Cinematic Era: 1976 Vintage

An imaginative examination of the Superman myth, using animated collages of re-tinted photographs and featuring the world’s first superhero who’s part-man, part-butterfly!

The forest is burning. By man's fault. "Accused, look at your harvest of ashes" ; this simple sentence sums up the film.

Lives of children living near a train station changes when they watch a Western film on a newly arrived TV set...

The film is dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the most famous theatre in our country. The film features unique footage from the early 20th century, as well as unique sets, the work of artists, opera and ballet soloists, and the magnificent Bolshoi Choir.

A film adaptation of Pavel Bazhov's short story.

UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. The film is introduced on View as an "impressionistic look at a trip from [the country?] to an urban center." It depicts Los Angeles murals, architecture, and street life and is accompanied by War's funk music.

This film documents the the bombing at Cooperative Árvore, in Porto.

Short film about safe driving

Women folk cultural revolution

A handful of quarrymen in the Reinhardtsdorf open cast mine near Bad Schandau dig out the coveted Elbe natural stone. Gabriele Denecke’s approach to the men, who are of different ages, is almost trance-like, the movement to and from the stones marks the transition to another world. We hear about the merciless working conditions of the past, about alcohol, people worn out before their time. Today, digging out the massive rocks in the midst of nature also constitutes a degree of freedom. Open cast miners share a special mindset. And: Once you’ve worn out your first pair of wooden shoes, you’ll stay – probably forever.

A highly personal and impressionistic piece of work, Firelight explores time. Long dissolves and pastel shades reflect time's ephemeral nature, its steady progression and the constancy of its cycles. It's a gentle film that sets the mind adrift.

The Last Rally, a 30-minute tape by YES New York, a group composed of Shridhar Bapat, Mark Brownstone, Karen Edwards, and Joe Loguidice, documents the post-Vietnam war demonstration held in Central Park on May 11, 1975. Among the performers featured are Phil Ochs, Patti Smith, and Joan Baez. William Kunstler is also interviewed

Clone creates a non-narrative sensory experience where TV images repeat, cloning themselves sometimes with mutations. The sound in Clone is the live interaction between my heavy breathing into a microphone, the modulation of my voice and audio feedback. Clone incorporated those elements of media usually edited out, considered not appropriate for viewing: German film leader, the rough breakup from the in-camera edits, and noise on the tape.

In this film, Matta-Clark explored and documented the underground spaces of New York City. The artist chose a range of sites (New York Central railroad tracks, Grand Central Station, 13th Street, Croton Aqueduct in Highgate, etc.) to show the variety and complexity of the underground spaces and tunnels in the Metropolitan area.

In 1976 Matta-Clark left for Berlin claiming that he intended to blow-up the Berlin Wall as his contribution to the New York–Downtown Manhattan: Soho show. Friends dissuaded him from such a suicidal action, and so instead he created Made in America, a piece that reflects on the political origins of the Berlin Wall and the West’s fascination with consumerism.

Commissioned by BBC TV as the unannounced opening piece for their Arena video art programme, March 1976. Programme produced by Mark Kidel, conceived by Anna Ridley and presented by David Hall. 'Richard Baker [the well known newsreader] describes the essential paradoxes of the real and imagined functions of the TV set on which he appears. The second shot is taken optically off a monitor, the third copied from the second, and so on, until there is a complete degeneration of both sound and image, removing the newsreader from his position of authority...' - Tamara Krikorian, Art Monthly, February 1984.

Written by Joyce Borenstein.

Every year, especially in August, thousands of emigrants return to their villages from France, Germany and other countries of immigration. In 1975 these migrants are faced with popular festivities that are celebrated but, now, also with the political turmoil of the post 25 April. Before the revolution, coming back was only limited to those who left the country legally ...

Bollywood 1976.

Malcolm Douglas lives with the tribal elders of the Worora and Narinjin Tribes at their bush camp in the remote Kimberley. Daily he films activities of collecting food, hunting and ceremonial life. An important film showing a culture rapidly changing.

This 25-minute black-and-white work was created within the London Women's Film Group collective. The movie's structure is a blend of fiction interspersed with documentary scenes focusing on domestic chores. It was produced in collaboration with the London-based group campaigning for "wages for housework". Co-director Francine Winham, a member of the aforementioned film group, utilized this medium to challenge cultural impositions and social roles with a fresh and critical perspective on women's domestic reality.

‘Bruce Woods films are among the most sensual of any ‘abstract’ animated work ever made. Projected, they generate a fluid stream of organic images in a carefully controlled post-cubist space comparable to the work of painters like Jackson Pollock. Viewed one frame at a time (which is the way much of the footage is shot), they recall the rich lines and textures of such master etchers as Rembrandt. Wood’s use of camera movement during exposure of each individual frame – like drawing – together with the illusion of movement in projection make his films both beautiful and unique.’ – Bill Judson, Curator of Film, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh.

This documentary is a look at the historic Tricycle Marathon through a detailed record focused on the competitors and their tricycles, as well as the logistics of the event and shots of the cheering crowd along the route.

The principle of stillness in Sequels in trasfigured times is like a botanical drying procedure for film which conserves a fixed but superb memory of the shapes.

In 1943, a divorced mother sends her two children to boarding school, the better to devote herself to her lover. The poetry and affection of a grandfather. The conflicted feelings of a mother-wife. Religious templars of blind teaching. An intruding lover. A child's subjectivity rewrites the entire path of his upbringing.

An attractive montage of a vivid and often tense highlights from the soccer field ... Headers, fouls, dribbling, runs, goalmouth dramas are juxtaposed, slowed down, repeated and at the same time embellished acoustically in such an apt and lively manner by the music of the leading German jazz and rock guitarist Volker Kriegel, that even the viewer spoilt by live soccer will enjoy seeing it. The artistes of the bid ball become leading dancers at the penalty mark. Slow motion, animation, modification or restriction of color further lend emphasis to the close interaction with the musical movements, achieving a positive unity, regardless weather attention is focussed on the goalkeeper, on team play, on vigorous tackling or on goalmouth excitement, which are all synchronized in sequence form with the musical sections. The film contains extracts from 13 first division soccer games in Germany. –Joachim Kreck

Four swindlers - Kamol-aka, Gafur, Gafar, and Murodi - set up a marriage bureau at a photo studio. The first grooms appear, and soon a well-known horseman, Saidbek, becomes a client of the bureau. He wants to marry Malika, but she rejects him. The swindlers kidnap the girl.

Episode from the documentary series Paraskinio, dedicated to Mimis Fotopoulos, who speaks about his life and work in a monologue in front of the camera, likely improvised. We watch footage from his films, and we hear him reading aloud. Among the ruins of an open-air space, mostly used as a film studio, he initially plays the blind man from "The Counterfeit Coin", talks about his films such as "The Counterfeit Coin", "Laterna, Poverty and Dignity", and "The Little Chauffeur", and comments on that period of the golden age of classic Greek cinema. Fotopoulos wanders through the ruined studio and discusses the increased responsibilities of actors in theater and the challenges of filming while performing in plays during the flourishing period of Greek cinema.

A film on transvestism (cross dressing) and transexualism (sex change), consisting mainly of interviews with transvestites, transsexuals and their families, in which they discuss the problems they and others face in coming to terms with this experience. One transsexual relates her treatment at the hands of neighbours and police, whilst another examines these sexual variations in the context of gay and women's liberation.

A highly controversial film made at Cal Arts, the film begins with rabbits hopping around a constructed set, followed by high-speed footage of a rabbit being shot with a rifle.

The plot revolves around Tom (Ed Bowes) and his girlfriend Kathleen (Elizabeth Cannon) and what occurs when her mother and androgynous brother Tommy (Karen Achenbach) come to visit. Tom is receiving transcripts of his innermost thoughts in anonymous letters. Sexual ambiguity, symbiotic relationships, and self-identity are all at play here. Structured in long, uncut takes with beautiful camera work by Tom Bowes, the real-time aesthetic of the work is the result of the script, in which much of the action takes place in drifting conversations. — Marita Sturken, “Television Fictions: An Interview with Ed Bowes,” AFTERIMAGE (May 1986)

The 1974 coup d'état set in motion a revolutionary process in which the radical transformation of the relationships that had previously existed within the family, in the workplace, and throughout society has never allowed for a return to the past.

Young anti-establishment artists and art students with experiences and observations of life under communism.

Documentary about Jewish colonizers in Argentina.

The film Faces, 1976, is a kind of triptych. Two heads of hair, one blonde and one brunette, rub against each other at the bottom of the screen. This is followed by a close-up shot of two women kissing. The camera focuses on their mouths and tongues — licking, sucking and moving between and around each other. Eventually, while beautifully filmed, it becomes almost boring to watch. The final section depicts the two women seated, naked but with heavily fabricated faces, leaning their heads on the other's shoulders—a tender epilogue to the intensity of their performance.

A documentary about the statesman Einar Gerhardsen and his relation to the labour movement, how the Labour Party under his rule became the overall leading party.

TWO WOMEN records our passage through the tribal lands of the Central Australian region – a personal charting of this mythical landscape. The film is shaped by an unedited recording made of a Pitjantjatjara women’s song cycle: "Two Women", which describes the travels of ancestral women through this region. The film is not a literal interpretation of the song story, and there is no translation of the song. We are outsiders to this culture, and must therefore learn what we can from the ‚surface’ of the song cycle – from the voices singing, talking, whispering, coughing, laughing, reprimanding children.

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)

William F. Buckley Jr., along with his son and friends, takes you across the Atlantic on his yacht, “Cyrano.” Learn from this Trans-Atlantic veteran about weathering storms, hove-to, knock downs, rigging and provisioning in his inimitable fashion. Based on his 1976 book by the same Name.

Compositions of abstract forms and calligraphic lies, these films are natural outgrowths (and perhaps ultimate realisations) of abstract expressionist painting.

A short TV film in which Carles Mira adapted a piece by Franz Kafka.

This documentary was made at the request of Vidéographe on the occasion of the Montreal Olympic Games and as part of the series Sports à part. A broad perspective on the world of bodybuilding, it calls on cultural analysts and trainers as well as a few of those vying for the title of Mr. Montreal to give the viewer insight into the mindset and motivations of the bodybuilder.

Strand spent over twenty years documenting her friend Anselmo Aguascalientes’ life, eventually creating a stunning trilogy of films—Anselmo, Cosas de mi vida, and Anselmo and the Women—tender portraits that are also glimpses into poverty, resourcefulness, perseverance and patriarchy.

To the very end, Pablo Picasso was just as complicatedly fascinating as his cubist paintings. This film focuses upon Picasso's last 22 years of life, utilizing personal photos, home movies, and well over 600 pieces of the artist's work -- some never before been seen by the general public -- to piece together the later part of this amazing man's life. In fact, scenes shot for this film were some of the last footage ever to be taken of the artist. Filmmaker Edward Quinn had the distinct advantage of complete access to the artist, and he used this close proximity to shed light on Picasso's uniquely creative process.

Shot between February 1976 and March 1978, Step by Step compacts the chaos of the Lebanese civil war using archival images, news broadcasts, interviews, and raw documentary footage.

An experimental short by Derek Jarman visually represents a crumbling barn.

The conflict between Professor Shcheglov and Doctor Skuratov, which began with a slap in the face.

This recently unearthed and newly digitized work is a richly minimalist, single-camera-setup portrait of the sights and sounds at a late-night diner in Madison, WI.

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.

Ever wonder what really goes on in a sorority house overflowing with the most beautiful, most spirited and most available college women who ever graced a campus anywhere? Well we can't guarantee that Swinging Sorority will show it the way it actually is, but it will definitely be everything you ever fantasized it might be. Meet Mary Beth - blonde, gorgeous and incredibly naive; and Chris - a stunner with a passion for mind-boggling go-go dancing at the local campus hangout; as well as Norma, and Karen, and Randy, and 4-Eyes - the bookworm who turns into the most enticing butterfly of them all. Swinging Sorority is a joyful, sex-filled, uninhibited romp, combining beauty, sensuality and fun into one unforgettable bombshell of a film!

The film revolves around humorous situations involving unexpected guests (rare guests) and stars Suresh, Anand Darwar, and Mamatha Shenoy