Movie Trailers - January 1976

Painting in Object Trailer (1976)

01 January 1976

The emergence of a "real" three dimensional object from its two-dimensional appearances is the subject of Painting in Object.

Rock Garden Trailer (1976)

01 January 1976

A two-channel installation from the Modern Television Loop series. Rock Garden shows two continuous shots of stone piles.

East Ended Tape Trailer (1976)

01 January 1976

In "East Ended Tape" Peter Campus and Susan Dowling are the subjects of a series of video portraits. The shadow of Dowling's hand passes over her face slowly, obscuring her features.

Odezwij się! Trailer (1976)

01 January 1976

The action of the show begins in 1964. The heroine - Agnieszka, an assistant at a university, lives in a hotel for young researchers.

A Small Miracle Trailer (1976)

01 January 1976

On Christmas Eve, a poor old woman plays her accordion in the street. Apart from two children, the passers-by ignore her and by the end of the day she has to sell her accordion to buy some food.

Film a strisce, o "la petite mort" Trailer (1976)

01 January 1976

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

Nur die Sehnsucht bleibt Trailer (1976)

01 January 1976

Early short film by Wolfgang Büld

Clone Trailer (1976)

01 January 1976

Clone creates a non-narrative sensory experience where TV images repeat, cloning themselves sometimes with mutations.

Perpetual Motion Trailer (1976)

01 January 1976

Ein Baum fur die Engelmanner Trailer (1976)

01 January 1976

"A Tree for the Angel-men." One tree one afternoon.

El honguito feliz Trailer (1976)

01 January 1976

Based on a poem by the Uruguayan poet Marita Carpintero de Tutté. A cut-out paper animation focused on the importance of solidarity and the union of people.

The Legend of Jedediah Carver Trailer (1976)

20 January 1976

A rancher, thrown from his horse, must cross an inhospitable desert and avoid those who live there.

I Die Twice And Love You Trailer (1976)

01 January 1976

When a simple worker who works for a service that manages houses and mansions meets a rich guy who is trying to rent his apartment, he takes advantage of the empty apartment to have a romantic evening with his wife.

Piano Film Trailer (1976)

01 January 1976

A derelict piano in the yard outside the old Film Co-Op. The keys had come loose and floated off. I play it, moving the keys and listening carefully.

Four Sided Tape Trailer (1976)

01 January 1976

Here, Peter Campus explores video, not as a demonstration of special effects, but as a way of placing his own body in the presence of an immediate double.

Chaleur d'été Trailer (1976)

01 January 1976

A César nominated short film.

The Sensitive Plate Trailer (1976)

01 January 1976

The Sensitive Plate consists of 1250 filmed black-and-white photo portraits made between 1913-1969 by the Amsterdam photo studio Merkelbach, ran by father and daughter Jakobus and Mies Merkelbach.

Sandwoman's Moon Trailer (1976)

01 January 1976

"Playing peek-a-boo with the moon."– Jane Brakhage, August 1977

Tirgu Jiu Trailer (1976)

01 January 1976

A flicker film of colorful squares.

Le radar cherche Trailer (1976)

01 January 1976

The radar looks for an off-screen which is created from scratch and which is what one wants it to be)

Lost Shoe Blues Trailer (1976)

01 January 1976

In Lost Shoe Blues, the camera walks looking over weeds growing in landfill sand dumped to extend the edges of Battery Park City.

I Want to Live in the Country (And Other Romances) Trailer (1976)

01 January 1976

Jonas intercuts scenes of the Nova Scotia countryside with images of a studio set-up reminiscent of a di Chirico painting.

Dana Can Deal Trailer (1976)

01 January 1976

Three separate events: the birth of a litter of pups at a British reform school for delinquent minors in 1946; a dentist's convention in Cincinnati circa 1936; and common place views of New York City in the 1920s as interpreted by a visitor from Ohio.

The Music Child Trailer (1976)

01 January 1976

Music Therapy w/ Institutionalized Non-Verbal Children

Elaine de Kooning Paints a Portrait Trailer (1976)

01 January 1976

In filmmaker Betty Jean Thiebaud’s own portrait of the Abstract Expressionist artist, Elaine de Kooning discusses her work as she paints a new portrait of her friend and fellow artist, Aristodimis Kaldis.

The Facts in the Case of M. Valdamar Trailer (1976)

01 January 1976

Two strains dominate the film “… VALDEMAR…”: one celebrates a delight in the mesmeric state induced by the random repetitive movements of a mechanical toy car with its flickering coloured light and the second traces recollections of the humorous process of shooting the film.

What If We Had A Fire? Trailer (1976)

01 January 1976

A fire safety short with a funky seventies soundtrack

Frontline Trailer (1976)

01 January 1976

The Shilluk of Southern Sudan Trailer (1976)

01 January 1976

This film presents a compelling visual and aural analysis of Shilluk kingship in 1975, and provides a very useful complement to Evans-Pritchard’s 1948 text, The Divine Kingship of the Shilluk.

Michigan Trailer (1976)

01 January 1976

Farm work and nature.

Spooky Boo's and Room Noodles Trailer (1976)

01 January 1976

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.

Kayıkçının Küreği Trailer (1976)

01 January 1976

Xenia: Priestess of Night Trailer (1976)

01 January 1976

A presently lost underground feature movie, filmed entirely in San Francisco in 1976. Originally shot on beautiful Double X Negative black and white motion picture film (used extensively in studio films of the 1940s), this sequence derives from a digital transfer of a vintage (1990) 1" analog telecine, and shows some scan line artifacting and strobing with fast movement, general image degradation, and cropping at the sides (the latter due to incompetent digital transfer).

Third Tape Trailer (1976)

01 January 1976

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.

Acts of Revolution Trailer (1976)

01 January 1976

Concluding that “nothing is too small for a revolution,” Macdonald proposes that simple things like listening, reading to one’s children, and crying can be revolutionary acts.

Stolen Movie Trailer (1976)

01 January 1976

Armed with S8 camera and sound-person, Craig Baldwin runs both recording devices continuously through single-take raids on a series of SF Market St.

Old Women Trailer (1976)

02 January 1976

Short Croatian documentary by Ante Babaja that centers around the everyday lives of elderly Yugoslav women.

Liberty: A Dozen or So Views Trailer (1976)

01 January 1976

In an early work, video artist Dara Birnbaum records a cross section of fellow passengers aboard the Staten Island Ferry while en route to the Statue of Liberty.

Mirror of Thirst Trailer (1976)

01 January 1976

The degradation of a human under the influence of alcohol.

Variations pour un Regard Trailer (1976)

01 January 1976

Aramprunyà Trailer (1976)

01 January 1976

Love, fantasy and legend are almost exceptional words in the filmography of Els 5 QK’s, and that is what makes Aramprunyà so special.

The Pleasures of the Capital Trailer (1976)

01 January 1976

De Chirico in Legoland, perhaps. This film was part of the programme of a ‘happening’ on the same surrealist theme staged one night in the barns and grounds of a Suffolk farm.

The Bazaar Weeps Trailer (1976)

02 January 1976

Student film directed by Abbas Baqerian and Reza Gharavi.

Static Acceleration Trailer (1976)

01 January 1976

"A one-minute take was made of my head twisting from side to side at a rapidly increasing rate, stopping only after I went as fast as I possibly could.

Sri Rajeshwari Vilas Coffee Club Trailer (1976)

01 January 1976

A light breezy comedy about an unemployed Christian (Krishna) who finds employment with a brahmin coffee shop owner, posing as a brahmin.

Verão, Veredas Trailer (1976)

01 January 1976

The Amazing Bow Wow Trailer (1976)

01 January 1976

The Amazing Bow Wow tells the tragic tale of a hermaphroditic dog, reduced to performing as a tent-show freak.

Perisphere Trailer (1976)

01 January 1976

A traffic circle (in North Berkeley). The forcefield around the centre. Single-framed over the course of about 9 months.

The People’s Land, Eskimos of Pond Inlet Trailer (1976)

12 January 1976

For the Eskimos of Pond Inlet - a new village in North Baffin Island in which they have been settled by the Canadian Government – the life of the semi-nomadic hunter has given way to that of wage-labourer, in what appears as a pre-fabricated 'township'.

Drawing TV Trailer (1976)

02 January 1976

Using a felt-tip pen, Partum draws geometric figures on a TV screen which displays a news broadcast filled with propaganda delivered by the country’s counter-revolutionary party leaders.

Dr. Hawaii Trailer (1976)

01 January 1976

DR. HAWAII is a film project made by Rock Ross and Michael Rudnick in the early 1970s while both were students at the San Francisco Art Institute.

Cavalleria rusticana / I Pagliacci Trailer (1976)

01 January 1976

Plácido Domingo takes on the leading tenor roles in this 1976 live performance at the NHK Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Maputo meridiano novo Trailer (1976)

01 January 1976

La nuit du beau marin peut-être? Trailer (1976)

01 January 1976

A César nominated short drama.

Loop Trailer (1976)

01 January 1976

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

Glyphs I Trailer (1976)

01 January 1976

My 10 minute silent b/w film made in 1975/76. Includes the first footage I ever shot of James Broughton (before he grew a beard).

Try-Angle Spiral Piano Boogie Trailer (1976)

01 January 1976

A short experimental film by Phil Morton.

For Georgia O'Keeffe Trailer (1976)

01 January 1976

“An exquisite homage to O’Keeffe’s ‘Radiator Building, Night’.” –Mark Webber