All Films

Kitsch in Synch

1975 • 4 min • United States of America

An abstract animation. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in partnership with the iotaCenter, in 2007.

Rape

1975 • 35 min

Rape has three victims discussing their emotional, physical and intellectual responses, then and now, highlighted and commented upon by a series of visual interpolations.

Tattoo

1975 • 20 min • United Kingdom

A documentary film based on the art of tattooing, tattoo artists and their clients, with interviews exploring the fascination for, and the reasons behind, choosing to be tattooed. The film builds up to long climactic scene, often since replicated in other films on the subject, featuring tattooed bodies displayed as art objects.

Shutdown

1975 • 13 min • United States of America

An account of a 1975 independent truckers strike.

Tarikhaneh

1975 • 17 min • Iran

A documentary about the ancient Tarikhane Mosque of Damghan

Night Horses

1975 • 38 min • United States of America

"Herbert's silent films are noted for their study of texture and motion and for his use of nude imagery. "Night Horses" is his longest and his most sensual film to date." (MOMA Cataologue, 1977)

Diagnosis

1975 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Philosophic reportage about work of pathoanatomist. Documentary version of Rembrandt’s «Anatomy Lesson».

Melek The Singer

1975 • 43 min • Turkey

The lawyer falls in love with the singer Melek, who is new to town. He goes to listen to her every evening. He offers all kinds of gifts to persuade the woman, but this woman who adorns his dreams never gives him the answer he expects.

Rastplatz

1975 • 5 min • Germany

City lights at night – and maybe dreams

Glimtar

1975 • 16 min • Germany

The cabin in Sweden in summer

The Goose Maid

1975 • 21 min • Albania

Short animated film about a girl who takes care of the geese.

Zana and Miri

1975 • 6 min • Albania

Two kids, Zana and Miri, play every afternoon in the garden by their house. They are often careless and damage the flowers of the garden.

TV Sale

1975 • 10 min • Canada

The opening pitch of the television salesman pretty well establishes the tone of this pithy animation film: a solid-state model guarantees high-quality entertainment. TV Sale is an entertaining, incisive and horrifying satire on some of the material that is disgorged via the "boob tube." Programs are designed around the product, not the spectator.

Napkins

1975 • 4 min • New Zealand

White fabric hanging on the line as seen through the windows of a house at night.

Time

1975 • 8 min

Micro text film of the Nov. 1974 issue of U.S. magazine Time cover to cover.

Superted

1975 • 9 min • United Kingdom

Pilot for an unproduced Cosgrove-Hall series.

Nine Letters of One Year

1975 • 17 min • Soviet Union

Based on the letters of Anatoly Cherepashchuk. A schoolboy from the city of Syzran writes letters to a scientist about his attempts to assemble a reflector telescope. He asks for the lenses for his observation device and in the following letters tells how the work is going. One day, with the help of his telescope, a young scientist discovers a new comet.

Tien gedichten van Hubert Korneliszoon Poot

1975 • 30 min • Netherlands

Ten poems from Hubert Korneliszoon Poot from the Dutch farmer and poet Hubert Poot, who lived in the 18th century -declared by Donald de Marcas [actor]. (Wim Schlebaum)

The Tale Of Moose Baby

1975 • 15 min

In this documentary nature short, we are introduced to the animal inhabitants of a mountain valley, as seen through the eyes of a baby moose, named Moose Baby.

Persisting

1975 • 9 min • United Kingdom

In Persisting an image of the Yangtse bridge is re-filmed with a soundtrack of popular Chinese music and the legend “persisting in our struggle”. Kerr, who studied with Steve Farrer and Lis Rhodes at the North East London Polytechnic and participated with the latter on a series of performance pieces in the mid-1970s, creates strong iconic statements in his films, invariably from found images which are often banal. “Thee gap in between, perception and awareness of perception of moment is Persisting.” (Genesis P. Orridge).

La Umbría

1975 • 60 min

A mixture of ethnography, ravings and a vampire film, La Umbría tells the story of a family, dressed permanently in black and afflicted by tuberculosis, who live shut away in a mansion in a valley on Gran Canaria (the home of the painter Pepe Dámaso, who directs this film). An immersion in rural life and its people, imbued with extravagant visions midway between auteurist cinema and Hammer productions, ghosts of ancestors, imposing landscapes and impossible soirées.

Impressions of a Sunset

1975 • 23 min • Japan

A diary film composed by images where the director, after buying a CineKodak 16 (a pre-war 16mm camera) at a second hand camera shop, starts filming his wife, his newborn baby and his workplace.

Pression

1975 • 16 min • Yugoslavia

Šimunić uses double exposure to combine footage of people and scenes from 1970s Belgrade with garish images from television shows containing elements of pornography to create an illusory film. He joins scenes from everyday life with his penchant for erotica. This debut film, which took five years to make, uses visual games to explore the limits of the human perception.

Gamle

1975 • 33 min • Norway

A documentary short about elders in Norway.