All Films

Asymptote

1976 • 11 min • Germany

Nights in a tunnel – lights and speed

Sensitométrie V

1976 • 20 min

SENSITOMETRIE V, the first film that I saw by K., bored me to death… A black screen, a few rare profiles of a window… I couldn’t take any more, so I left the theater, unable to wait until the twenty-minute “duration” of the film had elapsed… Bernard WEIDMANN - RHIZOME HERETIQUE - March 3rd, 1980.

Sensitométrie IV

1976 • 6 min

Anarchism, Castroism, Maoism, while mingled. But what survives is Nihilism ! Alain Peyrefitte in the National Assembly, May 9, 1968

Permanência

1976 • 20 min • Brazil

Looking for a presence.

Basic Job Skills: Dealing with Customers

1976 • 10 min

How do you handle customers? Coronet will teach you!

Aberhart's House

1976 • 3 min • New Zealand

Observations of the Aberhart family home near Akaroa.

Knoten

1976 • 30 min

Directed by Werner Nekes.

Film numéro deux

1976 • 4 min • France

For the films in which Lebrat divided the screen he placed a piece of paper with one or more slits in it in front of the lens, allowing only a narrow strip of imagery to register. He then exposed the film multiple times, layering images. The initial effect is confusion—it’s often hard to identify from these moving slits what we’re seeing. But soon the eyes acclimate, and when one does recognize fragments of a nude woman (Lebrat’s wife) in a landscape in Film Number Two (1976), she has the quality of an apparition. Shown in a different way than thousands of years of nudes have led us to expect, this woman is charged with a vital, surprising erotic energy. (Fred Camper)

Congados

1976 • 17 min • Brazil

The congada was born in Minas Gerais, two centuries ago and is the only popular Afro-Brazilian ritual linked to Catholicism. Every year, on the occasion of the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary in Ouro Preto, descendants of the slaves from Angola, Congo and Mozambique gather to celebrate the enthronement of a new king.

Paul Revere Is Here

1976 • 7 min • United States of America

In the summer of 1975, with a mobile rotoscoping station in tow, Mary Beams and Susan Hodara recorded locals and tourists alike musing on Paul Revere beneath his statue in Boston. With cerulean-washed frames and shifting white outlines of visitors, the documentary soundtrack creates a unique portrait of place and time.

What If We Had A Fire?

1976 • 12 min

A fire safety short with a funky seventies soundtrack

Ladybug, Ladybug, Winter Is Coming

1976 • 10 min

A talkative ladybug learns what to do in case of winter.

To Gelekaki

1976 • 7 min

Ka(te)rina wants to see the manager of the bookstore. On the way see will meet all her personal ghosts. Her anguish: Will she destroy him or get destroyed by herself?

Families: Earning And Spending

1976 • 16 min

An educational short about families from around the world, how they work to earn money and what they spend it on.

Families: Food And Eating

1976 • 16 min

An educational short about families from around the world, what they eat and how they cook.

Rhythms 76

1976 • 17 min • France

This is my first film based on the unity of the photogram, started in the fall of 1975 and finished at the very beginning of the following year. What to do after Sharits, Kubelka, Kren? How to continue their contribution to cinema? Refusing to accept a cinema where the randomness of images would be the rule, I imagined myself inspired by the musical model. [...] I imagined starting from a fixed photograph that was the vision of my window and building from this image chromatic variations that would select parts of the image. The film was written entirely with the help of a score and was inspired by Steve Reich's repetitive music composition models. [...] - JMB

Chantilly

1976 • 12 min • France

To construct a film in an atomic way, starting from simple elements which combined with each other will produce a whole. Taking the dot as an elementary unit is not a coincidence if we think that the notion of pixels with video images began to occupy people's minds in the 70’s, decades before the arrival of giant led screens. [...] 9, and then 16 screens within one same screen allow an impressive process of simultaneous abstract sequences. The film partition shows a combinatorial process between monochrome colours in the background and pointillist compositions in the foreground. As many sequences as screens; each one is a reflection on abstract images: pointillism, geometrism, "nuagisme" or informal abstraction , are all nods to the history of abstraction in painting: Vassili Kandinsky, Paul Klee, or Augusto Giacometti seem to have been called together within a mondrianesque grid. JMB

Windchimes, Window, Tree

1976 • 2 min • United States of America

Footage of trees swaying in the sunlight, as seen from a window. A windchime in silhouette periodically obscures the trees.

Street Film Part Zero

1976 • 35 min • United States of America

A cascading tapestry of sight and sound, rejecting nothing, clinging to nothing, saturating and ultimately defeating the discriminating mind, until unstructured primary space begins to unfold within the viewer.

Street Film Part III

1976 • 32 min • United States of America

Arctic Desire

1976 • 7 min • United States of America

Compositions of abstract forms and calligraphic lies, these films are natural outgrowths (and perhaps ultimate realisations) of abstract expressionist painting.

Film with Sun

1976 • 19 min • United States of America

‘Here Bodger demonstrates how shots of a single light bulb, the sun and clouds can become, through the use of different laboratory treatments, magnificent abstract tableaux.’ C. Brunel

Hennepin County Park I, II, III, IV

1976 • 12 min • United States of America

Dis/cours

1976 • 14 min • France