All Films

The Culture Industry Needs Something Like Me

1976 • 45 min • Germany

An attempt at a psychological profile of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who answers the author's questions about his artistic and personal development in a manner that is at times shockingly laconic. Excerpts from his film "Beware of a Holy Whore" document how much the life circumstances of his group of actors influenced the work of the director.

Social Worker: Ah Sze

1976 • 48 min • Hong Kong

Ah Sze (Cecilia Wong Hang-sau) abandons the country for city life, but fails to find refuge from her relatives in Macau and Hong Kong. Writer Joyce Chan realistically portrays a teenaged girl whose choices are finite if she wants to survive. We see Ah Sze in one scene, an innocent girl still in pigtails, in stark contrast with the next scene after she has lost her virginity. It creates an emotional impact that is more than heart-wrecking.

Return

1976 • 28 min • Soviet Union

The First World War is over. A young soldier, having endured all its horrors, returns home to his mother, who has been anxiously awaiting his arrival. But the homecoming is far from joyful. The atmosphere of war has left fatal scars on the minds and souls of those who lived through it...

Little Brother

1976 • 6 min • Soviet Union

Young boy Vova spends more time with his kitten than with his little brother, who in the meantime develops a talent for photography

Krabi

1976 • 12 min • Czechoslovakia

A military scientist successfully creates robot soldiers in the shape of crabs, which turn out to be deadly warriors, but soon he discovers that his ambitious invention evolves in unexpected ways.

Tam Tam

1976 • 58 min • France

At a very camp party in Paris, guests are told about a strange tom-tom played by an Andalusian gipsy, himself a character in a book by a young novelist present at the party. A frantic quest begins for a mysterious love-filter. Tam Tam shows desire and repression through the subversion of archetypes both social (ambassadors, stars, artists) and sexual (homophiles, transvestites, transsexuals), and converting these into a most accurate account of a certain kind of unease: an identity crisis.

Mindscape

1976 • 8 min • Canada

In this short, an artist creates a painting of the landscape he sees, then finds he can literally climb into the picture to see the fantastic world inside.

Kitch's Last Meal

1976 • 55 min

Schneemann’s cat, Kitch, who was featured in works such as Fuses, was a major figure in Schneemann’s work for almost twenty years. The moving conclusion to her Autobiographical Trilogy documents the routines of daily life whilst time passes, a relationship winds down and death closes in: filming and recording stopped when the elderly cat died.

La Brigada – A Mural for the Unidad Popular in Dresden

1976 • 11 min • East Germany

During the 16th Workers' Festival in Dresden in 1976, a student group of Chilean emigrants paints a mural symbolically depicting the activity of the Unidad Popular during Salvador Allende's reign. Festival guests comment on this work. Music by Chilean music group Jaspampa, formed in Leipzig in 1972.

The World of Budgerigars

1976 • 16 min • United Kingdom

Sid James learns of the joys of owning a budgerigar.

Chiriki and Chikotela

1976 • 55 min • Soviet Union

Chiriki and Chikotela are neighbors who have an endless dispute over a small piece of land. Neighbors will eventually reconcile when their children fall in love with each other.

Himitsu Sentai Gorenger: The Red Death Match

1976 • 24 min • Japan

The Gorenger try to retrieve rocket plans stolen by the Black Cross as Daita meets a mysterious girl he saves from them. This is a theatrical version of episode 36 of the Himitsu Sentai Gorenger television series.

Sisters

1976 • 29 min

A widow, Millie, moves in with her sister, Ada, who is also a widow. Millie finds the house is not too her liking and starts to make changes, to Ada's annoyance.

For Nothing

1976 • 7 min • Soviet Union

The boy gave the donkey flowers and inspired him to give gifts to others. Cartoon about the cycle of good in nature.

Number Our Days

1976 • 28 min • United States of America

Based on the book by anthropologist Barbara Myerhoff, this Academy Award-winning short documentary offers a tender portrait of a community of elderly yet resilient Jews living, loving, and at times struggling, in Venice, California. From everyday trials to traditional celebrations, this compassionate portrayal of Eastern European survivors cuts straight to the heart of every viewer and reminds us of the joys and realities of long life. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2007.

Bohoušův syn

1976 • 45 min • Czechoslovakia

Konvalinka, a notorious betting man, has become the scourge of the establishment. He can turn anything into a bet. During one such bet, when he is not ashamed to take advantage of the manager to win, he is noticed by the owner's brother, Bohus, who is visiting a friend. After finding out who Konvalinka really is, he decides to shake the bettor down. Since he works as the manager of a small South Bohemian pub, he sets up a big operation to punish Konvalinka. He is seconded in this plan by his cougar father-in-law and Bohouš's St. Bernard son Pepa.

The Colours

1976 • 17 min • Iran

By showing a series of different-coloured objects, the film aims to familiarize very young children with the various colours.

Impressions of Upper Mongolia

1976 • 51 min • Germany, Spain

The genius Spanish painter Salvador Dalí undertakes an amazing journey through the unknown mental territories of Upper Mongolia in search of a giant hallucinogenic mushroom while paying an experimental tribute to the French poet Raymond Roussel (1877-1933), a visionary and eccentric writer, precursor of the surrealists and much admired by them.

Bent Light

1976 • 3 min • United States of America

Super 8, silent, 3:17.

The Banquet

1976 • 8 min • Poland

It is still one of the most popular Polish animated films. Servants prepare the table for a luxurious dinner party in a beautiful palace. Guests are gathering slowly. Suddenly they are surprised by an unexpected change of roles between the eater and the one who is eaten.

The End of the Game

1976 • 29 min • United States of America

An intimate view of the panorama of African wildlife, giving a sense of what it is really like to be there, and in a dramatic climax makes a poignant plea for conservation. Filmed in Zaire, Kenya and Tanzania, the film takes the viewer from deep inside an anthill, to the majestic giraffes suckling their young. African storms, dung beetle ritual dances, duels for supremacy, feeding time, and playtime all end as the animals disappear one by one while the sound of a rifle shatters the existing magic of life. Winner of the Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject, 1976.

There Is a Criminal Touch to Art

1976 • 25 min • Germany

A documentation of the live Action Ulay performed in Berlin in 1976. It shows step by step his arranged "art theft" of Carl Spitzweg's painting "The Poor Poet" from the Neue Nationalgalerie and his reception in commentaries and reactions from the press.

Rocky

1976 • 20 min

Rocky comprises a single monitor video and fourteen related drawings. The video begins with a man, McCarthy himself, waiting before the camera with his back turned and then turning to face it. Wearing shorts and boxing gloves, he begins to address the viewer in muttered sounds which mimic the manner in which actor Sylvester Stallone speaks as the character Rocky in the eponymous 1976 film. He begins occasionally to hit himself on the head, as though to clear his thoughts and to demonstrate his virility, but gradually the number and violence of the blows increases. It appears as though the Rocky character is having an imaginary fight with another person, but as the film develops it turns into a masochistic fight with himself.

Man and Energy

1976 • 48 min

A film discussing the various forms of energy used by man.