All Films

Aklın Durur

1975 • 59 min • Turkey

The story of a sharp young man's struggle against gangs.

The Changing Middle East

1975 • 24 min • United States of America

Discusses the history of the Middle East. Contrasts old ways with the new in agriculture, industry, etc. in emphasizing the changing image of this part of the world.

Magic Bag

1975 • 16 min • Soviet Union

About the bear cub Ivashka, who did good deeds.

Homemade TV: The Electronic Image

1975 • 29 min • United States of America

A broadcast presentation of Steina and Woody Vasulka's experiments with the electronic image. Featuring a 15-minute "jam session" of improvised video feedback art.

The Place Between Our Bodies

1975 • 33 min • United States of America

This pre-AIDS film offers an explicit exploration of gay male sexuality. Dealing with sexual love and sexual hunger this film shows how tenderness can enter into the male sexual act.

Avenue Boulevard de l'Opéra

1975 • 3 min • Spain

Short Film, On display at Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya; alongside Pa i fang.

Shadow

1975 • 5 min • Japan, Vietnam

A political work in which Ko Nakajima opposes himself to the Vietnam War.

Kiss

1975 • 3 min • Poland

„Kiss“ brings to mind the contemporary GIF graphic format, which nowadays enjoys massive popularity – a moving image suspended halfway between photography and film. It features a single gesture – originally intimate and sensual – that with time and repetition becomes absurd and unreal.

Das Zauberschloß

1975 • 20 min • East Germany, Germany

Hans, a boy with a thirst for reading and knowledge, sets out with his horse Robert to redeem an enchanted castle. His cleverness and fearlessness allow him to triumph over the spirits and break the spell.

Marihuana

1975 • 17 min • Chile

Institutional documentary about the use of Cannabis in 70s Chile.

Midas’s World

1975 • 30 min

Midas's World, a documentary depicting Phrygian art and culture, is the second installment in the "Traces of Anatolian Civilizations" series, produced by Suha Arın as a cultural service of the Turkish Touring and Automobile Association. The product of a year of intensive work, the documentary reveals that ancient Greek art and culture, known as the cradle of civilization, are actually rooted in earlier civilizations in Anatolia, particularly the Phrygians. For Midas's World, produced by Suha Arın and four students from Ankara University's School of Press and Broadcasting, all relevant sources, including museums displaying Phrygian artifacts and Phrygian settlements, were individually scrutinized.

Naya Daur

1975 • 9 min • India

A backgrounder showing the state of affairs which eventually led to the proclamation of Emergency by the Government of India in 1975.

The World Known as BAM

1975 • 17 min • Soviet Union

City-hero Minsk. It has been reborn from the ashes by the hands of Belarusian builders. This new home is being built five thousand kilometers away from Minsk by Belarusian guys. The village of Shemanovsky is now known throughout the country. Ten Minsk residents, members of the all-union shock brigade named after the 17th Congress of the Komsomol, are constructing a residential complex. Foreman Alexander Nikitenko and his team know that the industrial foundation of the BAM is being laid here.

Kufr Shuba

1975 • 31 min • Palestinian Territory

Produced by the Palestine Cinema Institute in Beirut and directed by Iraqi filmmaker Samir Nimr, the film is titled after the small village of Kufr Shuba in South Lebanon–site of a powerful act of solidarity between the Lebanese people and the Palestinian resistance following a battle that devastated the village. The film stands as a poetic testament to the steadfastness of a people, their liberation struggle, and their love for the land.

It's in the Bag

1975 • 10 min • Soviet Union

This Old Man

1975 • 23 min • Canada

A ghost is discovered in a deserted hotel.

A Pint of Plain

1975 • 38 min

'A Pint of Plain' was filmed on location in and around Shepherd's Bush, here in West London. Because O'Sullivan enabled his actors to use improvisation and gave them no formal script, the film has a raw, gripping and truthful 'drama – documentary' feel about it.

Behind the Scenes

1975 • 5 min

"This mysterious, delightful film opens with a sound collage of jazzy music and voices played against a black background. After a few minutes, there is an extended shot of a young woman sitting at a table by a window with a slight look of embarrassment as she tries to keep a straight face under the camera’s gaze. Made just after Shift, it continues Gehr’s early experiments with sound editing. It is startling in the context of his other work as his first film with a straight on close shot of a person." – David Schwartz

Locomotion

1975 • 16 min • United Kingdom

Collage film about the history of trains set to music.

Ali in Wonderland

1975 • 59 min • France

Ali in Wonderland unveils the condition of immigrant workers in Paris in the 1970s. It is a cry of anger against exploitation and racism, uncompromisingly raising the role of the French state, the media, capitalism, and colonization in this system of domination that crushes those who suffer it. In this experimental essay on the condition of Algerian migrants in Giscard's France in the mid-1970s, every aesthetic choice has a precise and legible political motivation and gives body and voice to a figure completely absent from the experimental cinema of the time: that of the immigrant worker. Abouda is one of the children of immigrants seen in the film, and not a simple activist serving a cause, which is why the emotion of her experimental gesture, which she throws in the viewer's face, springs from a ferocity inscribed in her body, from an insatiable anger that inhabits her gaze.

A Recollection... Hanging Rock 1900

1975 • 26 min • Australia

A documentary exploring the fascinating subject of the film, its production history and success. The documentary, which was produced by Patricia Lovell, features interviews with different cast and crew members.

Vocation

1975 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Documentary about three outstanding internationally recognized and awarded young professionals: sculptor Levon Tockmadjian, violinist Rouben Aharonian, Chess International Grand Master Rafael Vahanian. The film discovers some aspects of creative process.

A Salute to Sir Lew Grade

1975 • 50 min • United States of America

An All-Star salute to Sir Lew Grade, featuring Julie Andrews, Tom Jones, and the last public performance by John Lennon.

Man Alive: Xploitation

1975 • 50 min

BBC documentary that led James Kenelm Clarke to quit making documentaries and start producing exploitation films. Includes Pete Walker, David McGillivray, Hazel Adair, Bachoo Sen and a woman who never wears knickers.