All Films

Moon Goddess

1976 • 13 min • United States of America

In California a young woman artist/filmmaker is led by an older female artist through the small pine forests of Mendocino and the hot desert sands of Death Valley before she is taught the lesson of creative inspiration.

Kiss [1976] Detroit 1976

1976 • 60 min

Bonus disc from Kissology I. Kiss live at Cobo Hall, Detroit, MI, January 25, 1976

Gulpin

1976 • 30 min

A girl's obsession with the boys' game of football makes her so misunderstood.

Bob Dylan: Hard Rain

1976 • 52 min

From the fall of 1975 to the summer of 1976, Bob Dylan took a happy gaggle of musicians out on a two-leg tour dubbed the Rolling Thunder Review. Live at Fort Collins, Colorado

James Thurber’s The Night the Ghost Got In

1976 • 17 min • United States of America

A scared kid starts all kinds of trouble. Kids' "horror" film based on the story by James Thurber.

Rendezvous

1976 • 8 min • France

A high-speed drive through the streets of Paris.

Arandjel's Predicament

1976 • 55 min • Yugoslavia

A story about young man who, after the conflict with his uncle, sets off to emigration.

Projection Instructions

1976 • 4 min • United States of America

Regrettably, the labour of projectionists is usually only considered by the audience when they ‘screw up’. This film offers an alternative opportunity. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2014.

A Man of Morality

1976 • 27 min • United Kingdom

A moral philosopher at a university finds his own morals under scrutiny.

Airs

1976 • 24 min • United States of America

"This film rises out of my struggle to photograph the ephemeral qualities of varied air (as many Greek philosophers experienced such) and to arrange the resultant textures/tones of film (in sharp conjunction with images hard-edged as words can be) so that it be true as breath itself to the necessities of music." (S.B.)

Cloudy

1976 • 60 min • Japan

Early B+W student film.

Slashing Fellow

1976 • 17 min • Soviet Union

A merry village guy meets a sorcerer's daughter in the forest and immediately proposes to her. But her father decides to challenge him to a game of hide-and-seek.

Self-Fashion Show

1976 • 14 min • Hungary

According to Peter Brook, all that is needed for an act of theatre to be engaged is for a man to walk across an empty space whilst someone else is watching him. Thus, an empty space becomes a bare stage. However, this raises countless questions about the relationship between reality, everyday presence and role-playing, something experimental filmmakers coming from the 1970s world of theatre dealt with in detail. Tibor Hajas explored the topic in a short experimental film made at BBS.

The Steam Express

1976 • 57 min • Japan

The unique editing of the film, in which cuts of the train running according to an unreadable sequence of rules are overlaid with radio weather forecasts, '60s pop music and FEN broadcasts, and the inexhaustible camerawork and fearless cutting bring the scenery seen through the train windows to life in this ambitious film. This groundbreaking work was an independent film at the time, but was released in a hall rented by the filmmaker and drew an unprecedented audience. This is the starting point for his posthumous film Bokutachi Kyuko A-Train de Ikirou!

Telly... Who Loves Ya, Baby?

1976 • 60 min • United States of America

At the height of his KOJAK TV series fame, Telly Savalas starred in this variety special that was sponsored by Kraft Foods and shown without commercial interruption. Barbara Eden, Cloris Leachman, Diahann Carroll and others appear and join in the singing and dancing and mugging.

Out of the Trees

1976 • 33 min

Sketch comedy pilot from Douglas Adams and Graham Chapman.

Do I Have to Kill My Child?

1976 • 53 min • Australia

A disturbing drama about a young mother who physically abuses her baby. Feeling overwhelmed and aware that she's not coping after the birth of her third child, she sends desperate cries for help. But her mother, husband, neighbour and clinic sister do not recognise the seriousness of the situation until the baby ends up in hospital with a fractured skull. A heart-wrenching film that illustrates the experiences of many women who suffer from post-natal depression.

Addie and the King of Hearts

1976 • 49 min • United States of America

Addie becomes jealous when her widowed father starts to woo a beautician.

Sinister Flesh

1976 • 27 min • United States of America

A strange tale of a mad scientist's search for eternal life.

The Shadow of Death

1976 • 30 min • United Kingdom

Unsold British horror television pilot for a proposed series entitled "The Fearmakers" is a ghost story set in Warwick Castle.

The Five Pound Orange

1976 • 60 min

For many men edging on middle-age a mistress is a wistful pipe-dream. Gilbert has made fantasy into fact. But he becomes increasingly uncomfortable when his mistress makes him go against his code of ethics and forces him to burgle his wife's flat.

Take an Easy Ride

1976 • 44 min • United Kingdom

A short exploitation film masquerading as a public information film. Two young female hitch-hikers are preyed upon by those who would do them no good.

Dupont Guy: The Schiz of Grant Avenue

1976 • 35 min

WHO WE ARE forms the unifying theme of "Dupont Guy". It affirms the legitimacy of Chinese-American (nee Chonk) culture, exploring cross cultural currents of San Francisco's Chinatown: assimilation, self-contempt, schizophrenic language, duplicitous behavior.

Message from Minamata to the World

1976 • 43 min • Japan

An update to the story of Minamata disease, going up to 1976