All Films

In

1975 • 1 min • Brazil

Letícia Parente was a pioneer of video in Brazil, and In is one of her earliest video works. It depicts the artist entering a closet, suspending herself from a hanger, and closing the door. Parente used video as a political tool to protest the military dictatorship in Brazil, and to comment on the mass torture committed by the government. Much of her work concerned domestic space and its association with conventional roles to which women were expected to conform. Several videos by Parente transform daily household tasks into forms of resistance.

Rainbow

1975 • 8 min • Soviet Union

A fairy tale about two boys who were befriended by a rainbow.

Quarry

1975 • 6 min

Like gnomes, dancers emerge from and hide again behind boulders. Not to be confused with Meredith Monk's 1978 opera of the same name.

Grandpa & Marika

1975 • 11 min • United States of America

An observation of grandparents in their daily lives.

Pine Barrens

1975 • 32 min • United States of America

Pine Barrens is concerned with evoking through film a barren wilderness in south-central New Jersey. The camera is always in motion — tracking, pivoting, and walking through the landscape. Though they are never seen in the film, the voices of the local people, the 'Pineys,' are heard relating their feelings about the land, their attitudes about city life, their myths of the area, etc. their voices and the music of 'Bill Patton's Pine Barrens Trio' add a psychological dimension to the landscape.

Think of Me First as a Person

1975 • 9 min • United States of America

Documentary film and home movie about Dwight Core, Jr., a boy with Down syndrome. The footage was originally shot throughout the 1960s and 1970s by Core's father, Dwight Core, Sr. The footage was later discovered and completed by the filmmaker's grandson, George Ingmire.

Butterfly

1975 • 3 min

A 1975 work, Butterfly makes use of polarized graphic effects as Ana Mendieta's spectral body sprouts iridescent wings.

Quack-Bully

1975 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A cheerful company of frogs, once at the forest sports contest, takes part in competitions. By chance, their leader – an arrogant arrogant – manages to win in diving. Imagining himself to be an invincible champion, the Quack-Bully wants to prove his superiority in running, but fails.

Festa de São Benedito

1975 • 11 min • Brazil

In Aparecida do Norte, São Paulo, devotion to Saint Benedict has been constant since 1828. Folk groups from various regions of the country sing and dance, while the King, Queen, and their vassals, carrying the image of Saint Benedict, walk through the streets toward the church. The city is covered with rose petals and confetti. At night, after the solemn mass, a large fireworks display lights up the city.

The Prostitutes of Lyon Speak

1975 • 46 min • France

Documentary about the Lyon sex workers who occupied the church of St. Nizier on June 3, 1975.

Mechanical Ballet

1975 • 9 min • United Kingdom

The original material that forms the basis for Mechanical Ballet is an anonymous short reel of film of what appears to be car crash tests, carried out in a deadpan and somewhat cumbersome manner. Reworked into a two-screen film and divorced from their original context, they take on both a sinister and humorous quality. Mechanical Ballet was born out of an interest in ‘found footage’ film (in its relation to collage and assemblage) and the possibilities offered by the London Film-Makers’ Co-op workshop in terms of manipulation of the filmstrip and the film frame, projection, duration and the film printing process.

Strange Codes

1975 • 23 min • Canada

Arthur Lipsett’s Strange Codes is the legendary found-footage filmmaker’s first and only independent film, made after his departure from the National Film Board of Canada. In a rented house in Toronto, Lipsett stages a series of mysterious rituals, appearing onscreen in the guise of various characters, among them, an archeologist, a soldier, a scientist, a magician, and the Monkey King of the Peking opera. Dense with enigmatic gestures and private allusions, Strange Codes operates, in Lipsett’s words, “at the midway points between the primitive, ritualized world and the world of logic and science.”

Xenia on Tour

1975 • 13 min • Yugoslavia

The film follows the stream of consciousness of Ksenija Hribar, a ballet dancer from Ljubljana and a long time member of London Contemporary Dance Company.

Pisiasi

1975 • 8 min • Soviet Union

A car breaks down on the road. The inexperienced driver has no idea what’s wrong. He asks passersby for help. They dismantle the car, and the vehicle collapses. In the end, a minor issue is revealed — a stone stuck in front of the wheel.

Mädchen in Wittstock

1975 • 18 min • East Germany, Germany

Wittstock an der Dosse is located in the German state Mark Brandenburg, apx. 90 kilometers from Berlin. Volker Koepp came into the town in 1974 to interview women and girls about their work in the textile industry, their spare-time occupations, about their thoughts and feelings.

Love

1975 • 14 min • Poland

The heroes of this film are hands and a violin. We won’t see the hero's face, but we’ll notice a special relationship that exists between the musician and the instrument. It resembles real love. The man is able to make the inanimate instrument a living instrument.

Everything Visible Is Empty

1975 • 8 min • Japan

There's more to picture than meets the eye in this journey into oriental metaphysical imagery. Starting (in a very Christian manner) with the Word, the film draws an explosion of visible forms, as if a sign of the shattering of shapes in the mundane world. But time is cyclical, of course, and what was once a multitude of sensible realities must eventually return to the Word and, finally, to sheer Color. (Sound of Eye)

The Rubai of the Old Storyteller

1975 • 9 min • Soviet Union

About two friends, a Dyer and a Barber, who went to distant lands in search of happiness. They achieved success, but their friendship was put to an unexpected test.…

Robot Will Help Us...

1975 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Two schoolchildren decided to take the first place in the collection of waste paper at school, but they did not want to work alone and decided to use a school robot to achieve their goals. It would seem that school glory is guaranteed to them, but the boys did not take into account the fact that the robot's intelligence is not as flexible as a human's and it perceives the task set before it with machine zeal.

The Diary of Florica S.

1975 • 11 min • Romania

Director Eugenia Gutu offers a feminist critique of gender (in)equality under socialism in this documentary portrait of an industrializing town and its model citizen, Florica S.

No Chief Is Good Enough

1975 • 56 min • Denmark

While on a trip to Sweden, a group of Danish children wind up left to their own devices on a small, uninhabited island.

Alma, Silueta en Fuego

1975 • 3 min

Ana Mendieta, 1975

Juhan Liiv's Story

1975 • 25 min • Soviet Union

A unique film adaptation of Juhan Liiv's poetry, where literary symbols in poetry are connected with film images. The film set the task of conveying Juhan Liiv's poetry, his tenderness and love for his country. True pictorial poetry, born from the synergy of Hando Runnel's screenplay, Peeter Tooming's cinematography, Peep Puksi's directing and Lembit Ulfsak's poetry reading.

Night Bird

1975 • 9 min • France

A César nominated short animation about the impact on a small-town clerk by the arrival of a female hitch-hiker.