All Films

Modulated Horizontal Lines

1976 • 19 min

"Abstract video art created in 1976. Video by Dean Winkler and Chris Lambiase. Music by Terry Riley. This was created in real time using an RE-4 Rutt/Etra analog video synthesizer. After spending our January college break building the facility that housed the RE-4 and related equipment, we created this tape (with lots of patch cords) the night before we headed back to school." -Dean Winkler

The Snow Queen

1976 • 56 min • United Kingdom

The Devil makes a mirror -and it shatters.This is the story of what happens to little Kay when one of the pieces finds its way through his eye and into his heart. The powers of evil are unleashed ... the Summer Garden Witch - the Robbers in the Wood - but above all - the mysterious elemental figure of The Snow Queen. Only Gerda - Kay's friend - helped by birds and animals - has the power to overcome them all.

Ambush - Tool of Terror

1976 • 11 min • United States of America

Discusses strategies for police officers to anticipate and respond to ambush situations. It highlights the importance of planning, training, and teamwork in counter-ambush tactics. The text emphasizes the need for officers to remain vigilant, vary their routines, and utilize effective communication to minimize risks during potential threats.

The Blizzard

1976 • 10 min • Poland

Adventures of a small pooch who went out on a snowy day.

Sob o Ditame de Rude Almajesto (Sinais de Chuva)

1976 • 13 min • Brazil

Grazia a Grazia

1976 • 26 min • Italy

The Grump

1976 • 57 min • Yugoslavia

The man who was fighting fire is being forcibly sent to seaside hotel to recover, where he spends time with other guests who came there for group holiday. He rejects their company claiming that they live by established norms, but they reject him as well 'cause they think he's no different at all.

For Georgia O'Keeffe

1976 • 4 min

“An exquisite homage to O’Keeffe’s ‘Radiator Building, Night’.” –Mark Webber

The Tapestry

1976 • 56 min

A television drama directed by Maya Angelou. In 1975, the accomplished writer became the first African American woman to join the Directors Guild of America in the director’s category. Produced by trailblazing TV executive Barbara Schultz, Visions often focused on complex themes including social justice, feminism, race and sexuality. Executive Producer: Barbara Schultz. Director: Maya Angelou. Writer: Alexis DeVeaux. With: Gloria Jones Schultz, Glynn Turman, Ebony Wright.

Cut

1976 • 4 min • United States of America

A peculiar homage to the things that go wrong, this film is purportedly about rugby. The self-explanatory title for this jumpy “documentary” is less concerned with the filmed subject (the game, the field, the players) than a comic editing style and the complete acknowledgement given to the technical aspect of gathering and manipulating raw footage.

The Case of the Bermuda Triangle

1976 • 60 min

Investigates the various myths, stories, and theories that describe and attempt to explain the mysterious occurrences in the Bermuda Triangle.

The Rifleman

1976 • 7 min • Soviet Union

A whale-hunter dodges icebergs while tracking his prey.

P.S. Um Beijo

1976 • 8 min • Brazil

The romance of a young adult couple.

Bocadolixocinema

1976 • 11 min • Brazil

A look into the Boca do Lixo, a square in downtown São Paulo known as a point for filmmakers, actors, and technicians who worked on low-budget films.

Leila Para Sempre Diniz

1976 • 10 min

A documentary that presents home movies and several excerpts of known films of famous actress Leila Diniz. Friends of the late actress, tragic killed on a plane crash in 1972, discuss about her life, her work and her legacy in Brazilian culture.

World in Focus

1976 • 17 min

In “World in Focus,” the screen becomes the two-dimensional support of an amazingly versatile three-dimensional object (an atlas) which contains in turn two-dimensional pictures of other three-dimensional objects. The uniform use of a close-up lens creates often ambiguous or nearly unidentifiable images (from the atlas), emphasizing the rhythms, volumes, angles and movements obtained from the handling of the book.

Europe's Big Day

1976 • 50 min • Soviet Union

Follows the Helsinki Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe in 1975

Reveillon

1976 • 53 min • Brazil

As the clock ticks away announcing the end of the year, the four members of a family reveal their inabilities and frustrations, their defeats and the monotony of a life that drags on in a solitary way, even as a group.

Bala

1976 • 31 min • India

A documentary about the aging prima ballerina Balasaraswati (popularly known as "Bala"), the most famous exponent of the Bharatanatyam dance.

Weather Building

1976 • 10 min • Canada

"The flashing weather beacon on a Toronto building is the structurally fixed point in this precise composition of illuminated surfaces and positive/negative imagery. Noting the 'intuitive process' of the film's first half–which was shot on Super 8 and edited in-camera–McLaren analyses and ritualizes the visual information through a video playback that echoes and doubles the original, improvised 'score.' Tightly framed with a menacing soundtrack, WEATHER BUILDING generates a claustrophobia and paranoia that loosely suggest the violence and boredum of punk." –Ian Birnie, The Art of Gallery of Ontario

Recess

1976 • 8 min • Soviet Union

In a fun and instructive way, the film tells how important it is for children entering the pioneers to be collected, disciplined and well aware of the pioneer regulations.

El destierro

1976 • 40 min • Mexico

"El Destierro" (1976) is a film adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story "Wakefield". It tells the haunting tale of a man who mysteriously abandons his home for many years. Rather than disappearing completely, he chooses to secretly observe his wife and child from a distance. After years of watching their lives unfold without him, he finally makes the decision to return, but the consequences of his prolonged absence remain uncertain.

Campoma

1976 • 10 min • Venezuela

Short that tells the history of Campoma, a small Venezuelan town founded by black slaves.

The Return of Amílcar Cabral

1976 • 33 min • Guinea-Bissau

Documentary on the assassinated liberation leader.