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Scenes From the Workplace

Scenes From the Workplace

1975 • 22 min • United States of America
The film depicts the complexities and conflicts that arise in workplace environments, particularly focusing on the dynamics between supervisors and employees in both public and private sectors. It illustrates various scenarios where disagreements occur, often leading to grievances that may involve union representation. Key themes include dress codes, assignments based on gender, seniority rights, and the struggle for fair treatment and representation in the workplace. The characters navigate these issues, highlighting the tension between individual rights and organizational rules.
Ginger Kitten

Ginger Kitten

1975 • 10 min • Poland
The misadventures of a hungry kitten.
Magic Pig

Magic Pig

1975 • 1 min
It all depends on your perspective. Created for Sesame Street.
Phantom

Phantom

1975 • 10 min • Japan
A psychedelic yoga lesson with some beautiful and bizarre visuals.
9-1-75

9-1-75

1975 • 22 min • United States of America
Twenty-two minute tracking shot through campgrounds in Southern Wisconsin
Making Sense with Sentences

Making Sense with Sentences

1975 • 15 min
In the land of Grammeria, a young lad learns how to construct sentences while a background monkey watches in silence.
A Suicide

A Suicide

1975 • 38 min • Turkey
The man wants to die and the woman wants to be famous. According to the man, there could not be a better plan than the woman killing him. This way the man will get his wish to die and the woman will become famous.
Recodo de purgatorio

Recodo de purgatorio

1975 • 48 min • Mexico
An unnamed man goes to a hotel to commit suicide with pills while listening to songs by Marlene Dietrich. But that act that seems to trigger the mere memory of places and experiences before dying, suddenly merges with other characters and dramatic experiences, which give life to a limit work, of desperate, almost intolerable courage, obstinate in dismantling all institutional discourses of the history of Mexico, without ceasing to use extraordinarily all possible cinematographic resources.
Hit Back

Hit Back

1975 • 21 min • Soviet Union
The film invites its viewers to reflect on where modern sports have come to. Does a young, honest and uncompromising athlete have a future in the sport or must he go along with the dishonest tricks and the mean game that comes from it all?
The Thing in the Basement

The Thing in the Basement

1975 • 13 min
Super 8 special effects sci-fi horror short by Dick Taylor, featured in issue 4 of Cinemagic, 1975
Arctic IV

Arctic IV

1975 • 58 min • Canada
This feature-length documentary offers a glimpse at the unknown world that lies beneath the Arctic ice. Arctic IV follows Dr. Joseph MacInnis, a specialist in underwater medicine, as he probes and explores the polar depth. Filmed at Resolute Bay, Dr. MacInnis and his team must chip through 2 metres of ice and dive into the frigid, watery depth at the North Pole - all in the name of science.
X-ray

X-ray

1975 • 2 min
In X-Ray, Ana Mendieta uses a Cinefluorography unit, a medical tool usually employed for diagnostic and research procedures. In Mendieta’s hands, she takes us inside her own head, filming her own X-Rayed skull while talking.
Television Assassination

Television Assassination

1975 • 14 min • United States of America
TELEVISION ASSASSINATION is one of two major works that Bruce Conner began in the days immediately following the Kennedy assassination and the artist's own thirtieth birthday, in the fall of 1963. While REPORT utilized montage and a strongly articulated structure to analyze the forces at work in the killing of a President (including our own complicity), TELEVISION ASSASSINATION is a complex, synthesizing work that weaves together fragments from the flux and flow of that history as it was in the process of being constructed and displayed daily to a nation of spectators. A monument to the enduring potency of the Kennedy myth and to the marketers who created it, the installation brings Conner's critique full-circle into the very medium that formalized it. In so doing, the work seems to suggest that the final resting place for the slain President was neither Brookline nor Arlington National Cemetery, but rather in the box, on the tube, held suspended forever on the television screen.
Asunción

Asunción

1975 • 17 min • Colombia
The vengeance of a housemaid against the family that hired her.
Padres

Padres

1975 • 41 min • Portugal
Padres begins with a fabulous shot. Instead of two parents, we see two cats, one black and one white. Without exaggeration, one could say that these cats are the first "parents" of the film, happily fighting for food, one more aggressive, the other more passive. It turns out to be a brilliant association in "sacralizing" the animals and eroticizing them.
Sensitométrie III

Sensitométrie III

1975 • 12 min • France
Large visual elaborations of Kirchhofer means most simple devices and childish in cinema archeology, Thaumatrope the Praxinoscope, all optical toys. This fundamental investigation of the batch becomes particularly clear in Sensitométrie III (Sensitometry III), where work on the range is very pure because it is accentuated by the open opposition between positive and negative. But the difference is that, where other devices seeking forms of regularity and stability to swallow motionless in the mobile, film Kirchhofer rather explore all possible rhythms, so to enhance the irregularity, difference, discontinuous. The parade always comes up against the still image, continuity serves monumentalize Meanwhile, the optical illusion is stripped and the beauties of the irregular explode. Nicole Brenez - Portrait Arte - May 2006
The Way the Eagle Shits

The Way the Eagle Shits

1975 • 10 min
Al Levin examines the system which functions to keep the working class in the United States oppressed.
Dance 11

Dance 11

1975 • 8 min • United States of America
Features a duet of sorts between Cynthia Anderson and specially processed images of herself. Similar in technique and intention to DANCE SEVEN, this film is in some ways more lyrical and languorous than the former, emphasizing the overall shaping of the body in dance, rather than isolated movement details such as the virtuoso footwork. Space is transformed into a viscous atmosphere of colored light, which seems to flood and blend in response to movement impulses of the dance. The dance itself has a sustained, weighted quality, contrasting the stable placement of the body against sinuously rhythmic movements of limbs. A mellow sensation of tension is emphasized by the dissonant, muted hues programmed by Chase, while feedback effects multiply, blur and dissolve the image. The sum effect is to induce a meditative mood tinged with a not unpleasant melancholy.
Shane

Shane

1975 • 3 min • United States of America
Experimental short, a looping 16mm color film portrait of a German Shepherd dog, with sound.
Earth Pulse

Earth Pulse

1975 • 5 min
A humanoid form strikes its body while making primal guttural sounds. At times the form is “stopped” and “started” using the pause of a reel-to-reel video player—a frozen line of noise (an asynchronous frame) cuts through the image reinforcing the sense of physicality. The sounding form is eventually set in an electronically generated landscape with temple-like forms of undulating feedback. Further processing of the voice and additional rhythmic electronic sounds are suggestive of ritual.
Murder Catalogue

Murder Catalogue

1975 • 20 min • Japan
Matsumoto's early video work Murder Catalogue, but there were few opportunities to be screened at that time since it dealt with a grotesque image. Digitized a half-inch videotape he had kept in his studio. It is a work that shows the original form of a mysterious narrative that later appears well in Matsumoto's work, as it is constructed to repeat an event through long-term filming of a video and monologues by a cassette tape recorder. A photograph is placed in front of the video camera by one by one and the camera zooms in mechanically towards the images. Also, in Matsumoto's voice, a short monologue about the photos recorded on the tape is played. However, the voice is suddenly cut off by the sounds of hitting and the screams of the terminal, followed by the camera starting to expand the different images in the same way, and the voice of the recorder is played over and over again. - Ex-Is
Drum Beat

Drum Beat

1975 • 2 min • East Germany
A group of drummers from various backgrounds gather together for a special performance.
Whenever Called

Whenever Called

1975 • 9 min • Poland
The sheriff appears whenever he is called by the citizens. He is extremely thorough, he muffles noise, cleans dirt and chases gangsters.
A Graveyard and Beggar

A Graveyard and Beggar

1975 • 12 min • Japan
A work of Video Earth Tokyo, it is an interview with a homeless who lived in the Aoyama cemetery. Photography by Michael Goldberg.