Ernie and Rose cross paths with an odd medical experiment.
Die Emser Depesche

Die Emser Depesche

1976 • 60 min • East Germany
Theme of this scenic documentation is the consistent preparation of the Franco-German War by Bismarck and leading Prussian military, who, with the help of the conservative and liberal Berlin press, created the mood in which the publication of the heavily redacted "Emser Depesche" showed an effect desired by Bismarck. The authenticity of the game plot is supported by documents and documentary material.
H.m.p.

H.m.p.

1976 • 53 min • United Kingdom
Humane recruitment film made for the prison services, following three new recruits on a tour of a facility.