All Films

Nutrition: The Consumer and The Supermarket

1976 • 14 min • United States of America

Combines consumer interviews and an analysis of the products and merchandising techniques used in supermarkets to show shoppers how to select the best nutritional value for their food dollar. Explains the basic food groups available and explores the role of advertising, store layout, packaging, and labeling in consumer decision making.

A Box With Secret

1976 • 10 min • Soviet Union

It is a musical imagination on the theme of the fairy tale of V.Odoevsky "Small town in a snuffbox". The film represents an original tiny rock opera. Source : www.animator.ru

Afflicted

1976 • 25 min • Israel

Guttman's best short film, Afflicted tells the story of a young, closeted Israeli man who visits a drag bar one night in search of sexual expression.

FFG: un retrato

1976 • 10 min • Spain

An experimental portrait of Fernando Fernán Gómez, one of the most renowned Spanish artists of all time.

Clown and Kroops

1976 • 9 min • Soviet Union

The story of how a clown was chased by an angry Kroops beast.

The Monkey God Extermination

1976 • 10 min

A traveling monk discovers that three monsters have deceived a village into sacrificing a young girl to their appetites every autumn, for fear that their harvest will be ruined. The monsters leave a hint as to who could stop them: Hayatarō of Kōzenji in Shinano Province. Thus, the monk sets out to find this mysterious figure who could end the needless sacrifices for good.

The Secret of Old Glory Mine

1976 • 48 min • United States of America

An old prospector, Charlie, living alone with his burro in Arizona tries to keep a rich silver vein a secret. He takes out only enough to pay his expenses. When another miner arrives, Charlie tries to dissuade him from finding the vein, but when he saves Charlie’s life, the two decide to share the secret.

The Gal and the Fiend

1976 • 14 min

Szulkin stages a morality play about a sinful woman’s encounter with the devil, set to the Polish ballad of the same name and imbued with folkloric imagery.

I Want to Be Famous

1976 • 40 min • United Kingdom

Eleven-year-old Steve is the smallest boy in class. He thinks girls are soppy, detests football and prefers painting. To alleviate his loneliness, he occasionally escapes into an excitingly violent fantasy realm of his own creation. His best mate Stuart is the only solid thing in a comfortless world where people argue too much… usually about Steve.

Producciones Arena

1976 • 22 min • Argentina

Life in a circus. As of today, this short film is considered to be lost.

Just Doin’ It (A Tale of Two Barbershops)

1976 • 29 min

An intimate portrait of two inner-city barbershops that provide patrons with more than haircuts.

Escape to Entebbe

1976 • 9 min

A Pakistani reporter interviews Idi Amin.

For Services to Myself

1976 • 60 min

A proud socialist and community activist wrestles with the decision to accept an honour from the Queen

Fast Hands

1976 • 48 min • United Kingdom

Jimmy is a talented young boxer. Every punch he throws is eagerly watched by his trainer, and resented by his girlfriend. His parents, however, aren't particularly interested – until a large car and what appears to be a handsome contract arrive at the door.

Tomkinson's Schooldays

1976 • 30 min • United Kingdom

New boarder Tomkinson is thoroughly miserable at Graybridge public school where he has to fight the grizzly bear,get nailed to the wall on St Tadger's Day and do the bidding of Grayson,also known as School Bully. When his mother refuses to let him come home he makes several attempts to escape,all unsuccessful,but after winning the Thirty Mile Hop against a rival (Buddhist) public school he is promoted to School Bully when Grayson leaves for Eton.

The Wreckers

1976 • 6 min • United Kingdom

A short film by Bernard Rose.

Hansje en het Welbehagen

1976 • 48 min • Netherlands

Hansje, a ten-year-old boy, is home alone because his parents have to work during Christmas. His mother is an actress in a Christmas play and his father is a conductor of a Christmas concert. Hansje himself has a bad cold and spends the day making drawings until he discovers a small Christmas angel in the Christmas tree. The angel is looking for Pleasure on earth. To explain what Pleasure is, the Christmas angel takes Hansje with him, floating through the air, in the drawings that Hansje made of his hometown. They visit the Christmas play where his mother will perform, his school friend Geesje, a girl whose rabbit will be on the Christmas menu and some girls who go on a holiday to escape the cold. They also see old Mr. Biggelaar, who walks lonely through the city.

Artpark People

1976 • 53 min • United States of America

Encouraging visitors to engage and connect with on site artist's, Artpark provides a unique environment for those craving culture away from the whirring city. Located in Lewiston, New York the outdoor venue opens itself to artists, musicians and performers seeking a spot to reflect and create. During the summer seasons Artpark serves as an immersive experience, inviting the public to observe the artists as they work. Artpark People observes the vibrant scene and captures candid interactions between artist and onlookers. With a heavy emphasis on outdoor space and environmental influence, Artpark asserts itself as a cultural and communal haven for creatives.

And You Act Like One Too

1976 • 25 min • United States of America

On her 30th birthday, a first-time unfaithful wife picks up a strange hitchhiker who helps her conceptualize her values.

Entrance Free

1976 • 11 min • East Germany

Rustic weapons, centuries old traps; wreckage of U.S. bombers, a perforated “bulletproof” vest are exposed in the museums of Hanoi. “The neglected free visit to the Hanoi museums cost the American people 56,369 killed people and 146 billion dollars.”

Out of the Body Travel

1976 • 42 min

A "young woman who finds herself surrounded by the relics of Western culture" is the subject of Richard Foreman's formal tableaux. The narration centers on a young woman's struggle to find a relation between her body and her self as mediated by language. The text is a poetry of formal relations that carries personal and historical implications, including the desires of the woman paradoxically voiced by a male narrator. The title suggests the vivid virtuality of dreaming; scenes repeatedly refer to both reading and sleeping.

Bernstein Mahler Rehearsal

1976 • 54 min

"Four Ways to Say Farewell" is a personal introduction to Mahler and his Ninth Symphony, during which Leonard Bernstein is seen and heard rehearsing the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. Filmed in 1971, this rehearsal was directed by Humphrey Burton,

Thermometer

1976 • 19 min • Soviet Union

Three road workers apply road markings. Exhausted by the excruciating heat, Gigla pretends to be sick by putting a randomly found street thermometer in his bosom.

Nobody Understands

1976 • 7 min • Soviet Union

About a rude chicken and a well-mannered worm.