All Films

Air Cushion

1975 • 2 min • Switzerland

8mm film by Swiss artist Roman Signer.

Tai Chi II

1975 • 5 min

“Tai Chi II,” similarly to Elam’s “Tai Chi Bowling” and “Tai Chi,” focuses on movement. Through a sequence of close-ups, Elam coyly records portions of several individuals practicing tai chi, primarily focusing on the practitioners’ extremities as they float about. Distinct from its affiliates, “Tai Chi II” finds the action taking place outside.

Fountain

1975 • 2 min • Switzerland

8mm film by Swiss artist Roman Signer.

The Ghost Hunters

1975 • 50 min • United Kingdom

Ghosts abound in Britain. Thousands of people have seen and heard what they believe to be phantom footsteps, abnormal phenomena, and ghosts of all shapes and sizes, sometimes even moving above ground level. Here, Hugh Burnett visits some of the people who have tried to track them down, or heard and seen things they cannot explain. The film ranges from a haunted house, a haunted inn, even a theatre haunted by a butterfly - to Borley Church where many strange occurrences have been recorded.

The Great LEGO Train Crash Disaster

1975 • 2 min

The Great LEGO Train Crash Disaster is a 1975 brickfilm about a collision between a train and a car. It was shared online in 2007 by YouTube user "f1lby", and was filmed by his father, with story input from himself at age 8. It is the earliest known brickfilm filmed in the UK, as well as one of the very earliest known brickfilms in general. It prominently features the 1972 LEGO set 171 Train Set without Motor.

Moon Flight

1975 • 14 min • Hungary

The utopian vision of a lunar spacecraft voyage that will affect life on Earth.

The Rainbow Bridge

1975 • 43 min • United States of America

Beach, sky and water are presented in prismatic formations that transform themselves into abstract imagery and studies of the light spectrum.

Public and secret diary

1975 • 20 min • Italy

A walk through the streets of the city. Work on the edge of a paradox, because it touches the problem of ideology in its own more ambiguous boundaries, hovering between the message of proselytizing and critical reflection, including the assumption of public responsibility by the artist - here he becomes almost a peaceful militant and political agitator, well beyond his role - and the “secret” size of the politics as entirely subjective passion and enthusiasm for life, but also as a moral obligation.

Euridice

1975 • 13 min

Integrative short film for a multimedia theatre play.

Parallax

1975 • 3 min • Japan

Vibrating photo of still life

Shadow of a Doubt

1975 • 52 min • Netherlands

In his essay film Shadow of a Doubt, Rolf Orthel – who married into a Jewish family, his mother-in-law survived the camps – probes what this means to him, as he goes in search of the past. “I tried to imagine how it was for those people, both prisoners and guards," he said in a 1975 interview with the NRC Handelsblad newspaper. To comprehend how on earth someone could participate in unprecedented mass murder, Orthel enters into candid discussions with SS veterans who were in Auschwitz during the war. These are not the top-level war criminals, but ‘ordinary’ men who often ended up there, rather than choosing this path.

Fughe lineari in progressione psichica

1975 • 10 min • Italy

Fughe lineari was born from the idea of ​​a film about moving lines. The lines of a female body are born, get lost, blend into the lines of the landscapes of technological civilization that attack, contaminate, destroy memory – or desire? - of love.

Ashtray Ballet

1975 • 1 min • United States of America

"I made this in 1975 while in college. It was my anti smoking response to Oskar Fischinger's cigarette commercials. It was aired a few times on PBS." –Jeff Scher

Rocket 88

1975 • 3 min • United States of America

Animation featuring Willie Makitt doing a "shuvit" maneuver, which would later become a standard trick among skateboarders.

Udo bekommt einen neuen Anorak

1975 • 12 min

Short educational film about Udo

Sicher über die Straße

1975 • 10 min • Germany

Short film about safe street crossing

Black Angel

1975 • 5 min

Short film by Ana Mendieta.

Villofolie

1975 • 15 min • Belgium

Shot with direct sound, Villofolie presents six people giving a monologue in a destroyed and dehumanized city: Brussels. The film dissects itself to reflect on mental illness and the inability to communicate. The group of people portrayed share feelings of abnormality, anxiety and loneliness.

Homicide

1975 • 52 min

Silent film shot on 16 mm in the 1970s by the actor Denis Develoux, mainly known for the main role he played in L'idole des Jeunes (1976) by Yvan Lagrange. In Homicide, in a neo-impressionist style (Dulac, Epstein, Kirsanoff), a cyclical structure presents the parallel destinies of characters with hieratic behavior, having no links between them. They symbolize "states": the heterosexual couple, the homosexual couple, female solitude, offering few prospects of happiness or fulfillment. From the film there emerges an impression of disenchantment which at the same time bears witness to an era and transcends it.

Open files

1975 • 9 min • Romania

A more experimental aproach to labor protection films. In the line of Săucan's style, the soundtrack is as important as the image, the threatening music, full of shrillness, composed by Ion Dumitrescu potentiating the visual construction that mixes - in a montage reminiscent of the Soviet avant-garde school of the 1920s - all kinds of shooting techniques and frame combinations.

How to Say 'No' to a Rapist... and Survive

1975 • 51 min • United States of America

Frederic Storaska gives a lecture regarding rape prevention at SUNY Geneseo.

Pressure Cooker

1975 • 7 min

A short film about sports ability to relieve stress.

Playing Safe in Animal Town

1975 • 13 min • United States of America

Puppet animation. Uses a story about animals to demonstrate and motivate safe behavior walking, playing, and bike riding, with special attention to the unpredictability of automobiles, trains, and pedestrians. For primary grades.

The Feat

1975 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A portrait of an unknown soldier, published in the memoirs of Marshall Zhukov, provoked a massive response in readers. In the dour face covered in dust, many recognized their sons, fathers, brothers. Sobolev brings the face described in the letters to life and each allows us to experience the transformation of his perception.