All Films

Bach and his Interpreters

1975 • 17 min • Mexico

Short film commissioned by CineDifusión SEP as part of the "Jornadas Casals" music program, centered around the Spanish cellist and, in this case, illustrating the music of Johann Sebastian Bach.

The Sea

1975 • 30 min • Mexico

Short film commissioned by CineDifusión SEP as part of the "Jornadas Casals" music program, centering on the Spanish cellist and, in this case, illustrating the music of Claude Debussy.

Petits Métamorphoses

1975 • 12 min • France

‘Small metamorphoses’ is the name of an old game: different body parts are drawn on cardboard to form various characters including a couple and a child. The couple refuses this child in order to forget the failure of their love. Changes take place in the relationships, the clothes, the gestures, as time reveals the truth.

極私的魚眼抜け

1975 • 9 min • Japan

This work was created by wondering if it was possible to make a fisheye image with a 16mm camera, and realizing that it was possible with a wide-angle lens and a wide-angle attachment, I found such a lens combination. Almost 150 degrees of the circumscribed fisheye. Because the fisheye lens replaces the hemisphere of the field of view with a flat surface, the image becomes circular, creating a centre and periphery. Using this as a metaphor for the structure of the world, the film is a statement of the artist's thoughts. The music is borrowed from Mayumi Gorin and T. REX's album. Produced in 1975. The artist was 40 years old. (Suzuki Shiroyasu).

The Twilight of Tamsui

1975 • 26 min • Taiwan

A train rolled into Tamsui, a charming harbour town full of historical and cultural complexity. European-style architecture tells its colonial past, while Fujianese immigrants' influence stays present in local people's everyday life. Celebrated photographer and cinematographer CHANG Chao-tang captured Tamsui in the 1970s on film, creating a nostalgic yet melancholic concerto played by missionaries, fishermen, and tourists.

Pursuit

1975 • 23 min

Images of sixteen men and women are shown, one by one, as they run on a conveyor belt against a black background. They appear to be in a complete void. The camera films the runners from all kinds of angles: sometimes from the front, from the knees up, then in profile or a focus on one of the limbs in close up. The heavy breathing of their exertions is audible. The tight close-ups of the limbs lend the moving body parts an almost abstract, mechanical character.

Si Vis Pacem

1975 • 7 min • Poland

Troops are stationed on both sides of the border. The soldiers both arm themselves and mask with greenery. It turns out that nature is stronger than the human tendency to wage wars.

Three Dog Night: Soundstage Chicago

1975 • 60 min

Three Dog Night on Soundstage, Chicago in 1975. Setlist: One-- The Family Of Man-- Shambala-- An Old Fashion Love Song-- 'Till The World Ends-- Try A Little Tenderness-- Pianola Rag-- Pieces Of April-- Eli's Coming-- Celebrate-- The Show Must Go On-- Joy To The World

Phenix

1975 • 15 min • United States of America

I dedicated Phenix to my father Franjo Zdravič, reconstructive surgeon, because he opened a new world of beauty and meaning for me. For some two weeks he led my way through rooms of very special climate - Ljubljana Medical Centre Burns Department - where threads of sighs, of nightmarish dreams, of misery, of compassion, of joy, are woven with hands of calm determination: to inflict wounds to a living being in order to give him/her a new form and function. - AZ

Change by Degrees

1975 • 10 min • Canada

From the flat roof of his old house, a young Nova Scotian turns and takes a 360o look at life in Sambro, Nova Scotia, the small coastal village where he now lives.

Cruisin' J-Town

1975 • 30 min

Celebrates the music and influences of contemporary Asian American culture on Dan Kuramoto, June Okida Kuramoto, and Johnny Mori — three musicians who make up the core of the jazz fusion band Hiroshima. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Visual Communications in 2011.

Matchbox

1975 • 5 min

Experimental short film about sound and cigarettes

Out They Go

1975 • 20 min • Australia

The lively atmosphere of Sydney’s famous landmark, Paddy’s Market in Haymarket, documented on film before the market moved to a new location. A Film Australia crew gets up early to shoot the stall holders selling fruit, vegetables and all things second hand. Shot in vibrant colour Out They Go captures the earthy dignity and vitality of the workers at the market as they go about their business, right in the heart of the city.

A Girl

1975 • 29 min • Japan

Smoke-cross

1975 • 2 min • Switzerland

8mm film by Swiss artist Roman Signer.

Esculturas para un paisaje

1975 • 28 min • Spain

Art documentary on the sculptures of the Mediterranean highway.

I'm Mad at You

1975 • 8 min

Vignettes illustrating situations in which children feel angry at others.

Study II.

1975 • 11 min

The extreme forms of light experiments conducted with candles in the intersection of early cinema and avant-garde experiments. The film image is the unforgettable, self-reflective stratification of abstract studies.

Notre-Dame du Roncier

1975 • 7 min • France

Pardon of Josselin in 1975

Songs For Spring

1975 • 15 min • Soviet Union

A film fairytale about birds living in Estonian forests.

Imago

1975 • 10 min • Italy

It is the attempt to initiate an analytical discourse on the image, alternating visual events with written words which reflect on the image [...] and which, on the screen, become images themselves. The relationship between word and image here is often reversed, sometimes juxtaposed, always slightly shifted. In this film, the feeling of the image as a "phenomenon" returns.

El sueño, o la estrella

1975 • 12 min

A short comedy film, among the first films directed by Pedro Almodovar

Filmabuse (Original)

1975 • 1 min

Abstract, direct animation consisting of triangular shapes that flow past the frame. Apparently the source for "Filmabuse" (F.2011-01-0262) and "Filmabuse Loop" (F.2011-01-0263), this original painted material is presented in an edge-to-edge scan to replicate the look of the unslit double 8mm object. Although no date information is available, it was likely produced circa 1975 ahead of the other "Filmabuse" elements.

Plastopornicon

1975 • 5 min • United States of America

Rubber miniature about a man, a woman and a dog.