All Films

Bevendzhik

1975 • 6 min • Soviet Union

A satirical film tale about the greedy and evil bubble Bevendzhik.

The Uninvited Visitor

1975 • 4 min • United States of America

A cartoonist receives a scary visitor.

Shafts of Sunlight

1975 • 47 min

Explores a weekend in the life of a Yorkshire mining community set to the music of the Frickley Colliery brass band and illustrated with paintings and prose from former miners.

Clisson

1975 • 3 min

Alchemy of the Word

1975 • 12 min

Alchemy of the Word is a hand-made film in which I applied Zip-A-Tone patterns directly to 16mm clear film stock, including upon the optical edge, so that the dancing shapes onscreen created their own soundtrack when projected. The film also features my friend, the artist David Saunders, playing the 19th-century French Symbolist poet, Arthur Rimbaud, as he reads from one of the poet’s most famous works, Alchemy of the Word. The film, as well as the poem, are about synesthesia: the artist’s transformation of one sense into another, turning light into sound, sound into emotion, and words into images.

Air Current

1975 • 14 min • Japan

A movie film shot continuously is a series of action shots, one frame at a time. This is because there is a continuation of movement between the images in one frame and the next. On the other hand, since each frame is a single photograph, it is possible to trim and enlarge or reduce the image frame by frame. For example, if the normal zoom process is A→B→C→D, by enlarging and reducing each frame, it can become C→A→D→B. This is not unnatural since a movie is a series of photographs. The movement of the subject is continuous within the image that is enlarged and reduced frame by frame.

Fleetwood Mac: Live at Capital Centre 1975

1975 • 60 min

Live at Capital Centre, Largo, Maryland (October 15, 1975) Get it Like You Used To Be, Station Man, Spare Me a Little of Your Love, Rhiannon, Why, I’m So Afraid, Oh Well, Green Manalishi, World Turning, Blue Letter, Hypnotized

Railroad Crossing

1975 • 20 min • Japan

Human eye movements are similar to the way pigeons and chickens shake their heads. I wanted to capture that restlessness in a video. I held an 8mm camera in my hand, placed it on my head, and filmed while walking down the street. I projected the film on a screen, cut out the image to capture the movement of the eyes, and re-filmed each frame. I also made a blinking mask to use in the re-filming.

Swan

1975 • 4 min • United States of America

A short experimental animation by Jules Engel

Your Death is My Delight

1975 • 17 min

A silent film shot mostly on high contrast 16mm film, attempting to tell a story mostly with titles. Put together during a particularly bad time when I had just moved to the East Village and was living in a storefront on Sixth Street just off the Bowery. In the film I was reaching out for verbal and moral support from William Blake’s Marriage of Heaven and Hell and visual support from Harry Smith’s Heaven and Earth Magic. I’ve hardly ever projected this or shown it.

Nebelung

1975 • 10 min • Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

A Derry teacher turned filmmaker transforms a classroom in his school into a claustrophobic hallucination. Created over two Sunday afternoons this award winning film stars a fellow teacher and local pupils. Terence McDonald and Gerry Wills have worked together on several films; with Nebelung they achieved international success demonstrating their flare weaving this darker postmodern tale of the anxious reactions of a German teacher triggered by an old photograph.

Newspaper People

1975 • 32 min

Two of Sweden's newspapers, from morning till night.

Fire Writing

1975 • 40 min

Performance with three lasers, live camera, and three monitors.

Horseflesh

1975 • 9 min • United States of America

Horseflesh is an artifact of a year spent living on a horse farm in Vermont listening to Charles Mingus and John Coltrane. A meditation on country living, and our weird, anthropomorphic relationship to horses.

Bleach Yr Old Sox (Comiskey Park Revisited)

1975 • 25 min

I've always been interested in recording Chicago's history, particularly its offbeat and unofficial aspects. In a way, I consider myself a renegade home movie maker for the city. This piece focuses on Sox Park and my memories of it, which go way back. I've been documenting these moments for at least 25, maybe even 30 years—longer than I initially realized. I'm not entirely sure why I feel compelled to record these events, but I believe they represent an intriguing and unique history of the city. It's a history you wouldn't typically hear about or know unless someone like me took the time to document it.

Kalopashka

1975 • 25 min

Good Easter. Super 8 film. Observance of Holy Week in the island of Patmos. The monastery that rises above the village, founded in 1088, is consecrated to Saint John the Apostle, who wrote the Book of Revelation while living in exile on this Aegean island.

Last Games

1975 • 20 min • Soviet Union

A film about outstanding athletes of the USSR.

Relationship

1975 • 9 min

The filmmaker tried to capture the energy between camera and filmed subject, in three parts. For example, in the third part, the camera is suspended from a tree, filming flowers in a garden in a single 3-minute shot. The minimalism of this film is inspired by the simplicity of the camera, which does not allow for the use of a tripod.

Martha Graham Technique Demonstration

1975 • 17 min

Martha Graham narrates as two dancers demonstrate her technique.

Comparative Anatomy

1975 • 10 min

A hand places a tiny unrecognizable object on a plain blue field. It looks organic and could perhaps be part of a small insect. The hand enters again and replaces the object with another which seems to be the same kind of thing but which is also unrecognizable. This is repeated and each time the new object is placed in exactly the same place and each time it is slightly bigger than the one before. By the end of the film, the object is relatively large, but tantalizingly unrecognizable.

Donald of the Colours

1975 • 51 min • United Kingdom

Following the bloodbath of Culloden field, one young boy, Donald, attempts to return to his clan with their colours intact. On his journey he encounters two other children, a brother and sister, left to fend for themselves after arriving in Scotland from France with the Prince and their father. Their journey is fraught with danger as Cumberland's orders to wipe out the clans are put into practice by the Redcoats.

Pysanka: The Ukranian Easter Egg

1975 • 14 min • United States of America

"To celebrate the first day of spring, or Velykden (the great day), ancient people of Ukraine decorated eggs with bright and fiery designs." Learn the history of the Ukrainian art of pysanka, or decorating eggs, a custom that predates the Christian era. Follow along as Luba Perchyshyn, a master of the art, goes through the elaborate process of drawing in wax on the egg before dipping it into the dyes. This is repeated numerous times on each egg, using a darker color every time. The symbolic meaning of the designs is also discussed, and examples of pysanky throughout the centuries are shown.

The City is Building a Monument

1975 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A film about the construction of a monument to the heroic defenders of Leningrad on Victory Square in St. Petersburg.

Leningrad the Hero City

1975 • 16 min • Soviet Union

The film tells about the heroic struggle of the Leningraders during the siege, about the defenders of Leningrad, and about various aspects of life in the city today.