All Films

America Live

1975 • 44 min

Dewey Bunnel, Dan Peek and Gerry Beckley formed America in the late 1960's in London. After their self-titled debut album was released in 1972, the band captured the Grammy Award for Best New Artist. By 1975, America had 4 songs in the Top 10 Pop Singles chart in the US [Tin Man, Ventura Highway, I Need You, and Horse With No Name]. They released the George Marin-produced "Holiday" ust a few months prior to this 1975 performance that captures America at the top of their game.

Sweet Friday

1975 • 4 min • Japan

An animation mixing hand-drawn and cut-out techniques depicting the daily rituals of weekday morning that is occasionally interrupted by flights of fantasy delivered in stroboscopic flashes. Showing scenes of brushing teeth and face washing, Tanaami describes the film to be like a self-portrait on his favorite day of the week.

Default Averted

1975 • 20 min

When New York was about to go bankrupt, all construction had stopped and an architect tried to become a wrecker. This is the story of the demolition of a large factory building on 23rd Street and 6th Avenue. Meanwhile daily business - grimy or funny, money or no money - goes on as usual.

National Costume

1975 • 10 min • Yugoslavia

Individual political policies and regimes used and abused the national costume of Slovenia. Despite the fact that the individual details of the Slovenian national costume borrowed from the garbs of the German Alpine region, it has maintained the specificity of the area. Today, the national costume is presented as a tourist attraction.

How Vanya Chose His Wife

1975 • 20 min • Soviet Union

While searching for a bride, the hero realized that wealth is not the main thing in life.

Operation London Bridge

1975 • 16 min • United Kingdom

Part of BFI collection "Running a Railway."

Nice to See You

1975 • 4 min • Japan

When taking a microscopic view of a dot of the printer ink, it begins to transform into unstable forms. The other sphere/eyeball which appears when moving away from the dot, suggests the overlay of the swaying of the retina that occurs when staring, and the motion within animation.

Circling

1975 • 12 min

Art film part of the REWIND + PLAY, An Anthology of Early British Video Art box-set.

Zwartziek

1975 • 59 min • Netherlands

A husband can’t accept that his wife would like to live something else than her life as a wife.

Bloodfilm

1975 • 3 min

Making out, smoking in the buff, cut, blood in the sink. Cut.

Workshop

1975 • 11 min • Argentina

on the image of a collage on the wall, the voice of a woman describes a man the interior space of a workshop that is not seen.

Muybridge Film

1975 • 5 min • United Kingdom

Time and motion study. Renny Croft turning a cartwheel, from fast to slow motion, also stopped and shuffled.

Film Notebook: Part 1 (For Saul)

1975 • 12 min

"A journal of change in pattern of living and seeing as determined by an often misfunctioning but faithful camera."-M.K

IX/75 Schlachthof

1975 • 20 min

Documentary about a slaughterhouse.

Nightclub, Memories of Havana in Queens

1975 • 6 min

Three Latin dancers in a nightclub in Queens make up, and do a samba, a merengue and an afro-cuban dance. Filmed both tongue-in-cheek with humor and satire at the kitsch aspects, and also seriously as a tribute to the culture's ancient sensuality.

Say Goodbye

1975 • 8 min

An experimental short film by Paul de Nooijer.

Clouds

1975 • 3 min

This film contrasts the concepts of relative motion and absolute motion. The speed and direction of the car and clouds, the spiralling motion of the camera, and the stationary factory chimneys all combine to produce the illusion of space within the frame.

Rabbit Habit

1975 • 9 min

Set in Central Park, Elmer Fudd is under drug gang pressure to sell his bag by the end of the day. On his adventures he meets Bugs Bunny and a strung out Daffy Duck.

Portrait with Parents

1975 • 3 min • United Kingdom

Plastic Surgery

1975 • 19 min • Canada

The film draws an analogy between the cutting and suturing of the human body and the reconstruction of the world through film. Using optical printing techniques, it connects diverse elements in a dream-like flow: a vision of mind at play amid the anxieties of our society. It's also an operation on our image systems, including cinema.

Aussariq

1975 • 17 min • Germany

Following the run of the water from well to ocean

Thorndon

1975 • 5 min • New Zealand

Footage of a crane responded to with images of worn residential spaces in Wellington's Thorndon.

Get That Job!

1975 • 11 min

Instructional film about how to conduct yourself during a job interview

Dance for a Woman

1975 • 8 min • Germany

Experimental performance piece in which Ulrike Rosenbach turns to the waltz "I Dance with You in the Sky" in a circle until she falls over, scene through a supervision perspective through mirror hanging from the ceiling.