All Films

Earthware

1975 • 11 min • Canada

This short, impressionistic film takes us to Nigeria, Japan, Mexico and India, where craftsmen work clay to produce ritual vessels and everyday objects.

Waltz on Mtatsminda

1975 • 18 min • Soviet Union

Nazo and Koba decide to apply to a theater institute, but despite Koba being accepted, they both return home, not wanting to study separately.

Fantik

1975 • 19 min • Soviet Union

Animated cartoon about a little baby elephant Fantik and by the evil of Shtush-Kutush.

Conquest of Light

1975 • 12 min • Ireland

Examines the mesmerising construction of clear crystal glass pieces created by the craftsmen of Waterford. The process from the intense heat of the furnace to glass blowing, shaping, cutting, honing, filling and finishing is all depicted in this celebration of the art of creation of Waterford Glass. Academy Award Nominee: Best Live Action Short - 1976.

Freeing the Voice

1975 • 36 min • United States of America

Serbian artist Marina Abramovic is lying on her back on the floor and screaming until her voice is lost.

Vivian Stanshall's Week

1975 • 32 min • United Kingdom

A short documentary about a week in the life of Vivian Stanshall.

Nomina Sunt Odiosa

1975 • 13 min • Iceland

Nomina Sunt Odiosa is Fridrik Thór Fridriksson’s first film. The title is in Latin and means names are not necessary even pointless. Maybe that was a statement from the director for future films to come. Scenes from a school graduation party mix with shots of soft-drink bottles a conveyor belt. Both the bottles and the students are alike, universal, unoriginal and, above all, nameless. The film was screened at a school anniversary in March 1975 and broadcast on the only television station a few months later.

People Will Always Need Coal

1975 • 1 min • United Kingdom

Deliriously kitsch recruitment ad for the implausibly glamorous world of coalmining.

Chile

1975 • 2 min

This short animation collage uncovers the financial backing of the Chilean Junta bosses by the US. Screened at the 1976 Oberhausen Int. Film Festival.

More Awkward Customers

1975 • 31 min

Emphasises the importance of professional knowledge of an organisation’s stocks or services in dealing with difficult customers. Highlights the customer who parades their knowledge, the silent customer who cannot communicate his needs and the finicky customer who requires every detail. Features John Cleese, Anghared Rees, Patricia Routledge, Bernard Cribbins and Lynn Redgrave.

Freeing the Memory

1975 • 16 min • United States of America

‘Freeing the Memory’ is the second of three significant performances enacted in 1976 in which Marina Abramović attempted to achieve a mental cleaning through the exhaustion of the three main faculties of expression, voice, language and body. In this piece, Abramović said every individual word she could recall until she could no longer continue without repetition. The mental strain of this act, which lasted ninety minutes, allowed the artist to exhaust her consciousness into a state of complete blankness.

Waiting Room

1975 • 12 min • Yugoslavia

Short Croatian documentary from the former Yugoslavia by Ante Babaja that captures the different faces in a waiting room.

How the Little Camel and the Little Donkey Went to School

1975 • 9 min • Soviet Union

This animated short tells the story of a young Camel and Donkey attending school for the first time in a forest clearing. Dreaming of a prettier place, they decide to move the lessons to another meadow. Their mischief disrupts the class, and they are disciplined—but before long, they return to school, ready to learn.

Sick

1975 • 6 min

Albert Brooks is sick and stuck in bed. Saturday Night Live, Season 1 Episode 7

Ashes

1975 • 38 min • New Zealand

Conversations with four people — an artist, a woman struggling with her identity as a high achiever, an actor, and a priest — exploring their inner worlds, their self-image and how they feel they fit into society.

Postcard from America

1975 • 25 min • Italy, United States of America

After the author’s period of experimentation, these American notes are extremely straightforward. As in Migration, however, this America could be a more remote country, and the inspiration is avowedly Japanese (Basho’s Narrow Road to the Deep North). Implicitly, the film-maker compares himself to an old peddler of drawings, Sam, hawking his wares at the entrance of Columbia’s Butler Library.

The Brothers Byrne

1975 • 22 min • Canada

Torn between the world of their childhood and the world where they must now live and work, two flamboyant Newfoundlanders pay a nostalgic visit to the deserted outport where they were born. This is their story, and the story of so many others who, like them, became victims of the Newfoundland government's controversial Resettlement Program.

Autobiography of a Princess

1975 • 58 min • United Kingdom

On the birthday of her late father, a deposed Maharaja, a displaced Indian princess living in London and his former private secretary watch home movies and reminisce about royal India.

Open Heart Surgery

1975 • 13 min

Albert places an ad in a newspaper expressing a desire to perform a heart bypass & gets to live his dream of being a heart surgeon for one day. Saturday Night Live, Season 1 Episode 3

The Stanley Baxter Picture Show Part III

1975 • 50 min • United Kingdom

The sketches start with radio presenter Julie Hawn announcing that there are some advertising parodies on the TV. Film Fright is presented by Patrick Moon where we see excerpts from movies such as In Which We Starve, Reveille Never Came and Towering Quake 75. Joan Babelite introduces Faith to Faith and there is another episode of Police 3 1/2. There is a musical tribute to politicians and then an attempt by the BBC to show 'cheery' news. Los Paranoics entertain us and the mafia party give you an offer you can't refuse with a party political broadcast. Finally, Vicki Lustre stars in Born to Bitch.

Drive Carefully, Darling

1975 • 17 min • United Kingdom

An exhortation to drivers to pay attention to road safety. In just 15 minutes, John Krish manages to give this road safety film something new and different by presenting events not from the point of view of the driver, but of his brain, memory and ego, who operate from a rather camp technology-driven command centre.

A Study in Choreography for Camera - Outtakes

1975 • 16 min

All of the rejected material from MAYA DEREN’s simplest and purest film offers the student of cinema and those interested in MAYA DEREN a vivid lesson in how she constructed a film. When shown together with a completed film it provides a model for economy in editing. – Anthology Film Archives.

De qui dépend que l’oppression demeure ?

1975 • 40 min • France

On May 21, 1975, the trial of the members of the Red Army Faction (also known as the Baader-Meinstein Gang) began. Four members appeared before the Stuttgart court to answer for the attacks that had been raging for five years in the young Federal Republic of Germany. The documentary, whose title is borrowed from Berthold Brecht's In Praise of Dialectics, recounts the conditions of the trials and detention of the Baader-Meinstein Gang members and the disqualification of Klaus Croissant as their lawyer.

Julie: My Favourite Things

1975 • 51 min

A Julie Andrews special with The Muppets and Peter Sellers.