All Films

Four Women

1975 • 7 min • United States of America

An imaginatively choreographed dance interpretation of the ballad by Nina Simone explores four common stereotypes of Black women.

The Little Animals of Anthony van Leeuwenhoek

1975 • 29 min • Soviet Union

Anthony van Leeuwenhoek, a Dutch naturalist of the 18th century, the founder of scientific microscopy, makes a lens in his workshop. He is visited by an English scientist, a member of the Royal Society of London. Leeuwenhoek shows the scientist his "microscope". A scientist examines a flea, mold on bread, and other objects through a "microscope." He recommends that Leeuwenhoek write about his invention to the Royal Society of London. Leeuwenhoek refuses. The scientist writes the letter himself. Leeuwenhoek examines different objects through a "microscope". He is visited by a friend of Google, with whom he shares his observations. Leeuwenhoek and Google talk about the origin of the "little animals" in the water. Leeuwenhoek takes samples of rainwater and pond water. The simplest microorganisms, taken through a microscope. Leeuwenhoek writes a letter in which he outlines the results of his research.

Lumë drite

1975 • 56 min • Albania

Bardhi works as a teacher in a remote area. When one of the students abandons the school, Bardhi tries to help him.

La Vie filmée

1975 • 52 min

An issue of the television series La vie filmée, based on films by amateur filmmakers, and retracing here the life of the French between 1946 and 1953. The images shot in the immediate post-war period bear witness to the difficulties of resuming life daily. Confronting individuals with their personal archives nearly thirty years later, the film nostalgically questions the gap created between intimate memory and empirical memory (documents).

Short Films 1975: #10 (Painted Lightning)

1975 • 6 min • United States of America

Begins and ends with flashes of scratched 'lighting'. A small portrait of one of the Brakhage kids is sandwiched in between light studies and scratch-homages to Jerome Hill.

Short Films 1975: #8 (Small Town Streets)

1975 • 3 min • United States of America

Begins with white lamp post, green tree leaves, and window, ends with flashing window light on brown wall of motel room.

Three of Us

1975 • 15 min • United Kingdom

Short Children's film on the perils of playing outdoors and how to look after a Chopper bike.

Ville nouvelle : Enfance d'une ville

1975 • 52 min • France

How is a planned city designed? What consequences does creating one has on the environment? What are the living conditions in such areas ? Such are the questions asked by Eric Rohmer in this first part of a TV documentary series, through the particular case of Cergy-Pontoise, near Paris.

Andy Warhol's Unfinished Symphony

1975 • 21 min • United States of America

A clarification of the '60s and its plastic society; taking archetypes of the American landscape to deal with the search for human identity and our alienation.

Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown

1975 • 25 min • United States of America

It's Valentine's Day again and Charlie Brown dreams the seemingly hopeless dream to receiving a valentine from anyone. All the while, the rest of the gang have their own trials whether it be Linus' struggle to get the biggest card he can for his beloved teacher, or Lucy trying to get some token from Schroeder while Snoopy and Woodstock are having fun spearing valentines on each other's nose.

Gambitt's Move

1975 • 28 min

Angie, an unemployed single mother moves into a new rented home. She then receives an unwelcome visitor from her past.

Further Up Pompeii

1975 • 44 min • United Kingdom

A BBC TV comedy movie about the people living in Pompeii prior to its destruction by volcano, focusing on the life of a house slave (played by Frankie Howerd). A sort of prequel to the 1971 movie "Up Pompeii"

Night Lunch

1975 • 32 min

This is Poe and Král's first effort, shot on small-gauge stock, before their more well-known endeavor The Blank Generation (1976) came to be. A "DIY" portrait of the New York music scene, the film is a patchwork of footage of numerous rock acts performing live, at venues like Madison Square Garden, Radio City Music Hall, the dive bars of Greenwich Village and, of course, CBGB.

The Heart That Changed Color

1975 • 9 min • United States of America

A short animated PSA, starring the Tin Woodman and Scarecrow from the land of Oz. They stop woodland animals from smoking a cigarette.

Ephemerities

1975 • 8 min • Soviet Union

Fantasy on Musical Themes by Prokofiev.

Farewell

1975 • 9 min • Germany

At Munich’s central station, after years spent working in factories in several German cities, a worker from Serbia boards a train and heads south, to Belgrade. The protagonist recollects his impressions of the cities and the state he worked in, speaks of new insights and habits he acquired and thus says goodbye to Germany: Auf Wiedersehen, Deutschland!

The Monument

1975 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The film is about the monument erected with the participation of M. Anikushin in honor of the heroic 900-day defense of Leningrad.

Watch the Birdie

1975 • 6 min • United States of America

Dogfather orders Pugg to wipe out Charlie the Singer. However, Charlie drinks a potion that changes him into a hideous monster.

Semi-dokyumento: Zoku nyotai no shinpi

1975 • 60 min • Japan

Lucy Gets Lucky

1975 • 52 min • United States of America

Lucy pulls out all the stops in Las Vegas to see her favorite entertainer, Dean Martin. Lucy gets a job working at the MGM Grand casino and high-stakes hijinks follow.

Wider Step Maestro!

1975 • 22 min

One day in the life of doctor.

Vassilissa Mikulishna

1975 • 19 min • Soviet Union

Adaptation of the epic "Tale about the beautiful Vassilissa Mikulishna". As Vassilissa with her intelligence and cunning freed her husband from prison.

The Man And His Bird

1975 • 9 min • Soviet Union

The film is about terrible life of a common man

The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors

1975 • 50 min • Germany

In collage sequences, the surrogate of synthetic sensuality takes form and seduces the sailors in the guise of a Hawaiian girl. In ritual punctuation, she distributes deaths which seemingly only the hardy siren Fatality can survive.