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1975 • 14 min • France

It is an attempt to put in representation of my own universe, my "I" being defined through friends filmed in familiar sets. This film precedes the serial movies that will follow. Nevertheless, the repetition is already very present for this film inspired by the music: that of John Cale, emblematic of my own passage from the rock aesthetics (Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, ...) to the minimal American music of La Monte Young, Philip Glass and Steve Reich whose composition processes will orchestrate upcoming films. Filmed with a Pathé Webo DS 8mm camera, the reel was shot several times in the camera in a series of layers of images overprint shot in Paris, Nanterre, La Défense and in the Perche. The filmic matter is apprehended in its thickness; I was very impressed by the film HYNNINGEN by Werner Nekes and Dore O.

Taped

1975 • 2 min • United States of America

The figure stood on the tops of two twenty-foot ladders, one foot on each ladder, and leaned against the outside wall of a warehouse. Two assistants took ten rolls of two-inch masking tape and stuck the figure to the wall, defying gravity, until sundown. –Jill Scott on Taped, 1975

Photophthalmia

1975 • 28 min • Germany

An adventure film, a journey into light. This film is dedicated to Joseph Plateau, the discoverer of the cinematographic principle, who while exploring the inertia of perception stared into the sun until he was blinded. I made this film because I love the ending of the 'Adventures of Arthur Gordon Pym' by Edgar Allan Poe.

Suite

1975 • 23 min

A portrait of Lima’s street mechanics.

Vibraciones oscilatorias (Günter Haese)

1975 • 10 min

On the sculptural work of the Austrian Günter Häese based on objects that vibrate at the slightest breath. The works of this artist allude to the natural elements of air, fire, water and earth, which is why abstract images, in negative, of the four elements, are combined with those created by the sculptor.

Gone! Up in Smoke

1975 • 7 min

A student film starring transgender burlesque artist, Barbara LeMay, performing a partial reenactment of her signature act, the “hoochie show.” The film was made as a final project for a beginning filmmaking class at Los Angeles City College, though the professor banned its premiere screening for fear that the department would lose funding over the title’s “lewd” contents.

I went to Kinasa during the summer vacation

1975 • 14 min • Japan

In the summer of 1975 I went to a farmhouse in KINASA Village - Nagano with my best friend Toda's family. Summer vacation sketches with a sense of intimacy. The main focus is on talking about the hearts of urban people who are attracted to nature, such as the color of flowers, the beauty of sunlight through the forest, and the fire of the colors. Music borrowed from Western album.

Tax: The Outcome of Income

1975 • 8 min

Traces the evolution of Canada’s system of taxation.

Fire Flames

1975 • 3 min

Optically printed frames of a flickering candle flame.

Le petit touriste

1975 • 24 min

A ’train movie’ in the Urubamba valley, where a young gringo seems to be having bad dreams. All the racket of the train and the sound of a local band punctuate the elliptical editing of a phoney narrative, which pretends to end in Cuzco.

Bette Davis' Last Try

1975 • 22 min • Italy

Edmondo Roth plays the role of Bette Davis in this campy dark comedy by Pier Farri.

On Becoming a Man

1975 • 20 min • Canada

On the occasion of his 21st birthday, Paul Wong walks southwest from his mother’s house at St. Catherines St. to the Quebec St. home of Kenneth Fletcher. Most remarkable about this video is not its careful camera work (shot entirely from a moving vehicle), but the driving that allowed for it – a feat that brings to mind the complementary (and collaborative) relationship between the shooter and the driver. On Becoming a Man was also the title of Paul’s 1995 solo exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada.

Ms. Muffet

1975 • 2 min • United States of America

Computer/ video interface piece by Bill and Louise Etra with Dr. Lou Katz.

Croisière

1975 • 24 min

Same Difference

1975 • 17 min • United States of America

Al Wong’s Same Difference was composed over the course of a year, a 16mm camera set up on a tripod in the artist’s kitchen capturing views of the San Francisco hills through a large double window. Artist Ursula Schneider sits on a chair underneath the window, her presence and stillness an essential part of the work. With Schneider’s body in the centre of the frame, Wong shot freely at different times of day and night, cloudy or empty skies, and experimented with in-camera effects and editing to compose complicated choreographies of light, clouds and atmosphere.

Bach and his Interpreters

1975 • 17 min • Mexico

Short film commissioned by CineDifusión SEP as part of the "Jornadas Casals" music program, centered around the Spanish cellist and, in this case, illustrating the music of Johann Sebastian Bach.

The Sea

1975 • 30 min • Mexico

Short film commissioned by CineDifusión SEP as part of the "Jornadas Casals" music program, centering on the Spanish cellist and, in this case, illustrating the music of Claude Debussy.

Petits Métamorphoses

1975 • 12 min • France

‘Small metamorphoses’ is the name of an old game: different body parts are drawn on cardboard to form various characters including a couple and a child. The couple refuses this child in order to forget the failure of their love. Changes take place in the relationships, the clothes, the gestures, as time reveals the truth.

極私的魚眼抜け

1975 • 9 min • Japan

This work was created by wondering if it was possible to make a fisheye image with a 16mm camera, and realizing that it was possible with a wide-angle lens and a wide-angle attachment, I found such a lens combination. Almost 150 degrees of the circumscribed fisheye. Because the fisheye lens replaces the hemisphere of the field of view with a flat surface, the image becomes circular, creating a centre and periphery. Using this as a metaphor for the structure of the world, the film is a statement of the artist's thoughts. The music is borrowed from Mayumi Gorin and T. REX's album. Produced in 1975. The artist was 40 years old. (Suzuki Shiroyasu).

The Twilight of Tamsui

1975 • 26 min • Taiwan

A train rolled into Tamsui, a charming harbour town full of historical and cultural complexity. European-style architecture tells its colonial past, while Fujianese immigrants' influence stays present in local people's everyday life. Celebrated photographer and cinematographer CHANG Chao-tang captured Tamsui in the 1970s on film, creating a nostalgic yet melancholic concerto played by missionaries, fishermen, and tourists.

Pursuit

1975 • 23 min

Images of sixteen men and women are shown, one by one, as they run on a conveyor belt against a black background. They appear to be in a complete void. The camera films the runners from all kinds of angles: sometimes from the front, from the knees up, then in profile or a focus on one of the limbs in close up. The heavy breathing of their exertions is audible. The tight close-ups of the limbs lend the moving body parts an almost abstract, mechanical character.

Si Vis Pacem

1975 • 7 min • Poland

Troops are stationed on both sides of the border. The soldiers both arm themselves and mask with greenery. It turns out that nature is stronger than the human tendency to wage wars.

Three Dog Night: Soundstage Chicago

1975 • 60 min

Three Dog Night on Soundstage, Chicago in 1975. Setlist: One-- The Family Of Man-- Shambala-- An Old Fashion Love Song-- 'Till The World Ends-- Try A Little Tenderness-- Pianola Rag-- Pieces Of April-- Eli's Coming-- Celebrate-- The Show Must Go On-- Joy To The World

Phenix

1975 • 15 min • United States of America

I dedicated Phenix to my father Franjo Zdravič, reconstructive surgeon, because he opened a new world of beauty and meaning for me. For some two weeks he led my way through rooms of very special climate - Ljubljana Medical Centre Burns Department - where threads of sighs, of nightmarish dreams, of misery, of compassion, of joy, are woven with hands of calm determination: to inflict wounds to a living being in order to give him/her a new form and function. - AZ