All Films

A Mirror of Time

1976 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A fantasy that space preserves images of the past.

Family Focus

1976 • 58 min

Emshwiller terms Family Focus a "family self-portrait, a stylized autobiography," which takes the form of an intimate collage of home movies, black-and-white videotape and photographs that have been colorized, synthesized or otherwise visually transformed in an electronic mediation by the artist. The viewer is witness to the spontaneous activities and conversations of the family's quotidian home life, which is accompanied by Carol Emshwiller's ironic, often poetic commentary. In one sequence of home movies, the children are seen "growing" over a span of twenty years. Using the video camera as a kind of psychological mirror, Emshwiller integrates video's intimacy, reflexivity and realism with its "unreal" technological manipulations to form what the artist describes as a "documentary/video art transformation of self-revealing images."

The Letter

1976 • 14 min • United States of America

A symbolic rape by the Devil and a renewal of self worth.

En la ciudad

1976 • 3 min

Riot police act against protesters.

Owen Wingrave

1976 • 60 min • France, United Kingdom

Scandal, anger, violence: around 1880, Victorian era, the young Owen Wingrave, heir to a long line of soldiers, has just announced to his master that he had decided to renounce the profession of arms of his ancestors, and by therefore to immediately leave the school which prepared him for it... Owen Wingrave is a boy of great beauty and hides, beneath a delicate appearance, an astonishing inner strength. Why did he decide to abandon the military career for which everything, since childhood, had destined him?

For a Few Lives

1976 • 17 min

Portrait of Raymond Eddé, candidate for the Presidential elections and fervent opponent of the religious war. During the 1975-1976 conflicts he and his team had actively searched for people killed in the war, whether they were Christian, Druze or Muslim.

The Grim Reaper

1976 • 60 min • United States of America

After her heretical son passes away in a stock-car racing accident, a mother begins to see visions of her boy escaping from hell, only to be dragged back. Can her God-fearing church-going second son get to the bottom of the situation and how it ties to eastern religion, his similarly heretical dad, and, quite possibly, The Devil?

Die Weihnachtsmannfalle

1976 • 30 min • East Germany

One day before Christmas, on December 23, the Schmidt family moves into their new apartment in a Berlin high-rise; until then, they lived in tranquil Birkenwalde. Little Sebastian fears that Santa Claus doesn't know about their move and therefore won't be able to bring him his presents. Even if he knows where Bastel and his parents now live, he might not be able to find him because there are several families in this large building with the name Schmidt.

Aikapoika ja mono

1976 • 50 min • Finland

A young boy finds a magic talking shoe that can change his voice to that of an adult.

Protect and Survive

1976 • 48 min • United Kingdom

Protect and Survive was a public information series on civil defence produced by the British government during the late 1970s and early 1980s. It was intended to inform British citizens on how to protect themselves during a nuclear attack, and consisted of a mixture of pamphlets, radio broadcasts, and public information films. The series had originally been intended for distribution only in the event of dire national emergency, but provoked such intense public interest that the pamphlets were authorised for general release.

Painting Lights

1976 • 7 min

Painting Lights is about a light source in reverse: how, with negative film, light becomes a source of blackness instead of illumination -how the absence of light creates a light (or white) frame, and flattens out a three-dimensional room space to a two dimensional image in which there are only flat lines on the screen. The film begins with a woman in deep space, on a ladder, painting a vertical tube-light on one side of the screen with "White" paint. As she works, there is less and less light-the dark reflections of light on the floor disappear and the frame becomes whiter. She paints a second light, continuing to white out the frame, and then she dis-appears, leaving nothing except a few traces of black where the lights have been painted over.

The Bamboo Shoot in The House

1976 • 18 min

Hong Xiaobing Xiuxiu and Kwai Kui had a conflict over a bamboo shoot growing in the house. Under the influence of her grandmother, Kwai Kwai wanted to eat the bamboo shoots. Xiuxiu thinks that the bamboo shoots were drilled from underground by the bamboo of the production team and should be owned by the public.

3. Vii. 1973

1976 • 6 min • Greece, France

Portrait of Katerina Logotheton, grandmother of the filmmaker, two years before her death on 3 July 1973.

Be Well, Green Forest!

1976 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Sea Trial

1976 • 51 min • China

Lu Dahai and his shipbuilding team want the 10,000-ton ocean freighter "The East" to be given a sea trial. But the ship is made with domestic parts, and Chen Zongjie, a leader of the Party Committee of the Bureau of Foreign Transport, believes that the quality is not sufficient, and orders that the parts be replaced with imported ones before the sea trial takes place. In the end, the sea trial not only sets a successful new record, but also rescues a Taiwanese fishing boat in distress.

Sanctum

1976 • 19 min • United Kingdom

The haunting fantasies of a disturbed young man, evoking religious imagery suffused with trauma.

George Foreman vs Joe Frazier II

1976 • 23 min • United States of America

A professional boxing match contested on June 15, 1976, for the NABF heavyweight championship.

Lady Fishbourne's Complete Guide to Better Table Manners

1976 • 6 min • Canada

This short animation features four guests of curious demeanour who commit unforgivable acts at the dining table. Food flies everywhere while the guests prop their feet up and talk with their mouths full. Thankfully, Lady Fishbourne’s eating etiquette instructions will show these dinner party misfits the error of their ways.

Hannah Wilke Through the Large Glass

1976 • 10 min • United States of America

Hannah Wilke Through the Large Glass documents one of Wilke's most effective and well-known performances, in which she performs a deadpan striptease behind Duchamp's The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (also known as The Large Glass) at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Dressed in a fedora and a white suit, and evoking the style of 1970s' fashion icons such as Helmut Newton and Yves Saint-Laurent, Wilke strikes a series of poses and then strips. She is seen through the glass of the Duchamp sculpture. In her self-conscious affectation of the often absurdist posturing of a fashion model, Wilke willfully uses her own image and her sexuality to confront the erotic representation of women in art history and popular culture.

Stolen Movie

1976 • 9 min

Armed with S8 camera and sound-person, Craig Baldwin runs both recording devices continuously through single-take raids on a series of SF Market St. grindhouse theaters. Rushing past box offices and through front lobbies, he captures the chance scenes and sounds on screen at the time, then flees out the rear exit doors to reunite with the reality of the street.

Tale About Greed

1976 • 8 min • Soviet Union

Once there lived the greed. She looked for kids, with which she could become bigger and more powerful. Greed could not even come close to those who have shared something with friends and fed animals and birds. But when she saw a little boy who does not want to let a girl from the yard play ball, she immediately went to him and began to cleverly feed his unwillingness to part with things. Soon she had moved to live in a separate room...

Lyamzi-Tyri-Bondi the Evil Wizard

1976 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Follows the extraordinary adventures of Kolya Rogov.

I Want to Be Like You

1976 • 30 min

Brian idolises his older brother Steve, who has left school and joined the army. The two brothers go for an evening out and end up in a local coffee shop, where Steve's faults become painfully obvious to Brian

Schuhstück

1976 • 8 min • Germany

Short film by Heinz Emigholz shot in 1976; b/w, sound, no dialogue