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Sensitométrie III

1975 • 12 min • France

Large visual elaborations of Kirchhofer means most simple devices and childish in cinema archeology, Thaumatrope the Praxinoscope, all optical toys. This fundamental investigation of the batch becomes particularly clear in Sensitométrie III (Sensitometry III), where work on the range is very pure because it is accentuated by the open opposition between positive and negative. But the difference is that, where other devices seeking forms of regularity and stability to swallow motionless in the mobile, film Kirchhofer rather explore all possible rhythms, so to enhance the irregularity, difference, discontinuous. The parade always comes up against the still image, continuity serves monumentalize Meanwhile, the optical illusion is stripped and the beauties of the irregular explode. Nicole Brenez - Portrait Arte - May 2006

The Way the Eagle Shits

1975 • 10 min

Al Levin examines the system which functions to keep the working class in the United States oppressed.

Dance 11

1975 • 8 min • United States of America

Features a duet of sorts between Cynthia Anderson and specially processed images of herself. Similar in technique and intention to DANCE SEVEN, this film is in some ways more lyrical and languorous than the former, emphasizing the overall shaping of the body in dance, rather than isolated movement details such as the virtuoso footwork. Space is transformed into a viscous atmosphere of colored light, which seems to flood and blend in response to movement impulses of the dance. The dance itself has a sustained, weighted quality, contrasting the stable placement of the body against sinuously rhythmic movements of limbs. A mellow sensation of tension is emphasized by the dissonant, muted hues programmed by Chase, while feedback effects multiply, blur and dissolve the image. The sum effect is to induce a meditative mood tinged with a not unpleasant melancholy.

Shane

1975 • 3 min • United States of America

Experimental short, a looping 16mm color film portrait of a German Shepherd dog, with sound.

Earth Pulse

1975 • 5 min

A humanoid form strikes its body while making primal guttural sounds. At times the form is “stopped” and “started” using the pause of a reel-to-reel video player—a frozen line of noise (an asynchronous frame) cuts through the image reinforcing the sense of physicality. The sounding form is eventually set in an electronically generated landscape with temple-like forms of undulating feedback. Further processing of the voice and additional rhythmic electronic sounds are suggestive of ritual.

Murder Catalogue

1975 • 20 min • Japan

Matsumoto's early video work Murder Catalogue, but there were few opportunities to be screened at that time since it dealt with a grotesque image. Digitized a half-inch videotape he had kept in his studio. It is a work that shows the original form of a mysterious narrative that later appears well in Matsumoto's work, as it is constructed to repeat an event through long-term filming of a video and monologues by a cassette tape recorder. A photograph is placed in front of the video camera by one by one and the camera zooms in mechanically towards the images. Also, in Matsumoto's voice, a short monologue about the photos recorded on the tape is played. However, the voice is suddenly cut off by the sounds of hitting and the screams of the terminal, followed by the camera starting to expand the different images in the same way, and the voice of the recorder is played over and over again. - Ex-Is

Drum Beat

1975 • 2 min • East Germany

A group of drummers from various backgrounds gather together for a special performance.

Whenever Called

1975 • 9 min • Poland

The sheriff appears whenever he is called by the citizens. He is extremely thorough, he muffles noise, cleans dirt and chases gangsters.

A Graveyard and Beggar

1975 • 12 min • Japan

A work of Video Earth Tokyo, it is an interview with a homeless who lived in the Aoyama cemetery. Photography by Michael Goldberg.

Pen-Hi Grad

1975 • 28 min • Canada

In Penticton, BC, most students graduating from the only high school in town know that job opportunities and higher education lie elsewhere, most likely in Vancouver. So, for one memorable week, they go through a whirlwind of formal ceremonies, wild celebrations, hi-jinks and farewells that involve the whole population of this Okanagan Valley community.

Genie's Space Adventures

1975 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Little Soldier

1975 • 37 min • Soviet Union

Once in a war movie, Avalbek "recognized" his father in a soldier walking with a grenade at a fascist tank. And no one dared to disabuse the boy of this.

The Chameleon Cat

1975 • 11 min • Switzerland, Italy

The adventures of a cat, who can transform into something else when a certain melody is played on the flute.

Herdade do Zambujal

1975 • 11 min • Portugal

A film by Manuel Bento and Victor Reia Baptista.

I Take It for Granted

1975 • 30 min

A portrait of a contemporary, artist and drug user.

Give My Poor Heart Ease

1975 • 21 min

In his warm snapshot of the Mississippi Delta, folklorist and filmmaker William Ferris sits down with music legend B.B. King and other denizens of the deep south to talk about the blues. Interviewing local musicians ranging from inmates at Parchman Prison to a virtuoso guitar-playing barber, Ferris finds the genre cannot be pinned down to a single definition or origin. The blues permeates the territory as an infectious feeling, heard in musical notes thrummed from impromptu instruments like broomsticks and axes, in addition to guitars.

At Any Place 1

1975 • 16 min • Japan

At Any Place 1, 1975, film, 16 min, color. Casted over the sky, images of people are suggested as shapes of clouds

Universidade Fluminense

1975 • 12 min • Brazil

Documentary about UFF on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of its foundation.

Giant Hands

1975 • 29 min • Vietnam

A schoolboy dreaming of building a giant crane and a sturdy dam finds himself inspired by the legend of The Mountain God and The Lord of the Waters. His reimagination sets it up for the future, where science and technology will enable a post-war Vietnam to conquer nature and move forward.

Barry White in Concert

1975 • 50 min

Barry White live in concert at the Royal Albert Hall in 1975 with Love Unlimited and The Love Unlimited Orchestra.

HSA Hospital Strike '75

1975 • 21 min • United States of America

A union of interns and residents at Chicago's only public hospital are forced to strike for better patient care. This film documents their eighteen-day strike.

Gift from Agnes

1975 • 20 min • Japan

"Gift from Agnes" is a movie that was shown at the "Toho Champion Festival" on March 15, 1975. It's more like a promotional video for an idol singer Agnes Chan, incorporating her poems. Finger 5's short film "Hello! Finger 5", which was screened in the previous year (1974), was well received, so Agnes Chan, who was a popular idol at the time, starred in the second one. However, this was the last time an idol short film was screened in the "Toho Champion Festival".

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1975 • 20 min • Soviet Union

Zero

1975 • 3 min • Austria

Found footage filmed by Russian soldiers in Vienna in 1945. On the soundtrack is “ The Flat Foot Floogee” with a “Floy Floy,” 1938, by Louis Armstrong and the Mills Brothers. It is also part of “ Das Lied vom Hofer” (1972).