Cinematic Era: 1975 Vintage

Documentary based on archive material focusing on the dictatorial regimen in Portugal and its fall with the "Revolução dos Cravos" (Carnation Revolution), in 1974, after 48 years of Salazarism.

1975 film starring Adoor Bhasi, Thikkurisi Sukumaran Nair, Prem Nazir

Construction of the North Peruvian pipeline to transport Amazonian oil to the Pacific coast.

Festival celebrating the arrival of water for planting.

The artist is seen with a pile of papers, destroying or throwing each sheet one after the other.

Through a couple of poems penned by Sardar Jafri and recited by the matinee idol, Dilip Kumar, this quickie foregrounds faith in human labour that can sell silver of the body and gold of the mind.

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Fishing in the river is banned, but two men go fishing secretly every night to make a living. One of the men's sisters tries to stop her brother. Her effort leads to a tragedy.

Barry White live in concert at the Royal Albert Hall in 1975 with Love Unlimited and The Love Unlimited Orchestra.

16mm film by Wyndham Wise and Richard Schoichet.

Since 1975 Kiyoshi Awazu has been obsessed with the "designer" Antonio Gaudi. Then there was no stopping this man. He went to Barcelona, took his own 16mm camera, made a film, wrote a book called "In Praise of Gaudi" and was the main force behind the subsequent tour of the Gaudi exhibition in Japan. (Ken Awazu).

A man with a bowler hat that seems straight out of a Magritte painting walks around a city with a lot of construction works going on eventually gets run over by a car.

Beginning in 1900 and continuing over the next thirty years, Edward Sheriff Curtis, or the “Shadow Catcher” as he was later called by some of the tribes, took over 40,000 images and recorded rare ethnographic information from over eighty First American tribal groups, ranging from the Eskimo or Inuit people of the far north to the Hopi people of the Southwest. He captured the likeness of many important and well-known aboriginal people of that time, including Geronimo, Chief Joseph, Red Cloud, Medicine Crow and others.

A close-up of a woman mouthing the words "I hate you" with increasing intensity.

In the politically charged atmosphere of the early 70s, Mikis Theodorakis conducted a concert of his music in Philadelphia. His music was banned in Greece, his own country, at that time by the US-funded junta. Visiting the US on a limited visa, he was restricted to musical appearances only - no public speaking permitted. His hands, eloquent even when their gestures are deprived (by silent filming) of the music they are making, speak. Several in-camera phenomena resulted from the highly-charged nature of the shoot.

At the parliamentary elections that the Unidad Popular won, there were activities to overthrow Salvador Allende. By a white, supposedly clean coup, the rightwing powers of Chile tried unsuccessfully to gain a two thirds majority in the national congress. Months later, the armed, violent coup took place.

A short animated film by Tadanari Okamoto

Part of BFI collection "Running a Railway."

This amusing short features a real life Labour party canvasser who comes looking for Dwoskin (never realizing that he's the camera man), and instead is treated to the provocations and manipulations of the housemates.

"To celebrate the first day of spring, or Velykden (the great day), ancient people of Ukraine decorated eggs with bright and fiery designs." Learn the history of the Ukrainian art of pysanka, or decorating eggs, a custom that predates the Christian era. Follow along as Luba Perchyshyn, a master of the art, goes through the elaborate process of drawing in wax on the egg before dipping it into the dyes. This is repeated numerous times on each egg, using a darker color every time. The symbolic meaning of the designs is also discussed, and examples of pysanky throughout the centuries are shown.

A cinematic nativity scene with songs performed by Polish Highlanders.

A satirical and insightful story telling that that man creates the space around and can make a terrible place even from heaven. Thus, Adam and Eve fall there where nature blooms, unusual and rare species of birds are singing, and plants are fragrant. But these two manage to destroy the creatures living there turn the fruit of the apple tree into a self-made alcohol.

The restlessness creeps into a claustrophobic situation where a typist confronts the recorded voice of the writer she works for.

Like BLACK & LIGHT, this film is also made without a camera. The image is perforated directly by a computer into two opaque 16mm strips. But this time, an additional step has been taken at the printing stage: the two strips (printed in A&B rolls) are each filtered with a different color.

About thermal energy, about creating a new type of generator.

Comparing and contrasting the cities of Edinburgh, Scotland and Munich, Germany.

Filmed against the background of the mountainous north of Iceland with its magnificent scenery, this film shows the life of a lone farmer in an isolated fjord, whose inhabitants have slowly deserted it for the relative ease and comfort of the city life. This farmer, however, is too attached to his land and persist in remaining there, despite the difficulties he has to confront. Through his eyes and those of his peers, the trend of Icelandic society away from traditional agriculture towards industrialisation is viewed with sympathetic regret.

A modern and gloomy city of skyscrapers works to the rhythm of two pistons. Anonymous stenographers work in the dark offices, butchers deliver fresh meat and clerks, crammed into elevators, wander between the floors of the buildings.

"Father, why did you die?" With this deeply intimate statement of grief, Kubota mourns the death of her father. Video and television are central to her ritual of mourning, and allow her father to assume a presence after death. Kubota and her father, who was dying of cancer in Japan, are seen watching television together on New Year's Eve. The suffering of father and daughter is rendered even more poignant when contrasted with the everyday banality of the pop music and New Year's celebrations on TV. After his death, Kubota weeps alone in front of a video monitor. Awash with tears and personal pain, My Father is a cathartic exorcism of grief, with video serving as witness and memory.

A satirical story of how spouses Misha and Masha chase fashion.

Movement of the body in all forms: dance, discipline, freedom, exploration, and the environment that surrounds it.

Explains why bread costs so much. Two reporters investigate the 65¢ profit of a loaf of “Mother Miller” bread and learn the cruel reality of how profit is divided.

Two of Sweden's newspapers, from morning till night.

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

The way in which the structuring of capitalist urban space reflects the contradictions and conflicts of the classes in struggle, and the demarcation of a Marxist analysis of urban reality, which the few off-screen statements only serve to confirm. One of the characteristics of the city in which we live is its differentiated distribution and use: the various areas do not have similar forms of occupation, nor the same urban facilities, nor populations with identical social and economic characteristics.

Blaise is a doctor, Monique, his wife, is his assistant. That Sunday, in Orleans, the doctor gone hunting, and Monique, finding herself alone, meditating on her monotonous life ... when the doorbell rings, she writes in panic: "I don't want to yell ! ". But she is already yelping, that is to say that she dreams, straddling the real and the imaginary, logic and vision, the concrete and the abstract ...

A train rolled into Tamsui, a charming harbour town full of historical and cultural complexity. European-style architecture tells its colonial past, while Fujianese immigrants' influence stays present in local people's everyday life. Celebrated photographer and cinematographer CHANG Chao-tang captured Tamsui in the 1970s on film, creating a nostalgic yet melancholic concerto played by missionaries, fishermen, and tourists.

Appropriates the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio’s familiar production logo, stripping away the company name, tinting the background a deep hue of red, and repeating the lion’s thundering roar on a continuous loop, thereby highlighting the artifice involved in commercial filmmaking.

Hong Kong film

Pink film by Kan Mukai.

Examines the class conflicts that exist in Israel. Relates a history of the Zionist movement, as well as a sympathetic perspective on the Palestinians.

Monteverdi's mini-opera, starring Cathy Berberian.