All Films

Your Turn

1975 • 1 min

This PIF cleverly uses the threat of a knock from the Old Bill to deter would-be vandals. However, if we recall the urban landscape of 1970s Britain - smashed up phone boxes, broken windows, vandalised bus shelters, and so on - perhaps it may not have been an altogether effective deterrent.

Cyclone Tracy: Darwin, Christmas 1974

1975 • 9 min

Made by Film Australia 1974. Directed by Chris Noonan. Early in the morning of December 25 the Territory's capital city - Darwin - was destroyed by Cyclone Tracy. The city became the site of possibly the greatest natural disaster in the nation's history causing the mass evacuation south of three-quarters of the city's 43,000 people.

Brickwall

1975 • 22 min • Australia

“Being a bricklayer, this was one of my most important films. It represents eight hours of work...you start your early morning, you look at the work which is in front of you—then you get stuck into it—you have a morning tea, then you have lunch—and in the afternoon, of course, you knock off. I wanted to construct the 22 minutes of film very much like how I laid bricks in the physical sense—with a trowel and mortar. So I worked out a rhythm for the film—I had 3 frames, 6 frames, 12 frames, and 24 frames, and virtually all of it was done single-frame. For the soundtrack I used myself laying bricks in real time—you lay the trowel, you scrape it, you take off the ‘mud’, etc, and that continues right through the film. Some people refer to this as a ‘structural’ film…rather this is a film by a bricklayer who knows the material very well.” (Paull Winkler)

Ey, Ty, Tishka, Tishka!

1975 • 16 min • Soviet Union

About the liar and braggart poodle Tishka. Tishka is a city poodle who came to visit the hospitable Zhuchka. Tishka tells a lot of tall tales, and then realizes that you can't deceive your friends.

Sandal and Her Friends

1975 • 20 min • Soviet Union

A girl takes care of her doll with love. But when she gets a new but prettier doll as a present, the former doll starts to feel lonely.

Crayon Angel

1975 • 3 min • Japan

A psychedelic collage of wartime stock footage and family photos, suggesting an underlying message of peace.

No Sir, Orison!

1975 • 3 min

After singing a vivacious song of love in the aisle of a supermarket, the performer kneels down to ask forgiveness for those involved in the commercial food industry, which substitutes natural produce with non-nutritious commodities.

Stone

1975 • 7 min • Japan

Originally titled Stone No. 2, this is considered a seminal work of Japanese independent animation. Stones, houses and the surrounding natural landscape transform continuously.

Documentation of Selected Works 1971-74

1975 • 36 min

In this short compilation, Chris Burden introduces and narrates selected clips from his public art performances including 'Shoot', 'Bed Piece', and 'Fire Rolls', among others.

Energy Charge

1975 • 1 min

Ana Mendieta, 1975

Passacaglia and Fugue

1975 • 19 min • Argentina

A movie filmed almost entirely in the interior of a house on the outskirts of S.C. de Bariloche, on the shores of Nahuel Huapi Lake, over the course of one full winter and the beginning of a spring. The camera, through frame-by-frame tracking and panning shots, goes along revealing furniture, corners, objects and books, using rails in the first instance and a calibrated disk mounted on a tripod in the second. The house vibrates with its own life, revealing almost ghostlike traces and vestiges while the human presence is barely suggested. These shots alternate with others of the landscape: a lake, snow, bushes rattled by the wind, the passing of the seasons, external signs that accentuate the solitude of the interior spaces.

Silueta Sangrienta

1975 • 2 min

An elemental film of flesh, blood, earth and water, Ana Mendieta’s Silueta Sangrienta depicts the artist’s reposing body on the ground, its trick disappearance, and crimson blood filling its indent before Mendieta’s prone figure returns.

Los Ojos

1975 • 1 min

Beydler performs the ultimate SoCal shade-tipping, satirizing LA art-cool with comic pixillated effect. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.

Dandelion

1975 • 18 min • Soviet Union

Based on the philosophical fairy tale “Dandelion Boy and Three Keys” by Alexander Sharov about the meaning of life and about the boy to whom the gnomes gave three keys. He had to manage them correctly and open the right lock.

Tales About The Cars

1975 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Three stories of lives of vehicles. First is about the bus, who considered himself a humorist but in fact only upset and offended people with his clumsy mischief. As a result, the passengers were able to explain him that it was necessary to respect others and not to cause them harm. The second tractor was about a young tractor with no experience, and the third is about a small motor scooter.

Kitsch in Synch

1975 • 4 min • United States of America

An abstract animation. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in partnership with the iotaCenter, in 2007.

Rape

1975 • 35 min

Rape has three victims discussing their emotional, physical and intellectual responses, then and now, highlighted and commented upon by a series of visual interpolations.

Tattoo

1975 • 20 min • United Kingdom

A documentary film based on the art of tattooing, tattoo artists and their clients, with interviews exploring the fascination for, and the reasons behind, choosing to be tattooed. The film builds up to long climactic scene, often since replicated in other films on the subject, featuring tattooed bodies displayed as art objects.

Shutdown

1975 • 13 min • United States of America

An account of a 1975 independent truckers strike.

Tarikhaneh

1975 • 17 min • Iran

A documentary about the ancient Tarikhane Mosque of Damghan

Night Horses

1975 • 38 min • United States of America

"Herbert's silent films are noted for their study of texture and motion and for his use of nude imagery. "Night Horses" is his longest and his most sensual film to date." (MOMA Cataologue, 1977)

Diagnosis

1975 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Philosophic reportage about work of pathoanatomist. Documentary version of Rembrandt’s «Anatomy Lesson».

Melek The Singer

1975 • 43 min • Turkey

The lawyer falls in love with the singer Melek, who is new to town. He goes to listen to her every evening. He offers all kinds of gifts to persuade the woman, but this woman who adorns his dreams never gives him the answer he expects.

Rastplatz

1975 • 5 min • Germany

City lights at night – and maybe dreams