All Films

A Day at the Central Market

1976 • 25 min • Taiwan

When Taipei is still quiet and asleep, trucks after trucks emerge in the dark with fresh fruits and vegetables, seafood and meat. Intermediate wholesalers' auction chants rise and fall; the Central Market is getting ready to feed the city's population. The film offers a glimpse into the lively hustle and bustle of the Market in the 1970s, but was likely banned from broadcast due to its perceived display of the unhygienic conditions.

Gilgamesh

1976 • 17 min • Poland

Sportflesh

1976 • 3 min • Netherlands

In a series of transformations, a boy with a football under his arm is transformed into increasingly aggressive-looking sportsmen.

Switch! Monitor! Drift!

1976 • 4 min • United States of America

B&W Vasulka project with a rotating camera, keyed and alternating directions. This experiment is excerpted in their 1977 work Orbital Obsessions.

Lubusz Land

1976 • 53 min • Poland

A travel and nature documentary showing the history and post-war achievements of cities and towns in the Lubusz Region, including the attractions of Miedzyrzecz, Gorzow, Zielona Gora, Lubniewice, and Lagow.

Images

1976 • 10 min

A succession of visual emotions in a sort of “filmed rotogravure,” where sequences and segments follow an ironic and dramatic logic that highlights the obsessions, the poverty, and the myths that shook the neoconsumerist society of those years. This approach frames, but at the same time transcends, pure reportage, venturing into a reflection on the meaning of seeing and imagining. The techniques employed range from direct rotoscope to works-in-progress, from citationism to photographic contamination.

Honeymation

1976 • 5 min • Hungary

A young man calls his friend, goes to war, returns wounded and reunites with his friend.

Perisphere

1976 • 15 min

A traffic circle (in North Berkeley). The forcefield around the centre. Single-framed over the course of about 9 months.

Moments

1976 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Peeter Tooming's photofilm about the history of photography in Estonia.

Glyphs I

1976 • 10 min

My 10 minute silent b/w film made in 1975/76. Includes the first footage I ever shot of James Broughton (before he grew a beard).

Trace Of Shadow

1976 • 16 min

Short by Giuliano Giuman.

Ti-Dré

1976 • 55 min • Canada

Luc-André Godbout, better known as Ti-Dré, is a forty-three-year-old orphan who cleanses furnaces and consciences. Here he is presented, life-size, in a film impregnated with this extraordinary character.

Little Feat: Live in Holland 1976

1976 • 53 min • United States of America

Little Feat are one of the most influential American bands of the seventies. Founded by Lowell George and Bill Payne in L.A. during 1969; they produced a series of highly original albums over the next decade featuring an eclectic blend of rock 'n' roll, blues, country, folk, soul, and jazz before the death of Lowell George in 1979, which brought the first phase of the band's existence to an end. This set captures the band's performance at the famous Dutch festival Pinkpop on June 7th, 1976, and captures the band's classic line-up at the peak of their powers performing many of their best known tracks.

Ligne+Spirale

1976 • 3 min • France

The film Ligne + Spirale was co-directed with Elisabeth Strassle - it is a rising tracking shot with a continuous and regular 360° camera movement, all filtered through a pink gel. With no soundtrack, the viewing of the film is intended to produce an impression, a feeling, as if "entering somewhere", in the tradition of the films of Michael Snow.

الرجل الذي رحل

1976 • 45 min • Kuwait

La diosa de la banana

1976 • 8 min • Argentina

Film super 8 mm

Sprockets

1976 • 5 min

Sprocket holes moving across the screen.

Songs of the Long March

1976 • 54 min • China

The Long March Suite

How To Squeeze More Miles From Your Car

1976 • 14 min • United States of America

This informative film reveals some of the tricks motorists can use to increase their car mileage. Includes driving, car maintenance, and car buying hints. A film made in partnership with Datsun.

Michigan

1976 • 4 min

Farm work and nature.

Maidens In Distress

1976 • 9 min

This delightful short film documents a trip by ferryboat to the Maidens lighthouse on the little island of Magee, Co. Antrim, to deliver essential supplies to the lighthouse crew. Shortly after this movie was shot, the lighthouse became fully automated and the need for this service disappeared.

Nightmare

1976 • 10 min • Yugoslavia

An alienated and lonely man goes to take a rest and dreams about the same torment and feeling of inability to bear the burdens of life that torment him even when he is awake. He dreams of his ups and downs, as well as fears which turned into symbols that also came from the rigid everyday reality.

Who is Luigi Viola

1976 • 12 min • Italy

A game, maybe a dream, an exchange of identity with Dalibor Martinis, Sanja Ivekovic and Goran Trbuljak. But who is Luigi Viola? The man who is praying, the man who is shaving, the man who is drinking, the blonde girl who is playing ping-pong? This is just a starting-point.

Identity as identification

1976 • 3 min • Italy

The magic moment of an image and the emotion aroused following the suggestion of an imaginary itinerary, that makes the real world seem strange and far away are suddenly interrupted by words belonging to the language of bureaucracy, the most conventional language possible.