All Films

Armchair Inventions

1975 • 3 min

An animation shown on Sex Toons.

Dillī Dallī Minku parkā

1975 • 9 min • Soviet Union

An Unfashionable Tragedy

1975 • 27 min

In 1974, when famine hit the country, Pilger returned to Bangladesh to make An Unfashionable Tragedy. It contains harrowing scenes of starving children but also puts the horrors into a geopolitical context. This is Pilger’s first documentary to highlight his theme of expendability, whereby countries with no oil, strategic value or military power are considered unimportant to the superpowers. Bangladesh, he points out, is not one of the United States’s “client states” on a priority list to receive its surplus food.

Applied Magnetics

1975 • 43 min

The fight of the Portuguese workers of the company Applied Magnetics against the American employers, who resourced to the Ministry of Labour after not feeling vindicated by their requests for better working and living conditions. After an attempt of reconversion of the factory and a contact with the embassies of other socialist countries, they decide to deliver the facilities to GNR (Portuguese Nacional Republican Guard), due to the lack of perspectives, and find other jobs. The film is composed by images of interviews to women workers and abandoned facilites; and theatrical representations about the process of their struggle.

Josépha

1975 • 13 min • Central African Republic, France

Pilot film for a series of programs on the condition of women of color in Europe. Here, the famous black beautician and hairstylist from Paris, Josepha. Josepha talks about her job, her problems, explains the action she takes at the aesthetic level to disalienate her clients of color, who are too often tempted to refuse their blackness and imitate Europeans.

Smashing Kids

1975 • 26 min

Children growing up in poverty is the subject of Smashing Kids, 1975. John Pilger meets the Hopwoods, of Liverpool, where hunger has become a way of life during father Harry’s unemployment as his family of five survive on £1 a day. The wallpaper in their council house is torn and there are no clothes in the couple’s wardrobe and no sheets on their bed. The family have never had a holiday and Harry tells Pilger: “It would be easier to serve time than to put up with this.”

Alcohol: Pink Elephant

1975 • 16 min • United States of America

Discusses causes, symptoms, and treatment of alcoholism. Points out that alcoholism is a disease which involves both physical and mental dependency, requiring both physical and mental treatment.

We're Here to Stay

1975 • 28 min • Canada

Farm families in Lestock, Saskatchewan, have pooled their resources so that rising operating costs will not drive them off their land. By pooling their land, their equipment, their livestock, and farming as a cooperative, they are able to live as they choose, to maintain their standard of living, and even to have some spare time left over to enjoy. An engaging look at a novel approach to big-scale farming.

You're Lucky Jo

1975 • 10 min • Poland

Savage cowboys from the Wild West, Billy and Jo, meet again. This time there will be no duel - the barrels of their pistols are so hot that they burn their pockets. As a result of a malfunction, the saloon becomes dark.

Roll

1975 • 9 min • Soviet Union

A lyrical sketch in the style of a silent film, telling the story of an artist carrying a large, long roll of paper across the city.

Zomo et ses frères

1975 • 19 min • France, Niger

A portrait of Zomo, the second of Damouré Zika’s many children. Employed at the zoo of the National Museum of Niger in Niamey, he offers us a tour, showing us the animals he takes care of. Then, when the work is finished, he invites us to an impromptu concert by “Jeunesse Gawey,” the “popular music” orchestra he forms with his brothers and sisters, who sing and dance for us pretty songs about their lives, their family, and Nigerien youth.

The Heirs of Victory

1975 • 60 min • Soviet Union

About the heroic past of Soviet soldiers in the days of the Great Patriotic War and the military everyday life of the soldiers of our days.

Conejín

1975 • 4 min • Venezuela

Experimental animation film about the adventures of a little bunny.

Um Caso Extraordinário

1975 • 50 min • Brazil

The story of two famous surgeons who are led, under mysterious circumstances, into the presence of an even more mysterious personality.

Beloved

1975 • 30 min • Soviet Union

The story of a young man named Yertaya, who returned to his native village after many years of studying at a university in the capital. During this time, his younger sister Alima grew up and fell in love with a tractor driver. And now she has to prove to Yertai that she is already an adult and independent person.

The Pipe

1975 • 6 min • Soviet Union

A film about how smoking in public places inconveniences those around.

Elegy

1975 • 8 min • Soviet Union

An experimental film about the eternal life of music, and about how it belongs to all.

Kirkby - A Self-Portrait

1975 • 60 min

A documentary providing an inside look at life in Kirkby, told through the experiences of its residents, including tenants, children, councillors, and factory workers.

Drawing—Black

1975 • 17 min

A work that continuously colors an image black.

With Pleasure, Savvopoulos

1975 • 50 min • Greece

The legendary long-lost documentary by Lakis Papastathis about Dionysis Savvopoulos features music videos of songs drawn from the albums *To Perivoli tou Trellou* (The Fool’s Garden), *Ballos*, *Vromiko Psomi* (Dirty Bread), and *10 Chronia Kommatia* (10 Years in Pieces). It also includes an interview and audiovisual material by Papastathis, originally presented during Savvopoulos’ performances at Kyttaro. Additionally, Savvopoulos performs together with Domna Samiou and Sotiria Bellou in a rare musical collaboration.

Summers Are Short in the Mountains

1975 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A pastoral symphony of summer life in mountainous Kyrgyzstan.

Unser Dorf soll häßlich werden

1975 • 28 min • Germany

In 1975, the year designated for the preservation of historical monuments, Dieter Wieland denounced the many architectural eyesores in Bavarian villages, the destruction of the traditional village landscape through the massive widening of roads through villages, the demolition of old buildings, and the construction of new, identical-looking concrete buildings and yodeler-style houses with lots of rustic kitsch.

The Mustelidae Family

1975 • 19 min • Soviet Union

An educational short on mustelids, their habits and care.

1-5 Counting Zoo Animals

1975 • 1 min

How many animals are at the Zoo? Count along and find out!