All Films

All Day Long

1975 • 20 min • United States of America

A young orphaned boy comes to live with his aunt and discovers that his best friend is having an affair with her.

Ignjatovic vs. Goebbels

1975 • 45 min • Yugoslavia

The title protagonist is Aleksandar Ignjatovic, a modest young man who spoke against the occupiers during the German occupation in the Second World War. In addition to the acted part, it also contains documentary segments, i.e. contemporary interviews with his friends, acquaintances and relatives.

Espaço Sagrado

1975 • 17 min • Brazil

Short documentary film about the afrobrazilian religion Candomblé.

Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer

1975 • 59 min • United States of America

Thom Andersen's hour-long documentary adroitly combines biography, history, film theory, and philosophical reflection. Muybridge's photographic studies of animal locomotion in the 1870s were a major forerunner of movies; even more interesting are his subsequent studies of diverse people, photographed against neutral backgrounds.

Manila... A Filipino Film

1975 • 23 min • Philippines

Making-of documentary about Lino Brocka's 1975 film "Manila in the Claws of Light," featuring interviews and behind-the-scenes footage.

Zindan

1975 • 59 min

Zindan (Prison) a 1974 action film directed by Remzi Jöntürk.

The Last of the Mohicans

1975 • 60 min • Australia

An animated adaptation of the classic story. A young scout is befriended by a tribe of Mohawks.

Homicidal

1975 • 15 min

An abusive father accidentally kills his small daughter and tries to cover up the crime. This sets the stage for a violent confrontation between the killer and his wife’s boyfriend.

Nobody's Children

1975 • 27 min

Documentary from 1975 on the plight of mentally handicapped children held in appalling circumstances in the UK.

Elton John: Live at Dodger Stadium

1975 • 47 min

Documentary originally from The Russell Harty Show chronicling Elton John’s iconic two-day concert at Dodger Stadium in 1975.

Tatlı Cadı'nın Maceraları

1975 • 59 min • Turkey

Feature-length remake of Bewitched (1964), which was very popular in Turkey.

Pebbles in the Flood

1975 • 24 min • United Kingdom

Musings on life and literature in this student drama made by the Cambridge Film Unit.

The Making of ‘Sebastiane’

1975 • 23 min • United Kingdom

Super 8 footage shot on location in Sardinia in 1975.

Vibration

1975 • 36 min • United Kingdom

Uses two young western people as the mediators between the new gestalt initiated by Jung, Reich and Frederick Perles, and the magnetic chain of a Sufic master, finding that the East and the West, the scientific and the mystical, begin to hold together in a truly organic way.

Waiting for Fidel

1975 • 57 min • Canada

This feature-length documentary from 1974 takes viewers inside Fidel Castro's Cuba. A movie-making threesome hope that Fidel himself will star in their film. The unusual crew consists of former Newfoundland premier Joseph Smallwood, radio and TV owner Geoff Stirling and NFB film director Michael Rubbo. What happens while the crew awaits its star shows a good deal of the new Cuba, and also of the three Canadians who chose to film the island. (NFB)

The Death of a Young Young Man

1975 • 50 min

Billy gets a job on a farm while suspended from school. The fields offer an escape from his tower block, but his friends think he's daft. Billy can see a different kind of life ahead, doing a job he could really enjoy-but events conspire against him.

Atman

1975 • 12 min • Japan

ĀTMAN is a visual tour-de-force based on the idea of the subject at the centre of the circle created by camera positions (480 such positions). Shooting frame-by-frame the filmmaker set up an increasingly rapid circular motion. ĀTMAN is an early Buddhist deity often connected with destruction; the Japanese aspect is stressed by the devil mask of Hangan, from the Noh, and by using both Noh music and the general principle of acceleration often associated with Noh drama.

Dawson's Electric Cinema

1975 • 50 min • United Kingdom

A comedy set in the 1920s with Les Dawson (as his own grandfather) and family running a flea-pit cinema.

Doll Clothes

1975 • 2 min • United States of America

One of the First Cindy Sherman's super-8 film,"Doll Clothes" (officially, the film is "Untitled") has not been viewed since 1975, the year it was made. It comically crosses Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase with animated paper dolls in a sly, funny and clever precursor to the concerns that became signature elements in Sherman's remarkable body of photographic work.

Parkinson: Meet Henry Fonda

1975 • 49 min • United Kingdom

Episode of the BBC television program with host Michael Parkinson interviewing American actor Henry Fonda.

Black Sabbath - Don Kirshner's Rock Concert

1975 • 25 min

Filmed at the height of their fame, and including all four original members of the band, Black Sabbath performs masterfully in front of an eager Santa Monica crowd. Killing Yourself to Live, Hole in the Sky, Snowblind, War Pigs, Paranoid

A Comedy in Six Unnatural Acts

1975 • 27 min • United States of America

Jan Oxenberg’s charmingly raw, politically-charged and remarkably funny celebration of the American lesbian experience validates the nuanced voice of a community otherwise underrepresented in the Wild West of mid-’70s independent filmmaking. In an attempt to combat the pervasive misconception of the “humorless, angry feminist,” the vignettes in A Comedy in Six Unnatural Acts experiment with self-aware yet playful depictions of common stereotypes, such as the “Stompin’ Dyke” or the butch-femme couple. In the process, Oxenberg’s short film reclaims those insults and assumptions as newfound, loaded weapons—to deploy on her own terms, of course. (UCLA Film & Television Archive)

Short Films 1975: #1 (Jane’s Memory)

1975 • 3 min • United States of America

Begins with blue negative face of child, ends with single centered eye.

The Christmas Tree

1975 • 12 min

Three lucky pine trees, with human faces, are cut down in order to enjoy the holidays with human families.