All Films

Cutting Light and Dark Holes

1975 • 8 min

Cutting Light and Dark Holes, like Overlapping Planes, works with the flatness of the film plane against the spatial depth of a situation. The film, entirely in negative image, begins with a black sheet of paper filling the frame. Haxton enters from the left and cuts four rectangles in the paper, two on the left and two on the right, leaving four white rectangles. He then removes the black sheet by rolling it off from left to right, revealing four black rectangles underneath, cut out of a sheet of white paper. He rolls this paper from left to right,leaving the frame black again. The surface looks identical to the black frame at the beginning of the film: as in Overlapping Planes, there is no way of differentiating between the appearances of flatness without signs of activity within the space.

Conversation avec Henri Langlois

1975 • 22 min • France

Henri Langlois, interviewed in the Cinema Museum at the Palais de Chaillot, talks about his vision of cinema's past, present and future, before a brief jaunt through the museum as it was in 1975.

Apparent Motion

1975 • 28 min • United States of America

The images for this project were first obtained by enlarging, with an optical printer, frames of evenly distributed grain particles from a black and white strip of underexposed 8mm Tri-X film. The resulting 16mm black and white Plus-X copy was again blown up with an optical printer to make a negative on high contrast stock.

Lament for Art Ó Laoghaire

1975 • 57 min • Ireland

A group of unruly Irish stage actors refuse the orders of their British director as he orchestrates a dramatic retelling of Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill’s eighteenth-century keen about the the life and death of Irish rebel Art Ó Laoghaire.

Un naufrage s'offrait

1975 • 7 min • France

Union

1975 • 8 min • United States of America

Union is one translation of the meaning of the word "yoga." The work is an allegorical journey of the self seeking reunion with itself.

Which Century Is Outside, Children

1975 • 9 min • Yugoslavia

A story about a Macedonian village that lives its last days with the last inhabitant, an old man, a witness to all the events that make the history of the village.

Variations

1975 • 5 min • Yugoslavia

A short film composed of shots of the sea surface.

Studies in Image (de) Generation

1975 • 10 min

"These three films are derived from "Negative / Positive on Three Images" by Baldwin Spencer, which was copied in high-contrast material to make Study No. 1. This, in turn, was copied into the same material to make Study No. 2 serially. . Then Study No 2 was used as the material to copy Study No 3, copied again in high contrast material. Each copy had more and more contrast, until in the third there was nothing gray left in the image. As a result, the original action is progressively replaced by the action of the cinematographic material. These three films together, in addition to the first two Baldwin Spencer films, were used in our film / performance piece that we did in 1977 Edges of Meaning, in which we examined some of the implications of the material."

Studies In Chronovision

1975 • 22 min

Film sketches constructed over the past five years investigating temporal composition via single frame-time lapse techniques: light struck metronomes, 20th century dust from a Mayan dream, horology complete with coordinates, Kodak vs. Timex. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

O parto

1975 • 36 min • Portugal

Documentary based on archive material focusing on the dictatorial regimen in Portugal and its fall with the "Revolução dos Cravos" (Carnation Revolution), in 1974, after 48 years of Salazarism.

Itch

1975 • 4 min • Soviet Union

Staggeringly simple films: a man itching his back, a man thinking, a man yawning, but like the works of Samuel Beckett, these minute gestures stand in as grand statements of the human condition, akin to the films of Bas Jan Ader and Marcel Broodthaers.

Chameleon

1975 • 10 min • Yugoslavia

If a demagogue, a man who draws arguments as he needs, tears his cheek, his real, parrot-like face will appear.

Essay über ein Fischweib oder Min Herzing

1975 • 15 min • East Germany, Germany

The last day of work for a 72-year-old fisherwoman and fish seller from Warnemünde. Amid congratulatory gestures and toastes, she tells her life story.

Wolverine Kills T. V.

1975 • 5 min

Short work.

Beyond the Mountains, More Mountains

1975 • 12 min • United States of America

Collage video of Haiti, using experimental film techniques, field recording, and relevant texts.

Two Black Churches

1975 • 19 min

TWO BLACK CHURCHES is based on fieldwork Bill Ferris conducted at a church in Vicksburg, Miss. and at a church in New Haven, Conn. Footage includes a full immersion baptism, congregation members and preachers at both churches discussing their call to the faith, and scenes from worship services at both churches. The film contrasts the two approaches to worship at each church.

A propósito de la mujer

1975 • 35 min • Costa Rica

It is based on real testimonies of six women from different social strata that reflect the misery, anger, repressed and silent suffering, as well as the illusion, the dream and the ideal.

Gaudi

1975 • 44 min • Japan

Since 1975 Kiyoshi Awazu has been obsessed with the "designer" Antonio Gaudi. Then there was no stopping this man. He went to Barcelona, took his own 16mm camera, made a film, wrote a book called "In Praise of Gaudi" and was the main force behind the subsequent tour of the Gaudi exhibition in Japan. (Ken Awazu).

La danza de los cubos

1975 • 6 min • Argentina

Stop motion animation short film made with hundreds of styrofoam cubes lined with coloured cardboard.

Parasolka and the Car

1975 • 9 min • Soviet Union

A man named Parasolka, who is forever barging into ridiculous situations, carefully prepared his car for the upcoming trip. Of course! After all, he's going to travel. And a beauty whom he suddenly greeted on his way completely knocks him out of the rut, inadvertently forcing do stupid things. Now, because of Parasolka’s carelessness, his car is completely out of order after drinking alcohol...

El zorro y los presumidos

1975 • 10 min • Argentina

Animated short film by Simon Feldman, based on his story "Juan el zorro".

The Chair

1975 • 7 min

In The Chair (1975) the glaring white highlights on a freshly painted black chair rhyme with multicoloured feathers that fall and stick to the paint, caught by both paint and camera, while the chair itself nearly disappears into the deep blue background. One take, a little over 7 minutes in length is a black wooden chair slowly being rained upon by large multi-colored feathers. There is no sound. The piece is Zen like and meditative transporting the viewer into contentment as feathers gather on and around the chair.

Tales of the Garden of Eden

1975 • 7 min • Soviet Union

A satirical and insightful story telling that that man creates the space around and can make a terrible place even from heaven. Thus, Adam and Eve fall there where nature blooms, unusual and rare species of birds are singing, and plants are fragrant. But these two manage to destroy the creatures living there turn the fruit of the apple tree into a self-made alcohol.