All Films

Toques

1975 • 7 min • Brazil

Naked human beings.

Film sans caméra STST

1975 • 5 min • France

Gare de Triage

1975 • 21 min • Belgium

A student is holding the headmaster of his school captive at gunpoint to denounce its selectioncriteria.

Skyworks: "Wind + Fire"

1975 • 8 min

Film of "Dropped Objects" falling from 8,000 ft. altitudes with skydivers as performers. This film of a conceptual artist's work is a document of Skyworks but also meant to be expressive as an art film. A film of meditation revealing the cosmic breath as Skyworks pieces fall at the rate of 120 to 135 miles per hour. A breathing language of light and knowledge. Performance-controlled flight. Gyres cycling in and out - the mystic spiral. A perception of light and space as energy lines alter the environment temporarily. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.

Love Hospital Trailer

1975 • 3 min

Presents a series of goofy romantic and pseudo-professional interludes among its all-male cast in the guise of a soap opera TV spot. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.

Gathering

1975 • 20 min

"I was 17, cynical and commenting on my 'youth'. The scenes were set-up but ultimately improvised. The party scene was real and documented with a couple of cameras. It is reasonably accurate to the situation." –RM

Mount Currie Summer Camp

1975 • 5 min • Canada

In a series of playful portraits, Líl̓wat children and youth go about their daily duties at the community’s summer camp outside Mount Currie, B.C. Infused with a sense of love, togetherness and pride, this short documentary is a remarkable visual archive of a Líl̓wat community through the beautiful faces of their young people. This short is part of the L’il’wata series. In the early 1970s, at the outset of her documentary career, Alanis Obomsawin visited the Líl̓wat Nation, an Interior Salish First Nation in British Columbia, and created a series of shorts that provide personal narratives about Líl̓wat culture, histories and knowledge.

Winchester Martin

1975 • 29 min • Argentina

It is remake of the film directed by Jorge Mario in 1971. It is a western that takes place in a hypothetical region of Mexico, and narrates the adventures of a man seeking revenge.

Ensaio

1975 • 16 min • Brazil

The disorderly growth of large urban centers in the country and the discussion about the development and existence of cultural spaces. Based on the example of the Teatro de Ópera in Campinas, a building that managed to consolidate construction and space for the existence of a square, theater and architecture are discussed, pointing out the future coexistence between men and cities. Using models, the film presents a new urban concept of the square, as a point of bringing people together for an encounter with cultural things, combining gardens, concert halls, compilation rooms and libraries. A theatrical rehearsal, held in an unfinished theater in Campinas / SP, designed by the architect Fábio Penteado.

For Those Who Do Not Know, Ask Those Who Do

1975 • 4 min

Looking at the skies, pigeons, public folic, op-art.

Eu armário de mim

1975 • 4 min

A woman close to things asks about the ways of existing. the body, the name, the house, the thickness in which the subject is inscribed and daily modeled.

Orpheus Underground

1975 • 35 min

Orpheus (the artist) searches for Eurydice (immortality) in New York (his own underworld). Densely textured, pervaded by feeling of baroque imagery.

Chants

1975 • 15 min • Australia

“After three very hectic films, I needed something to soothe my nerves. I came across these Coptic crosses in a Greek souvenir shop. and at the time I also heard some Gregorian chants. I thought these cheap plastic crosses looked really beautiful...and I shot them against black velvet so that they appeared to float, emanating something, in a deep space...kind of heavenly images. Nothing much happens...it's really a meditation. Funnily enough I found that the Hare Krishna Movement (which was flourishing at the time) rented the film out a lot to use at their camps. Another time Albie [Thoms] used some of the footage on GTK [ABC TV's youth/pop program], where it looked very odd indeed. I believe that Gregorian chants were in the hit parade only recently. This sort of spirituality touches all kinds of people...” (Paul Winkler)

Cap

1975 • 5 min • Poland

How a Sculpture Eats a Painting

1975 • 5 min

A conceptual museum fantasy.

L.A. Carwash

1975 • 8 min

A film evolving out of the artist's experiments with dual screen projection and concerned with conjunctive and disjunctive coupling suggested by the qualities of light and sounds at the Village Carwash in Los Angeles. The sound and picture exist as complete and separate entities coinciding only for four seconds.

Consumer Art

1975 • 16 min • Poland

Probably the most notorious work by Natalia LL, Consumer Art presents models delighting in bananas, frankfurters or ice-cream. Obviously, this seemingly innocent activity acquires a strongly erotic edge. Combination of a “cold” film recording with a “hot” sensual motif stands for a rejection of the purely analytical character of conceptual art.

Watercourse

1975 • 14 min

Sopping wet.

Dead Patterns

1975 • 11 min • United States of America

"A commentary on the phenomena of death and dying." -Description from Portable Channel catalogue

Revista Da Tela Nº 177 X 74 (cinejornal)

1975 • 8 min

Mambo

1975 • 17 min • Germany

Dancing, cavorting, wasting time. "First Community film after establishing the film class at the Art Academy Münster, Germany [...] all white dressed and with white makeup against black background." (LM)

Sonrisas del màs acà

1975 • 13 min • Argentina

An amorous experimental film by Horacio Vallereggio.

Gold for the Gods

1975 • 24 min

Zhonggang, a former commercial harbour in Miaoli County once suffering from sedimentation and decline, thrived again with its joss paper (ghost money) industry. Almost every family was part of it: Different generations worked together, attaching gold foils and stamping the paper in red ink, before sending it to dry. When massive stacks of golden joss paper basked in the sun, the town seemed to be covered in dreamy golden waves.

Some Butterflies

1975 • 1 min

A short film by Jack Goldstein