All Films

The Dream of the Dirty Woman

1975 • 13 min

A performance by Margo Lee Sherman, Christian DuPavillon, and Kenny Eisenstat based on a dream that Elka Schumann had about the French Revolution. Originally filmed in 16mm in Glover Vermont. Direction by Peter Schumann. The digital version was edited by DeeDee Halleck and Mary Feaster in 2019.

Women Workers in Greenland

1975 • 19 min • Denmark

Greenland is in the middle of a process of industrial development, a stark contrast to the former way of life. In the film, which was shot in Sisimiut (Holsteinsborg), a group of Greenlandic women talk about their work and their position in the workplace, about the need to organize themselves, to stand shoulder to shoulder in order to improve working conditions and wages. The women, working as shrimp pillers, tell with bitterness, but also humor, about their lives and the double work that they have to endure. The 'royal' hand-picked Greenlandic prawns are viewed here in relation to the repeated abdominal infections the women suffer from, and their political struggle related to labor and gender.

The Wrestlers

1975 • 14 min • Yugoslavia

It documents a traditional event that took place on St. George’s Day in Dragash, Kosovo.

Punctuation Mark

1975 • 17 min • Japan

Dialogue

1975 • 5 min • Sweden

Dialogue is based on a poem, which is absurd, erotic and poetic. (Filmform)

Gorejące palce

1975 • 7 min • Poland

Five men hang a sixth from the bare-leafed thick branch of a huge tree. The execution is secretly observed by a seventh man. At night, he will sneak into the executioners' house to take revenge

Chinatown 2-Step

1975 • 16 min

Capturing the all-American fervor of parade competition, CHINATOWN 2-STEP profiles the Los Angeles Chinese Drum and Bugle Corps, an important fixture of the Chinese American community.

Scala F int. 19

1975 • 14 min • Italy

This film captures 14 minutes of the real life of a young mathematician.

Los hijos del subdesarollo

1975 • 45 min

The film describes the cause and effect of the undernourishment of Colombian children in five chapters and has the form of a black book of capitalism. The tenor of the film is aggressive... the projector nails the faces and deeds of the enemy to the screen, makes them targets of a camera that sees itself as a weapon.

Erasures

1975 • 20 min

A walk along a trail that meanders through various places in the city, a long reading of poetry in the streets of Venice and among its people, through the quotation of texts of the high emblematic literature of ‘900, from Baudelaire to Villon, from Rimbaud to Dylan Thomas, accompanied by the shedding into the water channels of letters cut out of paper, like an innocent child's play, while a black band, mourning, from time to time is used as a symbol of the prophetic poet's blindness, of the darkness of the sense, the civic value of saying, the impossibility for the art of acting and producing changes outside of its own transformation.

Once upon a time in Saint Malo street

1975 • 11 min • France

The destruction of part of the rue de Saint-Malo district in Rennes as part of the program to reduce unsanitary housing. Extract from the author's text: "... So, good people, the rue de Saint-Malo is dead, at the end of this crazy 20th century..."

Count Basie Jam'75 - Live In Montreux

1975 • 58 min

Count Basie Jam Session at the Montreux Jazz Festival 1975, also referred to as Basie Jam, is a live album by pianist/bandleader Count Basie recorded in 1976 and released by the Pablo label.

The island of the marine dead

1975 • 9 min • France

Images from a text by P. J. Hélias.

Night Awakening

1975 • 4 min

Peter Bundy film

Do You Get It No. 3

1975 • 13 min • Netherlands

Do You Get It No. 3 deals with the behaviour of people who notice they are being filmed, without the viewer being directly aware of this. Van Gasteren films a traffic officer and the chaotic traffic at a busy intersection in Salerno, Italy. A passer-by seems to modify his behaviour the moment he notices that he’s being filmed. Van Gasteren analyses, image by image, what happens on the street and what role the camera plays in this.

Ballet for Birds

1975 • 8 min

Soundtrack: EBONY CONCERTO, by Igor Stravinsky.

Huando

1975 • 7 min

Review of what “Huando” (Lima) was doing, before and after the Agrarian Reform (1969) carried out by the military government of General Juan Alvarado. Images of the hacienda considered in its time as an organization model, due to its productivity and efficiency.

Film Lane

1975 • 18 min

Film is shot from a moving vehicle; from its roof pointing forward, from its rear pointing backwards. This occurs on two occasions; the summer of 1973 and the winter of 1974. The camera runs at either 24 fps or 12 fps The film is assembled according to pre-determined factors; (i) the 12 frame / half second bias as observed in Sheepman section; (ii) a double binary - alternating apparent movement away from and toward the surface of the screen, (a function relying on the perception of successive frames); (iii) combinations of one or other of these. The primary function of the 12 frame opaque film is, as in the Sheepman section, not so much as markers of time but as a constant factor comparative to those frames they surround.

Filmabuse

1975 • 4 min

A myriad of purple and blue markings flicker hypnotically across the screen in “Filmabuse.” Periodically a blue screen flashes, disturbing the trance induced by the colorful smudges. The rhythm of the colors gathers steam and accelerates as the film continues. Near the conclusion, for the entirety of one second, a woman appears; she is “put together” without a stray hair; however, her face appears scarred and swollen, juxtaposing the slight grin her lips muster.

My World... Earth

1975 • 11 min

An experimental avant-garde film intended to raise questions and stimulate curiosity and appreciation of rocks, dirt and the universe.

The Disenchantment

1975 • 29 min • France, Romania

A short film following a healer from Maramureș region, Romania.

Aerial

1975 • 3 min • United States of America

A portrait of children at play

The Dog and the Cat

1975 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Winter is coming on, and a shepherd-dog goes to a cat-furrier to get a new hat made for himself. Instead he gets cheated, thus beginning the age-old feud between dogs and cats. Based on the poem by Hovhannes Tumanyan.

Paradise

1975 • 6 min • Poland

A metaphorical image of humans cornered by the civilisation. Hustle and bustle, noise, and cracking sounds become unbearable.