All Films

This Old Man

1975 • 23 min • Canada

A ghost is discovered in a deserted hotel.

A Pint of Plain

1975 • 38 min

'A Pint of Plain' was filmed on location in and around Shepherd's Bush, here in West London. Because O'Sullivan enabled his actors to use improvisation and gave them no formal script, the film has a raw, gripping and truthful 'drama – documentary' feel about it.

Behind the Scenes

1975 • 5 min

"This mysterious, delightful film opens with a sound collage of jazzy music and voices played against a black background. After a few minutes, there is an extended shot of a young woman sitting at a table by a window with a slight look of embarrassment as she tries to keep a straight face under the camera’s gaze. Made just after Shift, it continues Gehr’s early experiments with sound editing. It is startling in the context of his other work as his first film with a straight on close shot of a person." – David Schwartz

Locomotion

1975 • 16 min • United Kingdom

Collage film about the history of trains set to music.

Ali in Wonderland

1975 • 59 min • France

Ali in Wonderland unveils the condition of immigrant workers in Paris in the 1970s. It is a cry of anger against exploitation and racism, uncompromisingly raising the role of the French state, the media, capitalism, and colonization in this system of domination that crushes those who suffer it. In this experimental essay on the condition of Algerian migrants in Giscard's France in the mid-1970s, every aesthetic choice has a precise and legible political motivation and gives body and voice to a figure completely absent from the experimental cinema of the time: that of the immigrant worker. Abouda is one of the children of immigrants seen in the film, and not a simple activist serving a cause, which is why the emotion of her experimental gesture, which she throws in the viewer's face, springs from a ferocity inscribed in her body, from an insatiable anger that inhabits her gaze.

A Recollection... Hanging Rock 1900

1975 • 26 min • Australia

A documentary exploring the fascinating subject of the film, its production history and success. The documentary, which was produced by Patricia Lovell, features interviews with different cast and crew members.

Vocation

1975 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Documentary about three outstanding internationally recognized and awarded young professionals: sculptor Levon Tockmadjian, violinist Rouben Aharonian, Chess International Grand Master Rafael Vahanian. The film discovers some aspects of creative process.

A Salute to Sir Lew Grade

1975 • 50 min • United States of America

An All-Star salute to Sir Lew Grade, featuring Julie Andrews, Tom Jones, and the last public performance by John Lennon.

Man Alive: Xploitation

1975 • 50 min

BBC documentary that led James Kenelm Clarke to quit making documentaries and start producing exploitation films. Includes Pete Walker, David McGillivray, Hazel Adair, Bachoo Sen and a woman who never wears knickers.

In

1975 • 1 min • Brazil

Letícia Parente was a pioneer of video in Brazil, and In is one of her earliest video works. It depicts the artist entering a closet, suspending herself from a hanger, and closing the door. Parente used video as a political tool to protest the military dictatorship in Brazil, and to comment on the mass torture committed by the government. Much of her work concerned domestic space and its association with conventional roles to which women were expected to conform. Several videos by Parente transform daily household tasks into forms of resistance.

Rainbow

1975 • 8 min • Soviet Union

A fairy tale about two boys who were befriended by a rainbow.

Quarry

1975 • 6 min

Like gnomes, dancers emerge from and hide again behind boulders. Not to be confused with Meredith Monk's 1978 opera of the same name.

Grandpa & Marika

1975 • 11 min • United States of America

An observation of grandparents in their daily lives.

Pine Barrens

1975 • 32 min • United States of America

Pine Barrens is concerned with evoking through film a barren wilderness in south-central New Jersey. The camera is always in motion — tracking, pivoting, and walking through the landscape. Though they are never seen in the film, the voices of the local people, the 'Pineys,' are heard relating their feelings about the land, their attitudes about city life, their myths of the area, etc. their voices and the music of 'Bill Patton's Pine Barrens Trio' add a psychological dimension to the landscape.

Think of Me First as a Person

1975 • 9 min • United States of America

Documentary film and home movie about Dwight Core, Jr., a boy with Down syndrome. The footage was originally shot throughout the 1960s and 1970s by Core's father, Dwight Core, Sr. The footage was later discovered and completed by the filmmaker's grandson, George Ingmire.

Butterfly

1975 • 3 min

A 1975 work, Butterfly makes use of polarized graphic effects as Ana Mendieta's spectral body sprouts iridescent wings.

Quack-Bully

1975 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A cheerful company of frogs, once at the forest sports contest, takes part in competitions. By chance, their leader – an arrogant arrogant – manages to win in diving. Imagining himself to be an invincible champion, the Quack-Bully wants to prove his superiority in running, but fails.

Festa de São Benedito

1975 • 11 min • Brazil

In Aparecida do Norte, São Paulo, devotion to Saint Benedict has been constant since 1828. Folk groups from various regions of the country sing and dance, while the King, Queen, and their vassals, carrying the image of Saint Benedict, walk through the streets toward the church. The city is covered with rose petals and confetti. At night, after the solemn mass, a large fireworks display lights up the city.

The Prostitutes of Lyon Speak

1975 • 46 min • France

Documentary about the Lyon sex workers who occupied the church of St. Nizier on June 3, 1975.

Mechanical Ballet

1975 • 9 min • United Kingdom

The original material that forms the basis for Mechanical Ballet is an anonymous short reel of film of what appears to be car crash tests, carried out in a deadpan and somewhat cumbersome manner. Reworked into a two-screen film and divorced from their original context, they take on both a sinister and humorous quality. Mechanical Ballet was born out of an interest in ‘found footage’ film (in its relation to collage and assemblage) and the possibilities offered by the London Film-Makers’ Co-op workshop in terms of manipulation of the filmstrip and the film frame, projection, duration and the film printing process.

Strange Codes

1975 • 23 min • Canada

Arthur Lipsett’s Strange Codes is the legendary found-footage filmmaker’s first and only independent film, made after his departure from the National Film Board of Canada. In a rented house in Toronto, Lipsett stages a series of mysterious rituals, appearing onscreen in the guise of various characters, among them, an archeologist, a soldier, a scientist, a magician, and the Monkey King of the Peking opera. Dense with enigmatic gestures and private allusions, Strange Codes operates, in Lipsett’s words, “at the midway points between the primitive, ritualized world and the world of logic and science.”

Xenia on Tour

1975 • 13 min • Yugoslavia

The film follows the stream of consciousness of Ksenija Hribar, a ballet dancer from Ljubljana and a long time member of London Contemporary Dance Company.

Pisiasi

1975 • 8 min • Soviet Union

A car breaks down on the road. The inexperienced driver has no idea what’s wrong. He asks passersby for help. They dismantle the car, and the vehicle collapses. In the end, a minor issue is revealed — a stone stuck in front of the wheel.

Mädchen in Wittstock

1975 • 18 min • East Germany, Germany

Wittstock an der Dosse is located in the German state Mark Brandenburg, apx. 90 kilometers from Berlin. Volker Koepp came into the town in 1974 to interview women and girls about their work in the textile industry, their spare-time occupations, about their thoughts and feelings.