Cinematic Era: 1976 Vintage

Legendary Yugoslav progressive rock band Smak on their American tour.

R is a very simple film, flickering and panning which in its silence induces a fugue of rhythms. The center part of the film is a transcription of one of J.S. Bach ’s Invention.

The colage presents in a blaze of colours the horse from the famous Shakespearean quote uttered by Richard the Third.

The film tries to 'destroy time' by the cyclical reworking of a short period of time. Gradually the image becomes less discernible and the flashing positive and negative images force the viewer to stare rather than looking at the film. As the film progresses the viewer becomes trapped in a short period of time.

A study of undocumented women who sow clothes in the bottom of a Church near Watts.

In this meditation on speech and language, Cha juxtaposes English and French words to form new relationships and meanings.

Enter a shimmering forest and encounter the Pot Boiling turbulence of pre-history tribes in conflict. See sacrificial virgins, volcanoes, knife fights, spaceships. It's all in this black-and-white saga of pure escapement.

"This is a short film based on an incident I read in the National Enquirer, a really innocuous item about Caroline partying late at night with Erskine Guinness, the heir to the Guinness Brewery fortune. I imagined Caroline waking up the next morning, recovering from the excesses of the night before, and trying to mix some orange juice in a blender, but being so out of it that she used three cans of gin instead of water to make the concentrate into OJ. It’s an odd film; runs about 1:30." - Wheeler Winston Dixon

One of Jeff Keen's diary films. Keen made many diary films with his daughter, wife and friends in the late 60s and 70s. These were edited in camera and used multiple exposures. They would then be projected in various combinations though usually as a four-screen.

For the films in which Lebrat divided the screen he placed a piece of paper with one or more slits in it in front of the lens, allowing only a narrow strip of imagery to register. He then exposed the film multiple times, layering images. The initial effect is confusion—it’s often hard to identify from these moving slits what we’re seeing. But soon the eyes acclimate, and when one does recognize fragments of a nude woman (Lebrat’s wife) in a landscape in Film Number Two (1976), she has the quality of an apparition. Shown in a different way than thousands of years of nudes have led us to expect, this woman is charged with a vital, surprising erotic energy. (Fred Camper)

Picture-processed photos from the artist-filmmaker’s family. Faces are abstracted in a divisionistic manner.

Antics of Peter and Harry, two dedicated but "out of tune" artists who devote their time obsessively to recreating the characters of Harlequin and Pierrot. Designed to draw attention to the insidious ways in which advertising techniques manipulate the consumer in the market place. Shot in Melbourne. Stars Max Gillies and Joe Bolza.

Baritone Roger Whittaker performs live, accompanied by the 100-piece Edmonton Symphony Orchestra in this concert film. Popular in Europe and Asia, Whittaker enjoyed success in the United States with his hit "The Last Farewell." This concert showcases his considerable vocal talents as he performs "The Last Farewell," "Fire & Rain," "Both Sides Now," "River Lady," "New World in the Morning," "If I Were a Rich Man" and more.

Sensationalist documentary about the supposed dangers of motorcyle driving.

The filmmaker's live interaction with his on-screen image which is projected onto a hand-held mirrored screen.The screen is white one side and mirrored the other, and is used by the performer to either 'catch' the projected image, or reflect it around the cinema space. The image on Film is of the same activity happening in a sunlit landscape. Visual echoes are set up between the live event and the recorded one.

This feature-length documentary offers an inside look into the workings of a travelling circus. Filmed in 1976, directors Tony Ianzelo and Torben Schioler followed the Royal Brothers' Circus as they set up their tents and put on their show. Fascinating to watch, the film captures the 24-hour-a-day brand of magic that the circus evokes while revealing the nature of the people who run it.

A 1976 color documentary by Felix Greene examining changes in Tibet between 1950 and 1976, made after a period in which few Westerners were reported to have entered the region.

Thạch Sanh, a kind-hearted woodcutter, chances upon wine merchant Lý Thông. Orphaned from a young age, he gladly embraces being adopted by Lý Thông as his brother and comes to live with his family, unaware that the scheming merchant has other plans for him.

DANCE BRIDGE was originally made to be shown between two opposing sections of a dance. It was reshot to include the field size line and thus reveal the interreaction of the drawings with the frame.

Zulueta short

Writer Peter Shaffer talks about his plays, his life and the theatre. 'I think the live experience in the theatre is very important when you can see shocks and murmurs going through the house. It has a communal nature. A great play or a great production is a revelation, this is the function of all art, it doesn't have to be solemn - it's a moment, a leap of excitement inside oneself, which can be attached to a moral insight or a laugh, and it comes bolting out like rabbits out of a hedge.'

Three military drivers are introduced. They bear a special responsibility in their collective and often fulfill a dual function.

16mm short from Deirdre Cowden with music by The Rolling Stones

A satirical take on the issue of "sugran" – a new high-quality feed made from a mixture of dried fodder and whey. A satirical film directed against the squandering of social initiatives. Its critical tone led to a ban on its distribution. Ultimately, the film did not premiere until 1981.

Scandal, anger, violence: around 1880, Victorian era, the young Owen Wingrave, heir to a long line of soldiers, has just announced to his master that he had decided to renounce the profession of arms of his ancestors, and by therefore to immediately leave the school which prepared him for it... Owen Wingrave is a boy of great beauty and hides, beneath a delicate appearance, an astonishing inner strength. Why did he decide to abandon the military career for which everything, since childhood, had destined him?

Anti-Vandalism Educational Film

Effects of refractional experiments put in the language of the film.

German musicians Eberhard Schoner and Pete York explore the traditional music of Bali

16mm, b&w, silent, 1'00

In this episode of the series "America of the Seventies," political commentator Valentin Zorin travels through one of the most famous and visited cities in the United States, the "pearl of the West Coast" - San Francisco. Many centuries ago, the inhabitants of ancient Hellas said that the one who was not in Athens was a blockhead, and the one who visited there and did not admire the city was a donkey, and the one who voluntarily left it was a camel. This is how Americans feel about San Francisco. Indeed, the city is very beautiful, steeply descending to the coast of the Pacific Ocean, it makes you admire yourself...

People of many creeds and colors make up the USA on this, our bicentennial.

"Gary Beydler's last, and possibly least-seen, film is an exhilarating tour down the length of the Venice Pier, shot over the course of an entire year. It's a particularly cinematic walk in many ways. Gary investigates the way a single film stock responds so diversely to different seasons, light, weather, time of day. He also beautifully exploits the power of editing to compose or recompose events. Shot spatially out of order over the course of a year, Gary recomposed the footage in editing to make it proceed consistently forward in space, resulting in an intricate mixing up of chronology, so some cuts could represent a jump of months either forward or backward in time. The result is one of gauzy impressionism brought into vivid and breathtaking clarity." Mark Toscano via Canyon Cinema. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2008.

This short tells the story of a cafe where steel workers come to eat.

A documentary about abortion

A family marked by the Spanish Civil War in the Basque Country: the father was murdered in the bombing of Gernika, and the son by the Francoist police.

Gambler Kosim tries to hang himself but is saved by an old man, who then recommends he go visit a cave-dwelling hermit who knows black magic. There, Kosim learns a magic spell to transform himself into a pig. As a requirement, he has to sacrifice one of his children and he's not allowed to hear prayer nor see monkeys. He uses his new power to steal money until he's caught, shot and decapitated, but his head lives on.

The art of striptease in the Soho of the 1970s.

The male/female, subject/object investigation in A Bit of Matter and a Little Bit More has no titillating introduction; the appetite is not whetted beforehand. Hardcore, the opening shot, shows the crotch areas of a male and female body engaged in coitus. At the end of the tape a male voice says, "Some questions and five answers relative to moved pictures, five questions and some answers relative to moved pictures—" a reference to the artists' book, 100 Rocks on a Wall.

A story about summer days from the life of Hungarian children.

Computer generated images used as counterpoint to music “Fantasia & In Nomine” by John Ward, performed by Elizabeth Cohen, Max Mathews, and Gerard Schwarz.

The struggle of a teenage boy to assert himself amid the frenetic activity of a large family.

A single-frame portrait of Broughton's disembodied heads coming slowly together in wiggle, wobble and wonderment.

A wild and unruly landmark feminist film about female sexuality, that not only touches the areas of paranoia, fear and doubt, which women experience in relation to their bodies and physical self-image, but which is also joyful, erotic and funny.

A man visits a friend's house. They watch a film of an earlier time when they were hanging around, meeting girls.

In the 9th century, Mark, King of Cornwall, meets Isolt, the daughter of the King of Ireland, and falls in love with her. He sends his nephew Tristan to deliver his marriage proposal, which, prodded by her father, Isolt accepts.

Reports on an unexplained, extra sensory type of communication that researchers refer to as Psi. Shows experiments being conducted to explore and define the Psi phenomena.

A look at the new Scottish town of Livingston and it what it has to offer a young family.

A being from outer space can enter the mind and body of anyone he wants.

A week with the denizens of Fremont Street in the old Las Vegas downtown. August, 1976.

Farm work and nature.

A classic example of feminist performance videos of the 1970s, which often incorporated autobiography, expansion of self through personae, and assertions of a new identity for women. In Nun and Deviant the performers come to happier terms with their identities both as women and as artists. As Angelo and Compton don and dismantle stereotypical guises before the camera/viewer, Nun and Deviant explores how repressive representations circulating in our culture are formulated as opposites such as Madonna-whore (nun-deviant)—cliches that force women to assume restrictive, paradoxical roles.