All Films

Tutti Tutti Buona Gente, Propriamente Buona

1975 • 28 min • Brazil

The elements of Tutti Tutti buona gente, the inaugural film of the documentary phase of Orlando Bomfim Netto's cinema, are organized in a chronological and lyrical structure that covers the 100 years of Italian colonization in Brazil and in Espirito Santo, their stories and customs. A portrait of the community of descendants of the inland city of Santa Teresa.

On the Forest Trail

1975 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Beware — the Nerves!

1975 • 7 min • Soviet Union

Every day, almost every adult faces situations in which they inevitably begin to feel negative emotions. It often begins with waking up with an annoying warbling alarm, followed by transport, where is so many people in a hurry, and after all this the working day begins with the inherent responsibility and stress. And it is possible not to be nervous?

This is CEEFAX

1975 • 23 min • United Kingdom

A look-behind-the-scenes at a television development that could be in everyone's home in just a few years' time. Reporter Angela Rippon tells the story of CEEFAX - the BBC's latest form of broadcasting. She visits Kingswood Warren where BBC Research Department 'boffins' developed it; and looks at some of its uses: News, weather, travel, sports results, farm prices and business information.

Illusion

1975 • 12 min • Canada

A group of schoolchildren playing in an idyllic natural landscape are visited by a mysterious magician who entertains them with his transformations. But he soon proves sinister as he begins to transform the landscape into a grim, unsmiling metropolis.

La femme, l’homme

1975 • 54 min

"With a sly nose-thumbing attitude for the tired rigors of documentary sociology, LA FEMME, L’HOMME sees the filmmaker asking women from a variety of personal backgrounds for their opinions on the future of femininity – anticipating the interviews with working-class women that formed the backbone of her second theatrical feature MON CŒUR EST ROUGE." - Spectacle Theater

The ABC's of Sex Education for Trainable Persons

1975 • 20 min • United States of America

This training film is meant for professionals who work with the mentally impaired, and is meant to teach them how to help their patients deal with sexual issues.

Death of the Rat

1975 • 6 min • France

A factory siren sounds, workers punch in, the machinery starts... Aubier makes use of a series of successive pictures to portray the series of events that completes a cycle.

At Any Place 2

1975 • 3 min • Japan

This film was made for a 3 minutes film festival held in Japan. A cup noodle is ready in 3 minutes.

Cerro de leones

1975 • 26 min • Argentina

Short film about the strike of the stonebreakers in Tandil, early 20th century.

Kites and Other Tales

1975 • 13 min

Modern kite maker Tom Joe seeks to preserve the craft of kite making as well as the traditional Asian folklore behind it. Alan Takemoto illustrates Tom Joe’s tales of the Polynesian fish kite made from leaves and branches to fool fish; the Chinese general whose trapped army fashioned a fighting kite; and Shirone, the “kite crazy town” in Japan where 20-foot fighting kites duel in magnificent matches. Children will be inspired to try making these kites.

Salmon Pink

1975 • 7 min • United States of America

The Pink Panther meets a friendly salmon at the beach and keeps him as a pet.

Knock Down

1975 • 17 min • Poland

Impressions about fighting the passing of time, living in a constant hurry and the uphill battle of finding the natural tempo to life itself.

Hobo and the Runaway

1975 • 32 min

A young boy runs away from home with his dog Hobo and falls asleep in a train car. He has a dream about a scary run-in with an evil hobo and learns an important lesson about obeying his parents.

Saveiros

1975 • 8 min • Brazil

Gerson Tavares interviews fishermen and observes the traditional fishing activity in danger of extinction.

Pas de Trois

1975 • 4 min

An analysis of film’s persistent relationship to sexuality, mediated by allusions to early cinema’s flicker, and other aggressive qualities of the cinematic apparatus.

Elasticity

1975 • 26 min • United States of America

Impressionistic surrealism in three acts. The approach is literary experimental with optical effects. There are three mental states that are interesting: amnesia, euphoria and ecstasy. Amnesia is not knowing who you are and wanting desperately to know. I call this the White Night. Euphoria is not knowing who you are and not caring. This is the Dream of Meditation. Ecstasy is knowing exactly who you are and still not caring. I call this the Memory of the Future. This is an autobiographical film funded by the American Film Institute.

Laocoon & Sons: The Story of the Transformation of Esmeralda del Rio

1975 • 50 min • Germany

Once upon a time there was a country known by the name of Laura Molloy. Laura Molloy was the name of this country. Only women lived in Laura MolloyEsmeralda del Rio was a woman. One day Esmeralda del Rio had the idea to undergo a series of transformations, which were to take her very far. So far did she go that she had no way of knowing how far she had gone. Two things were certain: Esmeralda del Rio was blond and in her own way she practiced a kind of magic which I would like to call 'blond magic'.

The Big City

1975 • 8 min • Mexico

A short film that takes us on a small auditory and visually remarkable journey through parts of Mexico City.

She Has a Beard

1975 • 27 min

Breath/Light/Birth

1975 • 6 min

Video transformations of documentary footage of a woman giving birth, assisted by members of a religious commune. Isolation confronts the communal, the gruesome confronts the holy in this most mysterious of events.

Rainbow's Children

1975 • 24 min • United States of America

In 'Rainbow's Children', Lloyd Williams reveals the dreamer awakening; erotic displacements of dreams are transformed into the erotic realities of life itself – although still poetically suffused with a dream like languor which the filmmaker cannot escape. The texture of flesh, the ambiguity of longing and the colors of psychedelic apotheosis all merge into a languorous ecstasy which Lloyd Williams is adept in translating into the medium of film. All the varieties of film technique: slow motion, multiple-exposure, fast motion, camera in full flight and frozen image, he uses for the revelation of his intense fantasy, whether from dreams or from real-life or from hallucinated contemplation. His work shows that the dreamer is, indeed, awakening into a whole new world of erotic fantasy, muted with desire. If hard core films shock you, the films of Lloyd Williams will caress you." –Charles Boultenhouse

The Most Expensive Drawing

1975 • 6 min • Soviet Union

A cartoon about a young artist, a brave and fearless boy who painted wonderful paintings for toddlers. Kids made kites out of painted boats, birds, and small animals and had fun launching them into the sky.…

An Imperial Message

1975 • 54 min • Hungary

An Imperial Message is a 1975 Hungarian experimental film directed by László Najmányi. The 'story' was based on Franz Kafka's short story Eine kaiserliche Botschaft.