All Films

The Football Incident

1976 • 21 min • France

A César award winning documentary about a high school in Beijing where a student throws a ball in the direction of the teacher who had just asked them to stop playing. The class then meets to discuss this problem.

Altar of Fire

1976 • 45 min • India, United States of America

This film records a 12 day ritual performed by Mambudiri Brahmins in Kerala, southwest India, in April 1975. This event was possibly the last performance of the Agnicayana, a Vedic ritual of sacrifice dating back 3,000 years and probably the oldest surviving human ritual. Long considered extinct and never witnessed by outsiders, the ceremonies require the participation of seventeen priests, involve libations of Soma juice and oblations of other substances, all preceded by several months of preparation and rehearsals. They include the construction, from a thousand bricks, of a fire altar in the shape of a bird.

The American Woman: Portraits of Courage

1976 • 60 min

Developed from Anne Grant's book, Our North American Foremothers, this film recreates historical moments and women who fought for equality and freedom over the span of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.

Enemy

1976 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Frightening events unfold that may or may not be figments of Marigold’s imagination.

Well, Just You Wait!

1976 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Chasing Zayats on a construction site Volk discovers a new angle in their relationship.

Beyond a Boundary

1976 • 60 min • United Kingdom

A film based on Beyond a Boundary, the classic book by C. L. R. James,

Aussi loin que mon enfance

1976 • 25 min • France

Italy, May 1969. A woman, her fiancé and two other revolutionaries are on their way to a demonstration in Rome. The trip is an opportunity for the young woman to look back on herself, her journey and her anxieties.

The Art of Eating

1976 • 10 min • Canada

This short documentary highlights one of the biannual dinners at Club Prosper Montagné, a leading international gastronomic society. While elaborate dishes are served with great pomp, we meet Québec’s Chef of the year Marcel Kretz, who is coordinating the feast from the kitchen of Hotel La Sapinière, in the Laurentians.

Kites

1976 • 60 min

Lawrence Hastings, retired prep school headmaster, has few pleasures in life. One is flying a kite, until that too is spoilt by the intrusions of an irritating small boy

Cantos de Trabalho - Cacau

1976 • 10 min • Brazil

Between 1974 and 1976, while researching for his filme "S. Bernardo", Leon Hirszman shot three documentary shorts produced by the Brazilian Ministry of Education on the chores of the men who worked in the sugar cane fields in the town of Feira de Santana, in the cocoa fields of Itabuna, and in the efforts of building households in Chã Preta.

Bad Dog

1976 • 5 min • United States of America

A day in the life from dog’s point of view.

Box

1976 • 2 min • Switzerland

8mm film by Swiss artist Roman Signer.

Caregiver

1976 • 15 min • Yugoslavia

We follow a caregiver who takes care of the elderly and infirm.

Well, Just You Wait! 9

1976 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Pursuing Zayats Volk discovers Soviet showbiz.

Timothy and the Angel

1976 • 10 min

A young man decides not to go to college on a baseball scholarship but remain at his summer forest ranger's job. This is Edward Zwick's first short film, which won first place in the student film competition at the 1976 Chicago Film Festival.

Segovia at Los Olivos

1976 • 57 min • United Kingdom

From his home in Granada, pioneering guitarist Andres Segovia looks back on his 60-year music career and his contribution to Western music.

I Want to Live in the Country (And Other Romances)

1976 • 24 min

Jonas intercuts scenes of the Nova Scotia countryside with images of a studio set-up reminiscent of a di Chirico painting. The soundtrack includes both music and spoken excerpts from a journal Jonas kept while travelling in Nova Scotia. I Want to Live in the Country ultimately deals with observation and fantasy, living in the country, and the stifling aspects of the city and one's art.

Il Festival del Proletariato Giovanile al Parco Lambro

1976 • 58 min

Between June 26 and 29, 1976, the sixth edition of the Festival of the Juvenile Proletariat took place at Parco Lambro in Milan, an event conceived by the countercultural magazine Re Nudo. The organizers invited Alberto Grifi to film those days filled with meetings, debates, and concerts, but not everything went as planned. This is the 58-minute version (from 27 hours of footage) edited by Grifi himself after the event.

Syntax

1976 • 11 min • Germany

A Wily Couple

1976 • 30 min

An elderly couple try to decide if a young woman who has come to visit would make a suitable wife for their son.

The Lady of the Camellias

1976 • 50 min

The doomed love story between Marguerite Gautier, a French courtesan frequented by high-class gentlemen, who is suffering from tuberculosis, and a young gentleman Armand Duval who's new in town.

Lanesville UFO Incident

1976 • 8 min • United States of America

"A segment produced for radical early video collective Videofreex’s unlicensed broadcast television station Lanesville TV, a weekly broadcast that was one of the first American pirate stations of its type. Using a DIY luma keyer by Videofreex member Chuck Kennedy to approximate a flying saucer, the group conscripted neighbors to participate in a mock news report about the “sighting”, capturing the feel of Catskills local color in the process. The segment was produced by Videofreex with collaborators including Ruth Rotko and John Keeler, who worked on a spate of subsequent UFO-related video pieces, before wandering off into their own, wildly divergent careers: Rotko as a producer of independent films like GRACE OF MY HEART, and Keeler as a prolific pornographic cinematographer pseudonymed “Jane Waters”." - Screen Slate

Cantos de Trabalho - Cana de Açúcar

1976 • 8 min • Brazil

Between 1974 and 1976, while researching for his filme "S. Bernardo", Leon Hirszman shot three documentary shorts produced by the Brazilian Ministry of Education on the chores of the men who worked in the sugar cane fields in the town of Feira de Santana, in the cocoa fields of Itabuna, and in the efforts of building households in Chã Preta.

The Italian Machine

1976 • 30 min • Canada

This TV play, written and directed David Cronenberg, explores one of his enduring themes: obsessive relationships with technology. A group of bike fanatics determine to get their hands on a Ducati 900 Desmo SuperSport owned by a rich guy, by any means necessary.