All Films

Kalle, a Farmer Nonetheless

1975 • 32 min • Sweden

Kalle is a farmer. We follow him at work and he tells us about the living conditions of a farmer.

In the Subpolar Ural

1975 • 14 min

There are no highways leading to the heart of Subpolar Urals to the land of tales and legends. It doesn't like to reveal it's secrets to people, it put up oh his boarders stone patrol of mountains and hills, scattered boulders, spilled fast rivers. But those travellers, who had managed to overcome all this obstacles will be rewarded. Nowhere on earth will you find such beautiful nature as in the Subpolar Urals.

John Byrne

1975 • 23 min

An STV documentary about the life and work of artist John Byrne.

Work—Seeing

1975 • 3 min

Around the time Uematsu was making a photo work titled Mirukoto—fūkei (1974), he was interested in touching an object with shadow. This work is an expression of that exercise on video.

River of Stars

1975 • 10 min

‘…as if one were participating in the physical act of painting itself…one feels the sensation of the applying of strokes in black and white, of various feathery textural layers…There is tremendous variety of patterns. They blend effortlessly one into the other through a constant variety of means.’ – Bob Cowan

Latex Sky

1975 • 8 min

By Bruce Wood

Bip As A Soldier

1975 • 16 min

Marcel Marceau mime performance

The Midnight Dance

1975 • 2 min

When dolls come alive...

An American Tune

1975 • 14 min

"This film presents a non-verbal, fast-moving, sometimes humorous montage of just about every kind of musical form, from solo musicians to rock groups, bluegrass bands, symphony orchestras, and a chamber quartet" (US National Archives). The film was made as part of the "Young Filmmaker Bicentennial Grant" program managed by the US Information Agency in the lead up to the American Bicentennial.

Superimposition

1975 • 15 min

"The film opens and there is a disfunction of the camera that gives two images at once. The tension between the first and the second, the wrestle to see which becomes dominant is like the tension between an observed couple. This couple is two singulars, one singular, one double, two doubles, and one triad. Sometimes they are separate, sometimes coupled, and sometimes collasped upon each other and the world. My intrusion is the film."-M.K

Homespun

1975 • 15 min

"Photographed at the Hambidge Center in Southern Appalachia, this film explores the process and history of weaving (to the background of authentic mountain music)" (US National Archives). The film is a product of the USIA's Young Filmmaker Bicentennial Grant program from the mid 1970s.

Film Notebook: Part 2 (Some of Us in the Mechanical Age)

1975 • 27 min

"A journal of change in pattern of living and seeing as determined by an often misfunctioning but faithful camera."-M.K

Iron and Horse

1975 • 28 min • United States of America

Set in the 1930s, a schoolteacher prone to visions and daydreams agrees to give a ride to a young cowboy whom she meets in a ghost town after getting lost in the desert.

The Garden of Earthly Delights

1975 • 8 min

Audiovisual interpretation of the famous triptych by the Flemish painter Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516), known worldwide as El Bosco.

Arabesque

1975 • 7 min

John Whitney's pioneering work of computer animation, Arabesque, from 1975. This flowing, abstract short film is a wonder to behold, a work of art. Like many other computer graphics pioneers, this film suggests roots in psychedelics and spiritual quests as much as engineering and mathematics. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2007.

Rail 150

1975 • 13 min • United Kingdom

Documentary from British Transport Films

Millions of Years Ahead of Man

1975 • 26 min • Germany

Millions of Years Ahead of Man is a 1975 West German short documentary film about Leafcutter ants, produced by Manfred Baier for BASF.It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

Canadian Pacific II

1975 • 9 min • Canada

Canadian Pacific II is designed as a companion piece to Canadian Pacific I. Shot from a window two storeys higher and in the building adjacent to the artists’s studio of the previous year, one enters into a dream state… an involvement with a vocabulary of seeing and feeling by subtle transitions of the passage of time

I Stopped, I Looked and I Listened

1975 • 18 min • United Kingdom

Members of the Lewisham Darby and Joan Club discussing road safety and comparing today's difficult traffic conditions with the more leisurely conditions they once knew.

Society for the Protection of Goofy Events

1975 • 24 min • Yugoslavia

Irreverent experimental short film.

Du und Deine Umwelt

1975 • 16 min • Switzerland

A teenager encounters five everyday situations in which the expectations and resistance of the environment become a problem. Only the fantasy device Hilmi provides a remedy.

The Miners' Film

1975 • 45 min • United Kingdom

The miners' strikes, struggles and way of life are celebrated as the vital part of Britain's trade union movement.

Walls, Coats, Shadows

1975 • 7 min • Yugoslavia

A recording of walls, coats, and shadows.

Ecos Caóticos

1975 • 14 min • Brazil

A homage to poet Sousandrade.