Cinematic Era: 1976 Vintage

The tale of "The Golden Duck" in the reality of 17th-century Warsaw.

Soil degradation, resulting from the excessive exploitation of trees, takes center stage in this powerful visual exhibition that warns of the dire repercussions of ecological imbalances caused by human ignorance and greed.

The story of a revolutionary Tibetan youth who discovers and defeats an old landlord and tribal leader who is plotting against the Communist government’s plan to end the locust plague.

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.

A 1970's film directed by Pierre Brody.

Three women labor activists in America tell their stories of organizing in the 1930s.

About the adventures of the hero of Kazakh fairy tales.

O is locked up and although his escape attempts keep failing he keeps persisting. In one way or another he'll manage to escape.

Sequence of animations and random footage (Olympic torch lighting, rituals etc) which were "based on ideas of Hans Hollein; created for the Smithsonian's Cooper Hewitt Museum's opening exhibition: Man transForms", 1976. Nine designers worked with Hans Hollein in the "MAN TRANSFORMs" exhibition at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Decorative Arts and Design: Nader Ardalan, Peter Bode, Buckminster Fuller, Murray Grigor, Arata Isozaki, Richard Meier, Karl Schlamminger, Ettore Sottsass, and Oswald Ungers.

To separate Leila's relationship with Rais, Leila's parents sent their daughter to Paris and arranged her marriage with Roy. Because of Leila's father's employee's trap, Rais got a bad name and was paralyzed because of an accident. So Leila hated Rais and married Roy.

Ka(te)rina wants to see the manager of the bookstore. On the way see will meet all her personal ghosts. Her anguish: Will she destroy him or get destroyed by herself?

The impact of new documents from the international conflict that shook the world is enormous. Never-before-seen footage has emerged for the first time from previously secret archives. The murderous encirclement battles in Russia, the Battle of Britain, and the heroic deeds of countless lone fighters in Potsdam complete the circle of horror, from the Polish campaign to the harrowing images of refugee treks in the winter of 1944/45.

A class reunion of the twenty-somethings in the old school. What one remembers, what the individual has new to tell. One of them: Marieluise. Her love, her work, her demands on herself and the world into which she is coming of age.

Jeca has to face a rich farmer woman that wants his love. At the same time, his wife seems to be possessed by the Devil. Made after the huge success of 'The Exorcist', Mazzaropi created his version of the Blockbuster.

In the films Untitled (#6), Untitled (#7) (both 1972–6) and Untitled (#8) (1976–7) images of cells mix with galaxies, underlining the circular shape as a crucial element of Palolo’s work.

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/

A look into the life of Holger Meins, the German cinematography student who became a revolutionary and a prominent voice in the Vietnam War protest movement. This film is comprised of interviews with his associates.

Sonbert's vivid color palette enhances the ritualistic nature of each action observed. Set against this lush panorama, Sonbert subverts the expectation of classic cinematography with a liberal sprinkling of avant-garde techniques. The incorporation of the materiality of film, the treatment of light, and the use of a hand-held camera, all suggest the influence of Stan Brakhage (Sonbert's "hero"). Sonbert's use of the shot as the foundation of his silent montage works parallels the use of the frame as the basic filmmaking unit in the films of Gregory Markopoulos (Sonbert's "mentor"). -- Jon Gartenberg. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 1998.

A disturbing cinematic opera from Melbourne film-maker, Michael Lee, presenting an intense emotional collage of film clips, original footage and complex object animation, structured loosely in the form of a Catholic Mass, to communicate the film-maker's traumatic Catholic experience. The film is intended in part as 'anti-imagery' in response to the iconography of Catholicism.

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

In 1976, Francis Lee edited footage he shot during the years 1941 to 1945 while an Army combat motion picture cameraman. A pacifist and painter living on New York City's East 10th Street before World War II, Lee initially requested classification as a conscientious objector. Realizing WWII was a war against racism, fascism and totalitarianism, he reconsidered, was classified 1-A and enlisted as an Army cameraman.

During class Eddy is daydreaming about his girlfriend Véronique. When school is out he hopes to be living his daydream with her.

A large part of the town of Juchitepec, State of Mexico, has left its place of origin to seek its fortune in the city. The survivors suffer the sale of their best land for agriculture to a pantheon. Death is a constant in a place where there is barely enough food.

Animated short film from Elpidio Valdés' series. Coronel Elpidio Valdés is in New York to get help from cuban inmigrants for the war. But Coronel Andaluz is spying him and tells NY police about his presence. Then, the police will try to catch Elpidio Valdés and the cuban ship in the docks.

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

Sketches include the film noir 'Farewell my Cinders', the BBC Jewish news, The Bruce Fosdyke Show, A Christmas Appeal by Faith Douche, the meaning of Christiman, 'The Last Noël', Jacques Cousteau presents Some Mammals Do 'Ave 'Em, Girl on the Cover followed Harpies Bizarre's America's Loveliest Girls starring Lois Latnick.

A film discussing the various forms of energy used by man.

A guest from the Caucasus is running late for his flight. Desperate to "catch" a taxi, he asks a private driver to take him to the airport. The driver speeds, breaking all conceivable traffic rules, and ultimately gets into an accident.

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

A primer on bicycle safety for beginning bike riders. Stresses that a bicycle is a vehicle and is subject to all the same rules and traffic regulations as the automobile.

Macedonian TV drama.

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.

The Marshes area is a cultural extension of the Sumerian civilization by more than seven thousand years. It is the largest ecosystem of its kind in the Middle East and West Asia and constitute two-thirds of southern Iraq. In the year 1975, director Kassem Hawal decided to make a film about the Iraqi Marshes. He then wrote the script, shot the film and completed a 45 minutes documentary. But in 1985 the Iraqi regime had begun to dry it, resulting in humanitarian, cultural, environmental and natural disasters in the area with the disappearance of tens of thousands of residents, air, water and soil pollution and the extinction of countless species of birds, plants and animals. The Government have also burned the original film material, luckily, Kassem kept a copy to share it with the world.

A combined film, or rather personal profile, in which the naive paintings of quirky comedian and self-taught painter Josef Hlinomaze are brought to life, accompanied by the protagonist's humorous commentary.

Anarchism, Castroism, Maoism, while mingled. But what survives is Nihilism ! Alain Peyrefitte in the National Assembly, May 9, 1968

Set in northern Nigeria towards the end of the 19th century, Shaihu Umar begins with a discussion between Islamic students and their renowned teacher, the wise man Shaihu Umar. Asked about his origins, Umar begins to tell his story: he comes from a modest background and is separated from his mother after his father dies and his stepfather is banished. His subsequent trials and tribulations are marked by slavery, and he is put to any number of tests until he finally becomes the adopted son of his Arabic master Abdulkarim. He attends Quranic school and is made an imam upon reaching adulthood. Following a particular dream, he resolves to search for his mother.

Short film by Heinz Emigholz shot in 1976; b/w, sound, no dialogue

The films are of two patients, extracted from a medical film study of brain wave activity during seizures.

Short documentary about the IPN

Songs of Innocence, which directly references the visionary Romanticism of William Blake, is haunted with symbolic transformations, as shifting light is charted through the passage of a day. Images of children singing on a school lawn dissolve and reappear, hovering at the edge of perception, illusion and reality, evoking what Viola terms "a visual relationship between memory, the setting of the sun, and death."

The first part of what was intended to be a three-part experimental travelog for Nelson’s home state of California, this film covers the Mexican border, Death Valley, and Hollywood/Los Angeles.

Three sisters search the four secrets of nature (water, air, fire and earth) on an imaginary journey.

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

Zul a young fisherman fall in love with Noraini, his friend sister. But Malek the son of the village also fall in love with Noraini. On Zul wedding day, Malek attack Zul. This is a musical film with lots of beautiful song.

Early B+W student film.

Stacy Perlata and Camille Darrin share a passion for their lifestyle of skateboarding. Camille narrates the film, and the two of them travel to various places in California with his friends.

Various live performances from the Allman Brothers Band while Duane Allman and Berry Oakley were still alive. Includes, HOF Tribute, Fillmore East, NY 9-23-1970 show (5 songs), ABC In Concert appearance from Hempstead, NY 11-2-1972 (Berry's last public performance), "Southern Voices, American Dream" documentary by Ken Hey, Live clips from Love Valley 7-19-1970 and Central Park, NYC 1970, Statesboro Blues (promo video from DREAMS) and closing slideshow.