All Films

Elektrostålugn nr 2

1976 • 41 min

A short documentary from the 1970s depicting the employees at work, transforming scrap metal to steel at Domnarvets järnverk.

From Spikes to Spindles

1976 • 46 min • United States of America

This raw, gutsy portrait of New York's Chinatown captures the early days of an emerging consciousness in the community. We see a Chinatown rarely depicted, a vibrant community whose young and old join forces to protest police brutality and hostile real estate developers. With bold strokes, it paints an overview of the community and its history, from the early laborers driving spikes into the transcontinental railroad to the garment workers of today.

Desert

1976 • 11 min • United States of America

Says Fred Camper of the film: "Invited to Riverside, California, Brakhage, under the mistaken impression that it was a desert, was planning a desert movie when he arrived to discover an unattractive suburban landscape. So he decided to make, and shoot, a desert on his motel room table".

Difficult spring in Atagi

1976 • 19 min

Residents of village Atagi, their life and problems.

Musical Fairy Tales

1976 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The story of the blacksmith Vakula, which happened to him on the farm of Dikanka on Christmas night.

The Hammer of The Village

1976 • 11 min • Hungary

An imaginative, animated adaptation of Sándor Petőfi’s comedy epic using folk motifs and elements of modern painting, with visual means only. Enemies of the village blacksmith lock him in the church because there is a plot to win over his lover, the pub owner. The blacksmith breaks free, catches the seducer red-handed and a heated punch-up ensues. Finally, the local magistrate arrives and dispenses justice.

To Fly!

1976 • 27 min • United States of America

Early IMAX documentary about the development of human flight.

Peanut Butter and Jelly

1976 • 1 min

Watch what happens when a passion for PB&J takes over!

Gilgames

1976 • 51 min • Hungary

The life-long fight against Gods of Gilgamesh, king of the Sumerian city-state of Uruk.

Hey, You!

1976 • 7 min • Hungary

Set in the allegorical space of an abandoned room, a frustrated mind feels the distorting effects of aggression and paranoia—including visions of butterflies, the Mona Lisa, and nuclear fallout.

Ikäluokka

1976 • 45 min • Finland

Onni is a shoemaker, aged 70. Toivo is a blacksmith, aged 75. The film tells the story of their generation, from childhood through various stages to the present day. They have lived through the entire Finnish history of this century.

Der Tänzer Heinz Bosl

1976 • 43 min • Germany

A documentary about dancer Heinz Bosl who died in 1975 - aged 28.

L'Amico Fried's Glamorous Friends

1976 • 11 min

L'AMICO FRIED'S GLAMOROUS FRIENDS "...is built around a pas de deux by Ondine and Sally Dixon... with a quickness of breath and dryness of the throat one is apt to say, 'What is that!' as if peering into some exotic fog. The sometimes lovely and sometimes not beautiful but nearly always exquisite collisions of light and shadow upon the screen which seduces us... And may as likely cause one to squirm in one's seat..." - Carmen Vigil, former Program Director of San Francisco Cinematheque

Multiple Orgasm

1976 • 6 min • United States of America

A hand plays with a vagina as the same scene drifts over a sea of erotic rock formations.

Fair Tradin' on the Dancin' Ground

1976 • 31 min • United Kingdom

A man abducts a boy after his son is taken from him by social services.

David Is Homosexual

1976 • 38 min

A lonely gay man discovers friends, love and activism in this rediscovered educational film made by the Campaign for Homosexual Equality.

Bartleby

1976 • 42 min • Germany

Adaptation of the novel "Bartleby the Scrinener: A story of Wall Street" (1853) by Hermann Melville.

Salome Tsunoda's Agony and Ball-Breaking

1976 • 59 min • Japan

Pink film by Kan Mukai.

A Visita do Velho Senhor

1976 • 15 min • Brazil

Short film by Brazilian filmmaker Ozualdo Ribeiro Candeias.

O todos o ninguno

1976 • 41 min

With Franco dead, workers' struggles become more visible, such as the Laforsa strike, a steel mill in Cornellà de Llobregat. Lumbreras's conviction to understand the fight as an always collective action, without hierarchies, meant that she promoted among the workers his own filming, that they had autonomy, in no case imposing any speech (Filmoteca de Catalunya).

Colonial Times

1976 • 28 min • Venezuela

Three centuries of Venezuela's history as a Spanish colony are considered from economic, political and social standpoints; evocations of the past are compared to the present. Based on the ideas and research of Federico Brito Figueroa, Alfredo A. Alfonso, Miguel A. Saignes, Josefina Jordan, and Thaelman Urgelles among others.

Village's Womanizer

1976 • 37 min • Soviet Union

The elderly Levan became infatuated with the wife of his fellow villager, Gentor, the young and flirtatious Pasiko. The claims of the old ladies—in-waiting become known to the gossip girl, and from her to the whole neighborhood.

The Legend About the Old Lighthouse

1976 • 19 min • Soviet Union

Children help Soviet ships find their way to the bay captured by the Germans.

Exhibition

1976 • 19 min • Bulgaria