Cinematic Era: 1975 Vintage

A narcotics detective is kidnapped by gang members in front of his girlfriend, Mary. In order to find him, Mary recovers the drugs seized by the police and approaches the organization.

An elemental film of flesh, blood, earth and water, Ana Mendieta’s Silueta Sangrienta depicts the artist’s reposing body on the ground, its trick disappearance, and crimson blood filling its indent before Mendieta’s prone figure returns.

“I met Gordon Matta-Clark at the 1975 Paris Biennale. He was looking for a place to make a piece. I led him to a building across the street from my place on rue Beaubourg that I had been taking photos of for the past year and which was about to be demolished. In front of my eyes Conical Intersect became the last unexpected and dazzling resident of 29 rue Beaubourg.” —Marc Petitjean

electro / opto / mechanical / environment

As a funeral procession advances through a dusty town in the Paraguana peninsula, a young man rides his bicycle through the crowd. A beautiful woman stands apart from the crowd and gazes in wonder as the young man rides away. A child, the town's fool and the woman go after the Bicycle, each character with his own motivation. Enraged with indignation, the men also follow the cyclist through the town and onto the desert seeking to kill him.

Using the structure of a feature film as its basic format, A First Quarter adopts the principles of nouvelle vague cinema. Simultaneous realities, altered flashbacks, and plays on time and space, are all components of the form and content of this film. Because it was originally shot on video, then kinescoped to 16mm film, A First Quarter has acquired a softened, poetic look. The dialogue derives entirely from the creation of the work as it is spoken and read, built, enacted, written, and painted by the players. As scenarios build, they appear as tropes, one after another.

Director Eugenia Gutu offers a feminist critique of gender (in)equality under socialism in this documentary portrait of an industrializing town and its model citizen, Florica S.

The film shows the life of a young chick and its mother hen in a barnyard. It follows the chick as it explores the world of the barnyard, including cows, pigs, and horses.

Discusses the history of the Middle East. Contrasts old ways with the new in agriculture, industry, etc. in emphasizing the changing image of this part of the world.

An underground classic. Great camp horror flick with stunningly primitive ideas and execution. From the waitress at the Greek diner to the old man with toilet paper stuck in his trousers, this is a treat for adults of all ages. And the classic, "It's frothing too much." Comic genius at its best.

On their first honeymoon, newlyweds face an unexpected twist when the husband discovers his boss, whom he deceived to get time off, staying at the same hotel.

Animated flipbook of endlessly evolving entrancement.

Short documentary about a Hamburg tenants' initiative that is fighting for its neighborhood.

The courtship behavior of Great Bustards is studied. The male Great Bustard is considerably larger than the female. This impression is reinforced during courtship when the male dances in front of the female, showing the light undersides of its wings and inflating its throat pouch.

Oil workers arrived on the island

Mário Gonçalves, a high school teacher threatened with death due to cancer, spends the last days of his life in the village where he was born, in the heart of Serra da Estrela. There, he expresses his talent as a painter in the intimate decoration of an abandoned chapel. This is also the twilight hour of rebellious memories: love and precariousness, choices and contingency, perennial dissatisfaction...

A married couple living in a remote farm find themselves in the midst of war, where many different sides walk through the area. They attempt to save their lives and stay neutral despite accusations of being traitors that every army brings upon them.

Directed by Nawi Ismail.

Between dog and wolf, stones are thrown into perfectly still water. The sound of a dredger off-screen disrupts the complete silence of the place.

When Leo gets into a fatal car accident, his position in life changes. The events surrounding the accident shed light on people's relationships with each other - their changing roles as helpers and helpless.

A look at the industries of Scotland.

Short film.

1920's. A young girl - teacher comes from the city to a small, poor village to teach the children. There is a medic in the village. Without being a doctor, he has taken up the noble deed to help people. The "miracle" of the village is two twins - brother and sister, Lefter and Leftera. Both of them resell village land. Everyone is feeling the pressure from the twins. This causes the eruption of a violent and bloody riot.

Directed by Raja Bargir, starring Atmaram Bhende, Usha Chavan and Dhumal.

The life of a 16 yearo-old convict through the Soviet penal system. The "restricted area" is a penal colony and Borstal, a "work camp" for delinquent children and young people. The film shows the contradictions in the notion of corrective education.

The "Lyon Premier 8000-Gasherbrum II 8035m" expedition, organized and led by Jean-Pierre Frésafond in 1975, was sponsored by the Lyon section of the Club Alpin Français and by Louis Pradel, Mayor of Lyon. The film traces the departure from Lyon of Berliet heavy trucks loaded with equipment, daily life in Pakistan, preparation for the expedition and the approach march with the porters, daily life at the base camp and in the camps. altitude of the members of the expedition: L. Audoubert, Marc Batard, F. Bourbousson, A. Chariglione, J. Dupraz, J.J. Forrat, H. and JP. Frésafond, B. Macho, Doctor A. Raymond, Y. Seigneur, J. Soubis, F. Valençot, B. Villaret de Chauvignypuis. Finally On June 18, 1975, Yannick Seigneur and Marc Batard reached the summit by opening a route along the south ridge. Bernard Villaret de Chauvigny, who was killed during the second assault, was the first victim of the Gasherbrum.

Czech cartoon about three letters SOS traveling across the world.

Experimental documentary using a train journey between New York City and Washington, D.C. as the framework for an exploration of American history. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015.

A staging of the play of the same name at the State Academic Maly Theater of the USSR.

A documentary about nuclear power plants in Europe. The film follows the cycle of the uranium fuel and tries to give a full picture of the consequences of atomic power and daily life in a number of areas, so that it is not just a technical problem, but also a human one.

A funny, bitter look at middle-class youth trying to be tough in the trappings of pornography, drugs and quick money. A film about desperation in the New York streets.

About Sex Education

This is a story about a country girl Deliwe (Cynthia Shange) who comes from KwaZulu-Natal to the city of gold, Johannesburg. She enters the world of fashion and wins a beauty queen title. The fairy tale takes a turn for the worse when she is involved in a car accident that scars her for life.

First documentary film by Jose Carlos Huayhuaca.

Struggle of an atom engineer against the man who caused his father's death

Part of BFI collection "Police and Thieves."

During Christmastime, a bum discovers a magical box.

A naked girl is filmed passing through a gallery of paintings, reminding us of the difference between the plasticity of painting and a body moving in an open space.

A vagabond travels through medieval Holland.

“The first mistake of art is to assume that it’s serious.” (Lester Bangs, quoted here without the permission of the filmmaker)

Filipino horror movie from 1975.

Two people determine how to navigate drying off after a swim

TVN version of the classic of the Chilean theater "La Pérgola de las Flores" In Santiago, during the last years of the 1920s, the circle of the San Francisco pergola confronts the social circle of Laura Larraín when they see the future of the pergola threatened. In the midst of this fight, a peasant woman (huasa), named Carmela, ends up greatly influencing the fate of this place.

During the debacle of 1940, the turbulent adventures of a pimp, his "five secretaries" and three soldiers.

An animated cartoon about the Creation myth reviewed and corrected by two women. God the magician has decided to create a paradise: Switzerland. He covers it with trees and cows, until Adam is born. After exploring his paradise, Adam creates Eve from one of his ribs. Man is shown as an erect penis, woman by a limbless trunk.

Presents a socio-economic analysis of present day Puerto Rico. Uses archival footage, re-enactments of historic events, and interviews with participants to recount the long history of U.S. involvement in Puerto Rico and the anti-colonial struggle.

A documentary about the open sexuality retreat called "Sandstone" in California.

Struggling ghetto family in Mexico City; Pops decide he'll go to USA and earn money so they can get their lives back in order.

Part of a Canadian educational series, this visual illustration of the poem ‘The Beggars of Dublin’ by renowned Canadian poet Alden Nowlan follows a visitor to Dublin, as he disembarks from a plane and wanders the streets of Dublin encountering beggars and homeless people along the way.

A daydream/recollection of my grandmother and her life from 1899 to her death. Through photographs, the film follows the evolution of a family.

The film shows works of art by people of various occupations who are engaged in fine art in their free time. It was achieved through interviews in which people talk about the world of work - a world of no freedom, necessity and coercion in which they do not see themselves as individuals. Painting enables them to escape from everyday banal reality into the world of beauty and freedom. So-called ordinary people of various occupations have a built-in awareness of the problematic nature of humanism in the modern world. Through interviews, the film articulates a story, kind of - it is a vision of the apocalyptic end of modern civilization that has no higher, metaphysical meaning. At the same time, there is hope that after the collapse of modern civilization, a society of meaning, love and freedom can be created.

The utopian vision of a lunar spacecraft voyage that will affect life on Earth.

"Landscape is a nightdream, a landscape of my mind, of my imagination. It evokes memories of the past, reflects the images of reality into the world of fantasy. But the word dream has in this case another meaning. There is also the dream of reason which produces monsters and that is what is learned from Goya’s Caprices and explains in the best way the significance of my film,” —Jan Lenica

A husband can’t accept that his wife would like to live something else than her life as a wife.

A film about outstanding athletes of the USSR.

Black & white, silent - Wanderings in Paris, of a man carrying a large stick on his shoulder