All Films

Our Common Sense

1976 • 6 min • United States of America

One of two films of Macdonald’s about women’s liberation, in which he explores what an anti-hierarchical philosophy looks like in interpersonal relationships.

Britain is not for sale

1976 • 28 min • France

A tormented (but forbidden) history, a culture reduced to provincial folklore, economic difficulties, social conflicts, military and tourist vocations: such is the assessment that we have been able to make of this country. Luckily there were a few of them showing their anger.

At Home

1976 • 40 min • Poland

An elderly couple living in a quiet town receives news that their only son has arrived.

Food Observation Idea

1976 • 5 min

All observers need that which is not themselves to be themselves. All forms of energy channel the continual redistribution of energy in the universe.

City of Fear!

1976 • 29 min • United Kingdom

A crime writer, looking for inspiration, encounters a group of juvenile delinquents.

Paper Tale

1976 • 9 min • Soviet Union

The good residents of the fairy-tale paper town began to be harmed by old rusty scissors.

Queensland

1976 • 52 min • Australia

The allure of pleasant weather, a carefree lifestyle and better job prospects in Queensland appeal to Doug, a downtrodden factory worker from Melbourne.

Children of War

1976 • 10 min • France

A few days after a massacre in a shantytown near Beirut, the director finds the children who survived. She approaches them by offering them crayons to draw. A link is created between them. They let her film their violent games: they repeat the scenes of horror they saw unfold before their eyes ...

Night 'n' Day

1976 • 45 min • Italy

First of all, the music. The music in Night and Day by Gianni Castaglioni is in the repetitive rhythm of the images, usually very rapid (with some suddenly slowed down, figements, yet with a fiery intensity). And as each shot, (brief like those of Mekas or Brakhage), moves,; as the camera moves to the nervous rhythm of a wrist, the music becomes a sort of Free Jazz — and not only visually, since the soundtrack is composed of piano frenzies à la Elton John. The extreme close-ups that sprinkle this sort of intimate journal and which are among the most admirable - as well as the most rapid - ever made in cinema, don’t float adrift like the film’s music through a hundred flowing veins.

Disaster

1976 • 30 min

Disaster, a two-screen Super 8 film made in San Francisco, has been called the first situationist film made in the U.S. As an antidote to Hollywood’s 1970s disaster films like Earthquake, Millner and cowriter Ernie Larsen turned their attention to the disaster of everyday life.

The Premiere of Platypus Duck

1976 • 11 min • United States of America

The history of Platypus Duck, the oldest surviving mammal (And a mixed-up one at that...), and a quest of one such Platypus Duck and his kids to rescue his wife after she gets swept away in a flood to Sydney.

Graffiti - Fun or Dumb?

1976 • 13 min • United States of America

Using kids' own arguments (both pros and cons), film presents overwhelming evidence that vandalism is dumb. Shows that graffiti-type vandalism costs over $20,000,000 a year.

Kornstock: Anything for a Buck

1976 • 30 min • Canada

The Kornstock comedy troupe sang song parodies, ad-libbed one-liners and transformed themselves into manic characters for appreciative audiences on TV, in night clubs and at fairs across North America from 1973 to 1976. This CBC National TV special was produced in 1976 about 5 months before their final performance.

Some of the Palestinians

1976 • 55 min • Palestinian Territory

A 55-minute documentary directed and edited by Mamoun Hassan when he was stationed with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in Lebanon in 1974. The film opens with a day in the life of Dr Murad, a Palestinian doctor appointed by the UNRWA to look after the health of the Palestinian people in a Syrian refugee camp. It progresses to a recently bombed camp in Lebanon to the West Bank, via Jordan.

Kisses

1976 • 55 min • Canada

"Betty Ferguson's 'Kisses', an hour-long anthology of film clips presented without titles or voiceover, is the sweetest and, in avant-garde terms, the most conventional film on the program. Although the kiss reached its supreme expression as the on-screen replacement for copulation in post-Code Hollywood, Ferguson's material is drawn largely from silent classics and the less-fetishized European cinema of around 1960. She compares her film to a patchwork quilt, but it's basically morphological, cataloguing clusters of shots where kisses are delivered to the hand, the neck, rained down on a beloved face, perfunctorily bestowed on a spouse, awarded to dogs, dolls, gun, etc." - J. Hoberman, Village Voice

Cygne II

1976 • 10 min • France

Constructed like an animated painting in a single fixed shot where light, voice, music and movements interfere.

The Sensitive Plate

1976 • 58 min • Netherlands

The Sensitive Plate consists of 1250 filmed black-and-white photo portraits made between 1913-1969 by the Amsterdam photo studio Merkelbach, ran by father and daughter Jakobus and Mies Merkelbach. The sequence of faces is interrupted only by the year in which the photos were taken. In this chronology, each year consists of one minute of film time. Each photo is displayed for two seconds; 57 years are displayed in 57 minutes.

Seven Women: Rosalina Chan

1976 • 50 min • Hong Kong

The fifth episode of Patrick Tam’s anthology series “Seven Women” (1976), which was the only episode not directed by Patrick Tam but by renowned critic Law Kar

Meetings, Bloody Meetings

1976 • 30 min

John Cleese shows that, properly planned and organised, a meeting can achieve more in a short time than any other method of internal communication. Makes people aware of the damage that can be done by approaching a meeting without preparation. Demonstrates techniques and disciplines that can make meetings shorter and more productive.

Christo Running Fence Reels: Hard Art Hats

1976 • 7 min

The coffin

1976 • 28 min • Spain

A group of thieves pretend to be men carrying an empty coffin and ask some rich people in the town to let them leave the dirty coffin there because it was raining and it could get wet.

Donne emergete

1976 • 12 min

Self-produced film on the feminist movement

Roslyn Romance

1976 • 17 min • United States of America

A personal and experimental film by San Francisco Bay area avant-garde filmmaker, Bruce Baillie. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.

Nocturne

1976 • 12 min • Yugoslavia

Visions of war in a ruined village of Štanjel in Karst. A monochrome 8mm masterpiece of melancholic still lives and multi-exposure imagery.