All Films

Roll

1975 • 9 min • Soviet Union

A lyrical sketch in the style of a silent film, telling the story of an artist carrying a large, long roll of paper across the city.

Zomo et ses frères

1975 • 19 min • France, Niger

A portrait of Zomo, the second of Damouré Zika’s many children. Employed at the zoo of the National Museum of Niger in Niamey, he offers us a tour, showing us the animals he takes care of. Then, when the work is finished, he invites us to an impromptu concert by “Jeunesse Gawey,” the “popular music” orchestra he forms with his brothers and sisters, who sing and dance for us pretty songs about their lives, their family, and Nigerien youth.

The Heirs of Victory

1975 • 60 min • Soviet Union

About the heroic past of Soviet soldiers in the days of the Great Patriotic War and the military everyday life of the soldiers of our days.

Conejín

1975 • 4 min • Venezuela

Experimental animation film about the adventures of a little bunny.

Um Caso Extraordinário

1975 • 50 min • Brazil

The story of two famous surgeons who are led, under mysterious circumstances, into the presence of an even more mysterious personality.

Beloved

1975 • 30 min • Soviet Union

The story of a young man named Yertaya, who returned to his native village after many years of studying at a university in the capital. During this time, his younger sister Alima grew up and fell in love with a tractor driver. And now she has to prove to Yertai that she is already an adult and independent person.

The Pipe

1975 • 6 min • Soviet Union

A film about how smoking in public places inconveniences those around.

Elegy

1975 • 8 min • Soviet Union

An experimental film about the eternal life of music, and about how it belongs to all.

Kirkby - A Self-Portrait

1975 • 60 min

A documentary providing an inside look at life in Kirkby, told through the experiences of its residents, including tenants, children, councillors, and factory workers.

Drawing—Black

1975 • 17 min

A work that continuously colors an image black.

With Pleasure, Savvopoulos

1975 • 50 min • Greece

The legendary long-lost documentary by Lakis Papastathis about Dionysis Savvopoulos features music videos of songs drawn from the albums *To Perivoli tou Trellou* (The Fool’s Garden), *Ballos*, *Vromiko Psomi* (Dirty Bread), and *10 Chronia Kommatia* (10 Years in Pieces). It also includes an interview and audiovisual material by Papastathis, originally presented during Savvopoulos’ performances at Kyttaro. Additionally, Savvopoulos performs together with Domna Samiou and Sotiria Bellou in a rare musical collaboration.

Summers Are Short in the Mountains

1975 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A pastoral symphony of summer life in mountainous Kyrgyzstan.

Unser Dorf soll häßlich werden

1975 • 28 min • Germany

In 1975, the year designated for the preservation of historical monuments, Dieter Wieland denounced the many architectural eyesores in Bavarian villages, the destruction of the traditional village landscape through the massive widening of roads through villages, the demolition of old buildings, and the construction of new, identical-looking concrete buildings and yodeler-style houses with lots of rustic kitsch.

The Mustelidae Family

1975 • 19 min • Soviet Union

An educational short on mustelids, their habits and care.

1-5 Counting Zoo Animals

1975 • 1 min

How many animals are at the Zoo? Count along and find out!

Ritual

1975 • 18 min

It's a staging of The Maids, which, set in the 1930s, tells the story of two sisters working in the house of an abusive woman. Genet's film begins with a ritual: the lighting of candles. It's a black and white film with complex lighting design.

Perspectrum

1975 • 6 min • Canada

In this animated short, simple geometric forms as thin and flat as playing cards constantly form and re-form to the sound of the koto, a 13-stringed Japanese instrument.

Reeds

1975 • 44 min • Turkey

Hayriye is afraid of the future. Every day, while waiting for his beloved Ali to return from fishing on the long wooden pier, she disappears one day; it is Ali' turn to wait.

Holiday

1975 • 10 min • Poland

Film unfolds in five sequences, each depicting a facet of Barbórka celebrations—from the miners’ orchestra wake-up call and the medal-awarding academy through evening feasting and dancing. Folk traditions mingle with party-state rituals as speeches for the PZPR Congress intercut candlelit toasts. In the opening mining-orchestra segment, dynamic editing syncs shot length to the music’s tempo, while grotesque staging casts engineers as conductors and workers’ movements as instrumental solos.

200

1975 • 3 min • United States of America

A psychedelic animated short celebrating America's bicentennial. The film " provides a short, impressionistic history of the U.S. through famous American symbols, including the Statue of Liberty; the Woodstock logo; the Liberty Bell; and Mt. Rushmore. The symbols are layered on top of each other, as can be seen from a bald eagle hatching from a red, white, and blue egg and flying past the American Gothic farmers, the U.S. Capitol building, the Golden Gate Bridge, Abraham Lincoln’s cabin, and an American bison. The film was directed by Vince Collins" (US National Archives).

A Very Easy Death

1975 • 8 min

A Very Easy Death is a profoundly moving end-of-life account of Stephen's mother passing away in a hospital. Taking inspiration from Simone de Beauvoir's masterpiece, Stephen's finely nuanced portrait of bereavement, takes the viewers metaphorically through songs and images.

Puberty - Part 1

1975 • 14 min • Canada

An intimate portrait of Marie Leo, a Sto:lo woman who was adopted into a Líl̓wat family as a baby. Marie’s gentle narrative of her remarkable early childhood demonstrates a deep connection to culture, land and family that continues to endure. This short is part of the L’il’wata series. In the early 1970s, at the outset of her documentary career, Alanis Obomsawin visited the Líl̓wat Nation, an Interior Salish First Nation in British Columbia, and created a series of shorts that provide personal narratives about Líl̓wat culture, histories and knowledge.

The City at Sunrise

1975 • 48 min

A documentary look into life in Saigon, very soon after April 30, 1975.

Caprice

1975 • 4 min • Poland