All Films

The Wreckers

1976 • 6 min • United Kingdom

A short film by Bernard Rose.

Hansje en het Welbehagen

1976 • 48 min • Netherlands

Hansje, a ten-year-old boy, is home alone because his parents have to work during Christmas. His mother is an actress in a Christmas play and his father is a conductor of a Christmas concert. Hansje himself has a bad cold and spends the day making drawings until he discovers a small Christmas angel in the Christmas tree. The angel is looking for Pleasure on earth. To explain what Pleasure is, the Christmas angel takes Hansje with him, floating through the air, in the drawings that Hansje made of his hometown. They visit the Christmas play where his mother will perform, his school friend Geesje, a girl whose rabbit will be on the Christmas menu and some girls who go on a holiday to escape the cold. They also see old Mr. Biggelaar, who walks lonely through the city.

Artpark People

1976 • 53 min • United States of America

Encouraging visitors to engage and connect with on site artist's, Artpark provides a unique environment for those craving culture away from the whirring city. Located in Lewiston, New York the outdoor venue opens itself to artists, musicians and performers seeking a spot to reflect and create. During the summer seasons Artpark serves as an immersive experience, inviting the public to observe the artists as they work. Artpark People observes the vibrant scene and captures candid interactions between artist and onlookers. With a heavy emphasis on outdoor space and environmental influence, Artpark asserts itself as a cultural and communal haven for creatives.

And You Act Like One Too

1976 • 25 min • United States of America

On her 30th birthday, a first-time unfaithful wife picks up a strange hitchhiker who helps her conceptualize her values.

Entrance Free

1976 • 11 min • East Germany

Rustic weapons, centuries old traps; wreckage of U.S. bombers, a perforated “bulletproof” vest are exposed in the museums of Hanoi. “The neglected free visit to the Hanoi museums cost the American people 56,369 killed people and 146 billion dollars.”

Out of the Body Travel

1976 • 42 min

A "young woman who finds herself surrounded by the relics of Western culture" is the subject of Richard Foreman's formal tableaux. The narration centers on a young woman's struggle to find a relation between her body and her self as mediated by language. The text is a poetry of formal relations that carries personal and historical implications, including the desires of the woman paradoxically voiced by a male narrator. The title suggests the vivid virtuality of dreaming; scenes repeatedly refer to both reading and sleeping.

Bernstein Mahler Rehearsal

1976 • 54 min

"Four Ways to Say Farewell" is a personal introduction to Mahler and his Ninth Symphony, during which Leonard Bernstein is seen and heard rehearsing the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. Filmed in 1971, this rehearsal was directed by Humphrey Burton,

Thermometer

1976 • 19 min • Soviet Union

Three road workers apply road markings. Exhausted by the excruciating heat, Gigla pretends to be sick by putting a randomly found street thermometer in his bosom.

Nobody Understands

1976 • 7 min • Soviet Union

About a rude chicken and a well-mannered worm.

Patsura

1976 • 25 min • Soviet Union

The parents of Patsura and her sisters died. The life of girls is not easy... But when financially secure people wanted to adopt Patsura, she refused, not wanting to part with her sisters.

ABBA in Studio 2

1976 • 46 min • Poland

ABBA performs (all to playback): Arrival (only about 1.5 minutes of it) Waterloo (over footage of preparations for, and ABBA's arrival at the airport) SOS Nina Pretty Ballerina (over footage of them on the steps of the plane and arriving at their hotel) Dancing Queen My Love my Life When I Kissed The Teacher Knowing Me Knowing You Fernando Tiger Money Money Money Fernando Agnetha had travelled ahead with her father the day before and then met Benny, Frida and Björn off the plane. She had filmed "SOS" the day before and it was interspersed with a rather embarrassed looking Benny, Frida & Björn "singing" on the plane! There is a short interview on the plane with mainly Benny, Björn and Stig.

Eastwood In Action

1976 • 8 min

Behind the scenes look at The Outlaw Josey Wales

Picasso: The Man and His Work Part 1 (1881-1937)

1976 • 45 min • United States of America

Picasso: The Man and His Work, Part 1 - 1881-1937 is a comprehensive documentary featuring Pablo Picasso himself. Filmed largely at Picasso's home in the south of France, the video presents footage of the world-famous Spanish painter and sculptor at leisure and at work. During the last 22 years of Picasso's life, filmmaker Edward Quinn had unrestricted access to the artist. Here, Quinn creates a video scrapbook of exclusive home movies and photographs, as well as more than 600 of the artist's works never displayed in public. Simultaneously, he traces the development of Picasso's life and work, discussing certain pieces and periods, giving some insight into the artist's creative process.

How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck

1976 • 44 min • Germany

A documentary short examining the language and performance of auctioneering, filmed at the World Livestock Auctioneer Championship in Pennsylvania.

Panic High School

1976 • 16 min • Japan

A high school student has a mental breakdown and brings a gun to class. A standoff against the police ensues.

The Morning Spider

1976 • 22 min

The Morning Spider is a 1976 comedy/fantasy film directed by Claude Chagrin, starring Julian Chagrin, Lucy Fawcett, and James Hayes. It follows a spider and his travails in a garden. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

Savile Row

1976 • 5 min

Greenaway's profile of one of Savile Row’s best regarded tailoring establishments, Kilgour, French & Stanbury, placing Britain at the helm of cutting-edge style. The brand became synonymous with the world’s best dressed men including Cary Grant and Fred Astaire and, into the 21st century, Jude Law and Daniel Craig. Tommy Nutter, Kilgour's newly-appointed creative director, offers insight into how he achieves the perfect balance between conformity and change.

The Pleasure of Love in Iran

1976 • 6 min • France

An Iranian man and a French woman stroll around the city of Isfahan, Iran and find that their love is mirrored perfectly in the architecture and mosaics of the city's mosques.

The Ninth Floor

1976 • 39 min • Hungary

A financially stable family moves into a nice, new apartment, only to see the father leave them. The mother soon brings home a new 'father', Feri. The change causes her son Laci to lose his way. On the other hand, the daughter, Éva is motivated by the change in the family atmosphere to become active and successful in school...

About Dressy Sally

1976 • 7 min • Czechoslovakia

Sally, a dressy little girl, receives a lesson from a sorcerer about lying and happiness.

Nobody Can Stop the Revolution

1976 • 6 min • Germany

Combining collage animation and live action, this short depicts the achievements of the Chilean people under the Allende government and the subsequent reversal of this progress following the military coup. The collages were created by East German media artist Lutz Dammbeck; the Chilean artists Juan Forch and Vivienne Barry did the animation.

Nail

1976 • 19 min

When a working woman finds a construction spike, it inadvertently brings out the best in her diverse neighbors' communal generosity and provision. An exacting parable of who this new community chooses to include and exclude.

One Hour to Zero

1976 • 53 min • United Kingdom

Steve runs away from home, having argued with his father, and hides in a slate mine where his friend Paul finds him and brings him back. However, on returning to their village the two boys find the place completely deserted. Or so they think.

Summoned by Bells

1976 • 50 min • United Kingdom

To mark his 70th Birthday, the Poet Laureate, Sir John Betjeman, recalls key moments from his childhood and adolescence.