All Films

The Footloose Goose

1975 • 47 min • United States of America

A pinioned trout-farm goose takes a wild gander for her mate. But when he's blown off course in a storm, and then winged, he's going to have to make his way back to her on foot, past predators and customs officers. Meanwhile, the trout farmers worry about their goose raising a brood on her own and a pretty young woman who's come to fly fish.

Les mères espagnoles

1975 • 59 min • France

A few hours after Sanchez Bravo's execution, his sister recounts the condemned man's last night. Otaegi's mother talks about her son's life and the last conversation she had with him. Txiki's mother speaks of the solidarity of her village, where she has lived for eleven years, a widow with seven children. She denounces the "phantom" trial, the torture and murder of her son.

Rock-A-Bye Maybe

1975 • 6 min • United States of America

A take off on The Godfather with canines in the roles of the Corleone family.

Chinese Viola

1975 • 8 min • Brazil

The rare short film presents a curious dialogue between filmmaker Julio Bressane and actor Grande Otelo, where, in a mixture of decorated and improvised text, we discover a little manifesto to the Brazilian experimental cinema. Also called "Belair's last film," Chinese Viola reveals the first partnership between photographer Walter Carvalho and Bressane.

The Painter

1975 • 8 min • United Kingdom

short from of Series “The Art of silence: pantomimes with Marcel Marceau and his partner Pierre Verry”. Mime makes the invisible visible and the visible invisible. Marceau’s sometimes comical - but always graceful - interpretation of The Painter in Central Park allows the viewer to “see” objects which are not there.

Sincerity II

1975 • 37 min • United States of America

This continuation of my autobiography is composed of film photographed by many people: Bruce Baillie, Jane Brakhage, Larry Jordan and Stan Phillips, among others. Most of the footage is drawn from some 20,000 feet of "home movies," "out-takes" and the like, salvaged from my photography over the years. It is of the Brakhage family's coming into being.

Az utolsó tánctanár

1975 • 60 min • Hungary

Géza Böszörményi's 1975 German-Hungarian co-production film stars János Balogh as a dance and etiquette teacher. He learned the craft from his father and now travels the country with his son Simon. They are on their way to Hortobágy to "celebrate" the closing ball of their dance school. But before that, they are teaching the locals the tricks of the art of gentlemanly behaviour in Pest. But the Hortobágy dance exam is not as successful as in the good old days. The young people have only one thing on their minds: to live in the capital as soon as possible, and in the Hortobágy they will soon be nothing but horsemen and cowboys entertaining the western tourists of the National Park. János Balogh and his son also go back to the bleak and soulless prefab housing estate, where Simon tells his father that he no longer wants to be a dance teacher.

To Know Us Is To Love Us

1975 • 27 min

John Pilger’s first documentary on the aftermath of the Vietnam War, To Know Us Is to Love Us, features a caring, humane American community in Fort Smith, Arkansas, welcoming South Vietnamese refugees just months after the United States’s defeat and humiliation in south-east Asia – while their own dead of the war lie in the town’s graveyard.

Waiting at the Field Gate

1975 • 30 min

Lightning Gallat is the village slaughterer and a man of distinction. Where does he draw the line?

Short Films 1975: #3 (Hollis Frampton)

1975 • 2 min • United States of America

Begins with landscape/sunset thru mist, ends with window sill.

The Christmas Tree: Christmas Eve in the Ukraine

1975 • 16 min

A young boy gets lost in the cold forest on Christmas Eve, but is rescued by an old man and brought home to his family.

Aquarium

1975 • 15 min • Spain

The 1975 Super-8 short Aquarium is Zulueta’s first available incursion into the psychodrama—in which the filmmaker dramatises a disturbed state of consciousness—in which appear lyrical passages of the kind that will be made by the fictional experimental filmmaker played by Will More in Zulueta’s 1980 feature Arrebato. (Senses of Cinema)

Halime'nin Kızları

1975 • 59 min • Turkey

La marche des femmes à Hendaye

1975 • 28 min • France

Women walk in protest against executions of Basque militants by Franco regimen.

The Tale of What Happened in Yes City

1975 • 17 min • Egypt

Won the Best Director Award at the Egyptian National Film Festival in 1976

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi

1975 • 24 min • United States of America

Rikki is a young mongoose who is adopted by a human family after nearly drowning in the river. He returns the favour by protecting them from two murderous cobra.

The California Reich

1975 • 55 min • United States of America

A documentary on the roots of nazism In America.

The Clay Peacock

1975 • 4 min

Abstract clay landscape with occasional peacock, from the creator of Gumby

Visiting the Gnomes

1975 • 15 min • Soviet Union

A geologist boy enters the underworld of the gnomes. Puppet cartoon about the magical properties of precious stones.

A Nod and a Wink

1975 • 27 min

In A Nod and a Wink, John Pilger demonstrates how the charge of conspiracy is being used as a means of political suppression in Britain, comparing this with statutes in police states such as Brazil and the Soviet Union, which use “a vague law” to silence and imprison people for their political or religious views.

A Cama

1975 • 25 min

A young couple, unable to make love after being repelled on several occasions (like in a dubious inn), buys a bed and carries it for miles, until they reach a beach - where, exhausted, they end up falling asleep.

Joan's Dream

1975 • 21 min • Germany

With the ascetic grandeur of Carl Th. Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc, Schroeter evokes the visions of Saint Joan, partly through unused footage of Darling and Caven pantomiming in his 1972 film The Death of Maria Malibran. - MoMA

Urban Peasants

1975 • 51 min

Filmed by Stella Weiss and family, chance-assembled from uncut 100-foot film-rolls. Sound precedes and follows silent image (40 minutes of image plus 12 minutes of sound). My wife Flo's family as recorded by her Aunt Stella. The title is no intended put-down but a simple statement of fact, as I see it. Brooklyn was a place made up of many little villages; a near-shtetl is pictured in the space of a storefront. (Ken Jacobs)

Lumsden

1975 • 19 min • Canada

Lumsden, Saskatchewan is a town of 850 citizens on a river called the Qu'Appelle. In the spring of 1974, the river doubled its volume and threatened to flood the town. The townspeople organized themselves and the whole province stood behind them. Lumsden is the story of an incredible battle against impossible odds.