All Films

Edge Forces

1976 • 11 min • United States of America

EDGE FORCES is an abstract collage of rapid nebulous forms and calligraphic lines. The frame is used as a "canvas" for thousands of fleeting images that try to expand beyond its confines. Viewers are compelled either to comprehend the dynamic flow of the images, or to make free subjective associations with them.

Molten Shadow

1976 • 8 min • United States of America

"Bruce Wood's films are among the most sensual of any "abstract" animated work ever made. Projected, they generate a fluid stream of organic images in a carefully controlled post-cubist space comparable to the work of painters like Jackson Pollock. Viewed one frame at a time, (which is the way much of the footage is shot), they recall the rich lines and textures of such master etchers as Rembrandt. Wood's use of camera movement during the exposure of each individual frame - like drawing - together with the illusion of movement in projection make his films both beautiful and unique." -Bill Judson, Curator of Film, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute.

Permutations

1976 • 10 min • United States of America

The artist's sister is the subject of this structuralist film. Cha herself appears in a single frame.

For Dürer

1976 • 4 min • Yugoslavia

Stop-motion recording of a pillow being folded and crumpled.

Monumental Art of Kazakhstan

1976 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Documentary about monumental art in Kazakhstan, produced by the Central State Archive for Film, Photo, and Audiorecordings of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Miradwie

1976 • 21 min

Running

1976 • 34 min

The film tries to 'destroy time' by the cyclical reworking of a short period of time. Gradually the image becomes less discernible and the flashing positive and negative images force the viewer to stare rather than looking at the film. As the film progresses the viewer becomes trapped in a short period of time.

Ruth Stout's Garden

1976 • 23 min

Rythmes de passage

1976 • 3 min • France

Filmed in a public place in a still shot, rhythms are created by pedestrians and cars moving, stopping or disappearing. The light, very white, induces a sensation of their passage.

Jackson Junior High: Route 1

1976 • 15 min

Students in an eighth grade science class at Jackson Junior High study types of alcohol.

The Pleasures of the Capital

1976 • 15 min

De Chirico in Legoland, perhaps. This film was part of the programme of a ‘happening’ on the same surrealist theme staged one night in the barns and grounds of a Suffolk farm. It seemed just right to conjure up the marvellous of the metropolis in the back of a rural beyond. Some of the opening shots are borrowed from Fritz Lang’s 1927 silent film. The textual passages in the voice-over come from Giorgio de Chirico’s 1929 ‘novel’, Hebdomeros. In 1976, my first child was six years old and mad on Lego. There was lots of it about the house and it was only a short step to using the white bricks to construct miniature versions of the master of melancholy’s towers, squares and arcades. And another short step to imagining a cluster of suspect scenarios acted out within these metaphysical spaces. RS

You in Public Service: Introduction

1976 • 27 min

Promotion film presents an overview to the series and to public service jobs.

O Mastro do Bino Santo

1976 • 10 min • Brazil

A film from Espirito Santo

A Day of Forgiveness

1976 • 18 min • Yugoslavia

The film is inspired and is an adaptation of the story "Forgiveness" by Blaze Koneski. We follow the pagan custom, the ritual with masks on the occasion of the Feast of Forgiveness, through the dream of a child who is obsessed with the severe illness of his sister.

Red Church

1976 • 17 min • Australia

“I wanted to make a sequel to Chants…the gold against black, but I wasn’t quite sure how. One day I went to St Mary’s Cathedral here in Sydney. After looking at the stained glass windows for some time, on the way out I noticed that they were selling slides of the interior…and whoever photographed the stained glass had used a red filter. This was the image I was after…red against black. By simply photographing and rephotographing the slide (up to 200 times, in some cases)…and varying the exposure by changing the distance between the light source and the slide, I was able to give the feeling of looking up…which is what you do in a church…from the knave up to the stained glass up to the ceiling…up to heaven in this red light. The upward motion was layered without visible edits by superimposing strips of the varyingly exposed film, in the lab.” (Paul Winkler)

Try-Angle Spiral Piano Boogie

1976 • 23 min

A short experimental film by Phil Morton.

Shuttlecock

1976 • 55 min

Sam likes his children to be grown-up chaps. So nine-year-old Harry is at a disadvantage in the battle of wits that develops...

Room

1976 • 17 min • Japan

Impressions

1976 • 14 min

The filmmaker threads together the pieces exhibited at the third TRIENNALE-INDIA held in New Delhi in 1975.

Blue Star Mine

1976 • 4 min

A high energy, twisted, psychedelic animation featuring unexpected transformations of various organic and non-organic forms. Produced at Cal Arts, ca. 1976.

El ama de casa

1976 • 15 min

A critical portrait of the life of housewives in a patriarchal society.

Another Life

1976 • 11 min • Japan

Head

1976 • 12 min • Soviet Union

Staggeringly simple films: a man itching his back, a man thinking, a man yawning, but like the works of Samuel Beckett, these minute gestures stand in as grand statements of the human condition, akin to the films of Bas Jan Ader and Marcel Broodthaers.

Display Simulations of 6-Legged Walking

1976 • 7 min • Soviet Union

A display simulation of a 6-legged ant-like walker traversing various paths and navigating obstacles. The research was aimed at a planetary rover that would get around by walking. Created by D.E. (D.I.?) Okhotsimsky, et al, for the Insitute of Applied Mechanics, USSR Academy of Sciences. Titles likely translated to English by Stanford AI Lab and edited together by Suzanne Kandra in 1976 for a Polish conference; The animation itself may date back as early as 1972.