All Films

Backstage on the Set of Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom

1975 • 58 min • Italy

A journey behind the shooting on the set of Salò, a backstage by Gideon Bachman, recorded during the realization of the torture scenes, enriched by long interviews with actors.

Colourful Dreams

1975 • 60 min • Soviet Union

Little Kati spends her summer at her grandma's. Her playmates are the village boys and the whole countryside - animals, flowers, the wind and stones. Kati conjures up the sun and floats above the fields of flowers and the whole universe. There is no borderline between reality and the magic world. Is it possible to play the same game also at her home in the city?

Kiss [1975] Midnight Special

1975 • 15 min

Kiss live at Midnight special TV show

About Bridges

1975 • 22 min

“It all begins with how you feel on a bridge… You see how other people are busy and how you experience it yourself and so it becomes something about people.” The artist Marian Plug speaks to filmmakers Stansfield/Hooykaas while composing her large and intricate silkscreen “The Bridge.” After filming the many different types of bridges around Amsterdam, they interview workers who clean, paint and repair the bridges. Anchored by a buoyant electronic soundtrack by British composer Delia Derbyshire (known for her groundbreaking work with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop), the filmmakers brought Derbyshire to Amsterdam for the shoot, so that they might create ideas together and so that she could experience the rhythms of the city. The film explores different ideas of work, connection and positioning: a bridge means something different to a builder, an architect or someone walking over it.

Video: The New Wave

1975 • 59 min • United States of America

The New Wave is the seminal compendium of independent video work in the early 1970s. Written and narrated by Brian O'Doherty, this overview of the emerging video field includes examples of guerrilla television and "street" documentaries, early explorations with image-processing and synthesis, and performance video. This historical anthology includes excerpts of tapes by the following video pioneers: Stephen Beck and Warner Jepson, Peter Campus, Douglas Davis, Ed Emshwiller, Bill Etra, Frank Gillette, Don Hallock, Joan Jonas, Richard Serra, Paul Kos, Nam June Paik, Otto Piene, Willard Rosenquist, Dan Sandin, James Seawright, Steina Vasulka, TVTV, Stan Vanderbeek and William Wegman.

Aucassin and Nicolette

1975 • 15 min • Canada

One of Lotte Reiniger's very last animated silhouette films, issued both in French and English versions.

Fleetwood Mac: 10/17/75 - Capitol Theatre

1975 • 43 min

Get Like You Used To Be, Spare Me A Little Of Your Love, Rhiannon, Let Me Down Again, I'm So Afraid, Oh Well, Green Manalishi (with The Two-Pronged Crown), World Turning, Blue Letter, Hypnotized

The Ghost of Adelphi Terrace

1975 • 32 min

J. M. Barrie has an evening with George Bernard Shaw. Later, alone at home, he hears the voice of his dead mother.

So Absent-Minded

1975 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Based on a poem by Samuil Marshak about an incredibly absent-minded man from Leningrad.

The Racer

1975 • 40 min • United Kingdom

The protagonist spends his time in tunnels and caverns chased by Fascist thugs and having dream-like encounters with strange solitary women of different ages. Allegorical story of a prisoner, his attempts to escape and his hallucinations.

Death Fury

1975 • 59 min • Yugoslavia

A woman who killed her husband by accident comes out of prison after sixteen years to meet with her two children at municipality office. Before children's arrival, she recalls her supposedly happy marriage that turned into a nightmare when her husband's brother came back from Germany and begun to influence her husband in a bad way.

Our Terry

1975 • 26 min

Arnold wants to relax watching TV, but Terry is missing. Terry is the cat of his mother-in-law, who left it with Arnold and his family when she went on holiday. Now Arnold's wife, Hilda, is frantic with worry.

The Muppet Introduction

1975 • 2 min • United States of America

"Janice introduces "the person who will introduce the person who will introduce the next speaker," P. Fenton Cosgrove, who brings on Sam the Eagle, who (reluctantly) presents Kermit." (Muppet Wiki)

Great Grand Mother

1975 • 29 min • Canada

This short film is an ode to the women who settled the Prairies, from the days of early immigration to 1916 - when Manitobans became the first women in Canada to receive the provincial vote - and beyond. Recollections of women are complemented by a series of quotations drawn from letters, diaries, and newspapers of the day, which are spoken over re-enacted scenes and archival photographs.

Associations

1975 • 7 min • United Kingdom

'Associations' sets language against itself by using the ambiguities inherent in the English language. Images from magazines and color supplements accompany a voice-over reading from the book 'Word Associations and Linguistic Theory' by academic linguistic Herbert H. Clark. Combining a wry sense of humor with word/visual games and puns, Smith explores the boundaries of cinematic montage by combining elements together and against each other in order to destroy and create multiple meanings at the same time.

Miracle

1975 • 28 min • United States of America

Los Angeles-based artist Ed Ruscha’s 1975 short film Miracle centers on a day in the life of an auto mechanic (played by artist Jim Ganzer), who has a transformative experience while working on the engine of a Ford Mustang. Actress and singer Michelle Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas plays his love interest. Since the 1960s, Ruscha has received extensive critical acclaim for his paintings, photographs, drawings, and books exploring the commercial vernacular of Los Angeles—its graphic signage, architecture, and even parking lots. In effect, his work subtly comments on America’s cultural and socioeconomic evolution in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Miracle is one of only two films made by the artist in the 1970s. – Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis by Kelly Shindler, Associate Curator

On Saturday Night

1975 • 23 min • Soviet Union

Absalom and Gigla had a fight with Beso and after a long run through the mountains they tried to get away from him in an old Zaporozhets. But Beso didn't let them leave: he lifted the light car by the rear bumper and held it suspended for more than a day.

The Incredible Machine

1975 • 59 min • United States of America

The Incredible Machine [also known as Man: The Incredible Machine] is a 1975 American documentary film directed by Irwin Rosten and Ed Spiegel. It follows a "ourney" inside the human body, using advanced technology of microscopic photography and sound, including scenes of heat radiation, color x-rays, and camera exploration of a living human heart. The film is famous for including some of the first pictures ever taken inside the human body and presented on film, using some of the earliest film that medical researchers had taken inside the human digestive tract and bloodstream. It ranked as the most-watched program in Public Broadcasting Service until 1982. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

Blast

1975 • 24 min

Overview of Vorticism, a radical art movement of the early 20th Century.

From Nags to Riches

1975 • 6 min • United States of America

The Dogfather trades his horse for a faster one. He has to catch the horse before he can enter him in the horse race.

The Little Match Girl

1975 • 10 min

On Christmas night, a poor little girl lights the matches she has to sell to warm herself and has magical visions.

Fleetwood Mac - Largo

1975 • 60 min

Live at Capital Centre, Largo, Maryland (October 15, 1975) Get it Like You Used To Be, Station Man, Spare Me a Little of Your Love, Rhiannon, Why, I’m So Afraid, Oh Well, Green Manalishi, World Turning, Blue Letter, Hypnotized

O Último Dia de Lampião

1975 • 50 min • Brazil

A docufiction film about the fall of Virgulino Ferreira da Silva, widely known as Lampião – the mythical bandit leader from the Brazilian northeast who fought the local power and put his name in history.

Four Shorts on Architecture

1975 • 31 min • New Zealand

A visual essay on contemporary Kiwi architecture.