All Films

Pen-Hi Grad

1975 • 28 min • Canada

In Penticton, BC, most students graduating from the only high school in town know that job opportunities and higher education lie elsewhere, most likely in Vancouver. So, for one memorable week, they go through a whirlwind of formal ceremonies, wild celebrations, hi-jinks and farewells that involve the whole population of this Okanagan Valley community.

Genie's Space Adventures

1975 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Little Soldier

1975 • 37 min • Soviet Union

Once in a war movie, Avalbek "recognized" his father in a soldier walking with a grenade at a fascist tank. And no one dared to disabuse the boy of this.

The Chameleon Cat

1975 • 11 min • Switzerland, Italy

The adventures of a cat, who can transform into something else when a certain melody is played on the flute.

Herdade do Zambujal

1975 • 11 min • Portugal

A film by Manuel Bento and Victor Reia Baptista.

I Take It for Granted

1975 • 30 min

A portrait of a contemporary, artist and drug user.

Give My Poor Heart Ease

1975 • 21 min

In his warm snapshot of the Mississippi Delta, folklorist and filmmaker William Ferris sits down with music legend B.B. King and other denizens of the deep south to talk about the blues. Interviewing local musicians ranging from inmates at Parchman Prison to a virtuoso guitar-playing barber, Ferris finds the genre cannot be pinned down to a single definition or origin. The blues permeates the territory as an infectious feeling, heard in musical notes thrummed from impromptu instruments like broomsticks and axes, in addition to guitars.

At Any Place 1

1975 • 16 min • Japan

At Any Place 1, 1975, film, 16 min, color. Casted over the sky, images of people are suggested as shapes of clouds

Universidade Fluminense

1975 • 12 min • Brazil

Documentary about UFF on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of its foundation.

Giant Hands

1975 • 29 min • Vietnam

A schoolboy dreaming of building a giant crane and a sturdy dam finds himself inspired by the legend of The Mountain God and The Lord of the Waters. His reimagination sets it up for the future, where science and technology will enable a post-war Vietnam to conquer nature and move forward.

Barry White in Concert

1975 • 50 min

Barry White live in concert at the Royal Albert Hall in 1975 with Love Unlimited and The Love Unlimited Orchestra.

HSA Hospital Strike '75

1975 • 21 min • United States of America

A union of interns and residents at Chicago's only public hospital are forced to strike for better patient care. This film documents their eighteen-day strike.

Gift from Agnes

1975 • 20 min • Japan

"Gift from Agnes" is a movie that was shown at the "Toho Champion Festival" on March 15, 1975. It's more like a promotional video for an idol singer Agnes Chan, incorporating her poems. Finger 5's short film "Hello! Finger 5", which was screened in the previous year (1974), was well received, so Agnes Chan, who was a popular idol at the time, starred in the second one. However, this was the last time an idol short film was screened in the "Toho Champion Festival".

Уступите мне дорогу

1975 • 20 min • Soviet Union

Zero

1975 • 3 min • Austria

Found footage filmed by Russian soldiers in Vienna in 1945. On the soundtrack is “ The Flat Foot Floogee” with a “Floy Floy,” 1938, by Louis Armstrong and the Mills Brothers. It is also part of “ Das Lied vom Hofer” (1972).

Il Ballo Delle Ingrate

1975 • 31 min

Monteverdi's mini-opera, starring Cathy Berberian.

Angel and Big Joe

1975 • 27 min

Angel and Big Joe is a 1975 American short drama film directed by Bert Salzman and starring Paul Sorvino and Dadi Pinero. It tells the story of a friendship between a migrant boy and an electrician who has greater ambitions. The film won an Oscar at the 48th Academy Awards in 1976 for Best Short Subject.

Nós, no País 3

1975 • 20 min • Portugal

Part three of four.

Beat the Bomber

1975 • 17 min

A 1975 anti-terrorism documentary short written and directed by Anthony Friedman that warns employers and employees of public services about the dangers faced by the then IRA bombing campaign. Included as an extra on the February 2022 Blu-ray release of Friedman's film Bartleby, from Powerhouse Indicator.

Oh and Ah

1975 • 9 min • Soviet Union

The optimist Ah and pessimist Oh look at the world from opposite perspectives. The characters in the film represent common Russian exclamations.

The Ax Fight

1975 • 30 min • Venezuela

The Ax Fight (1975) is an ethnographic film by anthropologist and filmmaker Tim Asch and anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon about a conflict in a Yanomami village called Mishimishimabowei-teri, in southern Venezuela. It is best known as an iconic and idiosyncratic ethnographic film about the Yanomamo and is frequently shown in classroom settings.

Exósmosis (Francisco Sobrino)

1975 • 10 min

"The universe is rotary, circular, spherical, round ... / ... The street of our planet = three dimensions. The kinetic = Two dimensions. Analogous to the real, to the law of Universal gravitation." Maruja Mallo

Seven Little Flames

1975 • 12 min • Yugoslavia

On a clearing in a large forest, grandfather Vjest and his three grandsons live in harmony, keeping ablaze the hearth where Svarožić, the protector of the house lives. However, their shrewd enemy the Witch abodes in the swamp...

Giger's Necronomicon

1975 • 40 min • Switzerland

Inside the Giger studio creating one of his famous pieces, carving a mountain of clay into the famous "Alien". Experience Giger designing the Alien Eggs and the Derelict ship, as well as rare deleted scenes from the movie itself.