All Films

Brooklyn Bathroom Piece

1975 • 14 min

Luiz Sá

1975 • 10 min • Brazil

Documentary about the artist, cartoonist and pioneer of Brazilian animation Luiz Sá.

Yaa Bôé

1975 • 8 min • Burkina Faso, France

Shot in a country inhabited by Mossi people (Western Africa), Yaa Bôé is a poem that calls for visual decolonisation, relying on the technical and ideological foundations of audiovisual recordings and connecting them with a theoretical text by Dominique Avron.

Made in Mississippi

1975 • 18 min

A 16mm documentary based on fieldwork that William Ferris conducted with African American folk artists throughout Mississippi. Footage includes Richard Foster at the "dog trot" house he grew up in, basket maker Leon "Peck" Clark, quilter Amanda Gordon, floral gardener Esther Criss, cane fife maker Otha Turner, painter and cane maker Lester Willis, and sculptor James "Son" Thomas. The artists discuss their informal training, artisic motivation and vision, and the value they attach to their art while working on their crafts.

The Knife

1975 • 4 min

In The Knife (1975) red light falls onto a knife against a dark background, coating the silvery blade inch by inch until it is fully illuminated. The experiment is then repeated in green, then in light red, next blue, and finally pale yellow. It’s a very Hitchcockian approach to creating meaning, as if all the elements - object, colour, space and time - had been isolated from the suspense, only to be reconstructed anew, creating silent, artificial drama. And, as with Hitchcock, the motifs are fetishistically charged: knife, dog, door, bird, lion: ‘...they are all Freudian in some sense’, observed Goldstein.

Mouth to Mouth

1975 • 8 min

English and Korean words appear on the screen, a mouth forms the shape of an "O," then opens and closes. Is this the beginning of language? In this early videotape, Cha isolates and repeats a simple, physical act — a mouth forming the eight Korean vowel graphemes — so that this ordinary action becomes something primal and riveting.

Notes from Light Music

1975 • 12 min

A compressed, single-screen version of Rhodes’ famous fusion of optical sound and image. Light Music was shown in a 16 mm single screen format (1976). This version is a digital translation. The ‘score’ is divided into five movements which are characterised by their differing duration, pitch and accent of sounds. – Lis Rhodes

USA Time

1975 • 8 min • Switzerland

Un Supermaschio

1975 • 25 min

Objects in Our Daily Lives

1975 • 6 min • Canada

Close-up photographs of baskets, tools and utensils used in the past and still used today by the L'ilawat of Canada. Printed notes describe the use of each item

Human Events

1975 • 5 min • Japan

A work with two projectors, Human Events is a film made for a dance performance by Kazuko Tsujimura at Kinokuniya Hall, Shinjuku, Tokyo. The images comprise of extreme close-ups of the dancer’s body that is massaged by a finger as the colour of the image changes. Arranged in a two (side)-by-three (down) composition, different parts of the body gets scattered in ways that defy the familiar order of the anatomy.

Red Light

1975 • 7 min

Like BLACK & LIGHT, this film is also made without a camera. The image is perforated directly by a computer into two opaque 16mm strips. But this time, an additional step has been taken at the printing stage: the two strips (printed in A&B rolls) are each filtered with a different color.

Ryszard Cieslak: The Body Speaks

1975 • 54 min

Ryszard Cieslak and other members of the Polish Laboratory Theater demonstrate exercises designed to prepare the mind and body for performance.

The Memory

1975 • 13 min

The precise portrait of a woman who is present and fey at the same time, who is as tired as she is courageous and who seems to have surrendered and emancipated at once.

Subway Loop

1975 • 11 min • Canada

This three-channel installation, from the Modern Television Loop Series, utilizes the qualities of real and edited time. “Three views of Toronto’s underground action; trains pull in, pause, doors open, crowds exchange places, whirl off into oblivion. It is mesmerizing, this subsurface world. You could sit and watch for hours as the hypnotic qualities of TV sets and passing trains act together”. - Peggy Gale, 1977, Only Paper Today.

Spectacle

1975 • 17 min • Japan

A psychedelic film using four projectors. The film comprises of thirteen scenes, including a woman and man shot from the front. Shot frame-by-frame, printed onto transparent cel sheets and layered on top of one anther, the halftone dots from reprographics expand and contract to create a moiré effect.

A escola nova

1975 • 7 min

Tour around a school in Espírito Santo

Rodilla negra

1975 • 14 min • Colombia

In this short film, the title of which translates as "Black Knee", a team of football players (played by members of the Barrios Unidos Cali team) encounter a pair of skinnydipping hippies out in the fields and steal their transistor radio. This seems to trigger something in their most legendary player, Jonny Mosquera: a terrible syndrome that makes him literally fall to his knees. Like La hamaca, Agarrando pueblo, Carne de tu Carne and other films made by Mayolo, this film blends deeply unsettling imagery and lowkey genre filmmaking into an equally unsettling and exhilarating realism.

Modern Pentathlon

1975 • 8 min • Poland

In his first film about sports Dziworski presented Janusz Pyciak-Peciak before the sportsman became the world and Olympic champion. But Modern Pentathlon is, above all, a little treaty about the physical endurance of man.

Homenaje

1975 • 10 min

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

Groundwork

1975 • 21 min

A poetic tribute to the establishment of the maple farm in Monterey, MA, owned and operated by JoAnn Elam's friend Bonner McAllester and her husband Joe Baker. Elam and McAllester were close friends since their time at Antioch College together, and Elam would return to the farm and make films many times through the 1980s. Using double exposure and occasional rapid editing, this film follows McAllester, Baker, and a group of friends as they live in the teepee first built on the property, dig the foundation for a more permanent structure, harvest and prepare their crops, and build a new wooden structure on top of the dug-out foundation. Elam films the workers with a focus on their bodies and hands, emphasizing the tactility of their labor, but at other times also foregrounds the ethereal quality of their natural surroundings.

Spring On A Roadside

1975 • 25 min • Soviet Union

Puple, Valerian and Asiko are elderly actors. People no longer pay attention to the famous actors of the past. The troupe went on tour without them. They gladly agree to introduce their art to the residents of the village of Fandauri, but as they arrive in the village they find out that they have been invited to the opening of the spring, and they are only asking them for a poem or just a word that touches their heart. The cheerful mood of the actors will be replaced by a sad one.

El circo mágico

1975 • 10 min • Venezuela

A young man visits the grave of his lover.

Petroleiro a Arder

1975 • 12 min

In the aftermath of the 25 April revolution, Ângelo de Sousa documents the shipwreck of an oil tanker near Castelo do Queijo.