All Films

Potters at Work

1976 • 30 min

Filmed in the traditional pottery making villages, Onda and Koishibara on the island of Kyushu in Southern Japan. The film presents the workshops of Shigeki Sakamoto in Onda and Kumao Ohta in Koishibara.

Skins

1976 • 7 min • United States of America

"Skins" is a silent film. No sound. I shot it on 8mm film in 1972 and finished it in 1976 as a 16mm film. The surface of motion picture film is organic matter, made from skin and hooves of cattle. Motion picture film, especially color film, has an emulsion of slightly varying thickness, so that the images on each physical frame can be seen in slight relief when looked at under reflected light. This surface structure is exploited in "Skins", through a slow process of soaking in water until dye layers (first yellow, then magenta, and last cyan) that constitute the images, lift off the film substrate and rearrange themselves in curtains of wrinkled matter. The effect is to reanimate the original subject matter of the film recording, taxidermy animals in a natural history museum diorama. Another effect is to unleash the organic matter of emulsion first animated by a living creature. (Barbara Lattanzi)

Hand and Body Transformations

1976 • 2 min

Byron Grush's first handmade film.

Last Supper Second Coming

1976 • 4 min

Tony Phillips film. 1976

Black & Decker Hedgetrimmer Murders

1976 • 15 min

Krogstad's second great animation film. The film is about such dubiously related topics as the Teamsters Union, necrophilia and premeditated murder.

Sound of One

1976 • 11 min

Financed by the National Endowment of the Arts. Prior to filming the SOUND OF ONE, Bartlett studied dance as a student enrolled at the Inner Research Institute. His teacher was Martin Inn. This student-teacher relationship evolved into a collaboration in which Barlett and Inn scripted a summer workshop course entitled The Application of T'si Chi Ch'uan to the Art of Filmmaking. SOUND OF ONE is the fruit of that program, a melding of the two disciplines. SOUND OF ONE records the short form of the T'ai Chi dance as a solo figure moves through changing landscapes – oceanside to forest to volcano peak – to represent the five elements: water, wood, fire, air and metal.

Fur (But Less Fun)

1976 • 15 min

Short work.

Action, Stone-Nail-String-Light

1976 • 15 min • Japan

A Film by Keiji Uematsu.

Brief Spring

1976 • 38 min • Iran

A mother takes her lazy son out of the house to work, the boy is on his sightseeing while lying by the river, notices flowers that are on the water, the flowers come from a garden where a young girl is imprisoned by a demon.

Measuring—Corner

1976 • 12 min • Japan

A Film by Keiji Uematsu.

About Britain: A Country Editor

1976 • 27 min

A Country Editor follows the gathering and preparation of material for the Christmas edition of the 112 year old weekly Northumberland newspaper, the Hexham Courant, through to production. Includes action at Hexham Auction Market. Editor Michael Sharman interpolates his observations. This Tyne Tees TV documentary was first broadcast as part of the ITV About Britain series on 10 March 1976.

Transformation by Holding Time (Artist with Muse)

1976 • 3 min • Netherlands

The maker registers his muse on camera and Polaroid

El Train Film

1976 • 3 min • United States of America

Song of the El Train in Chicago. The lab did not sync this film correctly and makes this film what it is.

The Last Rally

1976 • 32 min

The Last Rally, a 30-minute tape by YES New York, a group composed of Shridhar Bapat, Mark Brownstone, Karen Edwards, and Joe Loguidice, documents the post-Vietnam war demonstration held in Central Park on May 11, 1975. Among the performers featured are Phil Ochs, Patti Smith, and Joan Baez. William Kunstler is also interviewed

Class Fool

1976 • 30 min

In a shamanistic, quasi-sexual ritual performance, McCarthy threw himself around a ketchup-spattered classroom at the University of California, San Diego until dazed and self-injured. He then vomited several times and inserted a Barbie doll into his rectum. The piece ended when the audience could no longer stand to watch his performance.

Quadra

1976 • 7 min • France

Early, little-seen pioneering feedback art from French artist Catherine Ikam.

My Life

1976 • 30 min • Japan

This work was started in 1967 as a documentation of Nakajima’s life. The footage was edited into a single piece for the first time in 1974, in time to show the work to the curator Barbara London, who was visiting Japan. Generations of his family were lost and gained that year, with Nakajima's mother passing away, and then his child was born. The piece is an installation with two monitors; the left presents his mother and himself, and the right, his child and himself. Nakajima continues to work on the sequels of "My Life" with his grandchild.

Condemned

1976 • 6 min

The crumbling beauty of a soon-to-be-demolished, impoverished Red Hook neighborhood in the mid-1970s is revealed to us moment by moment, structure by forgotten structure. The circuslike brass music suggests a public face of “a city in progress” while the addicts, thieves, and other lonely people are shown to us as the human cost: those who will be left out of that development.

Film a strisce, o "la petite mort"

1976 • 3 min

Through a particular shooting technique, the initial panorama is fragmented into many overlapping visions until it reaches the abstraction of pure light.

Manshia, One 269 St.

1976 • 12 min

A glimpse into the daily life of an immigrant family occupying a ruined building in Manshia on the outskirts of the high-rises of Tel Aviv, 1975. A few years later this building was renovated, to much controversy, and became the famous IZL1948 Museum.

Den stora stenen

1976 • 35 min • Sweden

Documentary film maker Anders Wahlgren interviews the artist Peter Tillberg.

Echos

1976 • 9 min

Time lags between cause and effect during a cello performance. In the work, the variables of sound are related to the variables of the camera. For example: glissando = zoom, out of tune = out of focus. The camera is used as a musical instrument, a device that translates sound events into visual elements.

The Summer of '76 on Fire Island

1976 • 5 min

Nelson Sullivan was enrolled in film school when he shot this Super 8 film at Fire Island, a gay-friendly New York City getaway. Around this time, Nelson and his partner owned a salon on Fire Island called David/Nelson.

Plausible Light Source

1976 • 2 min • United States of America