All Films

Studies In Chronovision

1975 • 22 min

Film sketches constructed over the past five years investigating temporal composition via single frame-time lapse techniques: light struck metronomes, 20th century dust from a Mayan dream, horology complete with coordinates, Kodak vs. Timex. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

O parto

1975 • 36 min • Portugal

Documentary based on archive material focusing on the dictatorial regimen in Portugal and its fall with the "Revolução dos Cravos" (Carnation Revolution), in 1974, after 48 years of Salazarism.

Itch

1975 • 4 min • Soviet Union

Staggeringly simple films: a man itching his back, a man thinking, a man yawning, but like the works of Samuel Beckett, these minute gestures stand in as grand statements of the human condition, akin to the films of Bas Jan Ader and Marcel Broodthaers.

Chameleon

1975 • 10 min • Yugoslavia

If a demagogue, a man who draws arguments as he needs, tears his cheek, his real, parrot-like face will appear.

Essay über ein Fischweib oder Min Herzing

1975 • 15 min • East Germany, Germany

The last day of work for a 72-year-old fisherwoman and fish seller from Warnemünde. Amid congratulatory gestures and toastes, she tells her life story.

Wolverine Kills T. V.

1975 • 5 min

Short work.

Beyond the Mountains, More Mountains

1975 • 12 min • United States of America

Collage video of Haiti, using experimental film techniques, field recording, and relevant texts.

Two Black Churches

1975 • 19 min

TWO BLACK CHURCHES is based on fieldwork Bill Ferris conducted at a church in Vicksburg, Miss. and at a church in New Haven, Conn. Footage includes a full immersion baptism, congregation members and preachers at both churches discussing their call to the faith, and scenes from worship services at both churches. The film contrasts the two approaches to worship at each church.

A propósito de la mujer

1975 • 35 min • Costa Rica

It is based on real testimonies of six women from different social strata that reflect the misery, anger, repressed and silent suffering, as well as the illusion, the dream and the ideal.

Gaudi

1975 • 44 min • Japan

Since 1975 Kiyoshi Awazu has been obsessed with the "designer" Antonio Gaudi. Then there was no stopping this man. He went to Barcelona, took his own 16mm camera, made a film, wrote a book called "In Praise of Gaudi" and was the main force behind the subsequent tour of the Gaudi exhibition in Japan. (Ken Awazu).

La danza de los cubos

1975 • 6 min • Argentina

Stop motion animation short film made with hundreds of styrofoam cubes lined with coloured cardboard.

Parasolka and the Car

1975 • 9 min • Soviet Union

A man named Parasolka, who is forever barging into ridiculous situations, carefully prepared his car for the upcoming trip. Of course! After all, he's going to travel. And a beauty whom he suddenly greeted on his way completely knocks him out of the rut, inadvertently forcing do stupid things. Now, because of Parasolka’s carelessness, his car is completely out of order after drinking alcohol...

El zorro y los presumidos

1975 • 10 min • Argentina

Animated short film by Simon Feldman, based on his story "Juan el zorro".

The Chair

1975 • 7 min

In The Chair (1975) the glaring white highlights on a freshly painted black chair rhyme with multicoloured feathers that fall and stick to the paint, caught by both paint and camera, while the chair itself nearly disappears into the deep blue background. One take, a little over 7 minutes in length is a black wooden chair slowly being rained upon by large multi-colored feathers. There is no sound. The piece is Zen like and meditative transporting the viewer into contentment as feathers gather on and around the chair.

Tales of the Garden of Eden

1975 • 7 min • Soviet Union

A satirical and insightful story telling that that man creates the space around and can make a terrible place even from heaven. Thus, Adam and Eve fall there where nature blooms, unusual and rare species of birds are singing, and plants are fragrant. But these two manage to destroy the creatures living there turn the fruit of the apple tree into a self-made alcohol.

Ode

1975 • 6 min • Romania

A short animated film pursuing a metaphoric, “cosmic romanticism”.

Look at the Wood

1975 • 12 min • Japan

A short film by Keiichi Tanaami.

Perugia Ambulamatograph

1975 • 38 min

Avant garde film, made in 1975. Exhibited in venues such as Anthology Film Archive, Berlin Arsenal Kino, Filmoteca de Catalunya, Royal Belgian Film Archive/Cinematek, San Francisco Cinematheque, Walker Art Center, and many others. It's a film about seeing, and experiencing that.

Stille Nacht

1975 • 2 min

Short by Christina Kubisch.

Manhattan

1975 • 4 min • Poland

A man builds himself a small wooden house amongst the skyscrapers of Manhattan.

No Crystal Stair

1975 • 12 min

Montage of black music and poetry.

Still Lives

1975 • 19 min

September 23, 1973: A motion picture camera shooting through a portal in a church began accumulating images of an adjacent Arlington, Texas shopping plaza at the rate of 1 frame per hour, 24 hours a day. September 22, 1974: The camera was stopped. Meteorological fluctuations, this planet's revolutions (solar and axial), and the palpable presence of human cycles are transposed from slow daily change into rapid visual rhythms. The act of metamorphosis during the year visually displaces the pictorial arena in which the year transpires. Space, the image frame, becomes a manifestation of time.

Sketches on Living Skin

1975 • 17 min • Poland

The titular “obrazki” (ENG: pictures) are both prison tattoos and wounds inflicted on sons by their abusive fathers and stepfathers. Such a son is the protagonist of the film. After many years, he meets his biological, previously unknown, father.

Nathalie

1975 • 20 min • Germany

Short film about as little girl that suddenly disappears.