All Films

Glimtar

1975 • 16 min • Germany

The cabin in Sweden in summer

The Goose Maid

1975 • 21 min • Albania

Short animated film about a girl who takes care of the geese.

Zana and Miri

1975 • 6 min • Albania

Two kids, Zana and Miri, play every afternoon in the garden by their house. They are often careless and damage the flowers of the garden.

TV Sale

1975 • 10 min • Canada

The opening pitch of the television salesman pretty well establishes the tone of this pithy animation film: a solid-state model guarantees high-quality entertainment. TV Sale is an entertaining, incisive and horrifying satire on some of the material that is disgorged via the "boob tube." Programs are designed around the product, not the spectator.

Napkins

1975 • 4 min • New Zealand

White fabric hanging on the line as seen through the windows of a house at night.

Time

1975 • 8 min

Micro text film of the Nov. 1974 issue of U.S. magazine Time cover to cover.

Superted

1975 • 9 min • United Kingdom

Pilot for an unproduced Cosgrove-Hall series.

Nine Letters of One Year

1975 • 17 min • Soviet Union

Based on the letters of Anatoly Cherepashchuk. A schoolboy from the city of Syzran writes letters to a scientist about his attempts to assemble a reflector telescope. He asks for the lenses for his observation device and in the following letters tells how the work is going. One day, with the help of his telescope, a young scientist discovers a new comet.

Tien gedichten van Hubert Korneliszoon Poot

1975 • 30 min • Netherlands

Ten poems from Hubert Korneliszoon Poot from the Dutch farmer and poet Hubert Poot, who lived in the 18th century -declared by Donald de Marcas [actor]. (Wim Schlebaum)

The Tale Of Moose Baby

1975 • 15 min

In this documentary nature short, we are introduced to the animal inhabitants of a mountain valley, as seen through the eyes of a baby moose, named Moose Baby.

Persisting

1975 • 9 min • United Kingdom

In Persisting an image of the Yangtse bridge is re-filmed with a soundtrack of popular Chinese music and the legend “persisting in our struggle”. Kerr, who studied with Steve Farrer and Lis Rhodes at the North East London Polytechnic and participated with the latter on a series of performance pieces in the mid-1970s, creates strong iconic statements in his films, invariably from found images which are often banal. “Thee gap in between, perception and awareness of perception of moment is Persisting.” (Genesis P. Orridge).

La Umbría

1975 • 60 min

A mixture of ethnography, ravings and a vampire film, La Umbría tells the story of a family, dressed permanently in black and afflicted by tuberculosis, who live shut away in a mansion in a valley on Gran Canaria (the home of the painter Pepe Dámaso, who directs this film). An immersion in rural life and its people, imbued with extravagant visions midway between auteurist cinema and Hammer productions, ghosts of ancestors, imposing landscapes and impossible soirées.

Impressions of a Sunset

1975 • 23 min • Japan

A diary film composed by images where the director, after buying a CineKodak 16 (a pre-war 16mm camera) at a second hand camera shop, starts filming his wife, his newborn baby and his workplace.

Pression

1975 • 16 min • Yugoslavia

Šimunić uses double exposure to combine footage of people and scenes from 1970s Belgrade with garish images from television shows containing elements of pornography to create an illusory film. He joins scenes from everyday life with his penchant for erotica. This debut film, which took five years to make, uses visual games to explore the limits of the human perception.

Gamle

1975 • 33 min • Norway

A documentary short about elders in Norway.

Heart of Rock with Blood

1975 • 3 min

A ritual brings the stone heart to life.

Masks Of Grass

1975 • 7 min • United States of America

Shows children ways to create many different kinds of masks by weaving wild grasses into forms and shapes.

Filament (The Hands)

1975 • 7 min

In the politically charged atmosphere of the early 70s, Mikis Theodorakis conducted a concert of his music in Philadelphia. His music was banned in Greece, his own country, at that time by the US-funded junta. Visiting the US on a limited visa, he was restricted to musical appearances only - no public speaking permitted. His hands, eloquent even when their gestures are deprived (by silent filming) of the music they are making, speak. Several in-camera phenomena resulted from the highly-charged nature of the shoot.

Oregon - Live At Molde Jazz NRK TV

1975 • 37 min

Oregon live at the 15th International Jazz Festival in Molde, Norway August 18th 1975. Ralph Towner: guitar, piano / Paul McCandless: oboe, English horn, bass clarinet / Glen Moore: bass /Collin Walcott: tabla, percussion, sitar Tracks: 1. Nimbus 2. Rainmaker 3. Witchi-tai-to 4. Yet To Be

Performer/Audience/Mirror

1975 • 23 min

Using the mirror at the back of the stage as a monitor, Graham voices his unrehearsed observations, activating the various feedback cycles taking place within himself as performer, between the performer and audience, and among audience members. Issues of duration and attention are critical for both performer and audience.

Fannie Bell Chapman: Gospel Singer

1975 • 42 min

16mm color documentary based on fieldwork William Ferris conducted with gospel singer and folk healer Fannie Bell Chapman and her family in Centreville, Mississippi in the early 1970s. Footage includes Chapman and her daughters singing and praying during church services and at home, a healing service at the Chapman home, and Chapman "speaking in tongues" after healing. Members of the Chapman family also discuss the development of their faith, the call to heal and sing the Christian gospel, and their lives singing together.

Karl Marx

1975 • 3 min • United States of America

A picture of Karl Marx, his name spelled backward, three scribbles in a red, blue and black color : five combined elements that make a three minutes film. In case History forgets this man. J. P. Ceton.

Scopolamine

1975 • 13 min • United States of America

"Comfortably, as in its natural element, a camera swims coolly in the moltitude of the crown. It stares at an urban 70's America. An insistent melody in slow-motion gives a melancholic aspect to the show of these passers-by crossed and lost, the human crown of the time." -Cyril Hurel

Piano Rub

1975 • 4 min • United States of America

This frenetic, abstract work, created during Beams’s MacDowell residency, pairs direct rubbings of baby grand piano keys with Super8 footage of the process and a manipulated piano soundtrack.