All Films

Postcard from America

1975 • 25 min • Italy, United States of America

After the author’s period of experimentation, these American notes are extremely straightforward. As in Migration, however, this America could be a more remote country, and the inspiration is avowedly Japanese (Basho’s Narrow Road to the Deep North). Implicitly, the film-maker compares himself to an old peddler of drawings, Sam, hawking his wares at the entrance of Columbia’s Butler Library.

The Brothers Byrne

1975 • 22 min • Canada

Torn between the world of their childhood and the world where they must now live and work, two flamboyant Newfoundlanders pay a nostalgic visit to the deserted outport where they were born. This is their story, and the story of so many others who, like them, became victims of the Newfoundland government's controversial Resettlement Program.

Autobiography of a Princess

1975 • 58 min • United Kingdom

On the birthday of her late father, a deposed Maharaja, a displaced Indian princess living in London and his former private secretary watch home movies and reminisce about royal India.

Open Heart Surgery

1975 • 13 min

Albert places an ad in a newspaper expressing a desire to perform a heart bypass & gets to live his dream of being a heart surgeon for one day. Saturday Night Live, Season 1 Episode 3

The Stanley Baxter Picture Show Part III

1975 • 50 min • United Kingdom

The sketches start with radio presenter Julie Hawn announcing that there are some advertising parodies on the TV. Film Fright is presented by Patrick Moon where we see excerpts from movies such as In Which We Starve, Reveille Never Came and Towering Quake 75. Joan Babelite introduces Faith to Faith and there is another episode of Police 3 1/2. There is a musical tribute to politicians and then an attempt by the BBC to show 'cheery' news. Los Paranoics entertain us and the mafia party give you an offer you can't refuse with a party political broadcast. Finally, Vicki Lustre stars in Born to Bitch.

Drive Carefully, Darling

1975 • 17 min • United Kingdom

An exhortation to drivers to pay attention to road safety. In just 15 minutes, John Krish manages to give this road safety film something new and different by presenting events not from the point of view of the driver, but of his brain, memory and ego, who operate from a rather camp technology-driven command centre.

A Study in Choreography for Camera - Outtakes

1975 • 16 min

All of the rejected material from MAYA DEREN’s simplest and purest film offers the student of cinema and those interested in MAYA DEREN a vivid lesson in how she constructed a film. When shown together with a completed film it provides a model for economy in editing. – Anthology Film Archives.

De qui dépend que l’oppression demeure ?

1975 • 40 min • France

On May 21, 1975, the trial of the members of the Red Army Faction (also known as the Baader-Meinstein Gang) began. Four members appeared before the Stuttgart court to answer for the attacks that had been raging for five years in the young Federal Republic of Germany. The documentary, whose title is borrowed from Berthold Brecht's In Praise of Dialectics, recounts the conditions of the trials and detention of the Baader-Meinstein Gang members and the disqualification of Klaus Croissant as their lawyer.

Julie: My Favourite Things

1975 • 51 min

A Julie Andrews special with The Muppets and Peter Sellers.

Rocky Mountain Christmas

1975 • 60 min • United States of America

Watched by over 65 million on its premiere, John Denver hosts a musical Holiday special with guests to coincide with his first holiday album release. The show takes place and is filmed in Aspen, CO inside a clear bio-dome.

Ballad to Cornwallis

1975 • 8 min • Canada

A satirical history of Halifax, written and sung in honour of the city's founder by balladeer James Bennet.

Soap Opera

1975 • 56 min

An entire performance of The Kinks' Soap Opera stage show filmed (in black & white) by RCA Records during their 3 night run at the Beacon Theatre, New York City in May 1975. The film was given a brief theatrical run from July 1975 before being pulled.

Victimized

1975 • 53 min • Japan

1975 Toei movie.

The Good Times Are Killing Me

1975 • 59 min • United States of America

Documentary about the rapidly fading Cajun culture in rural Louisiana. About half of the tape focuses on Nathan Abshire, "Mr. Accordion," who performs traditional music with his band and talks about the old life. The other major focus of the tape is the celebration of Cajun Mardi Gras.

Girls at 12

1975 • 30 min • United States of America

The camera goes to live among a group of 12‐year‐old girls in a middle‐class New England neighborhood. It accompanies them to school, goes to their slumber parties, listens to their gossip about their largely incorporeal boy friends, buys clothes with them and interviews them, their teachers and their parents.

The Blind Owl

1975 • 55 min • Iran

Film based on the famous Iranian novella by Sadegh Hedayat, considered one of the great works of modern Persian prose. A man who is perhaps losing his mind spits his murderous fantasies and confessions at a shadow on the wall of his room that has the shape of an owl.

Treasure in the Wall

1975 • 53 min • Yugoslavia

A greedy trader who becomes convinced that a house is hidden in the wall of a house, decides to buy the house at all costs.

Café Bar

1975 • 6 min • United Kingdom

A man and a woman converse at a cafe's bar in this animated short.

Subway

1975 • 6 min

Shot on 42nd street and the subways in New York, "Subway" is an experimental short feature made with a Bolex and a step printer, accompanied by industrial background sounds which were created by processing dogs barking and a squeaky swing set with tape loops and an early synthesizer.

...and They Lived Happily Ever After

1975 • 14 min • Canada

A group of young girls and married women express their views of marriage and motherhood while glossy advertisements extolling romance, weddings, and babies flash across the screen in contrast to their words. Could the solution to dashed expectations be as simple as growing up before marriage? Part of the Challenge for Change program.

Oriental Boy

1975 • 40 min • Iran

The boys of the neighborhood are dividing into two groups to run a kite. The first groups are watching the kite happily but the other group try to take it down. The kite is flew away but the sorrow of that only leads the boys of the two groups to befriend each other.

The Empty Space

1975 • 60 min • United Kingdom

In 1970, British stage and film director Peter Brook created the International Centre of Theatre Research in Paris. In the autumn of 1973, the Centre conducted a five week work period at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, performing and giving demonstrations of exercises, in which members of the audience participated, and exchanged ideas with the New York theatre community. This is a film of one day's work.

Ville nouvelle : La Forme de la ville

1975 • 52 min • France

Third part of a French TV series about town-planning in which Éric Rohmer and Jean-Paul Pigeat look into the l'Arlequin neighbourhood of Grenoble-Échirolles and the new town of Évry.

Claes Oldenburg: The Formative Years

1975 • 52 min

Gathering inspiration from the world around him, Claes Oldenburg has dedicated his career to giving objects life. What many would see only as their mundane, everyday tools Oldenburg sees as an opportunity for art. His famed large scale sculptures stand with such stature and force that the viewer has no choice but to become involved with the piece.