All Films

Instructions No. 1

1976 • 6 min • Yugoslavia

In the performance-video "Instrukcije br 1", Sanja Ivekovic draws 'instructional' lines for a facial and neck massage on her skin using ink. Instead of beautifying facial features, this massage becomes a blotchy, unattractive procedure.

The Space Between the Teeth

1976 • 10 min

The Space Between the Teeth is based on the structure of acoustic phenomena and the psychological dynamics of a man screaming at the end of a long dark corridor. With each successive scream, the camera point of view hurtles at high velocity along the length of the hallway in decreasing increments. The corridor and the cinematic structuring of the camera's advance act as metaphors for passage and transition between two worlds, bridged by the individual's cathartic screams. Ultimately, the image of the man at the end of the corridor is transformed into a Polaroid still that is literally washed away.

The Spider Will Kill You

1976 • 30 min

Director David Schmoeller's thesis film about a blind man who lives alone in a theater attic. He falls in love with a strange female mannequin who turns out to be quite animated and deadly.

This Is a Television Receiver

1976 • 8 min • United Kingdom

Commissioned by BBC TV as the unannounced opening piece for their Arena video art programme, March 1976. Programme produced by Mark Kidel, conceived by Anna Ridley and presented by David Hall. 'Richard Baker [the well known newsreader] describes the essential paradoxes of the real and imagined functions of the TV set on which he appears. The second shot is taken optically off a monitor, the third copied from the second, and so on, until there is a complete degeneration of both sound and image, removing the newsreader from his position of authority...' - Tamara Krikorian, Art Monthly, February 1984.

Interview Without Sound

1976 • 2 min • Austria

1976 short by Dietmar Brehm

I'll See You

1976 • 2 min

Part of BFI's "National Coal Board Collection".

You Pick the Moment

1976 • 2 min

Part of BFI's "National Coal Board Collection".

Wandsbek Gartenstück

1976 • 14 min • Germany

With Marcia Bronstein and Silke Grossmann. Hamburg, Wandsbek-Gartenstadt, May 1976.

Viewmaster

1976 • 4 min • United States of America

Inspired by Eadweard Muybridge's series of photographs entitled "Running Man", Griffin creates a whimsical animated poem, using a variety of graphic styles.

Photomatons

1976 • 5 min

1976 Spanish experimental work

Rumble

1976 • 4 min • United States of America

An experimental animated short film.

Ich sprach mit einem Mädchen

1976 • 30 min • East Germany, Germany

A class reunion of the twenty-somethings in the old school. What one remembers, what the individual has new to tell. One of them: Marieluise. Her love, her work, her demands on herself and the world into which she is coming of age.

Paul Sharits Interview with Gerard O'Grady

1976 • 28 min

This is a rare video interview with one of America’s finest film artists, shot in New York towards the end of his abruptly terminated career.

Memória do Carnaval

1976 • 12 min • Brazil

Timber and Tin

1976 • 25 min

The National Trust Queensland commissioned Timber and Tin, the story of Queensland architecture, mainly in domestic buildings, from the days of the earliest settlers and of the materials from which they were built with emphasis on the use of timber and corrugated iron. The film illuminates forms, structures, and decorative details that characterize this type of regional architectural expression. It includes interviews with people who worked the materials and built the houses as well as those who grew up with them.

Ladyman

1976 • 7 min • France

Ritual of seduction led by Aloual, principal actant of the filmmaker's first films. This ritual, carried by the rock energy of the divine Lou Reed, accelerates in a frenzied gesture that develops the erotic imagination... Ambiguity of the male nature... gender trouble... This ritual of seduction open to erotics dreams...

Windowframe

1976 • 6 min • United Kingdom

Windowframe is an investigation of the way in which we may perceive a specific image – that of two people, seen through a window, involved in some activity. This is the image seen at the opening of the film. Subsequent sections of the film present to the viewer differing juxtapositions of the four segments of this image which are created by the cross-bars of the window. Tensions are created between what we expect to see, and what we do see. We see the original image as a single whole.

Red + Green + Blue

1976 • 10 min • United Kingdom

In this structural-materialist film, colour is generated by landscape: from the sky, the grass and berries.

Hand/Shutter

1976 • 3 min • United Kingdom

Lightning

1976 • 1 min • United States of America

"When I look for the lightning, it never strikes. When I look away, it does." Filmed inside a car, this tape focuses on observation of natural phenomena, presenting the obverse of the "If a tree falls in the woods..." conundrum. Does observation change the course of events? Can you believe in things you don't see? In this experiment, the camera occupies a privileged position showing the woman and what she sees, as well as what she cannot see. Filmmaker Deborah Stratman cites "Lightning" as an influence, saying "This video seems to me in some small way what the magic of filmmaking is all about."

Time and Dreams

1976 • 51 min • United States of America

Created in 1976 by Mort Jordan, a student at Temple University, “Time and Dreams” is a unique and personal elegiac approach to the civil rights movement. The filmmaker has described “Time and Dreams” as a personal journey back to his Alabama home, where he contrasts two societies: the nostalgia some residents have for past values versus the deferred dreams of those who are well past waiting for their time to fully participate in the promise of their own dreams. Through vignettes and personal testimonies, the film portrays Greene County, Alabama, as its people move toward understanding and cooperation in a time of social change.

Luzes, Câmera... Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

1976 • 56 min • Brazil

An hour-long conversation with Brazilian Cinema Novo director Joaquim Pedro de Andrade conducted by Sylvia Bahiense.

Utopia

1976 • 4 min

A 16mm black and white film shot after the artist moved to a basic apartment building in a suburb of Bombay, Utopia has also been used in the two-channel installation of the same name, wherein the artist projected this film adjacent to Dream Houses, a 8mm color stop-motion animation that reflects the artist's engagement with the idealism and hope that modernism brought for the Indian middle class and the poor in the Nehruvian sixties. This format allowed her to juxtapose that idealism with the later dystopia of urbanism in the seventies.

Gay for a Day

1976 • 11 min

A music and costume filled portrayal of the 1976 Gay Pride Parade by filmmaker Tom Palazzolo. All is fun and games until a bystander hurls an egg at Palazzolo's camera lens. It resumes quickly though.