Cinematic Era: 1976 Vintage

Short documentary that publicities the capital city of Chaco, Resistencia

Film which is no longer fully recognized by its author; portrait performance in front of and against mirrors.

The neglected things, the things we hardly pay attention to, the things we see while thinking about something else.

Attempt to express within one's own limits.

This “simple and fresh” work by poets in a “poetic way”.

The film illustrates the correct use of the 'right' and 'left' in the traffic reality of a cyclist. The first part deals with the correct behavior of a nine-year-old boy. The second part of the film presents a total of three sequences of incorrect behavior.

With Nanda Karnataki, Shreeram Lagoo, Ravindra Mahajani.

A Silver Bear award winning animation.

Deutsche Bahn informs customers about transportation technology and the various methods of transport.

Marta Minujín’s work is defined by its ephemeral nature—actions living in the present, performances destined to disappear due to the absence of documentation. During her stay in New York, she added cinema to her art practice, and upon returning to Buenos Aires, she shot a number of short films. In Autogeografía, she puts her own body in front of the camera, articulating recording and representation in an early video-performance work. Derived from her action Comunicando con tierra (where she extracted soil from the Machu Picchu which she later exchanged with other Latin American Artists), a purification ritual takes place—Minujín covers herself up in “barbarity,” soil and grains that anonymous hands throw at her from out of field. A territory for exploration where the absurd embraces the real—“The only thing that is true is what we invent.”

Orpheus' song tames scales and dolphins, dictates laws to the wind and sets the rhythm of the oars that move the sea. Those who listen to it remain motionless in contemplation. Between bodies, the Patagonian landscape and the crossing of boundaries with the private record of a vacation, Narcisa Hirsch and Rafael Maino unfold among the melodies of a passage from Orphee et Eurydice. This film also bears the name "Rafael, 1976" and can be considered part of the series of the diaries with "Rafael, agosto 1984".

Constructed from still photos and inspired by the essay of the same name by Günter Kunert.

Relentless camera movements over a busy urban intersection, following the lines of force.

A film be Valentina Berardinone

The film recalls the story of Enigma, the encryption machine.

The instrument is visually "played" through camera movements. In a second phase, the video composition is set to music with the sounds of the clarinet.

Closed in an empty room, a young artist gradually creates a sculpture made of air, which is then given as a present to the world by blowing it out through the door’s keyhole.

Faced with dark-in-your-room monsters, scary sounds and other things that go bump in the night, a child learns to invoke "room noodles" to banish the monsters.

As part of my artistic research, dating back to the years from 1975 to 1978, among the objectives I felt the need to give expressive autonomy to the film medium, understood no longer as a mere reproduction of a performance, a happening or a workshop . Looking, not as a director, but as a visual artist, to a certain underground and independent Cinema, this is the first of his films (in 8mm color film) by direct editing on the camera, with internal and external shots, entirely superimposed.

I made this film in the course of a single day using a borrowed sync. set-up. Color and sequence of event has been preserved. My concerns in the film were to photograph and record events that were anticipated, but accidental, within the confines of a format that would provide a context of determined artificiality. [Overview Courtesy of The Film-Makers' Cooperative]

The romance of a young adult couple.

A game, maybe a dream, an exchange of identity with Dalibor Martinis, Sanja Ivekovic and Goran Trbuljak. But who is Luigi Viola? The man who is praying, the man who is shaving, the man who is drinking, the blonde girl who is playing ping-pong? This is just a starting-point.

The magic moment of an image and the emotion aroused following the suggestion of an imaginary itinerary, that makes the real world seem strange and far away are suddenly interrupted by words belonging to the language of bureaucracy, the most conventional language possible.

Violence and dependency, chance and madness in psychological and personal relationships. The family considered a paradigmatic knot.

In this case taking place means changing places, a complete and mutual transformation, as is seen in the eternal contrast between bios and thanatos. In the video changing places becomes a moment of identification, favored by the ambiguity of a date, 1949 which is the only element two people have in common, since one of them died and the other was born in that year.

The early years of the sculptor's life and work. Vasyl Borodai is a People's Artist of Ukraine, a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Arts, and a veteran. He came to the art institute after the war, and took up military themes only 10 years later - his memories were too painful. He is the author of monuments to fallen partisans and soldiers, a series of graphic and sculptural works "Across Egypt," portraits of prominent people of Ukraine, and a monument to legendary heroes, the founders of Kyiv. The fate of the work of sculptor Vasyl Borodai is interesting from the point of view of continuing the Soviet tradition of bans. His monument to the October Revolution on Independence Square was one of the first monuments demolished in Ukraine since Ukrainian independence. His other works, such as the monument to the Chekists and Motherland, are still the subject of controversy as monuments to the Soviet past.

About animation itself, in which a live-action man's movements are mimicked by means of various animated techniques.

A complex video piece for 1/2" video thru 4 video decks: Record-Play-Record2-Play2. Performance at Gutman Library, Harvard; 16mm camera by Andrew Harmon. A 2nd camera recorded the 4 monitors. Quad decks were used to record live and delayed sounds.

Short film.

A César nominated short film.

8mm short showing an aspiring actress and her audition in Mauro Mingardi's studio.

A documentary about a pioneer of Icelandic film making, Óskar Gíslason, with excerpts from some of his most famous work.

Short film by Plinio Martelli.

The 1976 Turkish film version of the television series Columbo.

Shot in a mirror in half-light, Jillian Dressing captures the practiced rituals of preparing oneself for the world.

Time lags between cause and effect during a cello performance. In the work, the variables of sound are related to the variables of the camera. For example: glissando = zoom, out of tune = out of focus. The camera is used as a musical instrument, a device that translates sound events into visual elements.

A purely visual exploration of the four different "centers" of triangles.

Interview with artist Jan Håfström about his art.

Short by Giuliano Giuman.

A discovery of Bhutan, a tiny landlocked country in the Himalayas. An approach to its economy, one of the few on this planet that can pride itself on its self-sufficiency. A meeting with its people, characterized by their religiousness and their incredible propensity to happiness.

Early, little-seen pioneering feedback art from French artist Catherine Ikam.

It is a parable about the inhabitants of Przechwałków. They could not come to terms with who was doing the most important work. Their quarrels shattered the unity in the city, which led to a threat.

In the tautly poetic Bone China (1976) a colourfully plumed painted bird flaps frantically around a china plate to the sound of beating wings.

Song of the El Train in Chicago. The lab did not sync this film correctly and makes this film what it is.

The city of Isfahan, the ancient Persian capital and its stunning architecture, arts and traditions are featured in this documentary. Words and narrations are by the late Iranian poet, Ahmad Shamloo.

Satirical cartoon-almanac, consisting of four stories: "Elevator", "Gossip Girls", "Fame" and "The Door".

A Country Editor follows the gathering and preparation of material for the Christmas edition of the 112 year old weekly Northumberland newspaper, the Hexham Courant, through to production. Includes action at Hexham Auction Market. Editor Michael Sharman interpolates his observations. This Tyne Tees TV documentary was first broadcast as part of the ITV About Britain series on 10 March 1976.

Music Therapy w/ Institutionalized Non-Verbal Children

A sutra with a slant, with backing vocals by the Zen Tabernacle Choir. This tape depicts and describes how Japan economically bamboozled the United States in retaliation for dropping the A-Bomb. Very popular with all of my Japanese friends.

The film features a dance of the elements, filmed in the woods, beach and cliffs of British Columbia with the contemporary troupe of dancers from the University of British Columbia. The special effects, obtained by caches placed in front of the camera, dissolve, giving the images a symbolic impact, insofar as they geometrically evoke alchemical symbols.

The musical piece “Stripsody” for solo voice was created in a collaboration between mezzo-soprano Cathy Berberian and comic book author and illustrator Roberto Zamarin. The score unites onomatopoetic elements, cartoon language and action sequences. Berberian’s magnificent voice takes up the dynamics of the images, swinging on a liana: past the “achoo” to the “boinnnggg”.

A Film by Keiji Uematsu.