All Films

Magnus och Brasse: Varning för barn

1976 • 60 min • Sweden

Recorded in 1976 at Restaurang Trägår'n in Gothenburg. Härenstam and Brännström perform sketches such as "Bäst att ta sig ett glas" (Better Have a Drink), "Svordomsvisan" (The Swear Song), and "Flygkaptenerna" (The Airline Captains).

A Wedding Suit

1976 • 59 min • Iran

A woman orders a suit from a tailor for her young son to wear to her sister's wedding. The tailor's apprentice, together with two other teenage boys who work in the same building, devise a plan to try on the suit at night to see what it feels like.

Independence

1976 • 30 min • United States of America

John Huston directs this film giving relevance and life to the hallowed buildings and ground making up Independence National Historical Park. Through vignettes, the people and events are re-created for the present-day visitor. Featuring Eli Wallach as Benjamin Franklin.

It's Dangerous to Put Out to Sea

1976 • 21 min • Soviet Union

The film is about special sea expedition which put out to sea to deliver oil to Russia at the cost of their lifes.

Matterhorn - The North Face In Winter

1976 • 49 min • United Kingdom

The first filmed winter ascent of the north face of the Matterhorn. To set the scene, the tragic story of Edward Whymper's first ascent is skillfully pieced together. The modern expedition, a team of three British climbers, is also plagued with epics: Eric Jones is hit by an avalanche and can only come to a dangerous stop at the edge of a 1000 foot drop. Then the worst storm ever recorded in Zermatt hits the Matterhorn. With time and weather against them, the team is forced to climb in the dark as thunderstorms rumble around them. This adventure captures the skill and courage of the climbers, their agony and tension, and the beauty of the assault on this spectacular mountain. Grand Prize at the Les Diablerets festival (Switzerland) in 1976.

Apply, Apply, No Reply

1976 • 31 min • United Kingdom

A young villager struggles to find employment in Calcutta.

Not the First Time

1976 • 5 min • United States of America

"This film is composed of different and relatively commonplace subjects, but each image is a super-imposition ('double exposure') of two similar shots of the same subject, almost in the same position. The effect is amazing: one's gaze at the image becomes a double gaze, as the two images were made at different times and with slightly different framing. The viewer is engaged in a process of double-vision that returns him to image and subject in a manner more complex, more self-aware, and more temporal than the way most of us view photographs." - Fred Camper

The Stronger

1976 • 26 min • United States of America

Adaptation of a Strindberg play by Lee Grant for the 1974 AFI Directing Workshop for Women. Restored in 2022 by the Academy Film Archive and The Film Foundation. Restoration funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation. 

Joy Ride: An Auto Theft

1976 • 13 min • United States of America

In the summer of '76, after pinball and complaining lose their thrill, Val and Tim steal their friend Randal's car. The boys pick up some girls, Kari and Vicki, and go for a ride up in the hills. They intend to return the stolen car before Randal finishes baseball practice, but their adolescent hijinks spiral out of control. The short film seems to be designed to make teenagers see that joyriding isn't just a bit of fun.

Beauty and the Beast

1976 • 20 min • Japan

A stop-motion puppet animation adaptation of the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast.

Careless Love

1976 • 10 min

A woman will do anything to keep her new man.

Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema

1976 • 32 min • United Kingdom

BBC documentary about the rise of the New German Cinema and several of its most important figures.

Crocodile eating crackers

1976 • 1 min • United States of America

A man tries to record a crocodile eating crisp crackers, but he doesn’t hear the cracker sound twice. So he decides to go in the crocodile's jaw to hear it, but the crocodile ends up eating him instead.

Pendulum

1976 • 17 min

A pendulum swings among old NYC buildings.

Travelling Free

1976 • 30 min

When I was young, only seventeen, I walked the hills and pathways green,I knew not of life; of care had none And the boy who loved me was tender, and young.

A Mal Gam a

1976 • 33 min • Spain

With 'A MAL GAM A' Zulueta brings the lyrical film into the territory of mystico-psychedelia. The cinema as drug, as vehicle for rapture—as will later be seen in Arrebato—is a theme of this most autobiographical of Zulueta’s experimental films (which could also be seen as a documentary of an agoraphobic mode of artistic production), the protagonist is played by the filmmaker himself (“Jim Self” is the trans-linguistic homophone that appears in the credits) and shot mostly in the family villa in San Sebastián.

The Mask of the Devil

1976 • 12 min • France

One night, an old lady flees the carnival and takes refuge in the mountains. At midnight, the devil knocks on his door and offers him a very special domino game.

The Case of the Topanga Pearl

1976 • 6 min

The Spring Night

1976 • 9 min • Soviet Union

A spring night is a poetic film which is based on the motives of the poem by V. Lugovsky. The film is devoted to the theme of fidelity to the battle traditions of revolutionary past, to the theme of human happiness the sense of it in the battle for high ideals.

Struggle for Israel

1976 • 19 min • United States of America

An insight into Israel and the horrors of the Holocaust.

Au-delà du temps

1976 • 4 min

A surrealist impression of psychic voyage via sexual union. Released posthumously, comprised of an extract from Foldes' unfinished feature-length animated film. Music by Pink Floyd.

The Bad Blacksmith

1976 • 8 min • Soviet Union

About a lazy guy who was taught blacksmithing.

Minimum Charge No Cover

1976 • 11 min

The film unfolds to reveal some of the filmmaker's friends who lead alternative lifestyles. We meet transsexuals, homosexuals, hookers, transvestites and female impersonators.

Rosedale: The Way It Is

1976 • 59 min • United States of America

Racial tensions soared as the Spencers, a middle-class black family moved into Rosedale, a Queens white working-class neighborhood. In this 1976 documentary, Bill Moyers examines the fear, hatred and courage generated as the have-nots of our society battle for a tiny piece of the good life.