All Films

Black Forest Trading Post

1976 • 5 min • Canada

"In Black Forest Trading Post, the postcard landmark itself travels the world, a winking subversion of the whole idea of ‘being-there’ and of the pilgrimages that postcards, or for that matter, other souvenirs, are meant to indicate."- Stephen Broomer

A vista d'occhio

1976 • 15 min • Italy

A film be Valentina Berardinone

Pocos son los que conocen el secreto del amor

1976 • 15 min • Argentina

"The secret of love well few know; they feel an eternal thirst and feel an unquenchable hunger" writes Novalis in his poem. In turn, Narcisa converses with Rafael Maino, protagonist of many films in the diary series, opening the way to images of places, objects and music that mark the life and work of the filmmaker.

Sprich mit uns! - Lektion 3

1976 • 6 min

Short educational film about language for pupils.

Orpheus and Eurydice

1976 • 12 min • Argentina

Orpheus' song tames scales and dolphins, dictates laws to the wind and sets the rhythm of the oars that move the sea. Those who listen to it remain motionless in contemplation. Between bodies, the Patagonian landscape and the crossing of boundaries with the private record of a vacation, Narcisa Hirsch and Rafael Maino unfold among the melodies of a passage from Orphee et Eurydice. This film also bears the name "Rafael, 1976" and can be considered part of the series of the diaries with "Rafael, agosto 1984".

Working to the Beat

1976 • 9 min

A group of women is pounding millet to the rhythm of a song, a farmer is hoeing his field in tempo, and a man is dancing to the sound of drums during a ritual of possession. Those are scenes taken from previous films by Jean Rouch. The three sequences illustrates in their own way the importance of song and music in everyday life in Niger, whether in everyday chores, in working the land or during rituals.

Chronique de Bercé

1976 • 44 min • France

A film about forestry workers in the Bercé forest.

Zuremingu

1976 • 4 min • Japan

This silent, 8mm film combines two camera procedures: time lapse and the zoom lens. It aims not for technical smoothness but a beguiling abruptness. Starting at the same time each evening, the camera records, in jerky leaps, the moment when the sky darkens and an urban streetlight turns on, illuminating the screen. Alternating zooms-in and zooms-out, Ranmaru Usui – part of a Japanese 1970s movement that explored 'cinema of the soul' – offers transcendence within the everyday. – Adrian Martin

Backstage de No toquen a la nena, de Juan José Jusid

1976 • 40 min • Argentina

Backstage of the movie "No toquen a la nena" directed by Juan José Jusid

Flashing Yellows

1976 • 10 min • United Kingdom

Explaining the procedural changes to speed regulations on British railways, using signals with animated diagrams, models, and footage of trains and drivers.

Matinée 3:15

1976 • 25 min • Venezuela

A parody of a movie, including commercials and a surreal trailer. They are the striking prologue to a disappointing film, which consists of the presentation of the characters of a story that is not told. The type of estrangement that the director seeks, to which is added the direct appeal to the public, is a questioning of the role that this type of spectacle assigns to the spectator, and of the conditions that make him distinguish cinema itself from advertising and allow him to enjoy detective narrative. The mockery, moreover, is directed equally at the consumer society and at the radicals who believe they can combat it with graffiti.

Digging into the Past (Archaeology)

1976 • 14 min • United States of America

Shows students and archaeologists unearthing the remains of an ancient Indian culture in southwestern Illinois.

PSI: Boundaries of the Mind

1976 • 18 min • United States of America

Reports on an unexplained, extra sensory type of communication that researchers refer to as Psi. Shows experiments being conducted to explore and define the Psi phenomena.

Protest

1976 • 8 min

A 16 mm film shot in three sequences. First exhibited at Winchester School of Art in 1976, then at the New Contemporaries– Live Show, Acme Gallery in London (1976). The film was sent to the International Festival of Women Artists, Film Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1980. It languished in the archives in Denmark until its re-discovery by the KØN – Gender Museum Denmark in 2021. A new 4k digital scan was made by the DJCAD Media Preservation Lab at the University of Dundee in October 2021.

Christo Running Fence Reels: Acetate-Scapes

1976 • 11 min

Christo Running Fence Reels: Christo

1976 • 6 min

Christo Running Fence Reels: Charlie I

1976 • 9 min

Christo Running Fence Reels: Camera Reels

1976 • 16 min

Christo Running Fence Reels: Tape-Splice Mystery

1976 • 7 min

Struggle in New York

1976 • 57 min • United States of America

Borba u Njujorku was shot in October and November 1976 in New York. The film consists of 12 parts organised around the subject of ‘art and society’, with a strong anti-capitalist message.

The Great Blue Heron

1976 • 12 min • United States of America

Provides, through onsite study and observations of a young biologist, an introduction to the life cycle and habitat of the blue heron. Shows its cycles of migration, reproduction and growth and obstacle to survival.

Orange Bowl 1976

1976 • 28 min

Activities surrounding the Orange Bowl Festival in Miami are captured in this film. Clips of the International Junior Golf and Tennis tournaments, the Junior Orange Bowl Parade in Coral Gables and the Coronation Ball are included. The King Orange Parade, whose theme was ‘Odyssey to Freedom- 1976’ is displayed, plus the Orange Bowl game itself with Oklahoma 14, and Michigan 6.

Alkohol am Steuer

1976 • 16 min

Educational film about drunk driving.

The Column

1976 • 6 min • Bulgaria

Who will be idolized at the top of a column?