All Films

A Mal Gam a

1976 • 33 min • Spain

With 'A MAL GAM A' Zulueta brings the lyrical film into the territory of mystico-psychedelia. The cinema as drug, as vehicle for rapture—as will later be seen in Arrebato—is a theme of this most autobiographical of Zulueta’s experimental films (which could also be seen as a documentary of an agoraphobic mode of artistic production), the protagonist is played by the filmmaker himself (“Jim Self” is the trans-linguistic homophone that appears in the credits) and shot mostly in the family villa in San Sebastián.

The Mask of the Devil

1976 • 12 min • France

One night, an old lady flees the carnival and takes refuge in the mountains. At midnight, the devil knocks on his door and offers him a very special domino game.

The Case of the Topanga Pearl

1976 • 6 min

The Spring Night

1976 • 9 min • Soviet Union

A spring night is a poetic film which is based on the motives of the poem by V. Lugovsky. The film is devoted to the theme of fidelity to the battle traditions of revolutionary past, to the theme of human happiness the sense of it in the battle for high ideals.

Struggle for Israel

1976 • 19 min • United States of America

An insight into Israel and the horrors of the Holocaust.

Au-delà du temps

1976 • 4 min

A surrealist impression of psychic voyage via sexual union. Released posthumously, comprised of an extract from Foldes' unfinished feature-length animated film. Music by Pink Floyd.

The Bad Blacksmith

1976 • 8 min • Soviet Union

About a lazy guy who was taught blacksmithing.

Minimum Charge No Cover

1976 • 11 min

The film unfolds to reveal some of the filmmaker's friends who lead alternative lifestyles. We meet transsexuals, homosexuals, hookers, transvestites and female impersonators.

Rosedale: The Way It Is

1976 • 59 min • United States of America

Racial tensions soared as the Spencers, a middle-class black family moved into Rosedale, a Queens white working-class neighborhood. In this 1976 documentary, Bill Moyers examines the fear, hatred and courage generated as the have-nots of our society battle for a tiny piece of the good life.

The Football Incident

1976 • 21 min • France

A César award winning documentary about a high school in Beijing where a student throws a ball in the direction of the teacher who had just asked them to stop playing. The class then meets to discuss this problem.

Altar of Fire

1976 • 45 min • India, United States of America

This film records a 12 day ritual performed by Mambudiri Brahmins in Kerala, southwest India, in April 1975. This event was possibly the last performance of the Agnicayana, a Vedic ritual of sacrifice dating back 3,000 years and probably the oldest surviving human ritual. Long considered extinct and never witnessed by outsiders, the ceremonies require the participation of seventeen priests, involve libations of Soma juice and oblations of other substances, all preceded by several months of preparation and rehearsals. They include the construction, from a thousand bricks, of a fire altar in the shape of a bird.

The American Woman: Portraits of Courage

1976 • 60 min

Developed from Anne Grant's book, Our North American Foremothers, this film recreates historical moments and women who fought for equality and freedom over the span of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.

Enemy

1976 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Frightening events unfold that may or may not be figments of Marigold’s imagination.

Well, Just You Wait!

1976 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Chasing Zayats on a construction site Volk discovers a new angle in their relationship.

Beyond a Boundary

1976 • 60 min • United Kingdom

A film based on Beyond a Boundary, the classic book by C. L. R. James,

Aussi loin que mon enfance

1976 • 25 min • France

Italy, May 1969. A woman, her fiancé and two other revolutionaries are on their way to a demonstration in Rome. The trip is an opportunity for the young woman to look back on herself, her journey and her anxieties.

The Art of Eating

1976 • 10 min • Canada

This short documentary highlights one of the biannual dinners at Club Prosper Montagné, a leading international gastronomic society. While elaborate dishes are served with great pomp, we meet Québec’s Chef of the year Marcel Kretz, who is coordinating the feast from the kitchen of Hotel La Sapinière, in the Laurentians.

Kites

1976 • 60 min

Lawrence Hastings, retired prep school headmaster, has few pleasures in life. One is flying a kite, until that too is spoilt by the intrusions of an irritating small boy

Cantos de Trabalho - Cacau

1976 • 10 min • Brazil

Between 1974 and 1976, while researching for his filme "S. Bernardo", Leon Hirszman shot three documentary shorts produced by the Brazilian Ministry of Education on the chores of the men who worked in the sugar cane fields in the town of Feira de Santana, in the cocoa fields of Itabuna, and in the efforts of building households in Chã Preta.

Bad Dog

1976 • 5 min • United States of America

A day in the life from dog’s point of view.

Box

1976 • 2 min • Switzerland

8mm film by Swiss artist Roman Signer.

Caregiver

1976 • 15 min • Yugoslavia

We follow a caregiver who takes care of the elderly and infirm.

Well, Just You Wait! 9

1976 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Pursuing Zayats Volk discovers Soviet showbiz.

Timothy and the Angel

1976 • 10 min

A young man decides not to go to college on a baseball scholarship but remain at his summer forest ranger's job. This is Edward Zwick's first short film, which won first place in the student film competition at the 1976 Chicago Film Festival.