All Films

Cut

1976 • 4 min • United States of America

A peculiar homage to the things that go wrong, this film is purportedly about rugby. The self-explanatory title for this jumpy “documentary” is less concerned with the filmed subject (the game, the field, the players) than a comic editing style and the complete acknowledgement given to the technical aspect of gathering and manipulating raw footage.

The Case of the Bermuda Triangle

1976 • 60 min

Investigates the various myths, stories, and theories that describe and attempt to explain the mysterious occurrences in the Bermuda Triangle.

The Rifleman

1976 • 7 min • Soviet Union

A whale-hunter dodges icebergs while tracking his prey.

P.S. Um Beijo

1976 • 8 min • Brazil

The romance of a young adult couple.

Bocadolixocinema

1976 • 11 min • Brazil

A look into the Boca do Lixo, a square in downtown São Paulo known as a point for filmmakers, actors, and technicians who worked on low-budget films.

Leila Para Sempre Diniz

1976 • 10 min

A documentary that presents home movies and several excerpts of known films of famous actress Leila Diniz. Friends of the late actress, tragic killed on a plane crash in 1972, discuss about her life, her work and her legacy in Brazilian culture.

World in Focus

1976 • 17 min

In “World in Focus,” the screen becomes the two-dimensional support of an amazingly versatile three-dimensional object (an atlas) which contains in turn two-dimensional pictures of other three-dimensional objects. The uniform use of a close-up lens creates often ambiguous or nearly unidentifiable images (from the atlas), emphasizing the rhythms, volumes, angles and movements obtained from the handling of the book.

Europe's Big Day

1976 • 50 min • Soviet Union

Follows the Helsinki Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe in 1975

Reveillon

1976 • 53 min • Brazil

As the clock ticks away announcing the end of the year, the four members of a family reveal their inabilities and frustrations, their defeats and the monotony of a life that drags on in a solitary way, even as a group.

Bala

1976 • 31 min • India

A documentary about the aging prima ballerina Balasaraswati (popularly known as "Bala"), the most famous exponent of the Bharatanatyam dance.

Weather Building

1976 • 10 min • Canada

"The flashing weather beacon on a Toronto building is the structurally fixed point in this precise composition of illuminated surfaces and positive/negative imagery. Noting the 'intuitive process' of the film's first half–which was shot on Super 8 and edited in-camera–McLaren analyses and ritualizes the visual information through a video playback that echoes and doubles the original, improvised 'score.' Tightly framed with a menacing soundtrack, WEATHER BUILDING generates a claustrophobia and paranoia that loosely suggest the violence and boredum of punk." –Ian Birnie, The Art of Gallery of Ontario

Recess

1976 • 8 min • Soviet Union

In a fun and instructive way, the film tells how important it is for children entering the pioneers to be collected, disciplined and well aware of the pioneer regulations.

El destierro

1976 • 40 min • Mexico

"El Destierro" (1976) is a film adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story "Wakefield". It tells the haunting tale of a man who mysteriously abandons his home for many years. Rather than disappearing completely, he chooses to secretly observe his wife and child from a distance. After years of watching their lives unfold without him, he finally makes the decision to return, but the consequences of his prolonged absence remain uncertain.

Campoma

1976 • 10 min • Venezuela

Short that tells the history of Campoma, a small Venezuelan town founded by black slaves.

The Return of Amílcar Cabral

1976 • 33 min • Guinea-Bissau

Documentary on the assassinated liberation leader.

Destruction: Fun or Dumb?

1976 • 13 min

Anti-Vandalism Educational Film

Anna’s Textures

1976 • 4 min • Italy

Super8 film-portrait of Anna Carini.

Jack Flea's Birthday Celebration

1976 • 30 min • United Kingdom

David lives with a woman nearly twice his age, who decides to make him her fantasy child. It is a role our young hero cannot resist, especially when David's parents come to dinner and he reads an extract from a story he has written...

El Gran Debut

1976 • 15 min

An experimental short film centering on a circus performance in San Salvador.

Dad, Mom and the Golden Fish

1976 • 8 min • Soviet Union

When the boy entered the room where his dad and mom were sitting, he immediately realized from their frowning faces that they were fighting again and would not go anywhere this weekend with the whole family, as planned. The boy went for a walk and met a Goldfish in the park, thanks to which the boy's parents reconciled and went with him to collect autumn leaves...

A Human is Born...

1976 • 16 min • Soviet Union

Coming into this world is an important event in a person's life, perhaps the most important. The film purely and sincerely captures the moments of birth. In the 1970s, it was rare for filmmakers to be able to film in a maternity hospital. Director Leida Laius and cameraman Arvo Iho succeeded. What's more, the shots taken with a hidden camera are genuine, warm and humanly honest.

Number One

1976 • 40 min • United States of America

Two little girls hide in the boys' bathroom at school so they can find out what happens there. When two boys come in, the four gradually talk each other into taking off their clothes. The principal catches them, and angrily berates them for what they've been up to, warning them that he'll have to tell their parents about the incident. Later repercussions are seen as parents of three of them separately discuss and fight about what has happened, with some taking a winking attitude of their child's discovery and others battling about how to react. Returning to school poses an additional challenge, as everyone has found out what has gone on.

Ryszard III

1976 • 3 min • Poland

The colage presents in a blaze of colours the horse from the famous Shakespearean quote uttered by Richard the Third.

The Apparition

1976 • 50 min • United States of America

A full production: sync-sound drama with cast, crew, color neg., and 16mm wide screen cut-off (normal projector and lens). My intention was to follow James Agee's idea to present "an imaginary story against a background of reality." The imaginary story is of Paul Rose and his past incarnation as a woman in classical Greek times. I collaborated with George Kuchar, who did special sets for the film.