All Films

Change by Degrees

1975 • 10 min • Canada

From the flat roof of his old house, a young Nova Scotian turns and takes a 360o look at life in Sambro, Nova Scotia, the small coastal village where he now lives.

Cruisin' J-Town

1975 • 30 min

Celebrates the music and influences of contemporary Asian American culture on Dan Kuramoto, June Okida Kuramoto, and Johnny Mori — three musicians who make up the core of the jazz fusion band Hiroshima. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Visual Communications in 2011.

Matchbox

1975 • 5 min

Experimental short film about sound and cigarettes

Out They Go

1975 • 20 min • Australia

The lively atmosphere of Sydney’s famous landmark, Paddy’s Market in Haymarket, documented on film before the market moved to a new location. A Film Australia crew gets up early to shoot the stall holders selling fruit, vegetables and all things second hand. Shot in vibrant colour Out They Go captures the earthy dignity and vitality of the workers at the market as they go about their business, right in the heart of the city.

A Girl

1975 • 29 min • Japan

Smoke-cross

1975 • 2 min • Switzerland

8mm film by Swiss artist Roman Signer.

Esculturas para un paisaje

1975 • 28 min • Spain

Art documentary on the sculptures of the Mediterranean highway.

I'm Mad at You

1975 • 8 min

Vignettes illustrating situations in which children feel angry at others.

Study II.

1975 • 11 min

The extreme forms of light experiments conducted with candles in the intersection of early cinema and avant-garde experiments. The film image is the unforgettable, self-reflective stratification of abstract studies.

Notre-Dame du Roncier

1975 • 7 min • France

Pardon of Josselin in 1975

Songs For Spring

1975 • 15 min • Soviet Union

A film fairytale about birds living in Estonian forests.

Imago

1975 • 10 min • Italy

It is the attempt to initiate an analytical discourse on the image, alternating visual events with written words which reflect on the image [...] and which, on the screen, become images themselves. The relationship between word and image here is often reversed, sometimes juxtaposed, always slightly shifted. In this film, the feeling of the image as a "phenomenon" returns.

El sueño, o la estrella

1975 • 12 min

A short comedy film, among the first films directed by Pedro Almodovar

Filmabuse (Original)

1975 • 1 min

Abstract, direct animation consisting of triangular shapes that flow past the frame. Apparently the source for "Filmabuse" (F.2011-01-0262) and "Filmabuse Loop" (F.2011-01-0263), this original painted material is presented in an edge-to-edge scan to replicate the look of the unslit double 8mm object. Although no date information is available, it was likely produced circa 1975 ahead of the other "Filmabuse" elements.

Plastopornicon

1975 • 5 min • United States of America

Rubber miniature about a man, a woman and a dog.

Armchair Inventions

1975 • 3 min

An animation shown on Sex Toons.

Dillī Dallī Minku parkā

1975 • 9 min • Soviet Union

An Unfashionable Tragedy

1975 • 27 min

In 1974, when famine hit the country, Pilger returned to Bangladesh to make An Unfashionable Tragedy. It contains harrowing scenes of starving children but also puts the horrors into a geopolitical context. This is Pilger’s first documentary to highlight his theme of expendability, whereby countries with no oil, strategic value or military power are considered unimportant to the superpowers. Bangladesh, he points out, is not one of the United States’s “client states” on a priority list to receive its surplus food.

Applied Magnetics

1975 • 43 min

The fight of the Portuguese workers of the company Applied Magnetics against the American employers, who resourced to the Ministry of Labour after not feeling vindicated by their requests for better working and living conditions. After an attempt of reconversion of the factory and a contact with the embassies of other socialist countries, they decide to deliver the facilities to GNR (Portuguese Nacional Republican Guard), due to the lack of perspectives, and find other jobs. The film is composed by images of interviews to women workers and abandoned facilites; and theatrical representations about the process of their struggle.

Josépha

1975 • 13 min • Central African Republic, France

Pilot film for a series of programs on the condition of women of color in Europe. Here, the famous black beautician and hairstylist from Paris, Josepha. Josepha talks about her job, her problems, explains the action she takes at the aesthetic level to disalienate her clients of color, who are too often tempted to refuse their blackness and imitate Europeans.

Smashing Kids

1975 • 26 min

Children growing up in poverty is the subject of Smashing Kids, 1975. John Pilger meets the Hopwoods, of Liverpool, where hunger has become a way of life during father Harry’s unemployment as his family of five survive on £1 a day. The wallpaper in their council house is torn and there are no clothes in the couple’s wardrobe and no sheets on their bed. The family have never had a holiday and Harry tells Pilger: “It would be easier to serve time than to put up with this.”

Alcohol: Pink Elephant

1975 • 16 min • United States of America

Discusses causes, symptoms, and treatment of alcoholism. Points out that alcoholism is a disease which involves both physical and mental dependency, requiring both physical and mental treatment.

We're Here to Stay

1975 • 28 min • Canada

Farm families in Lestock, Saskatchewan, have pooled their resources so that rising operating costs will not drive them off their land. By pooling their land, their equipment, their livestock, and farming as a cooperative, they are able to live as they choose, to maintain their standard of living, and even to have some spare time left over to enjoy. An engaging look at a novel approach to big-scale farming.

You're Lucky Jo

1975 • 10 min • Poland

Savage cowboys from the Wild West, Billy and Jo, meet again. This time there will be no duel - the barrels of their pistols are so hot that they burn their pockets. As a result of a malfunction, the saloon becomes dark.