Cinematic Era: 1976 Vintage

After the Expo ’70 Destruction Joint-Struggle Group disbanded, Katō released Brahmin (Burāmin, 1971-76).

A short film about the small post office in Saman, a small village in rural Iran, and it’s dedicated postman. After the office manager is transferred to another position, the lone postman takes it upon himself to handle the entire office. He cleans, picks up and sorts the mail late at nights, delivers the mail on his bicycle and reads the to illiterate older recipients, doing all he can to prove he’s worthy and capable of managing the small office on his own.

Photographs of faces; in-camera transitions.

In a nearly bare loft space, Weiner's performers cluster around an octagonal pink table, enacting a series of what seem to be choreographed exercises or processes: playing patty-cake, grappling for possession of rectangular blocks, kissing and embracing, engaging in bizarrely coded conversations.

A comedic student film.

A film by Joe Gibbons

16mm and digital, b/w & color, sound, 9:51 minutes. Micro text film of the June 1976 issue of German magazine Der Spiegel with rock music.

Trials of a prospective member of the Chevallerie du Taste-Fromage. Produced on behalf of the Knights of Cheese Tasting, North Brabant Division.

An impressionistic documentary about the Old Order Amish farmers in Waterloo County during the winter months.

Rock band Heart's special concert for KWSU-TV (Washington State University) in 1976.

Adventures of a small pooch who went out on a snowy day.

When two friends are lost on a mountain hunting trip, one of them kills and eats the other in order to survive. But now he has a permanent taste for human flesh and needs more victims to feed on. Once back in civilization, the cannibal's wife has no clue about the murder spree he plans to unleash to feed his flesh-eating urges!!

Housework seen from a radically subjective point of view. The film shows a woman’s hands busy washing the dishes, which include a white porcelain cup in the shape of a woman’s body. Monika Treut said of the film in 1978 that “something very familiar suddenly comes at us from the screen as something completely unusual”. It was shot with Margaret Raspé’s famous “camera helmet”, which had an Agfa Super 8 Microflex camera attached to it, placing the viewfinder in front of the eye.

"Glass Shadows is a sensual formalistic diary, filmed in the early morning light of my studio. The primary images are of my Bolex-filming nude reflection set within window frames, a pane of glass, and light projected by the rising sun. The film moves forward via on-going exploration of reflected and overlapping images––sustained by light, color, and the rhythmic pulse of a leaky kitchen faucet. A fusion of form and subject is inevitable within a work that is the story of its making." - Holly Fisher

The whirl of the dance is like a reincarnation. From time to time, the dancer sits down to drink tea. But when the music starts, the waltz recalls.

A film directed by Ion Grigorescu.

An animated film which uses eggs to show the role and importance of courtesy at school.

A jumble of mirrored tiles is slowly placed on a table-top, the random heap reflecting a fragmentary portrait of the face of the person performing the act, one that is continually in flux.

Music “Quartet in F” by Maurice Ravel, performed by Max Mathews. Subtly colored images combining microphotography and computer generated images with unique editing sequences that propel the viewer into a spiral-like endless vortex. Three music tracks were produced by the Groove System – a computer-controlled sound synthesizer.

From the German television archives, a musical gem: Al Jarreau performing thirteen songs live in a Hamburg television studio (originally broadcast on December 3, 1976). With stunning sense of nuance, humor, improvisation and dynamics he interprets songs like "Your Song" by Elton John and "Take Five" by Paul Desmond. Al is accompanied by Tom Canning (keyboards), Jerome Rimson (bass), and Nigel Wilkinson (drums). The Al Jarreau show is anything but boring -- ingenious, brilliant and timeless, and a real rarity. · Analogue tapes have been used as source for the recordings on this DVD. Tracklist: 1. To Be (3:49) 2. Letter Perfect (4:55) 3. Your Song (6:33) 4. Take Five (8:11) 5. Susan's Song (7:01) 6. Shiny Stockings (5:32) 7. You Don't See Me (6:48) 8. Aladdin's Lamp (5:05) 9. Somebody's Watching You (4:15) 10. Lock All The Gates (6:01) 11. Band intro (1:38) 12. Sweet Potato Pie (8:27) 13. We Got By (6:52) 14. Spirit (7:22) 15. Credits (0:36)

Claustrophobic portrait of a docile rural wife's daily routine.

A young woman walks the streets of Halifax, and speaks of her love of the gardens, her family, and life as a prostitute.

A report on the life and work of the painter Teodoro Núñez Ureta (1912-1988). The artist is seen creating a watercolor in the Arequipa countryside and in a Lima market.

The importance of conserving the vicuña in its natural habitat does not prevent the use of its wool, unique in the world.

About the construction and laying of the railway line from Lima to Junín, transporting minerals and passengers, a journey that climbs through precipices and tunnels in the Andean mountains.

Continuation of the construction of the large pipeline to transport oil extracted from the Amazon rainforest to the Pacific coast.

Using sequences taken from old newsreels, the glorious sporting afternoons of footballer Teodoro Lolo Fernández (1913-1996) are remembered.

From the Ancient Cultures of Peru series.

From the Ancient Cultures of Peru series.

Report on the geography and traditions of the department of Tumbes.

Toronto’s grand Christmas parade, a historic annual celebration, seen from atop a tall building located at the end of the long, broad University Avenue, where the biggest crowds can also be seen gathering before the parade and dispersing afterwards. The building belonged to the Zurich Insurance Co., where John worked as a machine operator, and has now been knocked down. The parade’s route has also changed, so this perfect view of the event no longer exists. The film was shot in a single take, using two reels of film shot at one frame every four seconds over eight hours.

Portrait of Professor Wilhelm Heinrich Tenhaeff (1894-1981), a pioneer in the field of the experimental science of parapsychology. From 1953, Tenhaeff held the special chair in parapsychology in Utrecht. He addresses questions regarding clairvoyance and commerce, and whether there is life after death.

Made in the 1970s, a time when South Africans were constantly being reminded about the communist onslaught, this features Hank (originally English-speaking) and Hennery (Afrikaans-speaking), two very laid-back secret agents who, together with a black colleague (Vriend), manage to foil a terrorist plot to take over the country. They are introduced as beach bums and for at least the first half the film comes across as a not very good buddy movie. For much of the time we're not too certain of just who they are and from whom they get their orders, though once in a while they speak to someone in Pretoria. On the way into the mountains of Lesotho, they pick up a girl (a communist agent who switches sides without any qualms when she falls in love with Hennery). The unlikely baddies are an Afrikaans-speaking group of communists, disguised as members of a monastic order. Interestingly, the agents' black comrade is treated throughout as an equal and the race question doesn't really come into it.

Report on whale hunting in the Peruvian sea.

Made shortly after the death of her grandfather, whom Steele and Campbell had visited in Kansas en route to L.A., The Ballad of Dan Peoples shows Steele reciting violent and looping memories in front of the video camera while clutching a glass-framed photograph.

Video Synthesis produced at the Electronic Visualization Event II.

Cartoon showing the organization of the trade balance.

Vraneštica, a village near Makedonski Brod, in the west part of Macedonia, unlike other villages in this region, still exists today thanks to its unique craft – pottery.

Short film made alongside Máscaras (1976).

This short, produced by Western Electric, shows various stages of the construction of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. Highlighted are workers doing the actual construction of the buildings, as well as other workers setting up the telephone and electrical systems, laying the foundations for the buildings, etc. Also shown are panoramic views of the New York City harbor, including the Statue of Liberty and several large ocean liners either docked or being berthed.

The world of a young woman explored through a cinematic stream-of-consciousness foray.

Animation of 32 caricatures that were exhibited at the Seventh World Caricature Gallery in Skopje, as a solo exhibition by Miroslav Bartak from Czechoslovakia.

A conceptual film about the limits of the frame

Mahmoud longs for a child; however, his wife Zhila refuses, at her husband’s request, in order to preserve her beauty. Mahmoud persuades his wife that having a child is the sweetness of life and will not harm her beauty in any way. As a result of a blow to the head that he suffers at his wife’s father’s house, Mahmoud becomes infertile.

The director herself characterizes the work by questioning its narrative form: "is it the story of a film, or the film of a story?". It's a reflection on what has happened and what remained unsaid. The central theme is solitude, depicting an individual positioned "in the corner of a screen within an immutable society of terror"

The film crew for An Introduction to Motor Cycling had to improvise with their equipment to capture the full experience of riding a motorbike. Here we see a motorcycle fitted out with handmade dual-angle cameras to simultaneously film the rider’s point of view and the bike’s rear view.

Based on a folk tale. About how a mischievous sparrow was punished for his impudence.

Made with Shanti Project of San Francisco, with a grant from the US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. An in-depth sharing of the counselling process between psychologist Dr. Charles Garfield and three women who are dying of cancer. "Beautifully and sensitively done. Very beneficial to our training program." - Barb Taruscio, Bon Secours Hospital, Grosse Point, Michigan

16mm film by Abbott Meader

Lawrence Older [1912-1982] is a relaxed, direct and engaging performer who spent the majority of his life working in the woods. His songs and fiddle tunes are mostly from his family tradition and are representative of the local melodies and the rich musical tradition of America's northeastern states.