All Films

Poison River

1975 • 33 min • Iran

A film by Kianoush Ayari

An Italian Family: Life on a Farm

1975 • 20 min • United States of America

This film presents geographic and cultural aspects of Italy with an account of one family living on a small farm, who, unlike many Italians seeking modernization, avoid mechanization in preference for a simple way of life.

Boy and the Illusionist

1975 • 10 min • Soviet Union

As a traveling illusionist he performed in the city square.

Children of the Golden West

1975 • 59 min

A provocative documentary kaleidoscope of Berkeley wit, defiance, insight, mania, obsession, and delusion ...

Raindrop

1975 • 11 min • United Kingdom

Following the journey of a drop of rain.

Halle-Neustadt: Stadt der Chemiearbeiter

1975 • 24 min • East Germany

Hands

1975 • 6 min • Soviet Union

A Merab Saralidze Cartoon

Bloodsucker

1975 • 21 min

A 16mm black and white remake of an 8mm color film done years earlier, this time with students enrolled in a 'dramatic narrative' summer workshop. Deep shadows dominate this spooky saga dealing with reincarnation and revenge.

The Alphabet

1975 • 12 min

A particular favorite of mine, this film takes Rimbaud’s words one step further into the arena of “inane refrains and artless rhythms.” I used a Bolex with an extreme macro lens to flip and roam through the pages of Chinatown pamphlets, Victorian erotic novels, and American pulp fiction, zooming in on lines and phrases and grasping at the truth that the pages can talk and that the words have their own independent lives. The Stravinsky soundtrack sets the pace for this restless proto-literary journey. I also used a shadow puppet for the first time, a year before None Saved. - P. V. Z.

Human Flicker

1975 • 4 min • Japan

Live performance with two projectors. Human beings become shutters, if you flutter two fan in front of the lens. According to the movement, the eyes wink on the screen.

A Magic Bow

1975 • 11 min • Soviet Union

Mercer Street

1975 • 1 min

In Mercer Street (circa 1975), Hafif uses Super-8 film to track 28 seconds of subtle movement on the quiet nighttime street directly below her window. Softly lit by a single streetlamp, the film moves in near total darkness.

Rex The Singer

1975 • 9 min • Poland

Rex, influenced by music, begins to sing. He can recognize a harmony of sounds. The dog decides to sing by the window of a neighbor who plays the piano beautifully. She is better than a boy whose violin is out of tune. However, playing with a stick is not so great when you are a singer.

Whittingham

1975 • 37 min

Ray Gosling and Nick Broomfield spent three weeks in the hospital filming a documentary for Granada Television, broadcast on ITV on 26 August 1975.

African Gift

1975 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The boys from the Young Naturalists Club received a package from Africa. There was an egg in the package. Soon, a crocodile hatched from the egg. And as it usually happens, the crocodile ran away. The boys posted notices about the missing crocodile all over the town. And there was a panic in the town.

Polar

1975 • 3 min

A short film by Peter Bundy

The Girl and the Goose

1975 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The girl was planting beans in the garden when a goose suddenly attacked her. Out of fear, the girl shrank to the size of a bug.

TV Tubes

1975 • 7 min

TV Tubes is a part of a collection of video art works entitled Videocean by Vibeke Sorensen, created in 1975. Sorensen produced the video for TV Tubes using a Rutt/Etra synthesiser (raster scan modulator) and Grass Valley Switcher at the WNET TV Lab in New York City. She performed the video synthesizer live and recorded it in real-time. Sorensen created the music immediately afterwards, considering the video as a dynamic score for her original composition, which was realized on a large Moog synthesizer housed at the Electronic Music Studios in the Music Department at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Albany. The music and video were combined at the WNET TV Lab. TV Tubes has been exhibited many times in performance, on television and cable in the 1980s, and at conferences and exhibitions since it was completed.

Temple

1975 • 5 min

The array was the basic image upon which I performed a variety of operations. The Rutt/Etra synthesizer allows one to alter the height, width, depth, and the horizontal and vertical amplitude of the raster. The resultant image is displayed on a cathode ray tube and rescanned by a black and white camera which then enters a video switcher for adding outlines, color, wipes, or other images. I chose outlines and color for Temple , for simplicity but also because I only had two hands and could not modify everything at once.

Grandin, les raisons d'une victoire

1975 • 26 min • France

For a year, the women working at the Grandin factory in Montreuil, France occupy the place and lead numerous actions.

O Rendeiro

1975 • 30 min

One of the major changes in agriculture after the “25 of April” was undoubtedly the new Rural Lease Law. This documentary, which is naturally dated, shows a little of what life was like for tenant farmers.

Springculum

1975 • 10 min • Soviet Union

1975 Sketches

1975 • 3 min

Sketch reel by Bruce Wood

In the Name of Freedom

1975 • 20 min • Yugoslavia

Documentary about a JNA military parade.