All Films

Sicher über die Straße

1975 • 10 min • Germany

Short film about safe street crossing

Black Angel

1975 • 5 min

Short film by Ana Mendieta.

Villofolie

1975 • 15 min • Belgium

Shot with direct sound, Villofolie presents six people giving a monologue in a destroyed and dehumanized city: Brussels. The film dissects itself to reflect on mental illness and the inability to communicate. The group of people portrayed share feelings of abnormality, anxiety and loneliness.

Homicide

1975 • 52 min

Silent film shot on 16 mm in the 1970s by the actor Denis Develoux, mainly known for the main role he played in L'idole des Jeunes (1976) by Yvan Lagrange. In Homicide, in a neo-impressionist style (Dulac, Epstein, Kirsanoff), a cyclical structure presents the parallel destinies of characters with hieratic behavior, having no links between them. They symbolize "states": the heterosexual couple, the homosexual couple, female solitude, offering few prospects of happiness or fulfillment. From the film there emerges an impression of disenchantment which at the same time bears witness to an era and transcends it.

Open files

1975 • 9 min • Romania

A more experimental aproach to labor protection films. In the line of Săucan's style, the soundtrack is as important as the image, the threatening music, full of shrillness, composed by Ion Dumitrescu potentiating the visual construction that mixes - in a montage reminiscent of the Soviet avant-garde school of the 1920s - all kinds of shooting techniques and frame combinations.

How to Say 'No' to a Rapist... and Survive

1975 • 51 min • United States of America

Frederic Storaska gives a lecture regarding rape prevention at SUNY Geneseo.

Pressure Cooker

1975 • 7 min

A short film about sports ability to relieve stress.

Playing Safe in Animal Town

1975 • 13 min • United States of America

Puppet animation. Uses a story about animals to demonstrate and motivate safe behavior walking, playing, and bike riding, with special attention to the unpredictability of automobiles, trains, and pedestrians. For primary grades.

The Feat

1975 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A portrait of an unknown soldier, published in the memoirs of Marshall Zhukov, provoked a massive response in readers. In the dour face covered in dust, many recognized their sons, fathers, brothers. Sobolev brings the face described in the letters to life and each allows us to experience the transformation of his perception.

Poison River

1975 • 33 min • Iran

A film by Kianoush Ayari

An Italian Family: Life on a Farm

1975 • 20 min • United States of America

This film presents geographic and cultural aspects of Italy with an account of one family living on a small farm, who, unlike many Italians seeking modernization, avoid mechanization in preference for a simple way of life.

Boy and the Illusionist

1975 • 10 min • Soviet Union

As a traveling illusionist he performed in the city square.

Children of the Golden West

1975 • 59 min

A provocative documentary kaleidoscope of Berkeley wit, defiance, insight, mania, obsession, and delusion ...

Raindrop

1975 • 11 min • United Kingdom

Following the journey of a drop of rain.

Halle-Neustadt: Stadt der Chemiearbeiter

1975 • 24 min • East Germany

Hands

1975 • 6 min • Soviet Union

A Merab Saralidze Cartoon

Bloodsucker

1975 • 21 min

A 16mm black and white remake of an 8mm color film done years earlier, this time with students enrolled in a 'dramatic narrative' summer workshop. Deep shadows dominate this spooky saga dealing with reincarnation and revenge.

The Alphabet

1975 • 12 min

A particular favorite of mine, this film takes Rimbaud’s words one step further into the arena of “inane refrains and artless rhythms.” I used a Bolex with an extreme macro lens to flip and roam through the pages of Chinatown pamphlets, Victorian erotic novels, and American pulp fiction, zooming in on lines and phrases and grasping at the truth that the pages can talk and that the words have their own independent lives. The Stravinsky soundtrack sets the pace for this restless proto-literary journey. I also used a shadow puppet for the first time, a year before None Saved. - P. V. Z.

Human Flicker

1975 • 4 min • Japan

Live performance with two projectors. Human beings become shutters, if you flutter two fan in front of the lens. According to the movement, the eyes wink on the screen.

A Magic Bow

1975 • 11 min • Soviet Union

Mercer Street

1975 • 1 min

In Mercer Street (circa 1975), Hafif uses Super-8 film to track 28 seconds of subtle movement on the quiet nighttime street directly below her window. Softly lit by a single streetlamp, the film moves in near total darkness.

Rex The Singer

1975 • 9 min • Poland

Rex, influenced by music, begins to sing. He can recognize a harmony of sounds. The dog decides to sing by the window of a neighbor who plays the piano beautifully. She is better than a boy whose violin is out of tune. However, playing with a stick is not so great when you are a singer.

Whittingham

1975 • 37 min

Ray Gosling and Nick Broomfield spent three weeks in the hospital filming a documentary for Granada Television, broadcast on ITV on 26 August 1975.

African Gift

1975 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The boys from the Young Naturalists Club received a package from Africa. There was an egg in the package. Soon, a crocodile hatched from the egg. And as it usually happens, the crocodile ran away. The boys posted notices about the missing crocodile all over the town. And there was a panic in the town.