All Films

As You Like It

1976 • 22 min • Hungary

The director has visited tens of cemeteries. He records monuments above mass graves and memorials that people pile above the ground where the dead bodies lie.

Cube and Room Drawings

1976 • 13 min

Cube and Room Drawings begins with a view looking down at an angle toward grey paper covering the floor. A performer enters from the back of the scene and begins drawing lines on the floor. The lines are the beginning of a drawing of a distorted cube. The performer leaves the scene. The paper begins to rotate on the floor. As the paper rotates the cube gradually becomes correctly oriented, as if it were drawn on a vertical piece of paper. The performer enters again and draws another cube that corresponds to the perspective of the other cube. After leaving and re-entering the performer draws red receding lines on the floor. He leaves and the paper rotates and the red lines become a grid that corresponds to the vertical screen. The film continues with several additional actions that continue this theme. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

Rude Awakening

1976 • 36 min

Sonbert's vivid color palette enhances the ritualistic nature of each action observed. Set against this lush panorama, Sonbert subverts the expectation of classic cinematography with a liberal sprinkling of avant-garde techniques. The incorporation of the materiality of film, the treatment of light, and the use of a hand-held camera, all suggest the influence of Stan Brakhage (Sonbert's "hero"). Sonbert's use of the shot as the foundation of his silent montage works parallels the use of the frame as the basic filmmaking unit in the films of Gregory Markopoulos (Sonbert's "mentor"). -- Jon Gartenberg. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 1998.

Musical Holdouts

1976 • 47 min

An expansive survey of American musical subcultures that steadfastly refuse to be blanded by mainstream consciousness.

Microworld

1976 • 15 min • United States of America

Back in 1976, microprocessors had a maximum of 8.5K transistors for 64bits of memory. The Queen of England sent her first email, and Steve Wozniak designed the Apple I. And a post-Star Trek but pre-TJ Hooker William Shatner made this film for AT&T about the future of microprocessors.

High Fidelity

1976 • 3 min • United Kingdom

In this animated short, a half-naked woman dances with her black-suited partner.

Art Education

1976 • 8 min • United States of America, Austria

Feministic interpretations of famous paintings by Vermeer, Michelangelo and others.

These Bright Northern Nights

1976 • 15 min • Norway

Erik Løchen struggles to find the midnight sun.

Biljana Returned from London

1976 • 6 min • Yugoslavia

A man’s female friend who just came back from London spends time on the river shore.

Des jeunes femmes disparaissent

1976 • 19 min

Second version of a short film Brisseau will remake in 2014.

Pixillation

1976 • 3 min • United States of America

Recently restored by the Harvard Film Archive, Pixillation is an astonishing and disarming work of self-portraiture by the late, acclaimed film-diarist Anne Charlotte Robertson.

Gewebe

1976 • 15 min

A film by Werner Nekes.

Wooden Pistols

1976 • 46 min • Iran

Lives of children living near a train station changes when they watch a Western film on a newly arrived TV set...

Atmosphere

1976 • 10 min • Canada

In Atmosphere the camera pans back and forth over a body of water at a varying tempo and most people assume that a camera operator is in charge. The final image of the film carries a great deal of significance. It opens up a gap between the film’s appearance and its reality; what it appears to be – what it imitates – is not an object or scene from everyday life, but a film. Atmosphere is not just an imitation, but an imitation of an imitation, a metafilm that plays with the viewers’ expectations about cinematic form. —R. Bruce Elder, Image and Identity

Africa, the Jungle, Drums and Revolution

1976 • 11 min • Soviet Union

Suliman Mohamed Ibrahim Elnour’s diploma film from VGIK in Moscow, dedicated to ideas of Africa in Soviet society based on archive material, children's drawings, and interviews with passersby on the streets of Moscow.

The Case of the Kitchen Killer

1976 • 21 min

A killer stalks Portland, using kitchen utensils as their weapons of choice

Laço de Fita

1976 • 30 min • Brazil

The Horse

1976 • 55 min

A Turkmen boy is very fond of his horse which he himself has raised. A merchant wants to buy the horse. The boy accepts on condition that he remains with the horse himself. They come to Tehran and win a race but the boy feels lonely and decides that he wants to return back to his home. He returns back while his horse is accompanying him.

Feline Reincarnate

1976 • 11 min

A pilot episode intended to be produced for TV screening, this is the third film in the 'Other Realms' series. The 'Other Realms' episodes are tales of strange happenings where the bizarre becomes commonplace, melding atmospheric soundtracks, a mix of live-action and stop-motion animation, and sophisticated editing techniques. Filmmaker and animator Jon Coley was just 17 years of age when he directed, edited, animated, and starred in this production.

Breath

1976 • 7 min • United States of America

The flying newspapers seemed to behold in their movements all the nuances of a life full of energy and thrill as well as loneliness. I spent many months stalking the empty streets of lower Manhattan looking for my 'friends', only to find them at times sadly lingering in the windless gutters, and at others, run over by traffic, and still others, soaring with a youthful joy towards the sky - in spite of it all. So in retrospect, Breath could perhaps be seen as a diary of life in New York City.

The nude in the Prado Museum

1976 • 12 min

Fresh sensuality, an almost childish naivety and a point of mischief, showing an attractive demi-mondaine archetype Aprende a pronunciar

Colorful Colorado

1976 • 6 min

This is a example of early video art using the color capability of the Sandin Analogue Image Processor - the "Color IP".

117

1976 • 16 min • Yugoslavia

Shot in the Kosovar village of Nevokaze, it depicts the traditional lifestyle of an Albanian family numbering 117 members, all living under one roof and in great harmony. One of the finest examples of ethnographic film to come from this region, it has been called a ‘spiritual portrait of the nation’.

The Big Yellow Fellow

1976 • 15 min

A boy learns how to correctly ride the school bus.