All Films

Sixième étage

1976 • 3 min • France

Hawkesville to Wallenstein

1976 • 6 min

An impressionistic documentary about the Old Order Amish farmers in Waterloo County during the winter months.

Working Class

1976 • 13 min • United States of America

This film depicts the cycle of the City of San Francisco, as one proceeds through a day of work.

Nothing

1976 • 8 min • Japan

8mm film by Ohtani Jun

Topography

1976 • 4 min

Abstract video art created using the Paik-Abe Video Synthesizer.

Al Urjouha

1976 • 26 min

Short movie (Al Urjouha) His story revolves around a soldier returning from the front to visit the family of his friend who died in the war. He decides to live with her and compensate for the loss of their son. He builds a solid relationship with the daughter of the martyr, who never stops playing on the "Swing" that her father made for her.

Vidéoème

1976 • 3 min

In this meditation on speech and language, Cha juxtaposes English and French words to form new relationships and meanings.

A Neon Crescent

1976 • 3 min • United States of America

A silent Super 8 film by Willie Varela.

Venice Pier

1976 • 18 min • United States of America

"Gary Beydler's last, and possibly least-seen, film is an exhilarating tour down the length of the Venice Pier, shot over the course of an entire year. It's a particularly cinematic walk in many ways. Gary investigates the way a single film stock responds so diversely to different seasons, light, weather, time of day. He also beautifully exploits the power of editing to compose or recompose events. Shot spatially out of order over the course of a year, Gary recomposed the footage in editing to make it proceed consistently forward in space, resulting in an intricate mixing up of chronology, so some cuts could represent a jump of months either forward or backward in time. The result is one of gauzy impressionism brought into vivid and breathtaking clarity." Mark Toscano via Canyon Cinema. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2008.

Intuition

1976 • 5 min

"This film was generated in the Image Processing Laboratory of the University of Southern California, and was the first computer-generated film made there. The image consists of a single black and white frame of a digitized glass container and then rotated in color following the gray levels of a computer (crt). The sound consists of an original dripping water composition, performed in a dark room in black and white. The film is part of a larger work entitled Manifestations of A Cube, which also includes photographic images and a book." –Sheila Pinkel

Untitled

1976 • 4 min • Soviet Union

Rarely seen, this gem of Armenian avant-garde art is a gesture of deviance; a political commentary that positively reverses the image of isolation current among cultural pessimists, as a seizure of space in a world of standardization, of the mass society.

Christiane et Monique - LIP V

1976 • 30 min • France

Monique (an advertising assistant) and Christine (a semi-skilled worker) talk about how difficult it is for a woman working in a struggling factory (Lip), about issues of internal democracy within the trade union and the end of work in the current situation.

The Centuries Surround Me with Fire

1976 • 47 min

A documentary, originally produced for Dutch television, on the life and works of Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938), the groundbreaking Soviet poet and dissident.

La Lisière de la miséricorde

1976 • 33 min • France

Impératrice

1976 • 7 min • France

Big Tip/Back Up/Shout Out

1976 • 10 min • United States of America

Lynda Benglis was a visiting artist at CalArts in 1973 when she encouraged then-student Susan Mogul to explore video as a medium. "Big Tip/Back Up/Shout Out" is a direct monologue to the camera about the economic impossibilities of being an artist, especially as a woman. “Her extroversion is so extreme that her story leaps from the vacuum around her, over the camera and off the screen entirely.” —Artforum, from a review after the premiere of this video at Anthology Film Archives in 1976, as part of a program curated by Shigeko Kubota.

On the Radio, on the Screen

1976 • 8 min • France

The Good Old Oar

1976 • 5 min

A short film about an oar and the motor engines that should replace it.

Cardinal Fires

1976 • 8 min • United States of America

Peter Wiehl: Artwork 1975-2018 (2018) featured Cardinal Fires and Arrowcatcher, among other digitized films, paintings, and sculptures. The exhibition was held at the Mark W. Potter Gallery, Taft School, Watertown, Connecticut. Arrowcatcher was the subject of a 2007 spotlight presentation by the non-profit screening space Oporto, Lisbon, Portugal. After a couple of years in the San Francisco Bay Area, Wiehl moved and worked in the film industry. Wiehl has performed and exhibited at such venues as La Mamelle, San Francisco, Exile Art Gallery, Los Angeles, Spokane Art Center, Washington, Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York City, Albright Knox-Museum, Buffalo, New York, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, among others. Wiehl currently lives and works in Bridgewater, Connecticut.

Film for Log Hill Dogs: The Log Hill Story

1976 • 2 min • United States of America

Constantly changing forms, a plains landscape. One of two films based on David and Diana's life in their house in Colorado, which had just burned down. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2008.

Greek Community in Heidelberg

1976 • 30 min • Greece

The Greek guest workers -gästarbeiter- in the industrially developed central and northern Europe in the mid 70s.

Zoomfilm

1976 • 28 min • Australia

An experimental film dedicated to the "blink". Dynamic abstractions (created through the use of prodigious optical printing and directly working the film frame) investigate the nature of human optics. Music by Maurizio Kagel.

Game

1976 • 15 min • Netherlands

A man and a woman are in a desolate landscape. The camera spies on them; they look around, and stare out into space. The accompanying barrel organ music is overwhelmed by a bombardment of lightning bolts or shellfire.

Ruffs

1976 • 15 min • Soviet Union

Interesting and fancy spring tournaments are commencing on the beach meadows. The male ruffs gather here for their spectacular and complex lekking. It is the content of their life. The male bird's plumage beats the cleverest fashion designer's fantasies. We can distinguish the main players, showing off their bright collars, from their satellites and the rejected. In contrast to many other lekking games, the ruffs' lekking has lost its combative character and become completely ritualistic.