Cinematic Era: 1976 Vintage

A parade of musical paintings that includes fragments of Argentine films and a Proartel television program that Channel 13 broadcast in 1965.

Silent film by Ken Jacobs featuring his son asleep at the table then being put to bed.

Everyday life at the island of Ingøy, documented by Knut Erik Jensen.

The mythical 1973-1974 strike at the LIP watch factory in Besançon (France), was one of the largest social struggles of the second half of the 20th century in Europe, due to the importance of the economic and political questions it raised, as well as its forms of organization, and its scope and popularity. This film, edited under the control of the workers, relates their fight from the inside. More information on www.dominiquedubosc.com/en/lip-ou-le-gout-du-collectif-en/

The realities of living as second-class citizens all come crashing down on a middle-class Mexican family in Brownsville TX over the course of an exceptionally stressful weekend.

Short animated film by Tadanari Okamoto

This series comprised six lectures on music, which cumulatively took the title of a work by Charles Ives, The Unanswered Question. Bernstein drew analogies to other disciplines, such as poetry, aesthetics, and especially linguistics, hoping to make these lectures accessible to an audience with limited or no musical experience, while maintaining an intelligent level of discourse: Lecture 5 picks up at the early twentieth century with an oncoming crisis in Western Music. As these lectures have traced the gradual increase and oversaturation of ambiguity, Bernstein now designates a point in history that took ambiguity too far.

The attraction and rejection that alternate within a couple.

Pink film directed by Kôji Wakamatsu.

Rex and his master (a boy) read a mushroom atlas together, then they set out for the forest. The dog is very careful, sniffing for edible mushrooms. After some time, he finds a huge boletus. Rex can’t believe his eyes – there’s a dwarf underneath a toadstool. A storm blows up, the friends go home.

Promotional short introducing Honolulu-born bikini model Agnes Lum.

The story of the blacksmith Vakula, which happened to him on the farm of Dikanka on Christmas night.

“…Railroad Turnbridge is about the meeting of machine and machine [camera and bridge] and how they and their movements, sometimes parallel, sometimes in opposition, frame the landscape which surrounds them. A shot of the landscape seen through the rectangles of the bridge’s opening, the bridge [becomes], in movement, a giant extension of the camera viewfinder…” Amy Taubin, Soho News

Cameras once again observing each other.

Pahlavan Sadegh, on his deathbed, calls Agha Morteza to his bedside and asks him to take care of his daughter Shirin. Agha Morteza, who is busy with business and taking care of his wife and daughter Maryam, asks his hand Nemat to monitor Shirin's movements for a few days. Shirin, who noticed their sensitivity, pretends to be a hospital nurse. Some time later Pahlavan Sadiq dies, and Morteza sees Shirin dancing and singing in a cabaret..

In Ana Mendieta’s Anima, Silueta de Cohetes (Firework Piece), the artist’s silhouetted form is replicated as an effigy with blazing fireworks, the flickering embers gradually extinguishing until there is but a single spark left to stave off total darkness.

Analytical view of one of the least reported conflicts of national cinema: the Cristero movement that developed in the regions of western Mexico between 1926 and 1929, highlighting the inability to be faithful to both the Church and the State.

A fishing vessel has been at sea in the Atlantic for six months when tragedy strikes its crew. Captain Arvīds receives devastating news that his young daughter has died after surgery, while young sailor Juris, on his first voyage to earn money for a car, is shattered by a telegram from his newlywed wife telling him she no longer wants him to return home. As grief, loneliness, and despair close in far from shore, the men are forced to confront the emotional toll of life at sea.

Silent short film by Guy Sherwin as part of his Short Film series in which he captures everyday life, diary like subjects.

A look at the Gay Pride Celebrations in San Francisco and L.A. in the US bicentennial year of 1976.

With a small group from a coastal tribe, Malcolm Douglas travels in an open boat to Montgomery Reef and camps on the islands. An old man shows his grandson the ancient skills, hunting and cave painting.

A power ritual at a house and a power struggle during a journey over land and water.

Bollywood 1976.

The film shows new PKS equipment being introduced on routes.

Andrees’ graduation project approaches the perky 14-year-old Jacki mainly through her social environment: the stressed patchwork family mother, the solitary long-distance truck driver father, the eclectic neighbourhood. The closer the film gets to its protagonists, the freer the movements of the camera become, gliding through a studio as if in a trance or flying over the nocturnal motorway as if over a UFO landing strip.

Animated advertisement for "Margareta", the make-up collection produced by Mirage Enterprise.

A study of British forests, and the benefits that responsible management of their resources can bring in terms of ensuring constant renewal.

Julie is the daughter of Eddie, an impresario who manages the career of Paul (Jean-Pierre Ferland), a hyperactive pop singer. From an early age, Julie, a difficult child who has been forgiven everything since the death of her mother, falls in love with Paul. The love of a child gradually turns into a real adolescent obsession, then into adult desire. Unfortunately for her, Paul loves all women, but none in particular. Above all, he loves his freedom and making music. While Paul is spending time at his farm in Saint-Norbert working on arrangements for new songs with his group of musicians, Julie unexpectedly arrives with a motorcycle gang and crashes at his place for a few days. The result of this stay was a song, "Vivre à deux", which is sure to be a hit. But then came the day when Julie had to leave again.

Out of love for a gangster, a young girl becomes involved in an arms deal and chooses to die in her lover's place.

Short film about the career opportunities at the highest training institution of the NVA, the Friedrich Engels Military Academy

A stop-motion puppet animation adaptation of the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast.

Sibylle Schönemann’s film about abortion lets young and older women speak; women who were forced to abort by their partners or who chose to carry the baby to term despite predicted difficulties. Assembled as a kind of collage, a round table alternates with stylised passages, while the camera also shows moments in a clinic right before and after the procedure. The attitude vacillates between drama and affirmation of life. Liberal perspectives, with one exception, are left out. Schönemann, together with Tamara Trampe, almost managed to take up the complex issue in a feature film.

A documentary concerned with engineering projects connected with developing North Sea oilfields, specifically the Auk and Brent fields.

Film "commemorating" the death of the Spanish dictator, Generalissimo Francisco Franco (1893-1976), caricatured through the senile and sclerotic figure of an old man dragging himself in a wheelchair, until he became a visceral and decrepit mass.

Love, fantasy and legend are almost exceptional words in the filmography of Els 5 QK’s, and that is what makes Aramprunyà so special. A poetic short film where our hero arrives at the ruins of a castle to discover that in his past life he was a passionate princess.

A symbolic rape by the Devil and a renewal of self worth.

Jeremy and Teapot from the book of the same name, is a film about a young country boy who goes on voyages through the universe with his imaginary friend Teapot.

Arriluce responds to a formal organisation subject to a very strict mathematical and geometrical structure. It contains a total of 65 pianos, distributed in a series of 13 that is repeated 5 times, always in the same order, but with variable but precise durations.

1976 Indian Film

A software engineer develops an algorithm to succeed on dating womans

A staged cinematic parable, it presents in symbolic images a painful diagnosis of Poles' sense of identity in the 1970s.

A César nominated short animation about a a small yellow character who is dependant on the power of his magic badge. When it becomes separated from it, it becomes vulnerable.

Agulana, February 29th, 3 P.M... That day, a concert took place at the Opera, broadcasted on radio and speakers set up in the streets. The entire population was captivated. So they didn't notice when strange incidents started to happen... (kg)

A hand plays with a vagina as the same scene drifts over a sea of erotic rock formations.

Directed by Ali Asghar Asgarian.