All Films

Keep Our Forests Pink

1975 • 6 min • United States of America

The Pink Panther keeps a forest park clean despite a camper's constant littering.

Mukh the Walker

1975 • 16 min • Soviet Union

Singing dwarf poses himself as a martyr.

Waves of Revolution

1975 • 30 min • India

Film made during the repressive days of the Emergency in India documents the 1974-75 uprising of the people of Bihar in Eastern India.

Rime of the Ancient Mariner

1975 • 54 min • United States of America

A two-part program that examines the life of Samuel Coleridge from his orphaned childhood to how his friendship with William and Dorothy Wordsworth inspired him to write The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Part 2 consists of a visualization of Coleridge’s epic poem.

Mum, Where Are You?

1975 • 30 min

Teenagers Susan and David live with their widowed mother Sheila. They wake up one morning to find no sign of their mother, and organise a party for the evening. They have doubts and worries about what has happened to their mother, which build when she has still not returned the following morning.

Flor Pedra

1975 • 16 min • Brazil

The southern city of Minas Gerais, São Tomé das Letras, founded in 1785, is placed on a quartzite reservoir and at the same time on a valuable floral reserve. The film deals with the ecological and social changes that occurred in time.

The Two Faces of Kim

1975 • 8 min

Reviews the inner sanctum of a young man's world of dual sex identities.

The Palestinians

1975 • 43 min • Lebanon, Netherlands, Syrian Arab Republic

Shot in Lebanon in 1975 just before the civil war. The director delivers a nuanced account of the complexities surrounding the Palestinian issue.

Lone Star

1975 • 26 min • United Kingdom

One of Jeff Keen's diary films. Keen made many diary films with his daughter, wife and friends in the late 60s and 70s. These were edited in camera and used multiple exposures. They would then be projected in various combinations though usually as a four-screen.

Tem Coca-Cola no Vatapá

1975 • 35 min • Brazil

Weather Report: Live in Berlin

1975 • 42 min

Weather Report live at the Philharmonie, Berlin, Germany, November 6, 1975. Program: Freezing Fire - Scarlet Woman - Mysterious Traveller - Badia/Boogie Woogie Waltz

After the Solo

1975 • 60 min

"The voice will make its effect. And it will, undoubtedly, be very touching. But, tell me: after his voice has broken, can you make anything of him then?" After the solo, after the chorus, after the applause?

Towers of Silence

1975 • 54 min • Pakistan

A Pakistani boy develops into a young revolutionary and confronts love, religious conflict, and his own death through Zoroastrian rituals of purification.

Cat and Mouse

1975 • 18 min • Soviet Union

About the adventures of friends - the kitten Kytsik and the mouse Mytsik.

Tarumã

1975 • 13 min • Brazil

An interview about education and working conditions among Brazilian peasants in the 70s.

The Leper

1975 • 33 min • Portugal

Julião is a young farm worker who, one day, contracts leprosy. Overnight, the good mountaineers that were so friendly with him refuse to see him again, and he must be by himself in the far woods. Bathing in olive oil, as suggested by an old woman, proves ineffective. Now, he becomes violent, expressing his anguish against those who expelled him from the village. Production date is 1975. Had its first major public release in 2009, at MotelX, Lisbon's International Horror Film Festival in the section "Lost Room". The movie was suggested to the MotelX production by the portuguese director António Macedo who knew about the existence of this and other portuguese movies about popular legends and myths of the portuguese imaginary. The movie was archived and conserved by the portuguese Cinematheque.

Arthur and Lillie

1975 • 29 min • United States of America

A film about Arthur and Lillie Mayer, 89 and 86 years old and still young. Arthur can remember being taken to the first movie show in America, in 1895; Lillie was among the first American suffragettes. Arthur Mayer reminisces about his famous publicity stunts for Paramount, his Broadway horror film theatre, and beginning the importation of great European films with Rossellini's Open City. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

The Hoober-Bloob Highway

1975 • 24 min • United States of America

The Hoober-Bloob Highway is an animated musical special written by Dr. Seuss. Visit the magical island where Mr. Hoober-Bloob sends babies to Earth in his own musical way.

Roy Sings Orbison

1975 • 30 min • United Kingdom

Roy Orbison sings some of his greatest hits, including Only the Lonely, Crying, Penny Arcade, Blue Bayou, Running Scared, Candy Man, In Dreams, Mean Woman Blues, It's Over and Oh, Pretty Woman.

Mi Marilyn

1975 • 14 min • Spain

A memory of Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962), woman, actress, goddess, myth, in the words of the Spanish director and scriptwriter José Luis Garci, who returns to his childhood and recovers a lost paradise.

Short Films 1975: #6 (Stars, Chickens, Eyes, Candles)

1975 • 6 min • United States of America

Begins with brown light thru quartz crystal, ends with a candle wick burning, circled by boiling gold flecks.

Borges 75

1975 • 10 min • Argentina

A tour for Buenos Aires with Jorge Luis Borges, who reflects on different topics.

...So I Took It!

1975 • 10 min • United States of America

Anti-shoplifting film co-produced by Sid Davis and Motorola.

Rockhounds

1975 • 6 min • United States of America

Dogfather assigns Pug to steal the Pedigree Diamond from a rich couple, so Puge poses as a butler. However, he has to put up with the couple's spoiled child.