All Films

Call Roger

1975 • 11 min

"Male model available for life drawing and photography. Call Roger 961-1310". As Roger poses provocatively for a still camera, respondents to his newspaper ad provide the voice over.

You Got Lucky, Joe

1975 • 6 min • Poland

a Leszek Komorowski cartoon

Watts

1975 • 4 min

Soundtrack: THIRD CONSTRUCTION, by John Cage.

Feelings

1975 • 8 min

People talk about what they are feeling. Ranging from the literal to the emotional.

Dink: A Pre-Blues Musician

1975 • 30 min

James “Dink” Roberts (1894–1989) grew up in the “Little Texas” community of Alamance County in piedmont North Carolina and made his living growing tobacco as a tenant farmer. But early in his life he learned the clawhammer banjo style from the older children of an uncle who raised him and from other black banjo players in the community. The film shows him in his family setting performing several kinds of music—playing banjo and singing dance songs, dramatic banjo songs, and even early country blues performed on guitar.

Genesis

1975 • 10 min • Romania

A modern parable about the man who learns to build walls and houses.

A City Trip

1975 • 3 min

A short film by Minneapolis School Children.

Ann-Margret Olsson

1975 • 60 min • United States of America

Ann-Margret gave viewers a double dose of movie star glamour in 1975, with a pair of TV specials designed to showcase her musical and comedic talents. Arriving first up in January was this program "Ann-Margret Olsson" with guest stars The Osmonds and Ike & Tina Turner Turner. (The follow-up special "Ann-Margret Smith" debuted in November.)

Seashell

1975 • 10 min • Poland

A modern and gloomy city of skyscrapers works to the rhythm of two pistons. Anonymous stenographers work in the dark offices, butchers deliver fresh meat and clerks, crammed into elevators, wander between the floors of the buildings.

Kral Benim

1975 • 56 min • Turkey

The film tells the story of a hired killer who is driven to destruction while trying to rescue his father from prison. Murat is a hired killer who works for a mafia boss nicknamed Kont. Murat's father, Vedat, has been imprisoned on false charges. However, Murat does everything he can to rescue his father. In response, witnesses to the incident are killed one by one. The culprits behind this are Kont and his men. Kont wants Vedat to be punished, while also thwarting Murat's efforts. Murat plans to flee with his family without resolving the case. However, he loses his family when a bomb is placed in the car. Following this incident, Murat will set out to track down Kont and his associates.

Il registratore

1975 • 35 min • Italy

The restlessness creeps into a claustrophobic situation where a typist confronts the recorded voice of the writer she works for.

23

1975 • 11 min • Yugoslavia

A cartoon with a very loose form, mostly following the very creation of images with the author's hand often in the shot.

No curtains

1975 • 15 min • Colombia

The documentary Sin Telón celebrates the national artistic values of Teatro La Candelaria, recognized both nationally and internationally as one of the leading Latin American experimental theater groups. The film highlights the extensive career of Santiago García while also portraying the everyday life and unique working methods of this dedicated ensemble of artists from Teatro La Candelaria.

I Ain't Lying

1975 • 22 min

16mm color documentary based on fieldwork William Ferris conducted with African American storytellers and bluesmen in the communities of Leland and Rose Hill, Mississippi. The stories include include folk and religious tales, jokes, toast telling sessions, and characters from African American oral tradition. The film also includes footage filmed at churches and juke joints.

La Bicicleta

1975 • 20 min • Venezuela

As a funeral procession advances through a dusty town in the Paraguana peninsula, a young man rides his bicycle through the crowd. A beautiful woman stands apart from the crowd and gazes in wonder as the young man rides away. A child, the town's fool and the woman go after the Bicycle, each character with his own motivation. Enraged with indignation, the men also follow the cyclist through the town and onto the desert seeking to kill him.

You've Read the Book, Now See the Movie

1975 • 11 min

Filling in income tax forms is not as difficult as it may seem.

Basement Clown

1975 • 2 min

Dressed in a green wig, clown mask, and small hat, the artist raises and lowers his hands, sways his unclothed body, and hums a simple melody. He performs in front of a wooden partition, with close-up shots of his face intercut with views of his full body or torso. Eventually, he makes a loud exit from the frame. This work is the precursor to Experimental Dancer.

The Alternative

1975 • 29 min • Soviet Union

The film is devoted to the problem of creating artificial intelligence. In an accessible and visual form, the ways of creating artificial intelligence are considered, one of which chooses a human model, the other - a machine.

The Kitchen

1975 • 7 min • United States of America

An early student work directed at UCLA by Alile Sharon Larkin and submitted as her "Project One." Larkin visualizes a mental ward as a possible equivalent to prison incarceration for women of color. –UCLA Film & Television Archive

Fire

1975 • 7 min • Poland

An apocalyptic vision of a forest fire.

Struttin' the Mutton

1975 • 18 min

A casual meeting of misfits and vagrants on a Saturday afternoon in Albert Park. Featuring Mark Gillespie and ‘Mad’ Danny Kramer.

Palimpsest Palindrome

1975 • 4 min

Mirrored from left to right and front to back, this multilayered black and white symmetrical abstract horror film has apocalypse written all over it. It is still a lot of fun to see and is not without its humor.

Personal Drawing of a French Mercenary

1975 • 10 min

Portrait of a French mercenary working in Libya, hired by the Phalange to train the militias. War leaves its traces; and for some, who see death as part of the job, it’s a vocation.

Black on White Tape

1975 • 9 min

Black on White Tape begins with the camera pointing down at the floor where a roll of white tape is laid on top of a roll of black tape. Haxton enters the frame, picks up the white tape,and beginning at the lower left of the frame, tapes a line up along the left frame. He draws a line on the right,and then horizontal lines at the bottom and top, making a trapezoid. The re-iteration of horizontal and vertical frame lines inside the picture emphasizes the flatness of the projected image against the three-dimensionality of the experience of the room interior. There appears to be perceptual distortion: the top horizontal is wider than the bottom one, destroying the conventional perspective of spatial representation and reinforcing the flatness of the frame. This equivocation between flatness and spatiality is intensified by a cut to negative.