All Films

The Dream, N.Y.C., The Return, The Flower

1976 • 25 min • United States of America

The following films were all made in 1976. I do not wish to describe them. (S.B.) "Has aspects of the diary film...The Dream is one of the most totally disorienting films Brakhage has made...NYC sets various sections within it against each other in a way that cuts loose from any clear context...The Flower has none of the neatness of ending that a description of it might suggest but has instead the quality of apparition, a miracle." (Fred Camper) THE DREAM: 4:20 (18fps), 3:15 (24fps) N.Y.C.: 17:17 (18fps), 12:58 (24fps) THE RETURN: 1:35 (18fps), 1:11 (24fps) THE FLOWER: 0:26 (18fps), 0:20 (24fps)

The Survival of Sam the Pelican

1976 • 49 min • United States of America

A listless teenager, Rick, in Florida gets a job helping with a survey of the pelican population; he finds an injured bird and nurses it back to health.

Kiss - (Alive Tour) Cobo Hall Detroit, MI January 25,

1976 • 53 min

Tour was a concert tour by American rock band Kiss, in support of their 1975 live album Alive!.

The Self Image Film (If Mirrors Could Speak)

1976 • 11 min • United States of America

A group of misbehaving children come across a magic mirror that, when they look into it, shows them as clowns and tries to convince them to change their disruptive behavior.

Pilger in Australia

1976 • 50 min

1976. A candid look at the highs and lows of Australian society.

O Tigre e a Gazela

1976 • 15 min • Brazil

The faces, the gestures and speech of beggars, madmen and revelers passing through the streets of São Paulo. The sounds and images are illustrated with Frantz Fanon extracts.

The Portland Millions

1976 • 50 min • United Kingdom

Annie Druce claims she is the heir to the Duke of Portland.

Newsworthy - The Girl Who Saw a Tiger

1976 • 30 min

Quiet Devonshire school girl Joanna's claim that she saw a tiger in Barrow Woods soon takes hold, in her home, at school and in the national press.

Only Looking

1976 • 32 min • United Kingdom

A man confronts his stalker. An unusual relationship then develops between the two, involving a mysterious third person

Charo

1976 • 30 min

A variety show headlined by Spanish "Cuchi Cuchi Girl" Charo, who tells jokes, acts, sings, dances, and performs on a guitar.

For the Whales

1976 • 25 min • United Kingdom

The maker of an anti-whaling video finds himself under pressure from all sides because of Japanese business interests.

Harry S. Truman: Plain Speaking

1976 • 59 min • United States of America

A biography of President Harry S. Truman.

Children's Album

1976 • 19 min • Soviet Union

The House That Jack Built

1976 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Story about the cow with the crumpled horn that tossed the dog that worried the cat that killed the rat that ate the malt that lay in the house that Jack built.

Suffer Little Children…

1976 • 32 min

Young children growing up during the depression in a mining village, Johannesburg,South Africa and the effect of religion on their minds.

Pressure and the Press: The Making of 'All the President's Men'

1976 • 10 min • United States of America

Hoffman, Redford, Bernstein, Woodward, Pakula and Bradlee. Creators and creatures involved in one way or another with 'All the President's Men', whether being the novel or the movie, appear in this documentary to talk about the challenge of both medias and how one was successfully transformed into another.

Aimé Césaire, Un homme une terre

1976 • 52 min • France

Alternating interview segments, shots of Martinique landscapes and scenes from Aimé Césaire's play La Tragédie du roi Christophe (1963), Sarah Maldoror portrays her friend as a politician, a poet, and a founder of the Négritude movement.

Mitzi... Roarin' in the 20s

1976 • 58 min

Mitzi Gaynor welcomes her guests Carl Reiner (Dick Van Dyke Show), Ken Berry (Mayberry R.F.D.) and Tony-winner Linda Hopkins to an hour, blending animation and live action, celebrating the era of flappers, speakeasies and great jazz. Songs include "Everything Old is New Again," "The One I Love (Belongs to Somebody Else)," "Runnin' Wild," and "The Charleston."

Bonga

1976 • 23 min • India

Kundan Shah's FTII Diploma Film - A 23-minute dialogue-less short about a gang of bank robbers.

Où est-ce qu'on se "Mai"?

1976 • 55 min

Documentary about feminist protests on the 1st of May of 1976

Trotsky is Dead

1976 • 30 min

'It's as if the revolution was here again. They are storming the Winter Palace on my own doorstep.' In Palmerston Road, Reading, there is a crisis ...

Scum Manifesto

1976 • 26 min • France

Delphine Seyrig reads passages from a Valerie Solanas’s SCUM manifesto.

Beasts: Special Offer

1976 • 53 min • United Kingdom

A misfit teenage checkout operator has an unrequited crush on her supermarket manager. At the same shop's cuddly cartoon mascot seems to have come alive and is causing havoc. Created as an episode of Nigel Kneale’s “Beasts” horror anthology miniseries.

A Collier's Friday Night

1976 • 60 min

A glimpse into the home life of a coal miner and his family. Frustrated with their lot in life, the family quarrel and squabble incessantly with one another in this adaptation of a DH Lawrence short story.