All Films

Destruction: Fun or Dumb?

1976 • 13 min

Anti-Vandalism Educational Film

Anna’s Textures

1976 • 4 min • Italy

Super8 film-portrait of Anna Carini.

Jack Flea's Birthday Celebration

1976 • 30 min • United Kingdom

David lives with a woman nearly twice his age, who decides to make him her fantasy child. It is a role our young hero cannot resist, especially when David's parents come to dinner and he reads an extract from a story he has written...

El Gran Debut

1976 • 15 min

An experimental short film centering on a circus performance in San Salvador.

Dad, Mom and the Golden Fish

1976 • 8 min • Soviet Union

When the boy entered the room where his dad and mom were sitting, he immediately realized from their frowning faces that they were fighting again and would not go anywhere this weekend with the whole family, as planned. The boy went for a walk and met a Goldfish in the park, thanks to which the boy's parents reconciled and went with him to collect autumn leaves...

A Human is Born...

1976 • 16 min • Soviet Union

Coming into this world is an important event in a person's life, perhaps the most important. The film purely and sincerely captures the moments of birth. In the 1970s, it was rare for filmmakers to be able to film in a maternity hospital. Director Leida Laius and cameraman Arvo Iho succeeded. What's more, the shots taken with a hidden camera are genuine, warm and humanly honest.

Number One

1976 • 40 min • United States of America

Two little girls hide in the boys' bathroom at school so they can find out what happens there. When two boys come in, the four gradually talk each other into taking off their clothes. The principal catches them, and angrily berates them for what they've been up to, warning them that he'll have to tell their parents about the incident. Later repercussions are seen as parents of three of them separately discuss and fight about what has happened, with some taking a winking attitude of their child's discovery and others battling about how to react. Returning to school poses an additional challenge, as everyone has found out what has gone on.

Ryszard III

1976 • 3 min • Poland

The colage presents in a blaze of colours the horse from the famous Shakespearean quote uttered by Richard the Third.

The Apparition

1976 • 50 min • United States of America

A full production: sync-sound drama with cast, crew, color neg., and 16mm wide screen cut-off (normal projector and lens). My intention was to follow James Agee's idea to present "an imaginary story against a background of reality." The imaginary story is of Paul Rose and his past incarnation as a woman in classical Greek times. I collaborated with George Kuchar, who did special sets for the film.

The Strong Bridge

1976 • 10 min • Japan

A short animated film by Tadanari Okamoto.

Quaternion

1976 • 4 min

"Strategy and imagery combat and aid each other in pairs. QUATERNION...a spatial figure of monumental attractions...interference...an undulating gyre. Hollis superimposes a fragmenting Muybridge-like grid of Cartesian elements (details of the fire ecscape outside the studio) against shots of rooftops superimposed in perfect scale with the billboard-like segments of an automobile, enlarged flower, and a spoon...panels of the 20' x 20' mural for the New York World's Fair in James Rosenquist's Broome Street studio–New York, mid-1960s."–Patrick Clancy

Found Dream

1976 • 9 min • Soviet Union

A little girl goes in search of her grandfather's lost sleep and appears in a magical world.

El día del caramelo

1976 • 12 min • Argentina

Animated short film.

We Were There

1976 • 21 min

A look at the Gay Pride Celebrations in San Francisco and L.A. in the US bicentennial year of 1976.

Ruínas do Murucutu

1976 • 15 min • Brazil

A documentary on the trail of locality in Pará, Brazil, from the first jesuit mission to current day's red light district.

Paredes Pintadas da Revolução Portuguesa

1976 • 10 min • Portugal

Following the Revolution of April 25, 1974, the walls of the city of Lisbon became a means of celebrating and transmitting revolutionary ideals and slogans. The text by painter António Domingues praises this plastic work initiated by the Plastic Artists Cell of the Portuguese Communist Party.

The Fair

1976 • 17 min • Soviet Union

The story that happened at the fair in honor of the national harvest festival. The destiny of a young Latvian tailor at the beginning of the 19th century.

Whiter Than Snow

1976 • 32 min

A film crew arrives at an eighty-year-old writer's mansion to interview him. The behavior of the host's wife raises concerns in one of the reporters.

Tom, the Wild One

1976 • 15 min • Spain

Tom is caught peeping through a keyhole as a woman undresses. She decides to put on a show for him. So begins a day's adventure for a precocious boy. Early short film from director Miguel Hermoso.

The Magic of Hollywood... Is the Magic of People

1976 • 21 min • United States of America

Producer Robert Evans dominates with his trademark promotional style, but Schlesinger gets a short time on camera (one of his few available interviews about the film), and Hoffman has even more. A highlight is the celebration of Olivier's final shooting day, complete with speeches and a toast.

Mr. Humphreys and His Inheritance

1976 • 17 min • United Kingdom

Mr Humphreys, a modest clerk, unexpected inherits a country mansion from an obscure uncle. In its grounds lies a maze and when he explores it, the new owner disturbs something frightening at its centre.

Drawing TV

1976 • 6 min • Poland

Using a felt-tip pen, Partum draws geometric figures on a TV screen which displays a news broadcast filled with propaganda delivered by the country’s counter-revolutionary party leaders. The artist lays bare the propaganda message of the media and their ideologisation.

Alice in The Country of a Thousand Heifers

1976 • 20 min • Brazil

Childhood

1976 • 28 min • Soviet Union

A thoughtful and sad film about toddlers who spend their days or even weeks away from their mother and home, whether in a day nursery or a day group. The camera observes the great sadness of the small citizens and their subconscious attempts to adapt to a strange situation.