All Films

Viagem pelo Interior Paulista

1975 • 15 min • Brazil

"A view of São Paulo's rural architecture, from the remains of a sugar mill from the 1500s to a farm at the height of the coffee cycle in 1822. Documentary illustrating Morada Paulista, book by Luis Saia". (ACPJ/CCM)

Really Rosie

1975 • 27 min • United States of America

Convinced of her limitless talent, charm, and ability, Rosie sweeps the neighborhood Nutshell Kids into the beam of her private spotlight as they perform in her pretend movie.

Gleebees

1975 • 1 min • United Kingdom

An Stop Motion Animated Short Film about little Creatures.

Bread and Mud

1975 • 11 min • Spain

Short Film, On display at Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya; alongside Avenue Boulevard de l'Opéra.

The Kirghiz of Afghanistan

1975 • 51 min • United Kingdom

The Kirghiz of Afghanistan are a group of some 2,000 pastoralists living on a bleak mountain plateau in a narrow isthmus of land between the borders of the Soviet Union and China. For nine months of the year heavy snows cover the ground, which was formerly used only by the Kirghiz for their summer pastures before the borders were closed, virtually terminating the contact of this group with other Kirghiz communities. Although the film shows dramatically the ten-day journey which lowland traders must make to reach this remote people, as well as scenes of a Kirghiz wedding and the traditional Central Asian sport of ‘buzkashi’ – demonstrating the horse-riding skills of the people – there is very little about the pastoral economy and society of the ordinary Kirghiz.

The Mysterious Island

1975 • 60 min • Australia

March 23rd, 1885. Fighting rages in the city and the southerners gain ground. Meanwhile, five northern prisoners, accompanied by their dog Tob, manage to escape. In their escape from the enemy, they had no choice but to board a hot air balloon to survive the chaos of the terrain. It is then that the flying machine will take them to a mysterious place, perhaps even more dangerous than the war itself...

Rona Looks at Raquel, Liza, Cher and Ann-Margret

1975 • 60 min • United States of America

Today, four famous glamour queens let their hair down about their lives, loves and marriages.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.: A Self-Portrait

1975 • 29 min • United States of America

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., discusses his development as a writer, including references to some of his major novels, his themes and their meaning, his relationship to other writers, problems in sustaining his special vision of American life, and his future. Accompanied by photographs that chronicle the author’s life and selections from home movies taken during his youth.

Les Princes Noirs de St. Germain-Des-Prés

1975 • 14 min • Senegal

A satire about young African men arriving in the district of Saint Germain des Prés in Paris during the 70s.

The Meadows Green

1975 • 23 min • United States of America

Fantastical, larger-than-life puppetry and rambunctiously playful choreography is framed against an Edenic backdrop of Vermont farm country in George Griffin and DeeDee Halleck’s luminous, lyrical short film, which documents the 1974 edition of the Bread and Puppet Theater’s annual Domestic Resurrection Circus, taking place soon after the company’s relocation from downtown Manhattan to the rural New England enclave where it remains headquartered to this day.

See

1975 • 13 min • United States of America

View up close some of the smaller inhabitants of the Red Sea off the coast of Sudan - a world filled with strange, fascinating, and often comic creatures.

House

1975 • 8 min • Yugoslavia

Film about a cozy household.

Valerie

1975 • 16 min

This stunning, verité portrait of a Black transgender sex-worker living as a housewife in Ohio is a remarkable time capsule and a testament to a life of perseverance. The namesake protagonist speaks candidly about her dual life and addresses the prison industrial complex through which she is perpetually churned, as a queer person of color in the Midwest of the 1970s, a sex worker and a transgender woman, during a period when “cross-dressing” was still illegal and punishable with prison time.

Two Solutions to One Problem

1975 • 6 min • Iran

During breaktime, Dara and Nader have a fierce argument about a torn exercise book that the former has given back to the latter. There are two possible outcomes, which the film shows one after the other. One is that Dara wants to get his own back, and the two boys start a violent fight; the other is that they work together to mend the exercise book with a little glue.

How The Hedgehog And The Bear Celebrated The New Year

1975 • 8 min • Soviet Union

Teddy Bear comes to the Hedgehog on a visit to together celebrate the New Year. Because of the recent blizzard, the Hedgehog could not get the New Year's tree, so friends quickly went to the forest in search of a green beauty, because before the start of the holiday left very little time. They were looking for a New Year's tree in the forest, but they could not find it. But then the Hedgehog decided to be a tree, because he looks very much like it.

Teatro Brasileiro: Origem e Mudança

1975 • 12 min • Brazil

I'll Kill Myself!

1975 • 12 min • Poland

Short animation by Alina Maliszewska about two lovers trying to kill themselves

Carry On!

1975 • 8 min • Soviet Union

About a little boy who dreamed of feats and noble deeds, and how once he saved children from evil robbers.

The Housewife

1975 • 6 min

A study, in film animation, of a day in the life of a housewife, described without words, with a minimum of detail but with a perception all the more pertinent because of the simplicity of presentation. The film makes no judgments. It simply states the case, but serves as an apt starting point for any discussion of the role of women and the value of their work.

Carbon Copy

1975 • 60 min

In Howard Schuman’s contribution to the Against the Crowd series, Jamaican Albert Sharpe II (Warrington) is no longer at ease with the cultured white family who have virtually adopted him.

Give Me Back My Rex

1975 • 16 min • Soviet Union

The doctor hides the death of the dog from Serezha and gives the boy a new friend. A poignant story of loyalty and friendship.

Eat the Sun

1975 • 24 min

A mockumentary about the Temple of Self Amplification, a new age church where devotees utilize bio-video feedback to progress through the Tapasia Ritual, led by church elder Viduru Telemahandi, in hopes of achieving total enlightenment aka The Impossible Truth.

Wolf and the Seven Goats in a New Way

1975 • 11 min • Soviet Union

How the love of music made the wolf and the goats friends.

The White Seal

1975 • 24 min • United States of America

In one seal herd, a young seal pup with a rare white colouring named Kotick is born. When as he matures, he learns of the deadly threat that human hunters pose to the herd through their activities. While Kotick is able to save the herd on one occasion, he is fully aware that the threat is not over. Now he must take on the seemingly impossible quest to find a home for his herd where humans will never intrude.