Cinematic Era: 1976 Vintage

Super 8mm. Black and white. Sound. 13 minutes.

A short film by Kenneth Anger, only available to private collectors and never publicly released.

An audio-visual film by Klaus Wyborny that focuses on various houses, their patterns and structures.

Videodance.

A Christmas special of extraordinary beauty. One hour of magnificent staging, costumes, and music. Featuring Miss Velma Jaggers--famous the world over for her beautiful dramas and called by fashion designers one of the twelve best dressed women in American. Accompanied by the Statesmen Quartet and the Miss Velma Singers and Musicians. This is the rare and highly beloved complete recording of Miss Velma's holiday spectacular, Christmas in America. Now, presented in amazing low definition, digitally remastered from archival VHS. This is the actual, legendary, one-of-a-kind Christmas cantata extravaganza originally performed and broadcast from the Universal World Church in Los Angeles, California. —Universal World Church

A star-driven spiraling machine of hallucinatory wonder!

A César nominated short animation that satirises the pressures of social conformity.

For City Slivers, which was made with a camera borrowed from Robert Rauschenberg, Matta-Clark affixed vertical matte strips in front of an anamorphic camera lens, thereby allowing only slivers of light to penetrate the film. He then rewound the film, repositioned the mattes, and reshot the same camera load. Using only in-camera editing, the light appears to slice through the film frame in a manner analogous to Matta-Clark’s architectural “cuttings.”

Part of BFI's "National Coal Board Collection".

Live in Dortmund

An early performance by Dalibor Martinis with half-inch tape on an open reel. The tape he winds round his head is also the medium that records the performance. The interruptions in the tape are a structural component of the recording.

The sun is out and it's time for men to dress up as women and for grown-ups to charge about in prams. This film from 1976 shows an event called the Pram-Olympics, which were held on Southsea Common during what was one of the hottest summers ever recorded.

The appeal for a socialist consumer society launched by Edward Gierek’s government catapulted Fiat 126p (production launched in 1973) to the status of a household icon. Rytka shows off the Polish consumer fetish in pop art-flavored close-ups and repetitions, thus ironically denouncing the demagoguery of the communist authorities.

Enjoy a rarely captured live concert by Martha Argerich, one of the greatest pianists of the 20th and 21st centuries, a recording performed at the CBC studios in Montreal and containing the only known footage of the virtuoso playing a concerto. Argerich pours her considerable passion and impressive manual dexterity into pieces including Schumann's Piano Concerto, Ravel's "Jeux d'Eau" and Liszt's "Les Funerailles."

In 1976, Welsh rock group Man called it quits (but later reunited) and decided to record their last days with performances at London's Roundhouse -- all captured in this video souvenir, which includes interviews with the band. Drummer Terry Williams, guitarist Deke Leonard, keyboardist Phil Ryan and bassist John McKenzie join founding member Mickey Jones for "Let the Good Times Roll," "7171-551," "C'Mon," "Born with a Future" and more.

Film starring T.P. Madhavan, Madhu and Thikkurisi Sukumaran Nair

Bollywood 1976

Film starring Uttam Kumar, Supriya Choudhury, Anil Chatterjee and Dilip Mukhopadhyay

Film by Phil Denslow

Directed by Sabine Eckhard.

Famously described by Ingmar Bergman as a "work of genius", Peter Watkins' multi-faceted masterpiece is more than just a bio-pic of the iconic Norwegian Expressionist painter. Focusing initially on Munch's formative years in late 19th Century Oslo, Watkins uses his trademark style to create a vivid picture of the emotional, political and social upheavals that would have such an effect on his art. The young artist (Geir Westby) has an affair with "Mrs Heiberg" (Gro Fraas), a devastating experience that will haunt him for the rest of his life, and his work is viciously attacked by the critics and public alike. He is forced to leave his home country for Berlin, where, along with the notorious Swedish playwright August Strindberg, he becomes part of the cultural storm that is to sweep Europe.

The Second Electronic Visualization Event took place at The University of Illinois Chicago Circle Campus in 1976. This documentation features Bob Snyder on EMU Synthesizer, Phil Morton on the Sandin Image Processor by Dan Sandin and Guenther Tetz on the GRASS (GRaphics Symbiosis System) by Tom DeFanti. In Morton's words these artists perform live realtime audio and video synthesis "using both analog and digital computers as 'visual instruments'..." Other artists credited with participation in the Electronic Visualization Events between 1975 and 1978 include Drew Browning, Larry Cuba, Barbara Latham, John Manning, Faramarz Rahbar, Ed Rankus, Michael Sterling, Barbara Sykes and Jane Veeder.

Using video technology as an extension of his body, Yamamoto interacts with a pre-recorded image of his hand displayed on a monitor.

A series of tail ends of varied strips of film, with sometimes recognizable images dissolving into light flares, appear to run through and off of a projector. A romantic "narrative," suggesting an "ending," is inferred. This film can be projected at either sound speed (3 minutes) or silent speed (5 minutes).

A beautiful girl has an intense trip during which she transforms.

A bad kid becomes an even worse adult. As a child, Yun throws acid in the face of his father. And as an adult he kills his girlfriend (with a coke bottle to her genitalia). Meanwhile, dad has gone insane. And to prove it, he's stalking and decapitating pretty female victims.

In 1975, The Charlie Daniels Band performed the second of their legendary Volunteer Jams at Middle Tennessee Statue University in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. This annual event featured a number of special guests, including The Marshall Tucker Band, Dickey Betts and Chuck Leavell from the Allman Brothers band, Jimmy Hall, Dru Lombar, Bill Hart & Gary Peacemaker.

An anthropological view of the crowded Catholic procession understood as a display of popular religiosity.

Report on the process of copper extraction and transformation by the Peruvian state.

Life and work of the poet Luis Valle Goycochea (1908-1953), born in the town of La Soledad, department of La Libertad.

Chucuito, city of the Royal Boxes described by an important authority of that town in Puno.

Tourist report on the department of Piura.

A rehearsal, a proposal, an experiment. Sketching out the initial ideas and reflections for an upcoming film project, still in the making, before it becomes the next big trend. Nostalgic yet strange images define this moment in time, while offering a glimpse into my chaotic research and its perspectives. A mother, a daughter, shoes, clothes, a dusty gate opening and closing six times a week for nearly 30 years. The story has been waiting to be told from the very beginning.

Two scientists, portrayed by Steele and Campbell, kiss and grope one another passionately while coldly detailing their research.

Short film.

Exhibition of pre-Incan ceramic vessels.

The different styles of ironwork on the mansions and institutions of Lima from the 18th century to the present day.

Experimental short by Kiyota Shiro

The story is about the amusing adventures that happen to a little bear.

Short documentary film on the Hermitage Museum exhibition in Mexico.

A performance, alone, and an early harbinger of the work I do now.

In cinema’s golden era of the 1970s, the members of the Dartmouth Film Society were enthralled by movies and movie lore. "A Hollywood Story” is their loving, if irreverent, tribute to that magical world. Directed by the late John Pruitt ’74, this hilarious and charming 16mm black-and-white film is a tale replete with references to the movie history that undergraduates had been taught by noted film distributor Arthur Mayer, and the tawdry tales overflowing Kenneth Anger’s book "Hollywood Babylon.”

The film is dedicated to the VI World Gallery of Caricatures - Skopje '74, on the theme "Stop". Several hundred caricaturists from around the world, with their satirical messages, indicate where a person should stop in order for humanity to move forward. The film uses caricatures by authors who participated in the VI World Gallery of Caricatures.

The intriguing world of cinema, explored as both industry and technical art: production in a flash; the studio as ritual; location shooting; editing; sound; the laboratory; animation; fascination — all unfolding at 24 frames per second.

Film directed by Latif Faiziyev

Conditioning, claustrophobia, and mechanization lead a city dweller to a progressive mental imbalance, culminating in self-destructive masochism.

The employees of a tailor's workshop portrayed by him make their working hours more pleasant by chatting, during which the work itself sometimes comes to the background. Their conversations regularly cover the subject of the various issues that tailors and seamstresses have to deal with in their everyday lives. But when customers make complaints and comments about tight jackets and crooked jackets, they can only count on aggression or saying it can’t be helped. All for all is the title of a poem by Julian Tuwim, starting with a stanza: "A bricklayer builds houses, / The tailor sews clothes, / but where would he sew if he didn't have a flat". Kindergarten children learn from the poem that every job serves some purpose and we need each other. Paweł Kędzierski in his documentary ironically shows that the devil is in the details.

The traveling circus as a symbol of freedom and nonconformity.