All Films

Jane Brakhage

1975 • 9 min

"I picked up Stan and Jane Brakhage at the airport and drove them to San Francisco State College where Stan spoke about his films to the student body. I was fascinated with Jane. She was so interested in the world around her while Stan seemed caught up only in his ideas. She picked seed pods from trees and plants and told me she had written a lexicon of dog language. She was so much more complex than Stan's portrayal of her in Window Water Baby Moving (1958) that I decided to make a documentary about her for my graduate project." — Barbara Hammer 16mm film, Color/Sound

Labyrinth Tale

1975 • 15 min • Japan

Experimental short film about two men carrying a door.

The Saliva Milkshake

1975 • 30 min • United Kingdom

Howard Brenton's play, written for television, examines terrorism and the state's complex relationship with it and language surrounding it.

Goldwood

1975 • 21 min • Canada

Kathleen Shannon describes the look and feel of her childhood to an artist friend, and uses his paintings and her visit to the ruins of the mining site where she grew up to reflect on her early life and how it influenced the adult she became.

Callsign R1NN

1975 • 23 min • Soviet Union

In the 20's an enthusiast radio amateur, Fyodor Lbov, experiments one of the first short-waves radio in the city of Gorky.

Under the Protection of the State

1975 • 11 min • Germany

The film was shot in an old, decrepit building where dozens of guest-workers' families live. The owner, a local influential politician, has avoided paying for the maintenance of the building under the legal standards by using his connections to proclaim the building a national cultural heritage. However, the rent he has been charging was as if the building were an object that offered standard comfort. The only German tenant takes the crew around and speaks of his battle against the landlord’s manipulation.

House Orders

1975 • 12 min • Germany

In buildings where foreign workers lived in Germany, there were strict rules of conduct, defined by the house rules and supervised by the building superintendents. Many rights regarding the freedom of movement, communication and behavior were abused. Interviews with the tenants and with the "orderlies" which point out absurd situations and clashes caused by these restrictions.

Natsik Hunting

1975 • 8 min • Canada

Mosha Michael made an assured directorial debut with this seven-minute short, a relaxed, narration-free depiction of an Inuk seal hunt. Having participated in a 1974 Super 8 workshop in Frobisher Bay, Michael shot and edited the film himself. His voice can be heard on the appealing guitar-based soundtrack…. Natsik Hunting is believed to be Canada’s first Inuk-directed film. – NFB

Marit

1975 • 42 min • Norway

About confusion and fear of the incomprehensible, deviations, and about mental illness as a phenomenon.

Fighting for Our Lives

1975 • 59 min • United States of America

Fighting for Our Lives is a 1975 documentary film produced and directed by Glen Pearcy. The film documents the striking of California grape workers from Coachella to Fresno as they negotiate for a United Farm Workers (UFW) contract in 1973. The film also depicts their non-violent struggle against police brutality on the picket lines. It was nominated for the 1976 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

Mon délire, le Saint Michel

1975 • 17 min

With an acute awareness of his condition as a mental patient, René Pacquot denounces all powers, and especially the practices of psychiatric hospitals, which he compares with those used in slaughterhouses: submissions by drugs, straitjackets and exterminations by electroshock. You have to see this film as a cry of revolt.

Venus on the Half-Shell

1975 • 5 min • France

Borowczyk’s portrait of the painter Bona Tibertelli de Pisis and her erotic fusions of men, women and molluscs.

The House on the Hill

1975 • 32 min

A court had to decide what to do about Ellen, an elderly lady living on her own in a deteriorating rented property.

A Romper

1975 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The Other Stage

1975 • 48 min • Greece

Michel Demopoulos directed only one film in his life: a documentary about the shooting of Theo Angelopoulos’ O Thiasos / The Travelling Players (1975).

Nachtdienst

1975 • 54 min • Germany

A young doctor from Yugoslavia takes care of a rich baroness, who in carefully devised ways, attempts to destroy her dignity. An intimate drama about the search for self-esteem by humiliating others.

Superdyke

1975 • 18 min

A comedy about a troop of shield-bearing Amazons who take over city institutions before relaxing in the country. "Superdyke" takes women into the streets when Barbara arms of a platoon of vagina warriors with Amazon shields in an attempt to overthrow San Francisco. They march through City Hall, usurp the bus lines, demythologiz the consumer mentality at Macy's (to the recorded astonishment of casual shoppers), and wander through the erotic art museum. Barbara's frenetic handheld lens catches the startled reactions and the glee of the participants. SUPERDYKE has a home-movie quality to it, but its committed and loose moments in the playground confirm its comic rationale.

The Man from Nowhere

1975 • 59 min • United Kingdom

The Man from Nowhere is a beautifully told Victorian gothic thriller from acclaimed director James Hill. Young orphan Alice has been invited by her rich uncle to live in his country mansion but she soon finds herself persecuted by the apparent visitations of an unsettling stranger. Who is this man from nowhere and just why is he tying to scare her away?

Crunch Bird II

1975 • 2 min • United States of America

A frog goes hopping through the jungle and meets different animals, including a crunch bird.

The Happy Prince

1975 • 19 min • Japan

Based on the story by written Oscar Wilde. It won the 17th Ministry of Health and Welfare Child Welfare Culture Award for Best Educational Film.

The Frank Crank Story

1975 • 30 min

Can the Night Hoppers revive the jazz age at the Café Elegant?

Robocon: Mugyogyo!! Don't Eat

1975 • 24 min • Japan

Robocon and his fun-loving robot pals return in the 39th episode of his TV series released theatrically as part of the Toei Manga Matsuri.

Psychosynthesis

1975 • 6 min • United States of America

"The sub-personalities of me, as baby, athlete, witch and artist are synthesized in this film of superimpositions, intensities, and color layers coming together through the powers of film." —Barbara Hammer

Documentary: High School Girls' Prostitution Ring

1975 • 60 min • Japan