All Films

David Is Homosexual

1976 • 38 min

A lonely gay man discovers friends, love and activism in this rediscovered educational film made by the Campaign for Homosexual Equality.

Bartleby

1976 • 42 min • Germany

Adaptation of the novel "Bartleby the Scrinener: A story of Wall Street" (1853) by Hermann Melville.

Salome Tsunoda's Agony and Ball-Breaking

1976 • 59 min • Japan

Pink film by Kan Mukai.

A Visita do Velho Senhor

1976 • 15 min • Brazil

Short film by Brazilian filmmaker Ozualdo Ribeiro Candeias.

O todos o ninguno

1976 • 41 min

With Franco dead, workers' struggles become more visible, such as the Laforsa strike, a steel mill in Cornellà de Llobregat. Lumbreras's conviction to understand the fight as an always collective action, without hierarchies, meant that she promoted among the workers his own filming, that they had autonomy, in no case imposing any speech (Filmoteca de Catalunya).

Colonial Times

1976 • 28 min • Venezuela

Three centuries of Venezuela's history as a Spanish colony are considered from economic, political and social standpoints; evocations of the past are compared to the present. Based on the ideas and research of Federico Brito Figueroa, Alfredo A. Alfonso, Miguel A. Saignes, Josefina Jordan, and Thaelman Urgelles among others.

Village's Womanizer

1976 • 37 min • Soviet Union

The elderly Levan became infatuated with the wife of his fellow villager, Gentor, the young and flirtatious Pasiko. The claims of the old ladies—in-waiting become known to the gossip girl, and from her to the whole neighborhood.

The Legend About the Old Lighthouse

1976 • 19 min • Soviet Union

Children help Soviet ships find their way to the bay captured by the Germans.

Exhibition

1976 • 19 min • Bulgaria

The Frontiers of Science

1976 • 51 min • United Kingdom

A medium attempts to prove to the scientific establishment that her ability to contact the dead is real.

De Grey, un Récit romanesque

1976 • 51 min • France

An elderly woman would like some company as her son is off venturing foreign lands and seducing women from lands afar. Her resident priest who seems to live in the same château as her does not agree and seems to have preconceptions and superstitions as to a family curse.

Paths of Fire II

1976 • 8 min

From two color camera rolls filmmaker Michael Mideke and I shot on July 4, 1969, we began editing many versions, independently and together. I worked running a 16mm Bell & Howell “J” contact printer in San Francisco, which allowed me to make many generations of printing elements not normally available to customers.

His Worship, Mr. Montréal

1976 • 58 min • Canada

This feature documentary is a fascinating and spirited portrait of the life and times of the legendary Quebec politician and four-time mayor of Montreal Camillien Houde. Using rare archival footage and interviews with ex-colleagues, aides and friends, the film presents a comprehensive profile of this incredible, and, to some, infamous, man.

Two Brothers

1976 • 24 min

Arthur and Ernest are two bachelor fishermen who occupy the proverbial end-of-the-road on Morris Island, an Acadian community in southern Nova Scotia. Sober or not, they carry on with and for the filmmaker who is attempting to find out about their lives. The resulting encounters owe a smuch to Harold Pinter or Samuel beckett is they do to the documentary genre of film-making.

The Advice of a Wise Man in Matters of the Village and Education

1976 • 21 min • Egypt

In this socio-political short, film director Daoud Abdel Sayed discusses, from a biased perspective, the effects of Free Education on the Egyptian countryside.

Lisa and the Other One

1976 • 8 min • Greece

Close-ups and medium fixed camera shots of a man dressed in Liza Minelli’ clothes, who mimes to a recording of the music hall song “Life is a Cabaret”. In the soundtrack, the iconical reading of a text exposing the ideological clichés of a family soap opera in a state of crisis. “My little boy, alas, is gay…”.

The New York Graffiti Experience

1976 • 16 min

Documentary on New York Graffiti featuring art by Cliff, Phase 2, Comet, Blade, IN, Billy167, LSD OM, Ajax , Dean, Mico, Checker 170, Skylark

Kuťáci

1976 • 7 min • Czechoslovakia

After trying to prepare dinner without any luck, the only meal left is an egg. But the egg suddenly begins to live. Short theatrical film precursor to the 'Pat and Mat' series.

Horse in the House

1976 • 6 min • Hungary

An investigation into the sighting of a blue horse with roller skates in an apartment building turns into a burlesque nightmare.

An Oppressed People Is Always Right

1976 • 44 min • Denmark

In May 1974, the Israeli Air Force carried out an extermination operation against the Palestinian refugee camp Nabatiyeh. With this as a starting point, it is reviewed how the last 50 years of Zionist colonization of Palestine have partly led to the establishment of the state of Israel, partly to the expulsion of a people, the Palestinians, from their land. The film shows scenes of daily life in Palestinian refugee camps. We hear various of the inhabitants talk about their desire to return to their country, and we follow how the resistance movement works to free women from their traditional backward role. At the same time, the emergence of the armed resistance struggle is analysed, and the significance of the latest military technological developments for guerilla wars in the 3rd world is explained.

Neurópolis

1976 • 20 min • Venezuela

Conditioning, claustrophobia, and mechanization lead a city dweller to a progressive mental imbalance, culminating in self-destructive masochism.

O Natal da Turma da Mônica

1976 • 5 min • Brazil

The first short featuring Monica and Friends. It introduced the song "Feliz Natal pra Todos", which has now become an iconic Christmas theme to the gang. In the special, Monica, Jimmy Five, Smudge, and Angel decide to build a chimney to wait for Santa Claus.

Mass, or Monument for a Capitalist Society

1976 • 14 min • United Kingdom

Mass was made during Sjöström’s years at the film department of the Royal College of Art, in cooperation with the London Filmmaker’s Co-op. Random or staged shots of people and settings in urban London are arranged and abstracted, double-exposed and solarized. The result is a dense texture filled with layers and associative dimensions. Mass is a film attempting to convey, by strictly filmic means, the cooped-up feeling of the individual in the grey mass of the city. The absurd concrete city landscape is visualized through the unspoilt and naked eye of the camera in a concentrated mosaic of images and sound.

Audience Research

1976 • 7 min

Albert Brooks goes to a research institute to find out why people don't like him and how he can change that. Saturday Night Live, Season 1 Episode 9