All Films

Kalopashka

1975 • 25 min

Good Easter. Super 8 film. Observance of Holy Week in the island of Patmos. The monastery that rises above the village, founded in 1088, is consecrated to Saint John the Apostle, who wrote the Book of Revelation while living in exile on this Aegean island.

Last Games

1975 • 20 min • Soviet Union

A film about outstanding athletes of the USSR.

Relationship

1975 • 9 min

The filmmaker tried to capture the energy between camera and filmed subject, in three parts. For example, in the third part, the camera is suspended from a tree, filming flowers in a garden in a single 3-minute shot. The minimalism of this film is inspired by the simplicity of the camera, which does not allow for the use of a tripod.

Martha Graham Technique Demonstration

1975 • 17 min

Martha Graham narrates as two dancers demonstrate her technique.

Comparative Anatomy

1975 • 10 min

A hand places a tiny unrecognizable object on a plain blue field. It looks organic and could perhaps be part of a small insect. The hand enters again and replaces the object with another which seems to be the same kind of thing but which is also unrecognizable. This is repeated and each time the new object is placed in exactly the same place and each time it is slightly bigger than the one before. By the end of the film, the object is relatively large, but tantalizingly unrecognizable.

Donald of the Colours

1975 • 51 min • United Kingdom

Following the bloodbath of Culloden field, one young boy, Donald, attempts to return to his clan with their colours intact. On his journey he encounters two other children, a brother and sister, left to fend for themselves after arriving in Scotland from France with the Prince and their father. Their journey is fraught with danger as Cumberland's orders to wipe out the clans are put into practice by the Redcoats.

Pysanka: The Ukranian Easter Egg

1975 • 14 min • United States of America

"To celebrate the first day of spring, or Velykden (the great day), ancient people of Ukraine decorated eggs with bright and fiery designs." Learn the history of the Ukrainian art of pysanka, or decorating eggs, a custom that predates the Christian era. Follow along as Luba Perchyshyn, a master of the art, goes through the elaborate process of drawing in wax on the egg before dipping it into the dyes. This is repeated numerous times on each egg, using a darker color every time. The symbolic meaning of the designs is also discussed, and examples of pysanky throughout the centuries are shown.

The City is Building a Monument

1975 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A film about the construction of a monument to the heroic defenders of Leningrad on Victory Square in St. Petersburg.

Leningrad the Hero City

1975 • 16 min • Soviet Union

The film tells about the heroic struggle of the Leningraders during the siege, about the defenders of Leningrad, and about various aspects of life in the city today.

Kalle, a Farmer Nonetheless

1975 • 32 min • Sweden

Kalle is a farmer. We follow him at work and he tells us about the living conditions of a farmer.

In the Subpolar Ural

1975 • 14 min

There are no highways leading to the heart of Subpolar Urals to the land of tales and legends. It doesn't like to reveal it's secrets to people, it put up oh his boarders stone patrol of mountains and hills, scattered boulders, spilled fast rivers. But those travellers, who had managed to overcome all this obstacles will be rewarded. Nowhere on earth will you find such beautiful nature as in the Subpolar Urals.

John Byrne

1975 • 23 min

An STV documentary about the life and work of artist John Byrne.

Work—Seeing

1975 • 3 min

Around the time Uematsu was making a photo work titled Mirukoto—fūkei (1974), he was interested in touching an object with shadow. This work is an expression of that exercise on video.

River of Stars

1975 • 10 min

‘…as if one were participating in the physical act of painting itself…one feels the sensation of the applying of strokes in black and white, of various feathery textural layers…There is tremendous variety of patterns. They blend effortlessly one into the other through a constant variety of means.’ – Bob Cowan

Latex Sky

1975 • 8 min

By Bruce Wood

Bip As A Soldier

1975 • 16 min

Marcel Marceau mime performance

The Midnight Dance

1975 • 2 min

When dolls come alive...

An American Tune

1975 • 14 min

"This film presents a non-verbal, fast-moving, sometimes humorous montage of just about every kind of musical form, from solo musicians to rock groups, bluegrass bands, symphony orchestras, and a chamber quartet" (US National Archives). The film was made as part of the "Young Filmmaker Bicentennial Grant" program managed by the US Information Agency in the lead up to the American Bicentennial.

Superimposition

1975 • 15 min

"The film opens and there is a disfunction of the camera that gives two images at once. The tension between the first and the second, the wrestle to see which becomes dominant is like the tension between an observed couple. This couple is two singulars, one singular, one double, two doubles, and one triad. Sometimes they are separate, sometimes coupled, and sometimes collasped upon each other and the world. My intrusion is the film."-M.K

Homespun

1975 • 15 min

"Photographed at the Hambidge Center in Southern Appalachia, this film explores the process and history of weaving (to the background of authentic mountain music)" (US National Archives). The film is a product of the USIA's Young Filmmaker Bicentennial Grant program from the mid 1970s.

Film Notebook: Part 2 (Some of Us in the Mechanical Age)

1975 • 27 min

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

Iron and Horse

1975 • 28 min • United States of America

Set in the 1930s, a schoolteacher prone to visions and daydreams agrees to give a ride to a young cowboy whom she meets in a ghost town after getting lost in the desert.

The Garden of Earthly Delights

1975 • 8 min

Audiovisual interpretation of the famous triptych by the Flemish painter Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516), known worldwide as El Bosco.

Arabesque

1975 • 7 min

John Whitney's pioneering work of computer animation, Arabesque, from 1975. This flowing, abstract short film is a wonder to behold, a work of art. Like many other computer graphics pioneers, this film suggests roots in psychedelics and spiritual quests as much as engineering and mathematics. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2007.