Cinematic Era: 1976 Vintage

A movie about wonders of childhood, the transformative power of music, and sincere happiness.

Stapp's pointillist style here has matured since the first of the series, done in 1969. Here, he also makes extensive use of parallel images converging and diverging on the multi-plane camera.

UCLA student ("Project One") documentary about Allison Mills, a young African American woman who was a successful teenage actress in the 1960s and 70s. Unhappy with the roles available to women of color, by the mid-70s Ms. Mills turns songwriting to fulfill her creative drives and is offered a contract to record an album at A&M Records.

American horror short from 1976.

The Scottish writer Eric Linklater discusses his work.

Mapas elementares nº 3 (Elementary Maps No. 3) is a visual poem in which Anna Bella Geiger alludes to the stereotypes and myths attributed to cultures from Latin America through the relationship between the anthropomorphic character of the South Cone’s topography and semantic games, between the formal and the metaphorical, which she establishes with words.

Early short film by Wolfgang Büld

1976 Animation by Julian Antonisz

Short film about the addictive nature of alcohol

Short educational film about watching TV.

OihccepS = Mirror.

Abstract animation. The sound is recorded during a show at Gröna Lund in Stockholm, where Edmundo Zanolini and Michel Laub performs. (Filmform)

Were nineteenth century operas to their age what Hollywood superproductions are to ours?' Andreas Velissaropoulos asks.... He describes his film as ‘a surrealist “poorman's superproduction,” full of cultural and historical allusions, contrasting with short glimpses of contemporary reality concerning life and mentalities of young inhabitants of modern Athens.' The sound track uses the music of Beethoven, Bach, Berg, Schoenberg, Richard Strauss and Wagner. Balinese monkey chants, pop culture, symbols of fates, seasons and the elements are interwoven.

It’s all me, me, me – this experimental animation on the Self wittily wraps up Jung and old philosophies in a Paul Klee-inspired design.

When Trevor signed up for the 3 week wilderness journey with a group of other young believers, he expected an enriching time. What he found, in his judgmental opinion, was a group of misfits that shouldn't even qualify as Christians. As the trials on the trails begin to unfold, each member of the group starts to see their own strengths...and weaknesses. Each that is except Trevor.

The artists known as Christo and Jeanne-Claude along with a hired crew of enthusiastic local assistants erected a major early work spanning both Sonoma and Marin counties in Northern California. "Running Fence", the culmination of 42 months of collaborative efforts, was 24.5 miles long and 18 feet high, with one end dropping down to the Pacific Ocean.

Last days: Sally, 46, bonds with her elderly mother as they take things day to day; Bill, in his early 30s, stoically goes on while his wife loses herself in rage; grandfatherly Reverend Bryant preaches a final sermon, then goes back South one last time. Three different cinema verité’s Ikiru’s, filmed over a two-year period.

A thoughtful and sad film about toddlers who spend their days or even weeks away from their mother and home, whether in a day nursery or a day group. The camera observes the great sadness of the small citizens and their subconscious attempts to adapt to a strange situation.

A BAFTA award nominated documentary about the importance of paying strict attention to detail by managers, supervisors and staff.

Through a particular shooting technique, the initial panorama is fragmented into many overlapping visions until it reaches the abstraction of pure light.

A succession of visual emotions in a sort of “filmed rotogravure,” where sequences and segments follow an ironic and dramatic logic that highlights the obsessions, the poverty, and the myths that shook the neoconsumerist society of those years. This approach frames, but at the same time transcends, pure reportage, venturing into a reflection on the meaning of seeing and imagining. The techniques employed range from direct rotoscope to works-in-progress, from citationism to photographic contamination.

A "young woman who finds herself surrounded by the relics of Western culture" is the subject of Richard Foreman's formal tableaux. The narration centers on a young woman's struggle to find a relation between her body and her self as mediated by language. The text is a poetry of formal relations that carries personal and historical implications, including the desires of the woman paradoxically voiced by a male narrator. The title suggests the vivid virtuality of dreaming; scenes repeatedly refer to both reading and sleeping.

An evil genie takes Szindbád's newly earned love interest. With the help of a beautiful slave he goes on the search to find her.

A 4 channel video installation (Hill, Wall, Cliff, Roof). A video dance work based on the accumulation 24 movements. The multi-layered effect is structuralist and sculptural, exploring the elements of real, delayed, edited and inherent video time.

A saga of love and sacrifice, it tells of an orphan youth who, on realizing that his benefactor's daughter, whom he loved, had been forcibly raped by the rich village landlord, marries her to save her family's honor.

16mm film (color, sound); 16 min.

"Strategy and imagery combat and aid each other in pairs. QUATERNION...a spatial figure of monumental attractions...interference...an undulating gyre. Hollis superimposes a fragmenting Muybridge-like grid of Cartesian elements (details of the fire ecscape outside the studio) against shots of rooftops superimposed in perfect scale with the billboard-like segments of an automobile, enlarged flower, and a spoon...panels of the 20' x 20' mural for the New York World's Fair in James Rosenquist's Broome Street studio–New York, mid-1960s."–Patrick Clancy

A film from Espirito Santo

A series of vignettes from the author's journey in a train.

The film is inspired and is an adaptation of the story "Forgiveness" by Blaze Koneski. We follow the pagan custom, the ritual with masks on the occasion of the Feast of Forgiveness, through the dream of a child who is obsessed with the severe illness of his sister.

Emmer travels across the peninsula in search of the unique features that have always made it a destination for artists, writers, actors, and celebrities. Numerous interviews paint an interesting picture of foreign visitors, who are mainly motivated by a desire to absorb the culture of our land, but are sometimes simply fascinated by the spirit of Italians and their human warmth. Cities, monuments, and works of art are observed through the eyes of exceptional tourists.

A documentary, originally produced for Dutch television, on the life and works of Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938), the groundbreaking Soviet poet and dissident.

Two young women discuss how they discovered their interest in women. In a straightforward, candid manner, they relate early experiences through which they became aware of being gay. A short 1976 film.

Documentary on Iranian modern art featuring iconic figures such as Jalali Sousan-Abadi, Jalil Ziapour, Marcos Grigorian, Behjat Sadr, and Sadegh Barirani; along with footage of art openings and studio life.

Abstract video art created using the Paik-Abe Video Synthesizer.

A newspaper owner clashes with his editor and a state representative over the issue of the parimutuel gambling and the lottery.

It tells a life story of Doel, the kampong kid, who is just idle in his village after graduated from a school in the city. Marriage arrangement set by his mother is always refused since he falls in love to Kristin, his friend in the city.

The film is based on Zahari Stoyanov's memoir "Notes On Bulgarian Uprisings" depicting the events around the April Uprising in 1876.

GARAGE SALE is a campy feature centered on a story of marital upheaval between drag queen Goldie Glitters and her fair-haired husband, Hero. A onetime member of San Francisco’s legendary Cockettes theatre troupe, Goldie was famously crowned Santa Monica College’s 1975 Homecoming Queen, captured in Bruce Yonemoto’s documentary HOMECOMING (1975). GARAGE SALE subverts the drag aspect of Goldie’s performance enabling her to sympathetically play a woman whose fantasies and expectations have been shaped by Hollywood romance films. The film follows the couple as Hero tries to regain Goldie’s love by seeking the advice of a cast of eccentric characters.

Short comedy by Chuck Statler.

When a black gang wages a bloody war against his drug operations in an effort to take over the New Orleans narcotics racket, a Mafia boss calls in a retired hit man to retrieve the drugs and wipe out the gang members one by one.

"When I look for the lightning, it never strikes. When I look away, it does." Filmed inside a car, this tape focuses on observation of natural phenomena, presenting the obverse of the "If a tree falls in the woods..." conundrum. Does observation change the course of events? Can you believe in things you don't see? In this experiment, the camera occupies a privileged position showing the woman and what she sees, as well as what she cannot see. Filmmaker Deborah Stratman cites "Lightning" as an influence, saying "This video seems to me in some small way what the magic of filmmaking is all about."

For his film Finally A Lamb, completed in 1976, Krell documented a performance piece by the German artist Hermann Nitsch of the Orgies/Mysteries Theater, which took place at Douglass College in the early 1970s, in which a dead sheep’s carcass was disemboweled in front of a stunned audience.

Recently restored by the Harvard Film Archive, Pixillation is an astonishing and disarming work of self-portraiture by the late, acclaimed film-diarist Anne Charlotte Robertson.

Second version of a short film Brisseau will remake in 2014.

A botanist has developed a curious flower which only blooms during a full moon and has remarkable properties, instantly healing wounds and giving the strange ability to read other's thoughts. He uses it to rejuvenate his crippled body and sets his sights on his beautiful young assistant.

Junkyard Levitation is a visual pun on the concept of "mind over matter," as a man attempts to levitate while lying prone in a junkyard. Writes Viola, "Scrap metal technology and video technology are united to temporarily break the known laws of science and prove that psychokinesis is valid within a given frame of reference.