All Films

Art Must Be Beautiful, Artist Must Be Beautiful

1975 • 51 min • United States of America

I brush my hair with a metal brush held in my right hand and simultaneously comb my hair with a metal comb held in my left hand. While so doing, I continuously repeat 'Art must be beautiful', 'Artist must be beautiful', until I have destroyed my hair and face.

Leopold the Cat’s Revenge

1975 • 10 min • Soviet Union

After another trick of mice, Leopold the Cat is visited by a dog doctor who prescribes him to take Ozirin to help him deal with mice. But Leopold doesn't follow the instructions and instead of taking one pill, as written in the prescription, he intakes the whole thing at once and goes wild.

100 Chinese Opera Masks

1975 • 6 min

"Just what it says." –B. C.

Funny Girl to Funny Lady

1975 • 60 min • United States of America

A benefit concert for the Special Olympics and an opportunity to promote Streisand's upcoming film (Funny Lady), this special was a combination of Streisand interview with Dick Cavett and Streisand concert. Attended by President Gerald Ford and a star-studded audience, the concert section features a handful of Funny Lady songs and a couple of Barbra standards. Streisand's Funny Lady co-star James Caan also makes an onstage appearance for a duet of Paper Moon / I Like Him and Muhammed Ali presents Barbra with a special award.

Black Chicken

1975 • 20 min • Soviet Union

Kind boy Alyosha saves a black hen from a bird of prey. The black chicken takes on a human form and takes Alyosha to a magical underground kingdom.

Cantos de Trabalho - Mutirão

1975 • 14 min • Brazil

Between 1974 and 1976, while researching for his filme "S. Bernardo", Leon Hirszman shot three documentary shorts produced by the Brazilian Ministry of Education on the chores of the men who worked in the sugar cane fields in the town of Feira de Santana, in the cocoa fields of Itabuna, and in the efforts of building households in Chã Preta.

Stairs

1975 • 25 min • Soviet Union

A part of Almighty Love

The 12 Days of Christmas

1975 • 4 min • United Kingdom

A short Christmas animation produced by Sheila Graber based on the traditional carol ‘The Twelve Days of Christmas’. The film focuses on Santa Claus as he introduces each of the twelve days to comic effect.

The Song Is Always With Us

1975 • 49 min • Soviet Union

A 1975 Soviet Ukrainian musical film by Viktor Storozhenko, starring Sofia Rotaru and the Ukrainian vocal and instrumental ensemble Chervona Ruta. The film features the ballet group of the Kyiv Music Hall and the Smerechyna dance ensemble. The film features songs in Ukrainian, Romanian and Russian.

Go, go! Zutorubi! Full speed ahead!

1975 • 32 min • Japan

A semi-documentary film depicting the appeal of the idol group Zuttorubi, which was hugely popular in songs and dramas in the mid-1970s. In addition to the frenzy of concerts held in Hibiya and Kyoto, the film introduces the four members as they work hard on their singing and dancing lessons.

W.O.W. Women of the World

1975 • 10 min

Faith Hubley’s first solo project. Using ritualistic Goddess imagery from different ancient civilizations, she creates a new history of the world – from a feminist point of view.

Legend

1975 • 25 min • Poland

"Legenda" is a document about a famous polish writer Stefan Żeromski. It serves as an interview with people who knew the artist.

After Manet, After Giorgione – Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe or Fete Champetre

1975 • 50 min • United Kingdom

Le déjeuner sur l’herbe is simultaneously perceived from four different camera positions in a work which engages with the pro-filmic in order to question documentation, illusion and the film viewing process.

Mining/Ironworks, Pt. 2

1975 • 30 min • Sweden

Nestler highlights visits by several German entrepreneurs to oil facilities. In the 1970s, Peter and his wife, Zsóka Nestler, collaborated on a series of educational films for television that focused on craft-making. These “biographies of objects” are rigorous investigations into the history of working techniques, production processes, and materials.

Observer / Observed

1975 • 22 min • Japan

Cameras observing each other.

The Impossible Truth

1975 • 4 min • United States of America

Albert Brooks presents a mockumentary in which he presents several shocking news stories. Saturday Night Live, Season 1 Episode 1

Short Films 1975: #2 (Dante’s Styx)

1975 • 3 min • United States of America

Begins with blowing snow, ends with lamp stand and lights of the city.

Vint

1975 • 18 min • Soviet Union

Gambling in "Vint." Strange and yet captivating with its unexpected twist, which was started one dreary autumn night by the officials Andrei Stepanovich Peresolin, Serafim Zvizdulin, Stepan Kulakevich, Yeremey Nedoyekhov, and Ivan Pisulin.

A Bomb with No Name On It

1975 • 4 min • United Kingdom

An early short film by Bernard Rose.

Pictures of the Lost Word

1975 • 50 min • Germany

For 50 minutes or so Pictures presents a series of static, or gently swaying images which are sometimes bucolic landscapes but more often industrial ones (sludgy harbours, power lines, abandoned railway stations or deserted factories). The interplay between the two sets of imagery is not simple. Wyborny photographs his modern ruins at their most ravishing – at dawn or sunset, partially reflected in the water or glimpsed through the trees. Shots recur throughout, optically printed into brilliant colours or else, given the washed out quality of fifth generation Xeroxes. As there are few people shown, one’s impression is of a planet that is populated mainly by cows, barges and hydraulic drills.

Seelig

1975 • 10 min • Germany

How the Cossacks Bought Salt

1975 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Cossacks cooked borscht, but ran out of salt, and what kind of taste without salt? They go to the fair, where they find out that the Chumaks who traded the salt, were robbed by the Evil Pan (local feudal lord). In this series, the Cossacks, fighting off the Evil Pan and his servants, try to bring the stolen salt to the bazaar in order to transfer it to the hands of the rightful owners - the Chumaks.

My Friends Call Me Tony

1975 • 12 min • Canada

Meet Tony Rossi, a 10-year-old boy who can only distinguish light from shadow. Despite this difficulty, he leads a very active life. The short documentary shows the ingenious ways in which Tony manages his life. This film is part of the Children of Canada series.

Cloud Path

1975 • 27 min • Germany

Music by Klaus Schulze.