All Films

The Frontiers of Science

1976 • 51 min • United Kingdom

A medium attempts to prove to the scientific establishment that her ability to contact the dead is real.

De Grey, un Récit romanesque

1976 • 51 min • France

An elderly woman would like some company as her son is off venturing foreign lands and seducing women from lands afar. Her resident priest who seems to live in the same château as her does not agree and seems to have preconceptions and superstitions as to a family curse.

Paths of Fire II

1976 • 8 min

From two color camera rolls filmmaker Michael Mideke and I shot on July 4, 1969, we began editing many versions, independently and together. I worked running a 16mm Bell & Howell “J” contact printer in San Francisco, which allowed me to make many generations of printing elements not normally available to customers.

His Worship, Mr. Montréal

1976 • 58 min • Canada

This feature documentary is a fascinating and spirited portrait of the life and times of the legendary Quebec politician and four-time mayor of Montreal Camillien Houde. Using rare archival footage and interviews with ex-colleagues, aides and friends, the film presents a comprehensive profile of this incredible, and, to some, infamous, man.

Two Brothers

1976 • 24 min

Arthur and Ernest are two bachelor fishermen who occupy the proverbial end-of-the-road on Morris Island, an Acadian community in southern Nova Scotia. Sober or not, they carry on with and for the filmmaker who is attempting to find out about their lives. The resulting encounters owe a smuch to Harold Pinter or Samuel beckett is they do to the documentary genre of film-making.

The Advice of a Wise Man in Matters of the Village and Education

1976 • 21 min • Egypt

In this socio-political short, film director Daoud Abdel Sayed discusses, from a biased perspective, the effects of Free Education on the Egyptian countryside.

Lisa and the Other One

1976 • 8 min • Greece

Close-ups and medium fixed camera shots of a man dressed in Liza Minelli’ clothes, who mimes to a recording of the music hall song “Life is a Cabaret”. In the soundtrack, the iconical reading of a text exposing the ideological clichés of a family soap opera in a state of crisis. “My little boy, alas, is gay…”.

The New York Graffiti Experience

1976 • 16 min

Documentary on New York Graffiti featuring art by Cliff, Phase 2, Comet, Blade, IN, Billy167, LSD OM, Ajax , Dean, Mico, Checker 170, Skylark

Kuťáci

1976 • 7 min • Czechoslovakia

After trying to prepare dinner without any luck, the only meal left is an egg. But the egg suddenly begins to live. Short theatrical film precursor to the 'Pat and Mat' series.

Horse in the House

1976 • 6 min • Hungary

An investigation into the sighting of a blue horse with roller skates in an apartment building turns into a burlesque nightmare.

An Oppressed People Is Always Right

1976 • 44 min • Denmark

In May 1974, the Israeli Air Force carried out an extermination operation against the Palestinian refugee camp Nabatiyeh. With this as a starting point, it is reviewed how the last 50 years of Zionist colonization of Palestine have partly led to the establishment of the state of Israel, partly to the expulsion of a people, the Palestinians, from their land. The film shows scenes of daily life in Palestinian refugee camps. We hear various of the inhabitants talk about their desire to return to their country, and we follow how the resistance movement works to free women from their traditional backward role. At the same time, the emergence of the armed resistance struggle is analysed, and the significance of the latest military technological developments for guerilla wars in the 3rd world is explained.

Neurópolis

1976 • 20 min • Venezuela

Conditioning, claustrophobia, and mechanization lead a city dweller to a progressive mental imbalance, culminating in self-destructive masochism.

O Natal da Turma da Mônica

1976 • 5 min • Brazil

The first short featuring Monica and Friends. It introduced the song "Feliz Natal pra Todos", which has now become an iconic Christmas theme to the gang. In the special, Monica, Jimmy Five, Smudge, and Angel decide to build a chimney to wait for Santa Claus.

Mass, or Monument for a Capitalist Society

1976 • 14 min • United Kingdom

Mass was made during Sjöström’s years at the film department of the Royal College of Art, in cooperation with the London Filmmaker’s Co-op. Random or staged shots of people and settings in urban London are arranged and abstracted, double-exposed and solarized. The result is a dense texture filled with layers and associative dimensions. Mass is a film attempting to convey, by strictly filmic means, the cooped-up feeling of the individual in the grey mass of the city. The absurd concrete city landscape is visualized through the unspoilt and naked eye of the camera in a concentrated mosaic of images and sound.

Audience Research

1976 • 7 min

Albert Brooks goes to a research institute to find out why people don't like him and how he can change that. Saturday Night Live, Season 1 Episode 9

(Now) or Maintenant Entre Parenthèses

1976 • 10 min • United States of America

With Linda Patton and James Barth Silent, (24 frames per second) A linear succession of activities/manipulations of objects. Film = Now Projected Film = (Now)

The Thunder God and the Mulberry Tree

1976 • 10 min • Japan

A young boy who has lived without his father for some time buys the tallest eggplant seedling at the market, hoping to grow it into a plant that will bring them lots of fruit. When the plant eventually grows all the way to the clouds, the boy decides to climb up to see what lies beyond, and has the time of his life with the rain-making oni.

Sherlock Pink

1976 • 7 min • United States of America

Private Detective Pink tries to identify who stole his breakfast cake (which he ate himself in his sleep), instead finding another crook and chasing him through a surreal house.

Go Where Nobody Knows You

1976 • 52 min • Yugoslavia

Marko returns from the army and comes into conflict with his father. He goes to town and finds a job as a car mechanic. In spite of his father and the backward village, which is under the influence of the church, the son approaches the Mayer sisters to sleep over the weekend at their place.

Quasi at the Quackadero

1976 • 10 min • United States of America

This surreal cartoon follows Quasi, Anita and their pet robot Rollo to the Quackadero, a futuristic amusement park where thoughts, time, dreams and memories become playthings for the weird and wacky clientele.

Reflections: Samuel Eliot Morison

1976 • 58 min

The life and work of Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison, the official historian of U.S. naval operations in World War II and a Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar of maritime history.

Manga Fairy Tales of the World

1976 • 30 min

Each episode of this series tells the story of a famous fairy tale from all around the world. Some of them are adapted from famous books such as "The Iliad". (Source: ANN)

Double Labyrinthe

1976 • 55 min • France

With this film-manifesto, the two artists invent what they called the Cinéma corporel (Cinema of the Body), they present themselves as a "double auteur femme" and they lay the foundations of the radical critical and esthetical positions of their work to come. Double Labyrinthe has a mirror structure based on their "mutual gaze": in the first part Katerina performs while filmed by Maria and in the second part Maria performs filmed by Katerina.

Two Women

1976 • 31 min • Australia

TWO WOMEN records our passage through the tribal lands of the Central Australian region – a personal charting of this mythical landscape. The film is shaped by an unedited recording made of a Pitjantjatjara women’s song cycle: "Two Women", which describes the travels of ancestral women through this region. The film is not a literal interpretation of the song story, and there is no translation of the song. We are outsiders to this culture, and must therefore learn what we can from the ‚surface’ of the song cycle – from the voices singing, talking, whispering, coughing, laughing, reprimanding children.