All Films

The Hare Got a Tape Recorder

1976 • 15 min • Soviet Union

About a cheerful, smart Hare and his friends who taught a bully bear a lesson.

No One Will Play with Me

1976 • 14 min • Germany

A darkly humorous short documentary about a preschool-age boy ostracised from interactions with his classmates until a girl who has become interested in his pet crow provides the link to social acceptance.

Land of My Birth

1976 • 36 min

Documentary about the Jamaican presidential campaign of Michael Manley

Preparação II

1976 • 7 min

The artist apply herself with 4 injections. After each, she writes names for her vaccines in a internacional health control file in order to exit the country.

The Little Goat And His Grief

1976 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Once there lived a cheerful little goat. He loved to play and have fun and was especially delighted by a new air balloon, on which he drew a pretty face. But the ball flew out to the clearing and then caught on a branch and burst. The world suddenly darkened for our little hero. Will he cope with this disaster?

The Hare

1976 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A short Estonian animation about a rabbit who creates a mechanical being that struggles to navigate a frantic, pop-art world.

Two Men from Derby

1976 • 32 min

Two men from Derby County FC are keen to make a new signing, but he is not at home. His wife promises he won't be long and makes conversation with them while attending to her household chores.

A Fisherman's Tale

1976 • 9 min • United Kingdom

British horror short from 1976.

Habitat-Un Défi

1976 • 25 min • France, Portugal

Short film by Fernando Lopes, decisive figure of the Portuguese New Wave.

The Green Gate: Magellan at the Gates of Death, Part II

1976 • 53 min

"In the final format for MAGELLAN, Frampton had planned to disassemble these two films into twenty-four 'encounters with death' that were to be shown in five-minute segments twice a month. In their present state, seen together and roughly the length of an average feature film, the two parts of MAGELLAN: AT THE GATES OF DEATH constitute perhaps the most gripping, monumental, and wrenching work ever executed on film...Frampton in 1971 began his filming of cedavers at the Gross Anatomy Lab at the University of Pittsburgh. He returned to the lab four times over the course of the next two years and then spent nine months assembling his 'forbidden imagery' into an extraordinary meditation upon death."–Bruce Jenkins

The Lady of Shalott

1976 • 5 min • United Kingdom

A pastel animation produced by Sheila Graber based on the Victorian ballad by the English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson. With commentary by Francis Carr the film loosely tells the Arthurian legend of Elaine of Astolat, a woman living in isolation inside a tower who sees the world through the reflections in a mirror.

A Kitten Named Woof (Episode 1)

1976 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The cartoon tells about the adventures of a kitten with the unusual name of Woof and his friend - the puppy of Sharik. Woof constantly gets into ridiculous situations and finds adventures as soon as he leaves the house. He is sure that it is necessary to go to meet the trouble, because the old cat told him: "You are waiting for some troubles!". He also knows how to properly share sausages, why a secret language is needed and why one should be afraid of thunderstorms together with a friend in the attic.

Whispers

1976 • 25 min • Mexico

A large part of the town of Juchitepec, State of Mexico, has left its place of origin to seek its fortune in the city. The survivors suffer the sale of their best land for agriculture to a pantheon. Death is a constant in a place where there is barely enough food.

How The Little Bear Was Fed

1976 • 9 min • Soviet Union

About what will happen to the baby bear if he is only fed and not given the opportunity to move and do sports.

Santin

1976 • 4 min • Netherlands

A man stands in an empty space, no bigger than a transport container. Grotesque, comic and mesmerizing at the same time, the one-man-parade ends in a close-up of a single light bulb, high on the wall. In what kind of cell is he kept and who is in control of the music?

Male-Female

1976 • 11 min

A film directed by Ion Grigorescu.

All Right You Guys

1976 • 16 min • United States of America

A portrait of Thornton’s sister and a close friend. Shot while studying with cinema verite masters Ed Pincus & Richard Leacock, this early film transgressed documentary norms, shaping its portrait of two women with a formal, almost musical editing schema.

Maud Lewis: A World Without Shadows

1976 • 10 min • Canada

Set against a background of her paintings and the Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, landscapes they depict, this short documentary is a portrait of the life and work of one of Canada's foremost primitive painters, Maud Lewis. Emerging from her youth crippled with arthritis, Lewis escaped into her painting at the age of 30. She had never seen a work of art and had never attended an art class but her paintings captured the simple strength, beauty and happiness of the world she saw - a world without shadows.

Princely Toys: One Man's Private Kingdom

1976 • 45 min • United Kingdom

A made for TV BBC documentary exploring Jack Donovan's antique automaton collection. The documentary focuses on the toys themselves, displaying their range of movements in plain settings while the narrator weaves stories and comments about them to the synth sounds of library music.

Sweet Sounds

1976 • 29 min • United States of America

This short documentary, shot in July 1976 at the Mannes College of Music on Manhattan's Upper East Side, marks the first collaboration between Merchant Ivory Films and composer Richard Robbins, who would go on to provide the musical scores for nearly all Merchant Ivory films. Later in 1976, 'Sweet Sounds' was shown at the New York and London Film Festivals. It was also broadcast on PBS.

The Forest Song

1976 • 19 min • Soviet Union

A touching story of a forest beauty Mavka who fell in love with a simple guy Lukash. She is the embodiment of nature and genuine human kindness that do not fall to small problems that could ruin their relationship with Lukash. The consumer attitude towards the environment is touched here.

Union Maids

1976 • 51 min • United States of America

Three women labor activists in America tell their stories of organizing in the 1930s.

No Title (Record Player)

1976 • 1 min • Yugoslavia

Produced at the Motovun Video Meeting in Croatia, 1989. Screened in retrospective at Alternative Film/Video Belgrade Festival 2014.

That Incomprehensible Love

1976 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A cartoon from a series of so-called cartoons for adults. The cartoon consists of three parts.