All Films

Lichtblick

1975 • 14 min • Germany

Bastian Clevé - 14 mins - 1976

24 Films

1975 • 18 min • United Kingdom

Made between 1970 and 1975, Jeff Keen's films always contain internal layers and films within films. The twenty-four films here include hand-painted work, animation and montage.

Draw Start

1975 • 10 min • Soviet Union

About the adventures of the little men painted on the blackboard.

Yankee Doodle Cricket

1975 • 26 min • United States of America

The War of Independence has begun, and Tucker the Mouse, Harry the Cat and Chester C. Cricket are indispensable to the American colonies' effort to free themselves from the rule of the despotic English king. Harry and Tucker help Thomas Jefferson write the Declaration of Independence. Chester creates the tune for "Yankee Doodle Dandy." And all the animals--including John and Marsha, the lightning bugs--help Paul Revere spread the message that the British are coming. [Plot summary written by J. Spurlin.]

Slono-dilo-syonok

1975 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Once a little funny Elephant, or maybe a Piglet, or maybe a Crocodile, who lived with his relatives in an old park (or maybe in a zoo), decided to take a walk without his mother and immediately got lost. The kid sat down on a bench and wept bitterly, because he was lonely and scared - there were crowds of strangers walking around.

Hitlerpinochet

1975 • 2 min • East Germany

This silhouette-animated short exposes the Pinochet government through comparisons to Hitler's Nazi regime.

Refutation of All the Judgements, Pro or Con, Thus Far Rendered on the Film "The Society of the Spectacle"

1975 • 22 min • France

Refutation of All the Judgements, Pro or Con, Thus Far Rendered on the Film "The Society of the Spectacle"

Tales of Transvestia

1975 • 23 min • Finland

Racy monster movie parody.

Ville nouvelle : Le Logement à la demande

1975 • 52 min

Fourth part of a French TV series about the creation and building of the town of Cergy-Pontoise.

Earthware

1975 • 11 min • Canada

This short, impressionistic film takes us to Nigeria, Japan, Mexico and India, where craftsmen work clay to produce ritual vessels and everyday objects.

Waltz on Mtatsminda

1975 • 18 min • Soviet Union

Nazo and Koba decide to apply to a theater institute, but despite Koba being accepted, they both return home, not wanting to study separately.

Fantik

1975 • 19 min • Soviet Union

Animated cartoon about a little baby elephant Fantik and by the evil of Shtush-Kutush.

Conquest of Light

1975 • 12 min • Ireland

Examines the mesmerising construction of clear crystal glass pieces created by the craftsmen of Waterford. The process from the intense heat of the furnace to glass blowing, shaping, cutting, honing, filling and finishing is all depicted in this celebration of the art of creation of Waterford Glass. Academy Award Nominee: Best Live Action Short - 1976.

Freeing the Voice

1975 • 36 min • United States of America

Serbian artist Marina Abramovic is lying on her back on the floor and screaming until her voice is lost.

Vivian Stanshall's Week

1975 • 32 min • United Kingdom

A short documentary about a week in the life of Vivian Stanshall.

Nomina Sunt Odiosa

1975 • 13 min • Iceland

Nomina Sunt Odiosa is Fridrik Thór Fridriksson’s first film. The title is in Latin and means names are not necessary even pointless. Maybe that was a statement from the director for future films to come. Scenes from a school graduation party mix with shots of soft-drink bottles a conveyor belt. Both the bottles and the students are alike, universal, unoriginal and, above all, nameless. The film was screened at a school anniversary in March 1975 and broadcast on the only television station a few months later.

People Will Always Need Coal

1975 • 1 min • United Kingdom

Deliriously kitsch recruitment ad for the implausibly glamorous world of coalmining.

Chile

1975 • 2 min

This short animation collage uncovers the financial backing of the Chilean Junta bosses by the US. Screened at the 1976 Oberhausen Int. Film Festival.

More Awkward Customers

1975 • 31 min

Emphasises the importance of professional knowledge of an organisation’s stocks or services in dealing with difficult customers. Highlights the customer who parades their knowledge, the silent customer who cannot communicate his needs and the finicky customer who requires every detail. Features John Cleese, Anghared Rees, Patricia Routledge, Bernard Cribbins and Lynn Redgrave.

Freeing the Memory

1975 • 16 min • United States of America

‘Freeing the Memory’ is the second of three significant performances enacted in 1976 in which Marina Abramović attempted to achieve a mental cleaning through the exhaustion of the three main faculties of expression, voice, language and body. In this piece, Abramović said every individual word she could recall until she could no longer continue without repetition. The mental strain of this act, which lasted ninety minutes, allowed the artist to exhaust her consciousness into a state of complete blankness.

Waiting Room

1975 • 12 min • Yugoslavia

Short Croatian documentary from the former Yugoslavia by Ante Babaja that captures the different faces in a waiting room.

How the Little Camel and the Little Donkey Went to School

1975 • 9 min • Soviet Union

This animated short tells the story of a young Camel and Donkey attending school for the first time in a forest clearing. Dreaming of a prettier place, they decide to move the lessons to another meadow. Their mischief disrupts the class, and they are disciplined—but before long, they return to school, ready to learn.

Sick

1975 • 6 min

Albert Brooks is sick and stuck in bed. Saturday Night Live, Season 1 Episode 7

Ashes

1975 • 38 min • New Zealand

Conversations with four people — an artist, a woman struggling with her identity as a high achiever, an actor, and a priest — exploring their inner worlds, their self-image and how they feel they fit into society.