All Films

Something Within Me

1975 • 9 min • Japan

This film shows lofty sentiments with music by Aki Takahashi. Idemitsu’s mental images are beautifully and sensuously filmed; a mass of snails intertwined as if copulating in a group; scarlet petals; curtains swing in the wind.

Death Zones

1975 • 20 min • United States of America

Presents three case histories which illustrate how children were accidentally killed or injured by the schoolbus from which they had disembarked.

St. James's Shell

1975 • 15 min • Yugoslavia

From a monastery in Makarska preserving an extremely valuable shell collection, we embark underwater. We study the life of the shell named after St. Jacob. It is a shell which can even jump, but sometimes it’s still not enough to escape its sworn enemy, the red comb star.

Blancor

1975 • 5 min

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

The Hecklers

1975 • 59 min • Canada

An imaginative history of editorial cartooning in Canada. The documentary provides a witty take on Canada's history through the eyes of political cartoonists like Duncan Macpherson, Robert LaPalme, and Aislin (Terry Mosher). Over 50 artists' notable cartoons and their impact are explored, capturing reactions from their subjects. One cartoonist sums it up: "A picture is worth a thousand words, but a well-crafted cartoon is worth a thousand pictures." An absolute must for cartoon buffs.

Babysitters

1975 • 8 min • Soviet Union

A story about a cat who is looking for a babysitter to her kittens.

Bygg bättre bostäder

1975 • 29 min

Anders Wahlgren has visited some new residential areas with different apartment buildings. Årsta center, Sätra center, Kista, Viksjö and Fältöversten in Stockholm.

Witchcraft Among the Azande

1975 • 51 min • United Kingdom

Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard’s Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande—based on fieldwork conducted in Sudan in the 1920s and 1930s—is one of the classic texts of social anthropology. Fifty years later anthropologist John Ryle and film-maker André Singer—among the last of Evans-Pritchard’s students—revisited Zandeland, in Western Equatoria province of Southern Sudan, for Granada Television’s Disappearing World series. They recorded the continuities in Zande culture and the changes since Evans-Pritchard’s time.

Remains

1975 • 10 min • Brazil

Inspired by the testimony of an American technician who, examining the São Paulo dump, stated: "Sao Paulo rubbish is the richest in the world." The film shows the misery of those who live on this garbage and the police repression on the scavengers.

Aklın Durur

1975 • 59 min • Turkey

The story of a sharp young man's struggle against gangs.

The Changing Middle East

1975 • 24 min • United States of America

Discusses the history of the Middle East. Contrasts old ways with the new in agriculture, industry, etc. in emphasizing the changing image of this part of the world.

Magic Bag

1975 • 16 min • Soviet Union

About the bear cub Ivashka, who did good deeds.

Homemade TV: The Electronic Image

1975 • 29 min • United States of America

A broadcast presentation of Steina and Woody Vasulka's experiments with the electronic image. Featuring a 15-minute "jam session" of improvised video feedback art.

The Place Between Our Bodies

1975 • 33 min • United States of America

This pre-AIDS film offers an explicit exploration of gay male sexuality. Dealing with sexual love and sexual hunger this film shows how tenderness can enter into the male sexual act.

Avenue Boulevard de l'Opéra

1975 • 3 min • Spain

Short Film, On display at Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya; alongside Pa i fang.

Shadow

1975 • 5 min • Japan, Vietnam

A political work in which Ko Nakajima opposes himself to the Vietnam War.

Kiss

1975 • 3 min • Poland

„Kiss“ brings to mind the contemporary GIF graphic format, which nowadays enjoys massive popularity – a moving image suspended halfway between photography and film. It features a single gesture – originally intimate and sensual – that with time and repetition becomes absurd and unreal.

Das Zauberschloß

1975 • 20 min • East Germany, Germany

Hans, a boy with a thirst for reading and knowledge, sets out with his horse Robert to redeem an enchanted castle. His cleverness and fearlessness allow him to triumph over the spirits and break the spell.

Marihuana

1975 • 17 min • Chile

Institutional documentary about the use of Cannabis in 70s Chile.

Midas’s World

1975 • 30 min

Midas's World, a documentary depicting Phrygian art and culture, is the second installment in the "Traces of Anatolian Civilizations" series, produced by Suha Arın as a cultural service of the Turkish Touring and Automobile Association. The product of a year of intensive work, the documentary reveals that ancient Greek art and culture, known as the cradle of civilization, are actually rooted in earlier civilizations in Anatolia, particularly the Phrygians. For Midas's World, produced by Suha Arın and four students from Ankara University's School of Press and Broadcasting, all relevant sources, including museums displaying Phrygian artifacts and Phrygian settlements, were individually scrutinized.

Naya Daur

1975 • 9 min • India

A backgrounder showing the state of affairs which eventually led to the proclamation of Emergency by the Government of India in 1975.

The World Known as BAM

1975 • 17 min • Soviet Union

City-hero Minsk. It has been reborn from the ashes by the hands of Belarusian builders. This new home is being built five thousand kilometers away from Minsk by Belarusian guys. The village of Shemanovsky is now known throughout the country. Ten Minsk residents, members of the all-union shock brigade named after the 17th Congress of the Komsomol, are constructing a residential complex. Foreman Alexander Nikitenko and his team know that the industrial foundation of the BAM is being laid here.

Kufr Shuba

1975 • 31 min • Palestinian Territory

Produced by the Palestine Cinema Institute in Beirut and directed by Iraqi filmmaker Samir Nimr, the film is titled after the small village of Kufr Shuba in South Lebanon–site of a powerful act of solidarity between the Lebanese people and the Palestinian resistance following a battle that devastated the village. The film stands as a poetic testament to the steadfastness of a people, their liberation struggle, and their love for the land.

It's in the Bag

1975 • 10 min • Soviet Union