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奥会津の木地師─福島県田島町針生─

1976 • 55 min • Japan

A documentary directed by Tadayoshi Himeda

None Saved

1976 • 18 min

Based on the idea of Indonesian shadow puppet plays, which combine popular songs and Hindu mythology with political satire and broad comedy, None Saved satirically plays off of the events and mass emotions surrounding Jimmy Carter’s drive for the presidency in 1976. In the film, a Javanese-style monster rises up through several incarnations until it reaches a kind of shadow-cultural Nirvana. I often made paper shadow puppets based on images of white people I found on Chinese and Japanese toy packaging, thus reversing a trend in American animation to stereotype Asian features. None Saved was strongly influenced by Harry Smith’s Heaven and Earth Magic, which presented similar tactics of disassociation and, according to the artist, a trek to heaven and back.

The Construction of Empingham Reservoir

1976 • 30 min

The construction of Empingham Reservoir (which was later known as Rutland Water).

Start of a Race, end of a show, etc.

1976 • 3 min

Footage of a yacht race and a (Highland?) Show in Kirkwall, as filmed by Margaret Tait. [this is possibly incomplete footage from her 'Aspects of Kirkwall' series?] See also Additional Information file at 11/1/455. Paper Archives 4/5/119, 4/11/651, 4/5/92. The Tait papers are deposited in Orkney Archives. Currently being catalogued. For any enquiries please contact Principal Archivist. The British Artist's Film and Video Study Collection at http://www.bftv.ac.uk/avantgarde based at Central St. Martin's College of Art and Design holds an artist's file on Margaret Tait. The British Film Institute National Library http://www.bfi.org.uk holds many of the published articles on her and her work. In 1979 Margaret Tait was the subject of a BBC Scotland 'Spectrum' arts programme.

Safe Play: Danger Places

1976 • 14 min

Presents, through the use of pantomime, the potentially dangerous places where children are apt to play or hide. Portrays the children playing hide-and-seek with a mime, and shows the unsafe locations in which the children choose to hide: the trunk of a car, a construction pipe, an abandoned house, a railroad car, and an unused freezer. Concludes open-endedly as the mime fails to find the children.

Human Trafficking at the Northern State Border

1976 • 15 min • East Germany

Reconstruction of a smuggling operation exploiting the transit agreement by the human trafficking gang Mierendorff: This Stasi training film reenacts the operational procedures of an escape attempt. Where did they meet? Where were people hidden in the car? What tricks were used?

Rex The Pal

1976 • 9 min • Poland

Rex and his master (a boy) read a mushroom atlas together, then they set out for the forest. The dog is very careful, sniffing for edible mushrooms. After some time, he finds a huge boletus. Rex can’t believe his eyes – there’s a dwarf underneath a toadstool. A storm blows up, the friends go home.

There's Wood in my Yard

1976 • 56 min

Emma

1976 • 6 min • United States of America

A cat climbs a screen, men squat on the pavement to gamble behind a 7-11, solarized film warbles in and out. A personal, quiet diary film, portraying an early apartment, an early cat, an early relationship in Kansas City. Uses self-conscious Eisenstein cutting to convey the indolent, charged air-before-a-storm atmosphere that pervaded that era.

Christmas 1972

1976 • 9 min

The sight of pathos, madness and loneliness, Christmas 1972 - a time of Nixon, Agnew, Vietnam and Cambodia

The Magic Kingdom at... Walt Disney World

1976 • 10 min • United States of America

This fun travelogue takes us to Walt Disney World in Orlando Florida.

È solo a noi che sta la decisione

1976 • 33 min

The right to abortion is one of the central themes of Italian feminism in the 1970s. this film criticizes the interference of the Catholic church and the difficulties of arriving at a law legalizing it.

Film Without

1976 • 43 min • United Kingdom

This immersive experimental film work demonstrates the influence of collage and psychedelic light shows. Constructed using the Debrie contact printer at the London Filmmakers’ Co-operative, it employs a musical and associative editing style, introducing colour-fields and symmetrical effects that transform the diverse source material. Stuart Pound’s transitions gently toy with the viewer’s perception.

Meta-Marcel: Window (Flowers)

1976 • 4 min

Meta-Marcel: Window (Flowers) adapts Marcel Duchamp’s ready-made Fresh Window (1920/1964) to the realm of film. [Overview courtesy of TWO x TWO for AIDS and Art]

The Fire-Fairy

1976 • 30 min • Soviet Union

A film adaptation of Pavel Bazhov's short story.

Marten's Bar

1976 • 5 min

Night on the streets of New York. "Dawn enters the sunk city". A sonnet by Edwin Denby, who reads it and appears briefly in the distance. "old sixth ... the lunge of headlights ... the alive, the dead, answer, ask ..." — The Film-Makers' Cooperative

454 Villa Street

1976 • 10 min

UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Trapped in a tiny house with her oppressive husband, a woman's thoughts of freedom echo off the walls.