All Films

Straszny Dwór

1976 • 34 min

Abridged film version of the Moniuszko's opera.

Stoned Vienna

1976 • 20 min

The theme is a wordless but nonetheless critical observation and juxtaposition of the historical and - at the time - modern architecture in Vienna with the decay, destruction and redesign of functional buildings, the beauty and ugliness of an old city and its pathos, and its new outskirts. In the second part of the film, a technique of double exposure, the superimposition of color negative and positive, is used as a kind of transfiguration of the situation. (...) Stoned Vienna was made around the same time as ViennaFilm 1896-1976 by Ernst Schmidt jr. That's why there are a number of parallels that came about by chance. A repeatedly exposed scene, the wax doll Dolly, a symbol of the way Vienna is treated, was made available to Ernst Schmidt jr. as a contribution to his ViennaFilm. (Moucle Blackout)

Les noces dérobées

1976 • 15 min • Belgium

The story of a dysfunctional family in a miserable butcher shop.

Winter Count

1976 • 7 min

"This film, narrated by an elderly woman, shows how Oglala Sioux pictorially recorded their calendar histories on buffalo hides, called 'winter counts.'" (US National Archives). Directed, produced, and edited by Oscar-nominated editor, Stephen E. Rivkin. The film was made with the Young Filmmaker Bicentennial Grant provided by the United States Information Agency.

Light Up Your Sun

1976 • 20 min • Soviet Union

Construction of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant.

Rubber Cement

1976 • 10 min

An anarchic collage of invention, Rubber Cement uses rotoscoped family footage together with found objects to create an almost free-form animation bursting with color and movement.

Miners

1976 • 25 min • United Kingdom

With footage shot deep within the mine, this is an account of life of an English mining town and what it is like to work below ground as told by the miners', and their wives' within their homes.

Cosas de mi vida

1976 • 25 min • Mexico, United States of America

Strand spent over twenty years documenting her friend Anselmo Aguascalientes’ life, eventually creating a stunning trilogy of films—Anselmo, Cosas de mi vida, and Anselmo and the Women—tender portraits that are also glimpses into poverty, resourcefulness, perseverance and patriarchy.

Trapline

1976 • 18 min • United Kingdom, Canada

Ellie Epp’s 12-shot study of a soon-to-be-demolished public bath in London, which “maps another way out of structural film toward a cinema of delicate implication".

Healthcaring from Our End of the Speculum

1976 • 32 min

Healthcaring is a short documentary that focuses on the historical and contemporary abuses women have suffered at the hands of mostly male practitioners, and depicts solutions women find to lack of access to comprehensive health care in the 1970s.

Agulana

1976 • 15 min • Belgium

Agulana, February 29th, 3 P.M... That day, a concert took place at the Opera, broadcasted on radio and speakers set up in the streets. The entire population was captivated. So they didn't notice when strange incidents started to happen... (kg)

Glass Shadows

1976 • 13 min • United States of America

"Glass Shadows is a sensual formalistic diary, filmed in the early morning light of my studio. The primary images are of my Bolex-filming nude reflection set within window frames, a pane of glass, and light projected by the rising sun. The film moves forward via on-going exploration of reflected and overlapping images––sustained by light, color, and the rhythmic pulse of a leaky kitchen faucet. A fusion of form and subject is inevitable within a work that is the story of its making." - Holly Fisher

Color of Korea

1976 • 8 min • South Korea

It shows Korea’s traditional colors and culture through the use of superimposing. It is an experimental film, which not only tries to show Korean traditional culture through the use of color, but also tries to show the modern history of Korea.

America of the seventies. Two New York City

1976 • 50 min • Soviet Union

New York is the largest city in the modern world. In greater New York, together with the suburbs, in the 1970s, sixteen million people live, and in the city itself there are about ten million. Americans speak differently about New York - some argue that New York is not America, others, on the contrary, are convinced that this is the most American of all American cities. Apparently both are right...

Rock Garden

1976 • 10 min • Canada

A two-channel installation from the Modern Television Loop series. Rock Garden shows two continuous shots of stone piles. On one monitor we see a close-up of hands grasping stones off the pile and tossing them off until the pile dwindles. The second monitor is a long shot of tossing stones to yet another pile.

Congruent Triangles

1976 • 7 min • United States of America

In this melding of art and science, the Cornwells create a quasi-hypnotic take on a mathematical construct.

The Tale of the Man, the Wheel and the Plane Tree

1976 • 29 min • Soviet Union

About the purpose of man on earth, about man's awareness of the need to fight for his happiness.

At the Blue Bay

1976 • 52 min • Soviet Union

About the last days of the poet Maxim Bogdanovich's life (1891 — 1917).

Pour vous servir

1976 • 40 min • Belgium

1976: a university hospital in Brussels. Old women gather in a common room. Sick? Perhaps. Lonely, above all. The film is also the perspective of a North African woman on other women, nurses and patients. The medical staff discuss their working conditions, and the filmmaker questions, challenges and bears witness to what she sees in this ‘death ward’. Another illness. Unclassified. A very malignant tumour. A tumour that proliferates in a society ‘proud’ of its social security system but which creates a ghetto of the unproductive, the ‘left behind’, the elderly who hurt themselves by contemplating their loneliness in a hospital ward.

Negret un oficio

1976 • 9 min • Colombia

Documentary following the work of Colombian sculptor Edgar Negret.

Mal-ander

1976 • 52 min • Netherlands

A power ritual at a house and a power struggle during a journey over land and water.

Born for Hard Luck: Peg Leg Sam Jackson

1976 • 29 min

A portrait of Arthur "Peg Leg Sam" Jackson --black harmonica player, singer, and comedian who made his living "busking" on the street and performing in patent-medicine shows touring southern towns. Footage includes excerpts from one of his last medicine shows, videotaped at a county fair in 1972, and material filmed near his home in South Carolina in 1975. The performance includes harmonica solos, songs, a parody of a chanted sermon, folktales and reminiscences, and three buck dances.

Merce by Merce by Paik Part One: Blue Studio: Five Segments 1975-1976

1976 • 15 min • United States of America

Blue Studio: Five Segments is a groundbreaking work of videodance by postmodern master Merce Cunningham and his then filmmaker-in-residence, Charles Atlas. In a series of short pieces choreographed and performed specifically for video space, Cunningham is multiplied, overlaid and transported from the studio to a series of unexpected landscapes. Cunningham's gestural dance is manipulated to the accompaniment of a disjunctive audio collage that includes the voices of John Cage and Jasper Johns.

Sidewinders Delta

1976 • 21 min • United States of America

Experimental film with desert scenes in which optical printing is used to achieve unusual effects.