Cinematic Era: 1976 Vintage

New behavior Great... absolutely hilarious Announcement of Mae Nak Thai nationality Filmed and technically in Tokyo. Good standard, new era ghost, shocking and shaking the stomach.

This is a rare video interview with one of America’s finest film artists, shot in New York towards the end of his abruptly terminated career.

Produced at the Motovun Video Meeting in Croatia, 1989. Screened in retrospective at Alternative Film/Video Belgrade Festival 2014.

Five portraits from the mid-seventies. The nouveau riches and the nouveau pauvres take their places. With Joop Uchtman, Claude Menard, Ome Joop Beaux, Doris Schwert en Jan van Haagen.

Virikuta is an astonishing documentary where we will have the opportunity to accompany a group of Huichol Indians in their annual pilgrimage to Virukuta hunting ritual peyote cactus that ingestion causes hallucinogenic effects. Before our eyes see a millennial pilgrimage, will accompany men, women and children in a community in its journey. The Huichol are a traditional people, who have a mature relationship with the natural elements that lead to ecstasy. This is a touching ritual, one of the live testimony deeper meaning in indigenous Mexican tradition

In “World in Focus,” the screen becomes the two-dimensional support of an amazingly versatile three-dimensional object (an atlas) which contains in turn two-dimensional pictures of other three-dimensional objects. The uniform use of a close-up lens creates often ambiguous or nearly unidentifiable images (from the atlas), emphasizing the rhythms, volumes, angles and movements obtained from the handling of the book.

Super-8 film by Ricardo Jabardo.

In Aída (1976), a Super 8 camera captures ballerina Aída Laib dancing vigorously in Hirsch’s atelier to the sounds of Nina Simone. The dancing movements intersperse with a visual exploration of the artist’s naked body, where Hirsch’s sensual gaze grasps textures and reaches abstraction.

The construction of Empingham Reservoir (which was later known as Rutland Water).

A short documentary about the prison in Sieradz. The film presents the work of prison guards and records prisoners' statements about the course of their rehabilitation.

Traditional cider making in the small breton town of Saint-Gonlay in 1976. The traditional song called "Son ar sistr" whose words in Breton were written in 1929 by two Morbihan teenagers Jean Bernard and Jean-Marie Prima, is used as a leitmotiv.

This documentary by independent filmmaker Ken Harrison provides a look into the contemporary Texas art world of the mid-‘70s. Shot in 1975, Jackelope is loosely divided into three segments, each focusing on three young artists: James Surls, George Green, and Bob Wade. The documentary captures each artist in the more casual moments of their lives, capturing their ideas about art, the artistic process, Texas, and other topics in the process.

'Think you're all big with your muscles. I watch you walking around. Think you're the cat's whiskers.' Harker has to keep up appearances down in the boathouse.

In California a young woman artist/filmmaker is led by an older female artist through the small pine forests of Mendocino and the hot desert sands of Death Valley before she is taught the lesson of creative inspiration.

Thrown out of the house by her uncle, Aksinya marries her lover, a sexton, and five months later gives birth to a son, Coilin.

An animated movie based on the plot of a humorous folk song. The motifs of folk embroideries are used in the visuals.

Erik Løchen struggles to find the midnight sun.

A fifteen years old foster child tries to establish friendship with the kids of the family she visits for Christmas.

The film tells the story of the building of a new generation of high speed Inter-City trains. As well as providing speed and air-conditioned comfort, the design philosophy behind the trains was to extend the modular replacement concept as far as possible. Complete engines, alternators, cooling and brake systems, and electronic controls had to be modified so that they could be disconnected quickly and replaced, thus allowing fast, easy maintenance with a high degree of reliability. The film was made for the equipment manufacturers and British Rail.

The main character is a commander of a nuclear powered submarine. Once a very promising hydroacoustics expert, he sacrificed his scientific career to devoting himself to serving his homeland as a warrior. Gradually, he figures out that the worth of mastering the art of war is in its non-appliance.

The 1945 atomic-bomb explosion at Bikini Atoll becomes a thing of terrible beauty and haunting visual poetry when shown in extreme slow motion, shown from 27 different angles, and accompanied by avant-garde Western classical music composed for electric organ by Terry Riley. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Pacific Film Archive in 1995.

A female teacher deals with assault, lies, and a female student.

The Last of the Little Breweries, a student film documenting the history of the Spoetzel Brewery in Lavaca County, Texas, was produced and directed by University of Texas at Austin student Frank Binney (later a professor in the Radio-Television-Film Department) in 1976. Tracing Bavarian-born brewmaster Kosmos Spoetzel's journey through Egypt, Canada, and San Francisco before landing in Shiner, Texas, in 1915, it won an Achievement Award in documentary at the 4th Annual Student Film Awards (now known as the Student Academy Awards) in 1977.

In a shamanistic, quasi-sexual ritual performance, McCarthy threw himself around a ketchup-spattered classroom at the University of California, San Diego until dazed and self-injured. He then vomited several times and inserted a Barbie doll into his rectum. The piece ended when the audience could no longer stand to watch his performance.

A married couple is having a caustic argument in front of a camera.

Pink film by Satoru Kobayashi.

Bilwa, a handsome man, gets physically attracted to a girl Chintamoni and later realizes that it's just carnal desire. After he realizes his mistake his lust transforms into love for Lord Krishna.

Zulueta short

On the 23rd of March 1975 Geir Sundet was fired from hi work due to his political stand, and is supported by his colleagues who lays down their work.

When the three popes of militant film in Brittany, grouped together in the Union of Breton Film Production (UPCB), respond with talent to an order from fishermen's bosses... Le poisson commande includes some very beautiful images of the work at sea, as well as being an apology for industrial fishing. People of Lorient will be able to discover a fishing port then in full activity.

A BAFTA award nominated documentary discussing man's historic use of energy and examines the limits of the world's supply of fossil fuels - coal, oil and natural gas.

A film made for the staff of the (then) British Rail featuring mainly Sir Peter Parker explaining to staff how, as the new Chairman, he intended to take the industry forward.

A woman and two men talking, seen one by one, in a montage of three movements that make up a fast-slow-fast cycle. The second movement is composed of footage of Stan Brakhage shot by filmmaker Bruce Baillie. (Marilyn Brakhage) "P.S. Images of myself in TRIO are by Bruce Baillie."–S.B.

Pink film by Satoru Kobayashi.

A traffic circle (in North Berkeley). The forcefield around the centre. Single-framed over the course of about 9 months.

After his dog is accused of biting a child, the boy and the animal leave Florida for California. Along the way they encounter a New Orleans shoeshine man, another boy (who is a victim of abuse) and an insightful hobo.

Film depicting participation in sports for all ages and abilities in Scotland, briefly touching on the need for provision of such activities.

Animated short film from Elpidio Valdés' series. The General orders Coronel Elpidio Valdés to take a Spanish fort. Then he asks Corneta for help.

Based on the short story by Oles Honchar. In high spirits and eagerly anticipating the start of the season, hunters set off for the picturesque Lake Chary-Kamyshi, once teeming with game. But the lake is no more. Since the last hunting season, a highway has been built across it, the lake has silted up, and there is hardly any game left...

The world's first full-length skate movie featuring pioneers of skate and surf from the golden era.

The film tells the story of the development of Russian and Soviet cinema from the late 19th century to the late 1920s. It focuses in particular on the landmark silent films of Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevolod Pudovkin, and Alexander Dovzhenko, which have become classics of world cinema.

Through testimonies and the trial of mercenaries from the Angolan War, the history and struggles of the Angolan people are revealed, from the so-called "Portuguese discoveries" to the Second War of Liberation.

An experimental short film centering on a circus performance in San Salvador.

Autorretrato is the mirror the filmmaker uses to look at himself, and through it, at his reality, using the cinematic collage.

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.

HBO on Location special.

Film by Amy Greenfield

The theme is a wordless but nonetheless critical observation and juxtaposition of the historical and - at the time - modern architecture in Vienna with the decay, destruction and redesign of functional buildings, the beauty and ugliness of an old city and its pathos, and its new outskirts. In the second part of the film, a technique of double exposure, the superimposition of color negative and positive, is used as a kind of transfiguration of the situation. (...) Stoned Vienna was made around the same time as ViennaFilm 1896-1976 by Ernst Schmidt jr. That's why there are a number of parallels that came about by chance. A repeatedly exposed scene, the wax doll Dolly, a symbol of the way Vienna is treated, was made available to Ernst Schmidt jr. as a contribution to his ViennaFilm. (Moucle Blackout)

Eyes and ears. It's your lookout. An exercise in how to cross the road when there are no marked road crossings.