Cinematic Era: 1976 Vintage

A widow, Millie, moves in with her sister, Ada, who is also a widow. Millie finds the house is not too her liking and starts to make changes, to Ada's annoyance.

16mm transfer to digital, b/w, sound, 8:22 minutes. Taking it public: micro text film of records (warrants, debts, bank checks, etc.)(2011/1976)

The film is in its way a "musical", born from the idea of ​​visualizing a musical composition by Alvin Curran, while at the same time making a portrait of the friend and his inner world.

A political film about the policy of the anabaptists of Münster (1534) and the 'enemies of constitution' in West Germany (1976).

This delightful short film documents a trip by ferryboat to the Maidens lighthouse on the little island of Magee, Co. Antrim, to deliver essential supplies to the lighthouse crew. Shortly after this movie was shot, the lighthouse became fully automated and the need for this service disappeared.

Documentary about the self construction in peripheral neighborhoods of São Paulo. It gathers statements of residents of three areas: Taboão neighborhood in São Bernardo do Campo; Jardim d’Ávila in Osasco and Jardim Castilho in Embu. The film registers the life conditions in those areas and the sacrifice the workers are committed to in order to fulfill their dream of having a house: building, little by little, with the help of friends and relatives, on the weekends.

A film by Werner Nekes.

When the boy entered the room where his dad and mom were sitting, he immediately realized from their frowning faces that they were fighting again and would not go anywhere this weekend with the whole family, as planned. The boy went for a walk and met a Goldfish in the park, thanks to which the boy's parents reconciled and went with him to collect autumn leaves...

Russia 1910: As the celebrated author of "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina" lies on his deathbed, he looks back over his life in the company of peasant girl Katya.

Short film based on a fictional Christmas setting. It tells the story of four street children who are experiencing their own Christmas drama, which includes getting a doctor to treat one of their friends who is terminally ill in the shack that serves as their home. Among the adventures the street children go through to get the doctor to treat their friend is stealing his car and requesting his services in exchange for returning the vehicle. The doctor, obliged to comply with the request, goes to where the sick boy is, only to find that he has already died. The plot is full of tender, childlike scenes set in a real Christmas atmosphere.

An animated short from Viktor Kubal

Experimental documentation of Pittsburgh Filmmakers students at play.

A film dealing with time and depth, a film that manipulates the properties of film (color, shape, movement, etc.) and that operates on a quiet level, one of repetition and minutes variations.

Joginder film about a fauji

A film by Lionel Soukaz

The drama of the East German tanker on the coast of the island of Sein and the bay of Audierne.

A César nominated short documentary film.

A César nominated short drama looking at the impact of prison life on an incarcerated nine year old boy.

The House That Jack Built is a 1976 stop-motion film that utilizes a combination of claymation and LEGO animtion. It follows a clay man and his son (plus their dog) building a house using LEGO bricks. It was shared online in 2009 by YouTube user "moospeedtv", and was created by his father. It is one of the very earliest known brickfilms.

USPS workers go bowling.

This is an imaginary voyage taken by the two writers Roussel and Flaubert. Fagin has collected memories from diaries, postcards and their novels and woven them together, creating an exotic collage of classical myth and historical fact.

In this melding of art and science, the Cornwells create a quasi-hypnotic take on a mathematical construct.

The radar looks for an off-screen which is created from scratch and which is what one wants it to be. So we start from there, research, we find something or we do not find anything. We use the plans in their entirety, the images recorded there or elsewhere are deprived of their meaning. They are reconstructed in the overall movement of the film which is summed up (condenses) to its technical characteristics: S8 colors, 18 fps, 8mn, magnetic track lying down. The sense / sense that takes place here for 8 minutes is only the sum / combination of random elements having their own weight but which cancel each other out / add to each other / divide / multiply each other. (CJC)

Short work.

"Skins" is a silent film. No sound. I shot it on 8mm film in 1972 and finished it in 1976 as a 16mm film. The surface of motion picture film is organic matter, made from skin and hooves of cattle. Motion picture film, especially color film, has an emulsion of slightly varying thickness, so that the images on each physical frame can be seen in slight relief when looked at under reflected light. This surface structure is exploited in "Skins", through a slow process of soaking in water until dye layers (first yellow, then magenta, and last cyan) that constitute the images, lift off the film substrate and rearrange themselves in curtains of wrinkled matter. The effect is to reanimate the original subject matter of the film recording, taxidermy animals in a natural history museum diorama. Another effect is to unleash the organic matter of emulsion first animated by a living creature. (Barbara Lattanzi)

An ephemeral, feminist earth-body performance piece featuring 47 black ritual candles arranged in the silhouette of her body.

Scher made this in 1976 as a student at Bard College. He printed it to negative years later and liked the way it looked better than the now faded original film.

Similar to her "Back Porch" films, JoAnn Elam's "Front Porch" documents the scenes of life in her neighborhood in Chicago. The film pays especial attention to the light flowing through different branches and leaves of plant growth and the rhythm of a gentle breeze swaying the blinds on the window. These patterns and abstractions repeat themes found throughout Elam's films.

The degradation of a human under the influence of alcohol.

Talk to the landscape; texts from Friedrich Griese (Wim Schlebaum)

Short animated film about a girl who helps a little bird during the winter.

An hour-long conversation with Brazilian Cinema Novo director Joaquim Pedro de Andrade conducted by Sylvia Bahiense.

1976. A candid look at the highs and lows of Australian society.

1976 short by Dietmar Brehm

To be filled.

This inspiring biopic dramatizes the life of Baba Ramdev Peer, an Indian saint so renowned for his spiritual outlook and ability to work miracles -- even as a child -- that he's revered by many as an incarnation of the Hindu god Krishna. As he grows older, Baba Ramdev Peer continues to counter the evil in the world with kindness and mercy.

Monitoring the sporting work of Rose Mari Boeck in the South American Youth Pentathlon Championship.

A television obsessed teenager is pulled into his set and thrown into adventures as he is “channel switched” into various shows and movies. A low budget independent “Sherlock Jr” for the 1970s.

Based on the idea of Indonesian shadow puppet plays, which combine popular songs and Hindu mythology with political satire and broad comedy, None Saved satirically plays off of the events and mass emotions surrounding Jimmy Carter’s drive for the presidency in 1976. In the film, a Javanese-style monster rises up through several incarnations until it reaches a kind of shadow-cultural Nirvana. I often made paper shadow puppets based on images of white people I found on Chinese and Japanese toy packaging, thus reversing a trend in American animation to stereotype Asian features. None Saved was strongly influenced by Harry Smith’s Heaven and Earth Magic, which presented similar tactics of disassociation and, according to the artist, a trek to heaven and back.

A father and his children prepare for the New Year.

The criminal Badarch takes advantage of the weaknesses of the teenagers, Saruul and Erdene, to commit a robbery and then leads them to the wrong path by drinking alcohol. They were involved in a murder case after killing Ochir, a citizen they met by chance while driving drunk. During the investigation of this case, the investigator Ulambayar meets with various people.

A surreal story of a flexible, deforming ball wandering around a world full of contradictions.

The zygote is the cell that carries the information that will give rise to a person. The film presents all the emotions that make up the individual throughout his life.

Recorded on 25 August 1976 in Vevey, Switzerland for the Swiss TV program, Kaleidospop, this is the only known live performance of Henry Cow to have been captured on video.