All Films

The Strangers

1975 • 15 min

"This film examines immigration to the United States from the late 1800s to the 1950s. Ellis Island is the focal point of the program, which includes reminiscences by an immigrant as well as live action footage and old still pictures" (US National Archives). This documentary was a product of the Young Filmmaker Bicentennial Grant given by the US Information Agency.

Obouyi

1975 • 22 min • Iran

A documentary about the daily life and customs of the people of the Oba region in Bushehr province.

Semiotics of the Kitchen

1975 • 6 min • United States of America

Martha Rosler explores kitchen utensils by alphabet.

Jujalarim

1975 • 8 min • Azerbaijan

The animation is made after a famous Azerbajan Childrens song from 1949 by Gambara Guseinli.

A New Sound

1975 • 12 min • Iran

An entity that is all ears, living in an apartment complex in a city with towering skyscrapers and full of (noise), finds life difficult to bear due to its sensitivity to (noise). It discovers a solution: a record that, when placed on a gramophone, broadcasts negative frequencies of outside environmental sounds. And the result of the (sound) played from this.....is the (sound) of silence… silence.

The Time of Apollo

1975 • 29 min • United States of America

Documentary produced by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in 1975 giving an overview of the Apollo manned space program, including the landings on the moon.

Coney

1975 • 5 min

Coney Island in the day, at night and during all the seasons of the year.

A Day in the Life of Bonnie Consolo

1975 • 17 min

A Day in the Life of Bonnie Consolo is a 1975 short documentary directed by Barry J. Spinello which presents the daily challenges faced by Bonnie Consolo, an armless woman, and her determination to overcome them. The film shows her driving, cooking, and shopping like anybody else. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

Hand Held Day

1975 • 6 min

"Beydler's magical Hand Held Day is his most unabashedly beautiful film, but it's no less complex than his other works. The filming approach is simple, yet incredibly rich with possibilities, as Beydler collapses the time and space of a full day in the Arizona desert via time-lapse photography and a carefully hand-held mirror reflecting the view behind his camera. Over the course of two Kodachrome camera rolls, we simultaneously witness eastward and westward views of the surrounding landscape as the skies, shadows, colors, and light change dramatically. Beydler's hand, holding the mirror carefully in front of the camera, quivers and vibrates, suggesting the relatively miniscule scale of humanity in the face of a monumental landscape and its dramatic transformations." -Mark Toscano. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.

New Book

1975 • 10 min • Poland

Nine cameras set up in a local neighborhood are displayed simultaneously as a man buys a new book.

Mauro, Humberto

1975 • 20 min • Brazil

Documentary about Humberto Mauro, his work and its importance.

To Reach the Sky

1975 • 9 min • Soviet Union

As children returned fallen star to the sky.

Baltazar

1975 • 3 min

A child plays on the beach; we are in home-movie territory. For years I thought I had made a film-poem, without knowing how to explain it, until Gilles Deleuze created the concept of "perception-image": A character acts on the screen and it is assumed to see the world in a certain way. But simultaneously the camera sees him, and sees his world from another point of view which thinks, reflects, and transforms the viewpoint of the character [...]. In short, perception-image finds its status, as free indirect subjective, from the moment that it reflects its content in a camera-consiousness which has become autonomous ('cinema of poetry'). (Gilles Deleuze, Cinema I: The Movement-Image).

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

1975 • 3 min

Appropriates the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio’s familiar production logo, stripping away the company name, tinting the background a deep hue of red, and repeating the lion’s thundering roar on a continuous loop, thereby highlighting the artifice involved in commercial filmmaking.

Film Gaudí

1975 • 5 min

When I first arrived in Barcelona in 1974 I decided to make a film about architect Antoni Gaudi's Park Guell. I found a film already conceived in the 1914 design; it was enough to follow the trajectories traced by Gaudi, imagine them as a labyrinth, reproduce the bursting of the mosaics through an analogous fracture of linear temporality. In the editing I tried to avoid showing passers-by. No human figure should get in the way of the appearance of that fantastic architecture. The stop-motion technique applied to the position and parameters of the camera still seems suitable for representing the undulating space of the park.

Car Booty – Gnomes

1975 • 2 min

Arthur Mullard and Kenneth Williams supply the voices of two gnomes locked in a car boot in this crime prevention short; another impressive example of the big names from film and TV in the COI's locker.

Red Tape: Collected Works

1975 • 30 min

Red Tape -- Collected Works Bill Viola 1975, 30 min, color, sound Playing Soul Music to My Freckles 1975, 2:46 min, color, sound A Non-Dairy Creamer 1975, 5:19 min, color, sound The Semi-Circular Canals 1975, 8:51 min, color, sound A Million Other Things (2) 1975, 4:35 min, color, sound Return 1975, 7:15 min, color, sound

Guacamole

1975 • 11 min • United States of America

Poetic surrealism. Approach is experimental in relationship of image and sound. A film about the loss of innocence and the search for the essence of the human spirit. Funded by a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Silver Street

1975 • 4 min • United Kingdom

Silver Street was shot in a single day from my student house in Reading, Berkshire, where I studied Fine Art. Shots were made indoors and outdoors every hour. I adopted a shooting system using consistent framings, interspersed with variations. The film contrasts the interior personal space with the noisy street outside. - Nicky Hamlyn

Observeillance

1975 • 3 min • United States of America

A lyrical tour guide takes the viewer on a trip down the Wakulla River in North Florida. Although the camera remains relentlessly fixed on him, his vivid, near-musical descriptions of Southern flora, fauna, and wildlife gives a better view of things than total visual mobility could ever allow.

Observation

1975 • 10 min • Japan

A scene of a street corner transformed through the use of a single gradual filter change and a superimposed shot of the position of the midday sun on 27 consecutive days.

Eat Me

1975 • 9 min • Brazil

Sunny Bunny

1975 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Animated film for children on environmental topics.

Bella Bella

1975 • 28 min

This documentary short is an introduction to the Bella Bella (Heiltsuk) of Campbell Island, 500 km North of Vancouver on the Pacific Coast. Since the coming of settlers, these fishing people have watched their ancient Heiltsuk culture and their independence all but disappear. Today, in an energetic attempt to become self-sufficient, they are regaining both - successfully combining economic development with cultural revival.