Cinematic Era: 1976 Vintage

A fish in pursuit of a banana; a hand with drawers; a show bar, complete with bird bartender; an ear umbrella stand; and a man whose nose ticks like a clock.

Lynda Benglis was a visiting artist at CalArts in 1973 when she encouraged then-student Susan Mogul to explore video as a medium. "Big Tip/Back Up/Shout Out" is a direct monologue to the camera about the economic impossibilities of being an artist, especially as a woman. “Her extroversion is so extreme that her story leaps from the vacuum around her, over the camera and off the screen entirely.” —Artforum, from a review after the premiere of this video at Anthology Film Archives in 1976, as part of a program curated by Shigeko Kubota.

New York is the largest city in the modern world. In greater New York, together with the suburbs, in the 1970s, sixteen million people live, and in the city itself there are about ten million. Americans speak differently about New York - some argue that New York is not America, others, on the contrary, are convinced that this is the most American of all American cities. Apparently both are right...

Woman with American accent reads German phrases and words from a study book on manipulated and degraded film stock.

A pastel animation produced by Sheila Graber based on the Victorian ballad by the English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson. With commentary by Francis Carr the film loosely tells the Arthurian legend of Elaine of Astolat, a woman living in isolation inside a tower who sees the world through the reflections in a mirror.

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

Julia Heyward’s contribution to Jean Dupuy’s Three Evenings on a Revolving Stage (1976), a performance event at Judson Memorial Church for which artists were invited to perform a short piece atop a two-foot diameter revolving stage. Dressed in a stylish gown, Heyward performed Shake Daddy Shake, a stirring invocation of her father, a Southern preacher with palsy.

In Atmosphere the camera pans back and forth over a body of water at a varying tempo and most people assume that a camera operator is in charge. The final image of the film carries a great deal of significance. It opens up a gap between the film’s appearance and its reality; what it appears to be – what it imitates – is not an object or scene from everyday life, but a film. Atmosphere is not just an imitation, but an imitation of an imitation, a metafilm that plays with the viewers’ expectations about cinematic form. —R. Bruce Elder, Image and Identity

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.

Experimental film by Gábor Bódy. A woman sings in German on the left as text flashes on a separate frame on the right-hand side of the screen.

Jaco Pastorius Trilogue with Albert Mangelsdorff and Alphonse Mouzon. Recorded live at the Berlin Jazz Days, 6 November 1976 at the Berlin Philharmonic. Albert Mangelsdorff – trombone, Alphonse Mouzon – drums, Jaco Pastorius ‎– bass 1) Foreign Fun 2) Accidental Meeting 3) Zores Mores 4) Trilogue 5) Portrait Of Tracy 6) Trio Song 7) Ant Steps on an Elephant's Toe

The boy Fyodor have a puppy "terrier", purebred and stray. His strict father opposed to the dog lived in their home. To find an owner for the puppy, who would not just take it to his house, but will be its friend, Fyodor, together with a neighbor, a sailor, are heading to the "bird market" in search of a "good man."

"On the Run from my Fellow Countrymen" - About Bertolt Brecht as a refugee in Sweden. When war seemed imminent in April 1939, Brecht moved to Stockholm, where he remained for a year.

Female composers' names are mentioned throughout history.

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

Directed by Dacia Maraini in 1976, this documentary serves as a sharp and necessary social critique of its time. The film offers a deep dive into the exploitation of Cape Verdean women who immigrated to Italy, highlighting how they were funneled into domestic labor for wealthy families as a source of cheap work. Featured in the curated section "The Woman’s Gaze," the work stands as a powerful example of feminist filmmaking that tackles complex socio-political issues. Through Maraini's lens, the film moves beyond simple observation to denounce the economic and systemic struggles faced by immigrant women in 1970s Italy, capturing a poignant moment of intersectional struggle.

Telefilm directed by Morten Kolstad.

A documentation of the live Action Ulay performed in Berlin in 1976. It shows step by step his arranged "art theft" of Carl Spitzweg's painting "The Poor Poet" from the Neue Nationalgalerie and his reception in commentaries and reactions from the press.

A short documentary from the 1970s depicting the employees at work, transforming scrap metal to steel at Domnarvets järnverk.

An optical printer film about film anxiety, cut to the song from Peter Pan, I Wont Grow Up.

Experimental film with desert scenes in which optical printing is used to achieve unusual effects.

A lost film from Ishmael Bernal, originally released in 1976.

The performance staged by the GAZTK Obraztsova.

Historical and economic data, as well as the folklore of the municipalities of Campos and São João da Barra in the Paraíba Valley. Fado or Manaxica, the Folia de Reis (Three Kings' Day celebration), and Jongo.

The Shadow Glass is roughly based on Ewers' 'Student of Prague'. It concerns a young man who, feeling incapable of surmounting the harsh realities of love and life, sends his reflection cut to procure and win for him the object of his desire. Rather than being his servant and slave, the reflection takes over and controls the life of the man. In frustration and anger the man kills his reflection in order to be set free. The reality of the situation is the reality of suicide. The entire film could be interpreted as taking place in a brief second–for as long as it takes pull the trigger.

Feature-length documentary as part of Pierre Perrault's Abitibian Cycle. The filmmaker questions the past and present of Abitibi and draws up, face to face, the promises of colonization in the 1930s and the great disappointment caused by the closing of the land in the 1970s. There are witnesses to the heroic era, including the cultivator Hauris Lalancette, as well as extracts from films by Father Maurice Proulx (1934-1940).

Early documentary short by Ross McElwee. 16mm; color; sound.

Made in the urban area of ​​the Valley of Mexico, this documentary presents a collage of images about the overpopulation, pollution and excessive growth of the big city. The accelerated and pulsating rhythm that passes and vanishes in the constant coming and going of vehicles and people.

Super8 short by Annabella Miscuglio.

Documentary about feminist protests on the 1st of May of 1976

The Mysterious House of Dr. C. (1976) is a rarely seen, reworked version of the 1966 Dr. Coppelius, a dance film based on the classic 19th-century Leo Delibes ballet "Coppelia." This version contains poorly received songs, narration, and animation sequences not in the original.

People discuss their ideas of the future. In this 2nd episode of the film series, the problem of "beauty" in our current and future ideas is discussed. The demand for beauty is not just a demand on the arts, but on the various areas of life.

An hour long documentary looking at the life of the Sugiura family, fish merchants and caterers living in Tokyo.

Around three boys accomplices to playful and shy grace, Stéphane Marti inaugurates his cinematographic writing.

How Curious defeated the sea robbers.

A Pakistani reporter interviews Idi Amin.

A 54-minute portrait of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer George Crumb featuring a performance of his "Vox Balaenae for Three Masked Players."

"I was crazy about collecting photographs I got interested in scientific journals."

Amos Guttman's short film follows one evening in the life of a boy who works in a puppet theater. The film, which blends reality with imagination and materialization and hallucination, describes the preparations for the premiere that will take place the day to come, the boy's connections with those around him, his loneliness and his dreams.

The protagonist is a kind and brave boy who helps people fight evil. One day, a horseman arrived at the doorstep of an orphan’s house, asking for wine and oats for his horse. The house owner, unable to provide more than a dry flatbread, offered the horse hay instead of oats, which he used as bedding. The horseman was touched by the boy’s kindness and promised to reward him generously if he followed in his footsteps and helped others along the way.

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

Armed with S8 camera and sound-person, Craig Baldwin runs both recording devices continuously through single-take raids on a series of SF Market St. grindhouse theaters. Rushing past box offices and through front lobbies, he captures the chance scenes and sounds on screen at the time, then flees out the rear exit doors to reunite with the reality of the street.

Elderly friends Ernie and Rose cross paths with an odd medical experiment.

A film about a land dispute, it tells the story of Eşref's revenge after losing his brother and father.

A short animated film by Tadanari Okamoto.

A man cleanses himself after being unfaithful to his wife.

An insight into Israel and the horrors of the Holocaust.

In the summer of 1944, the partisan Ales Bely, whom everyone on the Kovaltsy farm considered missing, came home on leave. His hut was burned down by the Germans, his father died, and there was devastation and famine all around. In order to survive, the villagers decide to unite into a single farm. Ales also joins the collective farm, but his leave ends quickly, and the soldier, calm for his fellow countrymen, leaves to fight again...

Abridged film version of the Moniuszko's opera.