All Films

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi

1975 • 24 min • United States of America

Rikki is a young mongoose who is adopted by a human family after nearly drowning in the river. He returns the favour by protecting them from two murderous cobra.

The California Reich

1975 • 55 min • United States of America

A documentary on the roots of nazism In America.

The Clay Peacock

1975 • 4 min

Abstract clay landscape with occasional peacock, from the creator of Gumby

Visiting the Gnomes

1975 • 15 min • Soviet Union

A geologist boy enters the underworld of the gnomes. Puppet cartoon about the magical properties of precious stones.

A Nod and a Wink

1975 • 27 min

In A Nod and a Wink, John Pilger demonstrates how the charge of conspiracy is being used as a means of political suppression in Britain, comparing this with statutes in police states such as Brazil and the Soviet Union, which use “a vague law” to silence and imprison people for their political or religious views.

A Cama

1975 • 25 min

A young couple, unable to make love after being repelled on several occasions (like in a dubious inn), buys a bed and carries it for miles, until they reach a beach - where, exhausted, they end up falling asleep.

Joan's Dream

1975 • 21 min • Germany

With the ascetic grandeur of Carl Th. Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc, Schroeter evokes the visions of Saint Joan, partly through unused footage of Darling and Caven pantomiming in his 1972 film The Death of Maria Malibran. - MoMA

Urban Peasants

1975 • 51 min

Filmed by Stella Weiss and family, chance-assembled from uncut 100-foot film-rolls. Sound precedes and follows silent image (40 minutes of image plus 12 minutes of sound). My wife Flo's family as recorded by her Aunt Stella. The title is no intended put-down but a simple statement of fact, as I see it. Brooklyn was a place made up of many little villages; a near-shtetl is pictured in the space of a storefront. (Ken Jacobs)

Lumsden

1975 • 19 min • Canada

Lumsden, Saskatchewan is a town of 850 citizens on a river called the Qu'Appelle. In the spring of 1974, the river doubled its volume and threatened to flood the town. The townspeople organized themselves and the whole province stood behind them. Lumsden is the story of an incredible battle against impossible odds.

Four Women

1975 • 7 min • United States of America

An imaginatively choreographed dance interpretation of the ballad by Nina Simone explores four common stereotypes of Black women.

The Little Animals of Anthony van Leeuwenhoek

1975 • 29 min • Soviet Union

Anthony van Leeuwenhoek, a Dutch naturalist of the 18th century, the founder of scientific microscopy, makes a lens in his workshop. He is visited by an English scientist, a member of the Royal Society of London. Leeuwenhoek shows the scientist his "microscope". A scientist examines a flea, mold on bread, and other objects through a "microscope." He recommends that Leeuwenhoek write about his invention to the Royal Society of London. Leeuwenhoek refuses. The scientist writes the letter himself. Leeuwenhoek examines different objects through a "microscope". He is visited by a friend of Google, with whom he shares his observations. Leeuwenhoek and Google talk about the origin of the "little animals" in the water. Leeuwenhoek takes samples of rainwater and pond water. The simplest microorganisms, taken through a microscope. Leeuwenhoek writes a letter in which he outlines the results of his research.

Lumë drite

1975 • 56 min • Albania

Bardhi works as a teacher in a remote area. When one of the students abandons the school, Bardhi tries to help him.

La Vie filmée

1975 • 52 min

An issue of the television series La vie filmée, based on films by amateur filmmakers, and retracing here the life of the French between 1946 and 1953. The images shot in the immediate post-war period bear witness to the difficulties of resuming life daily. Confronting individuals with their personal archives nearly thirty years later, the film nostalgically questions the gap created between intimate memory and empirical memory (documents).

Short Films 1975: #10 (Painted Lightning)

1975 • 6 min • United States of America

Begins and ends with flashes of scratched 'lighting'. A small portrait of one of the Brakhage kids is sandwiched in between light studies and scratch-homages to Jerome Hill.

Short Films 1975: #8 (Small Town Streets)

1975 • 3 min • United States of America

Begins with white lamp post, green tree leaves, and window, ends with flashing window light on brown wall of motel room.

Three of Us

1975 • 15 min • United Kingdom

Short Children's film on the perils of playing outdoors and how to look after a Chopper bike.

Ville nouvelle : Enfance d'une ville

1975 • 52 min • France

How is a planned city designed? What consequences does creating one has on the environment? What are the living conditions in such areas ? Such are the questions asked by Eric Rohmer in this first part of a TV documentary series, through the particular case of Cergy-Pontoise, near Paris.

Andy Warhol's Unfinished Symphony

1975 • 21 min • United States of America

A clarification of the '60s and its plastic society; taking archetypes of the American landscape to deal with the search for human identity and our alienation.

Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown

1975 • 25 min • United States of America

It's Valentine's Day again and Charlie Brown dreams the seemingly hopeless dream to receiving a valentine from anyone. All the while, the rest of the gang have their own trials whether it be Linus' struggle to get the biggest card he can for his beloved teacher, or Lucy trying to get some token from Schroeder while Snoopy and Woodstock are having fun spearing valentines on each other's nose.

Gambitt's Move

1975 • 28 min

Angie, an unemployed single mother moves into a new rented home. She then receives an unwelcome visitor from her past.

Further Up Pompeii

1975 • 44 min • United Kingdom

A BBC TV comedy movie about the people living in Pompeii prior to its destruction by volcano, focusing on the life of a house slave (played by Frankie Howerd). A sort of prequel to the 1971 movie "Up Pompeii"

Night Lunch

1975 • 32 min

This is Poe and Král's first effort, shot on small-gauge stock, before their more well-known endeavor The Blank Generation (1976) came to be. A "DIY" portrait of the New York music scene, the film is a patchwork of footage of numerous rock acts performing live, at venues like Madison Square Garden, Radio City Music Hall, the dive bars of Greenwich Village and, of course, CBGB.

The Heart That Changed Color

1975 • 9 min • United States of America

A short animated PSA, starring the Tin Woodman and Scarecrow from the land of Oz. They stop woodland animals from smoking a cigarette.

Ephemerities

1975 • 8 min • Soviet Union

Fantasy on Musical Themes by Prokofiev.