All Films

Three Rubles

1976 • 21 min • Soviet Union

Having found three rubles on the road near a change house, road masters Abessalom, Beso and Gigla decided to go to the city.

A Small Miracle

1976 • 20 min • United Kingdom

On Christmas Eve, a poor old woman plays her accordion in the street. Apart from two children, the passers-by ignore her and by the end of the day she has to sell her accordion to buy some food. Worse is to come. (1976)

Me & Stella

1976 • 24 min

Geri Ashur’s Me & Stella traces the life of blues musician, folk singer, and composer Elizabeth Cotten—and her guitar, Stella—who is best known for writing the folk standard “Freight Train.” After spending her early teenage years writing songs and playing the guitar, Cotten put her musical career on hold for three decades. Encouraged by the very musical Seeger family, for whom she worked as a maid, Cotten started recording and became a star in the 1960s burgeoning folk revival at an age when most people are contemplating retirement.

Red Ball Express

1976 • 3 min

A drawn-on-film train builds itself and takes a trip, set to the bluegrass standard Orange Blossom Special.

Blue Puppy

1976 • 19 min • Soviet Union

A puppy, born with a strangely light-blue coat, finds himself shunned by all. No one wants to play with him or call him a friend — even the Grey Dogs keep their distance. But when a fearsome Pirate suddenly attacks the island, he enlists the Black Cat’s help to kidnap the Blue Puppy.

Short Films 1976

1976 • 25 min • United States of America

Four films verging on portraiture, converging to make a drama for all seasons, starring: Jane Brakhage as The Dreamer; Bob Benson as The Magnificent Stranger; Omar Beagle as The Snow Plow Man; and Jimmy Ryan Morris as The Poet and as Doc Holliday.

Chesty: A Tribute to a Legend

1976 • 47 min • United States of America

A tribute documentary on the most decorated U.S. Marine, General Lewis B. 'Chesty' Puller.

The Miracle Healers

1976 • 52 min

Actor Roscoe Lee Browne is host for this documentary that delves into the mystery behind spontaneous healing and other psychic phenomena that could be applied to medicine. This includes an examination of Jim Jones and the People's Temple.

Ikar and Sages

1976 • 7 min • Soviet Union

It is a parable about world wisdom and "madness of brave men" who are ready to risk their life for the sake of new opening.

Unhappy Hooker

1976 • 3 min • United States of America

A prostitute waits in vain for a client.

Kleiner Vogel

1976 • 40 min • United Kingdom

The film questions the possible viewing positions with the girl; in other words, who and what is looking at whom? and is the girl alone or with another – or is the camera position that of voyeur or protagonist? The only way to figure it out is to spend some time with her! – S.D.

John Baker's Last Race

1976 • 28 min

John Baker emerges as a fine runner while in High School in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and then continues setting records at the University of New Mexico. His ability is world-class, and after receiving his university degree he accepts a position as a coach and physical education teacher at Aspen Elementary School while continuing to train (with the 1972 Olympics in sight). He becomes very popular with parents and students alike, for seeking ways to involve all his students, even those with an apparent lack of ability. Learning that he has terminal cancer he contemplates suicide, but instead chooses to dedicate himself even more to the kids, helping even the handicapped to participate, and co-founding and coaching the Duke City Dashers, an all-girl AAU track team. He hopes his "last race"...already beating the odds by a year, will not end before seeing this team win the national title.

Beloved

1976 • 55 min

When Henry James Prince is dismissed from his post as a curate, he decides to found his own religion, called the Abode of Love.

Bakula's Pigs

1976 • 47 min • Soviet Union

Disturbed by his neighbor's pigs, Galaktion appealed to the court, but to no avail

The Lazy Fox

1976 • 8 min • Soviet Union

All animals in the forest have their own roles, except for the fox. He feels useless until he accidentally discovers his hidden talent.

James and the Giant Peach

1976 • 45 min • United Kingdom

A TV adaptation of Roald Dahl's classic book.

We Have Many Names

1976 • 51 min • Sweden

A sacrificial passive woman spends her life breeding happiness into her family. What happens when her world of security cracks, shatters completely and her identity dissolves?

Augusta

1976 • 16 min • Canada

This short documentary is the portrait of an 88-year-old woman who lives alone in a log cabin without running water or electricity in the Williams Lake area of British Columbia. The daughter of a Shuswap chief, Augusta lost her Indian status as the result of a marriage to a white man. She recalls past times, but lives very much in the present. Self-sufficient, dedicated to her people, she spreads warmth wherever she moves, with her songs and her harmonica.

Seadrift

1976 • 15 min • Canada

Seadrift is based on a story The Shadow Over Innsmouth by H.P. Lovecraft, and was shot partially in Marblehead Mass. Each section represents a synthesis of the various aspects and moods of the story. The sum total of the fragments expresses the atmosphere of the whole.

Empty Harbours, Empty Dreams

1976 • 59 min • Canada

The film explores how the three British colonies of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island became provinces of Canada and charts the subsequent decline of their economies after Confederation. Photographs, archival drawings, cartoons and interviews with Maritime historians are used to document the case.

The Mad Canadian

1976 • 10 min • Canada

A tense, tight close-up of stunt man Ken Carter's role on the stock-car racing track. Risking life and limb to rocket a car from a ramp over a parked line of cars takes more than the will to make a living. What else is involved is shown by the film as the camera looks and listens while the stunt man readies for his act and then makes his wild ride.

Leo es pardo

1976 • 10 min • Spain

A beautiful girl has an intense trip during which she transforms.

Talk to Me Like the Rain

1976 • 12 min • Germany

A small-scale, bare room situation involving a man and a woman who are bound together in an endless cycle by their hopeless poverty. Tennessee Williams' themes are explored in the man's alcoholism and the woman's desperation.

Here and Elsewhere

1976 • 55 min • France

Here and Elsewhere takes its name from the contrasting footage it shows of the fedayeen and of a French family watching television at home. Originally shot by the Dziga Vertov Group as a film on Palestinian freedom fighters, Godard later reworked the material alongside Anne-Marie Miéville.