All Films

The Meadows Green

1975 • 23 min • United States of America

Fantastical, larger-than-life puppetry and rambunctiously playful choreography is framed against an Edenic backdrop of Vermont farm country in George Griffin and DeeDee Halleck’s luminous, lyrical short film, which documents the 1974 edition of the Bread and Puppet Theater’s annual Domestic Resurrection Circus, taking place soon after the company’s relocation from downtown Manhattan to the rural New England enclave where it remains headquartered to this day.

See

1975 • 13 min • United States of America

View up close some of the smaller inhabitants of the Red Sea off the coast of Sudan - a world filled with strange, fascinating, and often comic creatures.

House

1975 • 8 min • Yugoslavia

Film about a cozy household.

Valerie

1975 • 16 min

This stunning, verité portrait of a Black transgender sex-worker living as a housewife in Ohio is a remarkable time capsule and a testament to a life of perseverance. The namesake protagonist speaks candidly about her dual life and addresses the prison industrial complex through which she is perpetually churned, as a queer person of color in the Midwest of the 1970s, a sex worker and a transgender woman, during a period when “cross-dressing” was still illegal and punishable with prison time.

Two Solutions to One Problem

1975 • 6 min • Iran

During breaktime, Dara and Nader have a fierce argument about a torn exercise book that the former has given back to the latter. There are two possible outcomes, which the film shows one after the other. One is that Dara wants to get his own back, and the two boys start a violent fight; the other is that they work together to mend the exercise book with a little glue.

How The Hedgehog And The Bear Celebrated The New Year

1975 • 8 min • Soviet Union

Teddy Bear comes to the Hedgehog on a visit to together celebrate the New Year. Because of the recent blizzard, the Hedgehog could not get the New Year's tree, so friends quickly went to the forest in search of a green beauty, because before the start of the holiday left very little time. They were looking for a New Year's tree in the forest, but they could not find it. But then the Hedgehog decided to be a tree, because he looks very much like it.

Teatro Brasileiro: Origem e Mudança

1975 • 12 min • Brazil

I'll Kill Myself!

1975 • 12 min • Poland

Short animation by Alina Maliszewska about two lovers trying to kill themselves

Carry On!

1975 • 8 min • Soviet Union

About a little boy who dreamed of feats and noble deeds, and how once he saved children from evil robbers.

The Housewife

1975 • 6 min

A study, in film animation, of a day in the life of a housewife, described without words, with a minimum of detail but with a perception all the more pertinent because of the simplicity of presentation. The film makes no judgments. It simply states the case, but serves as an apt starting point for any discussion of the role of women and the value of their work.

Carbon Copy

1975 • 60 min

In Howard Schuman’s contribution to the Against the Crowd series, Jamaican Albert Sharpe II (Warrington) is no longer at ease with the cultured white family who have virtually adopted him.

Give Me Back My Rex

1975 • 16 min • Soviet Union

The doctor hides the death of the dog from Serezha and gives the boy a new friend. A poignant story of loyalty and friendship.

Eat the Sun

1975 • 24 min

A mockumentary about the Temple of Self Amplification, a new age church where devotees utilize bio-video feedback to progress through the Tapasia Ritual, led by church elder Viduru Telemahandi, in hopes of achieving total enlightenment aka The Impossible Truth.

Wolf and the Seven Goats in a New Way

1975 • 11 min • Soviet Union

How the love of music made the wolf and the goats friends.

The White Seal

1975 • 24 min • United States of America

In one seal herd, a young seal pup with a rare white colouring named Kotick is born. When as he matures, he learns of the deadly threat that human hunters pose to the herd through their activities. While Kotick is able to save the herd on one occasion, he is fully aware that the threat is not over. Now he must take on the seemingly impossible quest to find a home for his herd where humans will never intrude.

Arquitetura de Morar

1975 • 12 min • Brazil

An enchanted journey through three extraordinary houses built by Master José Zanine on the seaside hillside of Joatinga, in Rio de Janeiro, surrounded by a stunning musical score, specially created for the film by maestro Antonio Carlos Jobim.

It's Pink But Is It Mink?

1975 • 6 min • United States of America

Jane sends Tarzan to catch the Pink Panther so she can make pink clothing from his fur.

The Star Trek Dream

1975 • 51 min • United States of America

A documentary about Star Trek: The Original Series and its fanbase narrated by Bob Wilkins, featuring interviews with cast members and important early fans.

Seven Shades of Pale

1975 • 28 min

From a quiet, neglected corner of Nova Scotia, a meeting with the Black community that shows both the traditional attitudes of the older generation and the more alert, resolved stance of the young. The old still pin their hopes on the church and the preacher, while the young look more towards the Black United Front and its roving director. For both generations change is a challenge. The common hope is for a fuller life.

Le bâton

1975 • 3 min

Black & white, silent - Wanderings in Paris, of a man carrying a large stick on his shoulder

A Terrific Train

1975 • 46 min • Turkey

No signs of life. A man at the train station cuts his way through the passengers standing still as if time stopped.

Komarov

1975 • 10 min • Soviet Union

About the adventures of curious little boy from preschool.

24 Frames per Second

1975 • 11 min

This film, and in particular the function of sound within it will vary freely from moment to moment, viewer to viewer.

Five Days in Falköping

1975 • 47 min • Sweden

Sofia has lived in the small town Falköping during her childhood. Since she left her hometown she has become an famous international actress. Now she longs to return to the playgrounds of her childhood, and meet old friends