All Films

Trio

1976 • 7 min • United States of America

A woman and two men talking, seen one by one, in a montage of three movements that make up a fast-slow-fast cycle. The second movement is composed of footage of Stan Brakhage shot by filmmaker Bruce Baillie. (Marilyn Brakhage) "P.S. Images of myself in TRIO are by Bruce Baillie."–S.B.

A Report to an Academy

1976 • 41 min

A short TV film in which Carles Mira adapted a piece by Franz Kafka.

The Marshes

1976 • 45 min • Iraq

The Marshes area is a cultural extension of the Sumerian civilization by more than seven thousand years. It is the largest ecosystem of its kind in the Middle East and West Asia and constitute two-thirds of southern Iraq. In the year 1975, director Kassem Hawal decided to make a film about the Iraqi Marshes. He then wrote the script, shot the film and completed a 45 minutes documentary. But in 1985 the Iraqi regime had begun to dry it, resulting in humanitarian, cultural, environmental and natural disasters in the area with the disappearance of tens of thousands of residents, air, water and soil pollution and the extinction of countless species of birds, plants and animals. The Government have also burned the original film material, luckily, Kassem kept a copy to share it with the world.

Street Film Part I

1976 • 20 min • United States of America

"Street Film : Part One" is a metaphor for modern post-industrial life.

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow – Let Them Swing

1976 • 20 min • Germany

Housework seen from a radically subjective point of view. The film shows a woman’s hands busy washing the dishes, which include a white porcelain cup in the shape of a woman’s body. Monika Treut said of the film in 1978 that “something very familiar suddenly comes at us from the screen as something completely unusual”. It was shot with Margaret Raspé’s famous “camera helmet”, which had an Agfa Super 8 Microflex camera attached to it, placing the viewfinder in front of the eye.

The Tennis Lesson

1976 • 9 min

A brief, passionate encounter between an attractive woman and - a tennis ball machine. On the face of it, this 1975 short film is a breezy spoof on the tennis craze. But "The Tennis Lesson" also serves as a commentary on the machine age, in which human beings increasingly depend on technology to meet all their needs. Produced and directed by Steve Karp and executive producer Tom Gallagher.

Pasteur³

1976 • 22 min

What happens to a corporeal system when it's exposed to rabies and yellow fever.

Gros Loup

1976 • 6 min

Document

1976 • 8 min

16mm transfer to digital, b/w, sound, 8:22 minutes. Taking it public: micro text film of records (warrants, debts, bank checks, etc.)(2011/1976)

Forced Response

1976 • 2 min • Poland

In "Forced Response", Jolanta Marcolla goes out to the crowded city streets with a camera operator to confront passersby with the camera and provoke their reactions, thus shaking them out of the fast-paced rhythm of urban everyday life.

Sequels in Transfigured Time

1976 • 11 min • Canada

The principle of stillness in Sequels in trasfigured times is like a botanical drying procedure for film which conserves a fixed but superb memory of the shapes.

Herança

1976 • 9 min • Brazil

Aramprunyà

1976 • 19 min • Spain

Love, fantasy and legend are almost exceptional words in the filmography of Els 5 QK’s, and that is what makes Aramprunyà so special. A poetic short film where our hero arrives at the ruins of a castle to discover that in his past life he was a passionate princess.

Midas

1976 • 5 min • France

Susan Through Corn

1976 • 2 min • United States of America

Local Minneapolis based filmmaker Kathleen Laughlin's short experimental film follows her sister on a spirited excursion through a tall August cornfield about to be harvested.

Magic Bird

1976 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Roze Stiebra's animation film based on Latvian folktales.

Rain Seeds

1976 • 1 min • United States of America

Described by Beams as an “apology film” created after accidentally killing a friend's beloved cactus, this short work weaves text and image to depict the life cycle of a plant.

Acts of Revolution

1976 • 6 min • United States of America

Concluding that “nothing is too small for a revolution,” Macdonald proposes that simple things like listening, reading to one’s children, and crying can be revolutionary acts.

Fire Silueta

1976 • 6 min

A film by Ana Mendieta

Backyard

1976 • 15 min • Australia

“This was my first film using the matte-box. Using images of my own backyard, I found that I could create a kind of mysterious story, an almost supernatural effect. The mystery is never revealed, but there is something there. By photographing tiny vertical slivers through different mattes and lenses, carefully rewinding the film in the camera, then exposing bit by bit, I achieved this ‘corrugated’ effect. All of a sudden you get motion in something where there is no motion.” (Paul Winkler)

Software

1976 • 7 min

A meditative study of the human hand. Coupled with our intelligence it serves as the genesis of success as a species and the ability to destroy ourselves.

Nigun

1976 • 9 min

Very early film by Andrea Gomez. 1976. Unorthodox interpretation of Genesis Adam and Eve story.

Amass

1976 • 30 min • Canada

A 4 channel video installation (Hill, Wall, Cliff, Roof). A video dance work based on the accumulation 24 movements. The multi-layered effect is structuralist and sculptural, exploring the elements of real, delayed, edited and inherent video time.

Little Red Riding Hood Told by 160 Dutch People

1976 • 19 min • Netherlands

Residents of the same street in Haarlem, and acquaintances and relatives of Kees Hin, together tell the story of Little Red Riding Hood, each in fifteen words.