All Films

O Ataque das Araras

1975 • 10 min • Brazil

Multiple film crews travel through Amazon.

Doris Day Today

1975 • 60 min • United States of America

America's sweetheart Doris Day offers songs and sketches with some of her famous friends in this smash hit television special from 1975. John Denver and Day sing a few entertaining duets, and funnyman Tim Conway joins in on a couple of skits. Then, Rich Little impersonates some of Day's legendary co-stars, including Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart and Jack Lemmon. Songs include selections from Love Me or Leave Me, Teacher's Pet, Calamity Jane and more.

Think Bike - Edward Judd

1975 • 1 min • United Kingdom

This punchy warning to motorists is a memorable example of the simple, take-no-prisoners school of public information warnings. Using a fist and an open palm, actor Edward Judd (in the tight roll-neck jumper that was a symbol of no-nonsense masculinity in the late 1970s), demonstrates the impact of a collision between a car and a motorbike at a junction. Some alarmingly convincing simulated crash footage helps hammer in the message.

White Centaur

1975 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A Merab Saralidze Cartoon

Condition of Illusion

1975 • 32 min • United Kingdom

The practice of Structural/Materialist Film is defined in...process, construction, displaced reflexively...not displaced uniformly into the pattern of a narrative bound up for the stable subject-centred image. Structural/Materialist film has no place for the look, ceaselessly displaced, outphased, a problem of seeing, it is anti-voyeuristic.

Stay Alive in '75

1975 • 12 min

Ebenezer Jones is visited by the Ghost of Hospitality Past in the night, who confronts him about his mediocre customer service at a Holiday Inn. Will a vision of a desolate Hospitality Future make Ebenezer change his ways?

Henry James' The Jolly Corner

1975 • 43 min • United States of America

Expatriate Spencer Brydon returns to his now-empty childhood home, and finds himself obsessed with what his life would have been, had he not left America.

Geometrics of the Kabbalah

1975 • 11 min • United States of America

Geometrics of the Kabbalah (1975) Short film Dir. Storm De Hirsch "5 is water, 5 is the letter X. 5 is distance. 5 says no. 5 laughs when divided into 2. 5 swims backwards, and space is five. The cherry tree is one. The hurt is 1 plus 1, the wish is two. The wonder three. The absence four, and the five is the Universe. The Universe in the head, the universe in the eye, the sky and the waterdrop."–from Brook 16, "Source Books of Storm De Hirsch," 9/24/66.

The Laboured Party

1975 • 20 min

This amusing short features a real life Labour party canvasser who comes looking for Dwoskin (never realizing that he's the camera man), and instead is treated to the provocations and manipulations of the housemates.

Rape Culture

1975 • 30 min • United States of America

That documentary helps to shape consciousness about sexism and violence against women.

La odisea de los muñecos

1975 • 59 min

Mexican feature film

Only a Fool Breaks the 2 Second Rule - Hospital

1975 • 1 min • United Kingdom

A shadowy man in black warns viewers of the perils of forgetting to follow the simple two second rule - that is, keeping a sufficient distance from the car ahead when driving. Directed by John Krish, who made numerous similarly macabre films, this is one of three public information films produced as a series on public road safety. The images from the series may no longer be familiar to everyone, but the slogan is still in use today.

The Art of Silence: Youth Maturity Old Age and Death

1975 • 8 min • United Kingdom

One in a series of twelve films in which the great French mime Marcel Marceau performs some works from his repertoire. In his introduction Marceau calls mime the essence of life and suggests that it can reach the soul through silence. In this pantomime he expresses life from the womb to the grave in a few minutes and illustrates one of the art's most notable characteristics - its ability to condense time and to create through time the pulse of humanity.

Fatma 75

1975 • 60 min • Tunisia

A pioneering film from Tunisia, Fatma 75 is the first non-fiction film by a Tunisian woman, a feminist essay film, and the first in a series of powerful films about strong female figures in the country. The film was made in the UN International Women's Year 1975, and has long been recognised as one of the most important films from North Africa, but has never officially been seen before due to censorship.

Los 7 pecados capitales

1975 • 60 min • Mexico

Mexican feature film

Mistress of Copper Mountain

1975 • 21 min • Soviet Union

A puppet cartoon based on the tale of the same name by Pavel Petrovich Bazhov. About how Danila the Master heard about the stone flower. Whoever sees this flower at least once at the Mistress of the Copper Mountain will forever lose his peace, so good is this work. Danila spent many days in captivity in the magical underground domains of the Mistress of the Copper Mountain, learning the craft.

Blood

1975 • 21 min • United States of America

A funny, bitter look at middle-class youth trying to be tough in the trappings of pornography, drugs and quick money. A film about desperation in the New York streets.

So Can I

1975 • 5 min • Iran

Two children watching animals move in an animated film try to imitate their gestures — until they see real birds fly and a real airplane take off.

Shooting Range

1975 • 7 min • Poland

Athletes wearing shooting targets on their chests hurdle. It is a dual sport discipline, people are divided into prey and predators.

An Unusual Friend

1975 • 17 min • Soviet Union

Soup

1975 • 8 min • Poland

A couple's relationship develops in a combination of photomontage and animation.

We All Die, the Main Thing However is How and How We Live Our Lives 

1975 • 60 min

A look into the life of Holger Meins, the German cinematography student who became a revolutionary and a prominent voice in the Vietnam War protest movement. This film is comprised of interviews with his associates. 16mm, color & b/w

Cracks

1975 • 2 min • United States of America

The one and a half minute short tells the story of a young girl making friends with imaginary crack creatures, formed by cracks in her bedroom wall, before encountering the unnerving "Crack Master".

Nam June Paik: Edited for Television

1975 • 28 min

Produced for public television station WNET/Thirteen in New York, Nam June Paik: Edited for Television is a provocative portrait of the artist, his work and philosophies. This fascinating document features an interview of Paik by art critic Calvin Tompkins (who wrote a New Yorker profile of the artist in 1975) and ironic commentary by host Russell Connor. Taped in his Soho loft, with the multi-monitor piece Fish Flies on Sky suspended from the ceiling, Paik elliptically addresses his art and philosophies in the context of Dada, Fluxus, the Zen Koan, John Cage, Minimal art, information overload and technology.