All Films

Sanctum

1976 • 19 min • United Kingdom

The haunting fantasies of a disturbed young man, evoking religious imagery suffused with trauma.

George Foreman vs Joe Frazier II

1976 • 23 min • United States of America

A professional boxing match contested on June 15, 1976, for the NABF heavyweight championship.

Lady Fishbourne's Complete Guide to Better Table Manners

1976 • 6 min • Canada

This short animation features four guests of curious demeanour who commit unforgivable acts at the dining table. Food flies everywhere while the guests prop their feet up and talk with their mouths full. Thankfully, Lady Fishbourne’s eating etiquette instructions will show these dinner party misfits the error of their ways.

Hannah Wilke Through the Large Glass

1976 • 10 min • United States of America

Hannah Wilke Through the Large Glass documents one of Wilke's most effective and well-known performances, in which she performs a deadpan striptease behind Duchamp's The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (also known as The Large Glass) at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Dressed in a fedora and a white suit, and evoking the style of 1970s' fashion icons such as Helmut Newton and Yves Saint-Laurent, Wilke strikes a series of poses and then strips. She is seen through the glass of the Duchamp sculpture. In her self-conscious affectation of the often absurdist posturing of a fashion model, Wilke willfully uses her own image and her sexuality to confront the erotic representation of women in art history and popular culture.

Stolen Movie

1976 • 9 min

Armed with S8 camera and sound-person, Craig Baldwin runs both recording devices continuously through single-take raids on a series of SF Market St. grindhouse theaters. Rushing past box offices and through front lobbies, he captures the chance scenes and sounds on screen at the time, then flees out the rear exit doors to reunite with the reality of the street.

Tale About Greed

1976 • 8 min • Soviet Union

Once there lived the greed. She looked for kids, with which she could become bigger and more powerful. Greed could not even come close to those who have shared something with friends and fed animals and birds. But when she saw a little boy who does not want to let a girl from the yard play ball, she immediately went to him and began to cleverly feed his unwillingness to part with things. Soon she had moved to live in a separate room...

Lyamzi-Tyri-Bondi the Evil Wizard

1976 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Follows the extraordinary adventures of Kolya Rogov.

I Want to Be Like You

1976 • 30 min

Brian idolises his older brother Steve, who has left school and joined the army. The two brothers go for an evening out and end up in a local coffee shop, where Steve's faults become painfully obvious to Brian

Schuhstück

1976 • 8 min • Germany

Short film by Heinz Emigholz shot in 1976; b/w, sound, no dialogue

The Present

1976 • 6 min • Czechoslovakia

An animated short from Viktor Kubal

Cale lungă

1976 • 5 min • Romania

Sunlight Lover

1976 • 25 min • Japan

Promotional short introducing Honolulu-born bikini model Agnes Lum.

The Magic Rolling Board

1976 • 13 min

Skateboarding Documentary Short

On Allotments

1976 • 33 min

Short documentary about allotment-holders in East London.

Railroad Turnbridge

1976 • 18 min • United States of America

“…Railroad Turnbridge is about the meeting of machine and machine [camera and bridge] and how they and their movements, sometimes parallel, sometimes in opposition, frame the landscape which surrounds them. A shot of the landscape seen through the rectangles of the bridge’s opening, the bridge [becomes], in movement, a giant extension of the camera viewfinder…” Amy Taubin, Soho News

Spooky Boo's and Room Noodles

1976 • 7 min • United States of America

Faced with dark-in-your-room monsters, scary sounds and other things that go bump in the night, a child learns to invoke "room noodles" to banish the monsters.

Absence

1976 • 8 min • United States of America

"This film is about 'nothing.' Hints of dramatic 'loss' are imaged throughout, but the primary effect of the film is to give, through fleeting and ephemeral visions, a sense of something which almost exists but unhappily doesn't." - Marilyn Brakhage "Absence" is perhaps the most extreme of all Brakhage's Super 8 films and one of the most extreme of all the films of his tenuous and complete uprooting: a vision of a groundless existence, in which all the things we are used to knowing and using in our daily life are totally absent. (Fred Camper)

Street Film Part II

1976 • 35 min • United States of America

Rony

1976 • 4 min • Italy

Super8 short by Annabella Miscuglio.

How Aldar-Kose Outsmarted the Tiger

1976 • 9 min • Soviet Union

About the adventures of the hero of Kazakh fairy tales.

Sea caritativo

1976 • 5 min

A short comedy film, among the first films directed by Pedro Almodovar

Table

1976 • 13 min

"Table, shot in 1976 is the celluloid equivalent of a cubist Still Life. The subject is an ordinary kitchen table, a homely clutter of crockery and utensils. For 15 minutes, Gehr alternates two slightly different fixed points of view, accentuating individual shots through the use of blue and red filters (and sometimes no filter at all). This simple if painstaking procedure transforms the image into a stuttering hypnotic shuffle. Difficult to take in on a single viewing, Table improved with familiarity. As one learns how to look at it, one’s eyes wander around the frame to savor specific details. Some objects appear simultaneously in 2 positions, others flex their shimmering forms or collide with their neighbors, while a few barely seem to 'move' at all." - J. Hoberman

Potatoes

1976 • 28 min

This documentary deals with the gradual shift from the family farm to corporation-run farms, with all the ensuing problems and personal hardship. It is an incisive evaluation of what is happening in North American and worldwide agriculture today.

Nyc

1976 • 2 min

Scher made this in 1976 as a student at Bard College. He printed it to negative years later and liked the way it looked better than the now faded original film.