All Films

Fireworks

1975 • 6 min • Soviet Union

In a festive spring day, a little boy with his father were waiting for fireworks. Looking out the window, the kid saw a bearded old man strolling with children. It turns out that the main character's grandfather never had a beard and never was old, because he was young when he died in the war, fighting for his native country and the loved ones...

Ilya Muromets (Prologue)

1975 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Paralyzed Ilya Muromets receives heroic strength.

Rejection Front

1975 • 13 min • Palestinian Territory

When peace seems impossible, any means are justified to defend a political cause. Hence, on the border separating the Palestinian territories that refuse to recognize the State of Israel, the idea of suicide commandos emerges. Jocelyne Saab films teenagers, aged twelve to twenty, who tirelessly train in a secret underground base to become suicide commandos.

Geldsorgen

1975 • 6 min • East Germany

Short film about General Eduardo Cano, who after the military coup became director of the Chilean central bank in the Pinochet dictatorship. Cano withdraws money from the circulation, which were described by opposition parties with resistance piles. From the Chile cycle by Walter Heynowski and Gerhard Scheumann.

Like a Bird on a Wire

1975 • 44 min • Germany

A pseudo variety show about the Aufbau-Era, the time of the German 'economic miracle'. Brigitte Mira recounts her four husbands through song and joke, on a series of artificial sets.

Double Exposure

1975 • 3 min • United Kingdom

'.....invites us to experience a level of connection and intimacy between two people.' - Sam Dunn (Head of BFI Video Publishing)

Mini

1975 • 44 min • United Kingdom

Michael 'Mini' Cooper is a child who cannot stop setting fire to things. The young arsonist has been deemed not safe to be out in society, and the hunt is on for a suitable institution.

In the Port

1975 • 16 min • Soviet Union

A large group of children from different countries sail to the Black Sea port, heading for the international pioneer camp "Artek". Two stragglers of foreigners meet local teenagers who arrange a tour of the port for them.

Paradis Perdu

1975 • 25 min • France

A wealthy man falls in love with a transvestite stripper and gives her the wherewithal to fulfill her dreams; she invents stories with her transvestite friends; the story with the rich guy ends badly and she goes back to work on the streets (with no regrets).

Art Must Be Beautiful, Artist Must Be Beautiful

1975 • 51 min • United States of America

I brush my hair with a metal brush held in my right hand and simultaneously comb my hair with a metal comb held in my left hand. While so doing, I continuously repeat 'Art must be beautiful', 'Artist must be beautiful', until I have destroyed my hair and face.

Leopold the Cat’s Revenge

1975 • 10 min • Soviet Union

After another trick of mice, Leopold the Cat is visited by a dog doctor who prescribes him to take Ozirin to help him deal with mice. But Leopold doesn't follow the instructions and instead of taking one pill, as written in the prescription, he intakes the whole thing at once and goes wild.

100 Chinese Opera Masks

1975 • 6 min

"Just what it says." –B. C.

Funny Girl to Funny Lady

1975 • 60 min • United States of America

A benefit concert for the Special Olympics and an opportunity to promote Streisand's upcoming film (Funny Lady), this special was a combination of Streisand interview with Dick Cavett and Streisand concert. Attended by President Gerald Ford and a star-studded audience, the concert section features a handful of Funny Lady songs and a couple of Barbra standards. Streisand's Funny Lady co-star James Caan also makes an onstage appearance for a duet of Paper Moon / I Like Him and Muhammed Ali presents Barbra with a special award.

Black Chicken

1975 • 20 min • Soviet Union

Kind boy Alyosha saves a black hen from a bird of prey. The black chicken takes on a human form and takes Alyosha to a magical underground kingdom.

Cantos de Trabalho - Mutirão

1975 • 14 min • Brazil

Between 1974 and 1976, while researching for his filme "S. Bernardo", Leon Hirszman shot three documentary shorts produced by the Brazilian Ministry of Education on the chores of the men who worked in the sugar cane fields in the town of Feira de Santana, in the cocoa fields of Itabuna, and in the efforts of building households in Chã Preta.

Stairs

1975 • 25 min • Soviet Union

A part of Almighty Love

The 12 Days of Christmas

1975 • 4 min • United Kingdom

A short Christmas animation produced by Sheila Graber based on the traditional carol ‘The Twelve Days of Christmas’. The film focuses on Santa Claus as he introduces each of the twelve days to comic effect.

The Song Is Always With Us

1975 • 49 min • Soviet Union

A 1975 Soviet Ukrainian musical film by Viktor Storozhenko, starring Sofia Rotaru and the Ukrainian vocal and instrumental ensemble Chervona Ruta. The film features the ballet group of the Kyiv Music Hall and the Smerechyna dance ensemble. The film features songs in Ukrainian, Romanian and Russian.

Go, go! Zutorubi! Full speed ahead!

1975 • 32 min • Japan

A semi-documentary film depicting the appeal of the idol group Zuttorubi, which was hugely popular in songs and dramas in the mid-1970s. In addition to the frenzy of concerts held in Hibiya and Kyoto, the film introduces the four members as they work hard on their singing and dancing lessons.

W.O.W. Women of the World

1975 • 10 min

Faith Hubley’s first solo project. Using ritualistic Goddess imagery from different ancient civilizations, she creates a new history of the world – from a feminist point of view.

Legend

1975 • 25 min • Poland

"Legenda" is a document about a famous polish writer Stefan Żeromski. It serves as an interview with people who knew the artist.

After Manet, After Giorgione – Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe or Fete Champetre

1975 • 50 min • United Kingdom

Le déjeuner sur l’herbe is simultaneously perceived from four different camera positions in a work which engages with the pro-filmic in order to question documentation, illusion and the film viewing process.

Mining/Ironworks, Pt. 2

1975 • 30 min • Sweden

Nestler highlights visits by several German entrepreneurs to oil facilities. In the 1970s, Peter and his wife, Zsóka Nestler, collaborated on a series of educational films for television that focused on craft-making. These “biographies of objects” are rigorous investigations into the history of working techniques, production processes, and materials.

Observer / Observed

1975 • 22 min • Japan

Cameras observing each other.