1976 Movies

Early documentary by Eduardo Coutinho dealing with the water shortage in the city of Ouricuri in the seventies.

In 1943, a divorced mother sends her two children to boarding school, the better to devote herself to her lover. The poetry and affection of a grandfa...

Originally made for the TV program, Aquarius. The 1976 British Reggae episode explored the London reggae scene and the African Caribbean community. It...

In Ana Mendieta’s Anima, Silueta de Cohetes (Firework Piece),the artist’s silhouetted form is replicated as an effigy with blazing fireworks, the fli...

A peculiar homage to the things that go wrong, this film is purportedly about rugby. The self-explanatory title for this jumpy “documentary” is less c...

A symbolic rape by the Devil and a renewal of self worth.

George (1976, revised in 1988) is a portrait of George Kuchar composed on a J-K optical printer with 4 scenes always running simultaneously through fr...

Short movie (Al Urjouha) His story revolves around a soldier returning from the front to visit the family of his friend who died in the war. He decid...

Humphrey Burton introduces two Omnibus USA reports on the arts in New York... that is the arts in the streets, away from the museums and the concert h...

Shot in dark colours and with an atmospheric treatment, the narrative is sketchy but the plot revolves around Koswara, a driver for Kardiman. Koswara’...

Music “Canzoni per sonar a quattro” by Giovanni Gabrieli, performed by Elizabeth Cohen, Max Mathews, and Gerard Schwarz. Images generated by computer.

A strange tale of a mad scientist's search for eternal life.

To carry on his important work the ego-maniacal scientist Dr Kelly must obtain another hand… a hand which begins to take on a life of its own.