All Films

The Death of a Young Young Man

1975 • 50 min

Billy gets a job on a farm while suspended from school. The fields offer an escape from his tower block, but his friends think he's daft. Billy can see a different kind of life ahead, doing a job he could really enjoy-but events conspire against him.

Atman

1975 • 12 min • Japan

ĀTMAN is a visual tour-de-force based on the idea of the subject at the centre of the circle created by camera positions (480 such positions). Shooting frame-by-frame the filmmaker set up an increasingly rapid circular motion. ĀTMAN is an early Buddhist deity often connected with destruction; the Japanese aspect is stressed by the devil mask of Hangan, from the Noh, and by using both Noh music and the general principle of acceleration often associated with Noh drama.

Dawson's Electric Cinema

1975 • 50 min • United Kingdom

A comedy set in the 1920s with Les Dawson (as his own grandfather) and family running a flea-pit cinema.

Doll Clothes

1975 • 2 min • United States of America

One of the First Cindy Sherman's super-8 film,"Doll Clothes" (officially, the film is "Untitled") has not been viewed since 1975, the year it was made. It comically crosses Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase with animated paper dolls in a sly, funny and clever precursor to the concerns that became signature elements in Sherman's remarkable body of photographic work.

Parkinson: Meet Henry Fonda

1975 • 49 min • United Kingdom

Episode of the BBC television program with host Michael Parkinson interviewing American actor Henry Fonda.

Black Sabbath - Don Kirshner's Rock Concert

1975 • 25 min

Filmed at the height of their fame, and including all four original members of the band, Black Sabbath performs masterfully in front of an eager Santa Monica crowd. Killing Yourself to Live, Hole in the Sky, Snowblind, War Pigs, Paranoid

A Comedy in Six Unnatural Acts

1975 • 27 min • United States of America

Jan Oxenberg’s charmingly raw, politically-charged and remarkably funny celebration of the American lesbian experience validates the nuanced voice of a community otherwise underrepresented in the Wild West of mid-’70s independent filmmaking. In an attempt to combat the pervasive misconception of the “humorless, angry feminist,” the vignettes in A Comedy in Six Unnatural Acts experiment with self-aware yet playful depictions of common stereotypes, such as the “Stompin’ Dyke” or the butch-femme couple. In the process, Oxenberg’s short film reclaims those insults and assumptions as newfound, loaded weapons—to deploy on her own terms, of course. (UCLA Film & Television Archive)

Short Films 1975: #1 (Jane’s Memory)

1975 • 3 min • United States of America

Begins with blue negative face of child, ends with single centered eye.

The Christmas Tree

1975 • 12 min

Three lucky pine trees, with human faces, are cut down in order to enjoy the holidays with human families.

Keep Our Forests Pink

1975 • 6 min • United States of America

The Pink Panther keeps a forest park clean despite a camper's constant littering.

Mukh the Walker

1975 • 16 min • Soviet Union

Singing dwarf poses himself as a martyr.

Waves of Revolution

1975 • 30 min • India

Film made during the repressive days of the Emergency in India documents the 1974-75 uprising of the people of Bihar in Eastern India.

Rime of the Ancient Mariner

1975 • 54 min • United States of America

A two-part program that examines the life of Samuel Coleridge from his orphaned childhood to how his friendship with William and Dorothy Wordsworth inspired him to write The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Part 2 consists of a visualization of Coleridge’s epic poem.

Mum, Where Are You?

1975 • 30 min

Teenagers Susan and David live with their widowed mother Sheila. They wake up one morning to find no sign of their mother, and organise a party for the evening. They have doubts and worries about what has happened to their mother, which build when she has still not returned the following morning.

Flor Pedra

1975 • 16 min • Brazil

The southern city of Minas Gerais, São Tomé das Letras, founded in 1785, is placed on a quartzite reservoir and at the same time on a valuable floral reserve. The film deals with the ecological and social changes that occurred in time.

The Two Faces of Kim

1975 • 8 min

Reviews the inner sanctum of a young man's world of dual sex identities.

The Palestinians

1975 • 43 min • Lebanon, Netherlands, Syrian Arab Republic

Shot in Lebanon in 1975 just before the civil war. The director delivers a nuanced account of the complexities surrounding the Palestinian issue.

Lone Star

1975 • 26 min • United Kingdom

One of Jeff Keen's diary films. Keen made many diary films with his daughter, wife and friends in the late 60s and 70s. These were edited in camera and used multiple exposures. They would then be projected in various combinations though usually as a four-screen.

Tem Coca-Cola no Vatapá

1975 • 35 min • Brazil

Weather Report: Live in Berlin

1975 • 42 min

Weather Report live at the Philharmonie, Berlin, Germany, November 6, 1975. Program: Freezing Fire - Scarlet Woman - Mysterious Traveller - Badia/Boogie Woogie Waltz

After the Solo

1975 • 60 min

"The voice will make its effect. And it will, undoubtedly, be very touching. But, tell me: after his voice has broken, can you make anything of him then?" After the solo, after the chorus, after the applause?

Towers of Silence

1975 • 54 min • Pakistan

A Pakistani boy develops into a young revolutionary and confronts love, religious conflict, and his own death through Zoroastrian rituals of purification.

Cat and Mouse

1975 • 18 min • Soviet Union

About the adventures of friends - the kitten Kytsik and the mouse Mytsik.

Tarumã

1975 • 13 min • Brazil

An interview about education and working conditions among Brazilian peasants in the 70s.