All Films

Skyworks: "Light, Lighten, Lightning" (Three Mile Drop)

1976 • 16 min • United States of America

16mm film (color, sound); 16 min.

The 36 Dramatic Situations of an Earlier Time and a Different Place

1976 • 4 min

The film consists of a pencil-sketch animation which depicts a story in which all of the thirty-six dramatic situations listed occur in the order above. Some of the situations recur or continue during others, and are indicated in parentheses. The film is narrated by a woman who identifies herself as "Pam Held" (no spelling given).

The Butterfly

1976 • 14 min

A poetic encounter between a child and a butterfly

Lost Shoe Blues

1976 • 4 min • United States of America

In Lost Shoe Blues, the camera walks looking over weeds growing in landfill sand dumped to extend the edges of Battery Park City. We hears a song about losing shoes and losing time as nature forces persist. At this time in New York City, there actually were lost landscapes strewn with single cast off shoes, weeds, and other bits of life.

30 Days: Speed Or Gravity

1976 • 23 min

Drawing—Black

1976 • 3 min • Japan

A Film by Keiji Uematsu.

Ruckus Manhattan

1976 • 60 min

Grooms' sculptural masterpiece "Ruckus Manhattan" took thirteen months to contruct. It was originally meant to encompass all of Manhattan Island up to the Cloisters, but time and money ran out of Midtown Manhattan. The work was desinged for 88 glass-enclosed space with thirty-foot high ceilings. To prepare for this huge environmental sculpture "celebrating" in Karen Cooper's words, "the gritty glamour and chaotic beauty that is New York City," Red and Mimi Grooms hiked and rode through Manhattan, making sketches and taking photographs. Then they collected collaborators and went to work, using tons of hardware, paints, elastic, steel, and fabric.

El Animalito Torpe

1976 • 6 min • Cuba

A children’s short directed by one of the most well-known figures in Cuban animation.

Cetacean

1976 • 9 min • United States of America

A quiet mediation on the sea (and what might lie beneath the surface?) from the late 70s.

33 Yo-Yo Tricks

1976 • 8 min

A Yo-Yo expert does 33 tricks for the camera, one after the other.

Prologue

1976 • 3 min • Canada

The film features a dance of the elements, filmed in the woods, beach and cliffs of British Columbia with the contemporary troupe of dancers from the University of British Columbia. The special effects, obtained by caches placed in front of the camera, dissolve, giving the images a symbolic impact, insofar as they geometrically evoke alchemical symbols.

Werkstatt Zukunft II

1976 • 37 min • East Germany, Germany

People discuss their ideas of the future. In this 2nd episode of the film series, the problem of "beauty" in our current and future ideas is discussed. The demand for beauty is not just a demand on the arts, but on the various areas of life.

Le radar cherche

1976 • 7 min • France

The radar looks for an off-screen which is created from scratch and which is what one wants it to be. So we start from there, research, we find something or we do not find anything. We use the plans in their entirety, the images recorded there or elsewhere are deprived of their meaning. They are reconstructed in the overall movement of the film which is summed up (condenses) to its technical characteristics: S8 colors, 18 fps, 8mn, magnetic track lying down. The sense / sense that takes place here for 8 minutes is only the sum / combination of random elements having their own weight but which cancel each other out / add to each other / divide / multiply each other. (CJC)

Bone China

1976 • 2 min

In the tautly poetic Bone China (1976) a colourfully plumed painted bird flaps frantically around a china plate to the sound of beating wings.

Moondance I

1976 • 4 min • United States of America

One of Varela's luminous abstractions of the moon.

Bambi's Revenge

1976 • 2 min

A Great White Bird

1976 • 51 min

This film documents the efforts of a group of Canadians and Americans to save the whooping crane from extinction. They display great determination in their dealings with this independent, pre-Ice Age creature. The issues of wild animals imprinting on people and the preservation of wild animals in captivity are examined in this film. Produced in cooperation with the Canadian Wildlife Service and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service.

Firelight

1976 • 10 min • Canada

A highly personal and impressionistic piece of work, Firelight explores time. Long dissolves and pastel shades reflect time's ephemeral nature, its steady progression and the constancy of its cycles. It's a gentle film that sets the mind adrift.

Bird Lady vs. the Galloping Gonads

1976 • 1 min

"A springtime Fantasy," everything comes joyfully together in mirthful mythic warmth as Bird Lad's white line on black background richly sprouts, blossoms and bursts with pantheistic fertility.

Jacqueline et Marcel - LIP VI

1976 • 30 min

A couple working at Lip: she is a semi-skilled worker, he is head of production line. They discuss the problems regarding the women's situation, their working conditions, and internal democracy within the union. Charles Piaget gives his point of view, at a screening organised at the factory, about what Jacqueline and Marcel have said.

Motion Picture

1976 • 12 min • Hungary

Effects of refractional experiments put in the language of the film.

Resa till jordens medelpunkt

1976 • 27 min • Sweden

Interview with artist Jan Håfström about his art.

George Crumb: Voice of the Whale

1976 • 54 min • United States of America

A 54-minute portrait of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer George Crumb featuring a performance of his "Vox Balaenae for Three Masked Players."

Tales

1976 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A portrait of the prominent Latvian painter Maija Tabaka, showcasing her work process and life of artists from that time.