All Films

Foreigners Pt. 1: Ships and Cannons

1976 • 44 min • Sweden

"Nestler relates the histories of shipbuilding, armaments, and war in Europe to the exploitation of labor and the circulation of knowledge and capital between countries." - Film Society of Lincoln Center

Remembering Winsor McCay

1976 • 18 min • United States of America

The life and career of the great cartoonist Winsor McCay is warmly recalled by his former film assistant, John Fitzsimmons, with clips of classic McCay animated films.

In the Labyrinth

1976 • 31 min

After 30 years apart, a man is reunited with his mother, who resides on a psychiatric ward.

Pier Paolo Pasolini : vivre et encore plus

1976 • 53 min

Portrait of the most rebellious of directors, Pier Paolo Pasolini. The artist marked his time by creating provocative and polemical works. The Italian filmmaker reminds us of the importance of maintaining a critical point of view towards the system before evoking his childhood in Italy and his first literary and cinematographic works.

Atlas: A Sketch of the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire

1976 • 2 min

Atlas gives the viewer an overview of the rise and fall of the Roman Empire. Beginning in 500 BC, a time clock at the bottom of the screen marks off the years – eight to a second – as the boundaries on the animated map change, showing both the growth including the conquests of Alexander the Great, as well as the decrease as the power of the Romans declined. The film concludes with the invasion of the Huns and the sack of Rome in 476 AD. Music by David Spears.

North from the Sun

1976 • 56 min • Yugoslavia

Social drama that deals with disintegration of a village family caused by younger generations’ move to urban settlements.

Art in Taos

1976 • 28 min • United States of America

A documentary by husband and wife filmmakers, Mario Balibrera and Dana Evans, of the art colonies of Taos, New Mexico in the early part of the 20th century.

Friday Night Adventure

1976 • 28 min

A young homosexual's encounter with a gay salesman leads the youth to a crucial decision about his own carefully concealed secret.

The Man with the Power

1976 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Boysie discovers he has 'second sight' but neither his girlfriend Gloria nor his work-mate Brian will accept his 'gift'. He sets out on a spiritual voyage that leads to Adler, a 'sensitive', and finally to the devil himself.

Moon Goddess

1976 • 13 min • United States of America

In California a young woman artist/filmmaker is led by an older female artist through the small pine forests of Mendocino and the hot desert sands of Death Valley before she is taught the lesson of creative inspiration.

Kiss [1976] Detroit 1976

1976 • 60 min

Bonus disc from Kissology I. Kiss live at Cobo Hall, Detroit, MI, January 25, 1976

Gulpin

1976 • 30 min

A girl's obsession with the boys' game of football makes her so misunderstood.

Bob Dylan: Hard Rain

1976 • 52 min

From the fall of 1975 to the summer of 1976, Bob Dylan took a happy gaggle of musicians out on a two-leg tour dubbed the Rolling Thunder Review. Live at Fort Collins, Colorado

James Thurber’s The Night the Ghost Got In

1976 • 17 min • United States of America

A scared kid starts all kinds of trouble. Kids' "horror" film based on the story by James Thurber.

Rendezvous

1976 • 8 min • France

A high-speed drive through the streets of Paris.

Arandjel's Predicament

1976 • 55 min • Yugoslavia

A story about young man who, after the conflict with his uncle, sets off to emigration.

Projection Instructions

1976 • 4 min • United States of America

Regrettably, the labour of projectionists is usually only considered by the audience when they ‘screw up’. This film offers an alternative opportunity. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2014.

A Man of Morality

1976 • 27 min • United Kingdom

A moral philosopher at a university finds his own morals under scrutiny.

Airs

1976 • 24 min • United States of America

"This film rises out of my struggle to photograph the ephemeral qualities of varied air (as many Greek philosophers experienced such) and to arrange the resultant textures/tones of film (in sharp conjunction with images hard-edged as words can be) so that it be true as breath itself to the necessities of music." (S.B.)

Cloudy

1976 • 60 min • Japan

Early B+W student film.

Slashing Fellow

1976 • 17 min • Soviet Union

A merry village guy meets a sorcerer's daughter in the forest and immediately proposes to her. But her father decides to challenge him to a game of hide-and-seek.

Self-Fashion Show

1976 • 14 min • Hungary

According to Peter Brook, all that is needed for an act of theatre to be engaged is for a man to walk across an empty space whilst someone else is watching him. Thus, an empty space becomes a bare stage. However, this raises countless questions about the relationship between reality, everyday presence and role-playing, something experimental filmmakers coming from the 1970s world of theatre dealt with in detail. Tibor Hajas explored the topic in a short experimental film made at BBS.

The Steam Express

1976 • 57 min • Japan

The unique editing of the film, in which cuts of the train running according to an unreadable sequence of rules are overlaid with radio weather forecasts, '60s pop music and FEN broadcasts, and the inexhaustible camerawork and fearless cutting bring the scenery seen through the train windows to life in this ambitious film. This groundbreaking work was an independent film at the time, but was released in a hall rented by the filmmaker and drew an unprecedented audience. This is the starting point for his posthumous film Bokutachi Kyuko A-Train de Ikirou!

Telly... Who Loves Ya, Baby?

1976 • 60 min • United States of America

At the height of his KOJAK TV series fame, Telly Savalas starred in this variety special that was sponsored by Kraft Foods and shown without commercial interruption. Barbara Eden, Cloris Leachman, Diahann Carroll and others appear and join in the singing and dancing and mugging.