All Films

Flights Today, Flights Tomorrow...

1976 • 21 min • Soviet Union

This is My Berth

1976 • 45 min • Soviet Union

TV movie about family relationships, friendship and devotion.

A Implosão

1976 • 42 min • Brazil

Antunes Filho's TV adaptation of Consuelo de Castro's play "Implosão" where the author draws a parallel between the first implosion of a building in São Paulo, the Mendes Caldeira building, in November 1975, and the collapse of a marriage, suffocated by economic needs and relationship problems that end up leading them from a progressive separation to a loneliness as a couple.

Not So Much a Facelift…

1976 • 25 min • United Kingdom

A short documentary exploring the UK’s 1970s approach to urban renewal through General Improvement Areas. Mixing location footage from Blackburn, Norwich, and Oxford with unexpectedly quirky presentation, the film contrasts small-scale housing improvements with the sweeping redevelopment schemes of the post-war era. Produced as a government public information film and shown at meetings between planners, architects, and residents, it stands as a modest, humane entry in Britain’s civic-minded documentary tradition.

Hoy, función de gancho

1976 • 14 min • Colombia

The traveling circus as a symbol of freedom and nonconformity.

Barrier

1976 • 37 min • Soviet Union

On the progress of the police investigation into the railway robbery.

Dawn Creation

1976 • 11 min

Part 6 of the Creation Cycle

Many Voices

1976 • 10 min

People of many creeds and colors make up the USA on this, our bicentennial.

Mirror Road

1976 • 8 min

In Mirror Road, Hill uses the camera and image processing devices to explore the malleability of electronic colors and image density. Amorphous structures move across the monitor like drifting clouds, changing color and direction. From time to time structures of fantastic color landscapes move past one another in the lower and upper halves of the picture (the rearview mirror takes up the upper half of the frame), only to be recombined into an amorphous unity.

The Burks of Georgia

1976 • 53 min • United States of America

The Maysles profile a poor white Georgian family struggling to survive with the realities of thirteen children.

Super Bowl

1976 • 47 min • United States of America

A behind-the-scenes documentary about the events and personalities surrounding Superbowl X in Miami between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Dallas Cowboys. Features intimate portraits of the players and the CBS personnel who broadcast the events of Superbowl week. Produced with multiple lightweight video cameras in TVTV style, it is both informative and revealing of the extremes surrounding football culture and hype. With color commentary provided by Bill Murray and Christopher Guest.

Self-Trio

1976 • 8 min

Choreographic dance video created in 1976 by Ed Emshwiller.

The Winner

1976 • 29 min

A newspaper owner clashes with his editor and a state representative over the issue of the parimutuel gambling and the lottery.

Empty Hand

1976 • 32 min • United Kingdom

Financed by Paul McCartney, showcasing Wings' drummer Geoff Briton karate skills.

South Lebanon: The Story of a Village Under Siege

1976 • 13 min • France, Lebanon, Palestinian Territory

The cease-fire declared on October 21, 1976, gave the Fedayeen the opportunity to reclaim this area—Fatah territory until it was abandoned in 1970—from the right wing militia. But Syrians and Israelis joined together to neutralise this Palestinian “autonomous force” and imposed a siege on two Lebanese frontier villages, Hanine and Kfarchouba, before attacking them.

! Exclamation

1976 • 17 min

This short film tells a story in the form of a poem that calls for equality for children who lack opportunities. It was created by Surapong Pinijkhar, who submitted it to the Bangkok Bank Documentary Film Festival in 1977. Despite exceeding the standards of traditional Thai documentary films, the judges were too afraid to give it the top prize, but they also couldn't deny its brilliance, so they awarded it a special prize. This documentary film is a creative masterpiece of the nation. This film has been registered as part of the National Film Heritage, first edition, in the year 2011 (B.E. 2554).

While Revolved

1976 • 9 min

(This film has been referred to as both White Revolved and While Revolved.) Project at 18 fps. This film is concerned with the projected, not just light or the emulsion or the illusion or the projector or the camera, but all of them. The surface of the film, the grain, is remembered when a similar but illusionistic surface appears (just as magnified), crossing the frame. Other times the grain is left to itself. There are the idiosyncratic focusing qualities of shadows acting as diaphragms inside the image. The elusive background confounds itself with the foreground. The notions of appearances and disappearances transform themselves in notions of time. Made with a grant from the Canada Council.

Maratón de triciclos

1976 • 11 min • Peru

This "sports journalistic documentary" presents the Tricycle Marathon, an event conceptualized by artist Luis Arias Vera and organized by the workers of La Crónica newspaper as part of the workers' day celebrations in 1976.

Gerdy, the Wicked Witch

1976 • 10 min • Yugoslavia

8mm film by Ljubomir Simunic. Thrilling, haunting, eerie, and mesmeric; feels more authentically Luciferian than anything Kenneth Anger ever made. And what a rocking soundtrack!

Transmagnifican Dambamuality

1976 • 7 min • United States of America

The struggle of a teenage boy to assert himself amid the frenetic activity of a large family.

Lower East Side (LES)

1976 • 17 min

Lower East Side (LES) (2011/1976) Super 8mm transfer to digital, color, sound, 16:31 minutes. Documentary style critique of the Island of Manhattma’s fiscal state of affairs and the John Dough Cult. Written and directed by C. Fitzgibbon. Narrated by Robin Winters. Cast: Tom Sigal, Diego Cortez and Robin Winters.

Liberty: A Dozen or So Views

1976 • 12 min • United States of America

In an early work, video artist Dara Birnbaum records a cross section of fellow passengers aboard the Staten Island Ferry while en route to the Statue of Liberty. Asking subjects to use her video camera to capture their own views of the iconic monument, Birnbaum creates an homage to the immigrant experience.

Vi utmanar djävulen

1976 • 30 min • Sweden

"We Challenge Satan" - The devil is raging and his willing tools are spreading their poisons in press and posters, which are pasted into thousands of places in the city. But the people of God rejoice. Hallelujah. It's victory. Jesus won a perpetual victory on Calvary and in His name we will be victorious.

Ferdowsi and the People

1976 • 36 min • Iran

A documentary about Ferdowsi, the great Persian poet of 9th century, the creator epic Shahnameh (the book of kings). The film examines the impacts of the poet and his masterpiece, almost one thousand years after its creation, on Iran and Iranian people in the late 1970’s, the last years before the revolution.