Cinematic Era: 1975 Vintage

Sketch reel by Bruce Wood

City-hero Minsk. It has been reborn from the ashes by the hands of Belarusian builders. This new home is being built five thousand kilometers away from Minsk by Belarusian guys. The village of Shemanovsky is now known throughout the country. Ten Minsk residents, members of the all-union shock brigade named after the 17th Congress of the Komsomol, are constructing a residential complex. Foreman Alexander Nikitenko and his team know that the industrial foundation of the BAM is being laid here.

"Guitar Craft."

Shadiman Chavchavadze and Shalva Gedevanishvili's animation short about vocation.

When peace seems impossible, any means are justified to defend a political cause. Hence, on the border separating the Palestinian territories that refuse to recognize the State of Israel, the idea of suicide commandos emerges. Jocelyne Saab films teenagers, aged twelve to twenty, who tirelessly train in a secret underground base to become suicide commandos.

A film by Greg Sharits

A mother of seven was jailed for not settling a TV bill... The film examines the judiciary system in this liberal country and reveals the existence of a class justice.

Shot during the cane workers' strikes in 1975, this first authentically West Indian film bluntly depicts Guadeloupe as it was, thirty years after departmentalization.

Rape has three victims discussing their emotional, physical and intellectual responses, then and now, highlighted and commented upon by a series of visual interpolations.

About the liar and braggart poodle Tishka. Tishka is a city poodle who came to visit the hospitable Zhuchka. Tishka tells a lot of tall tales, and then realizes that you can't deceive your friends.

"The film opens and there is a disfunction of the camera that gives two images at once. The tension between the first and the second, the wrestle to see which becomes dominant is like the tension between an observed couple. This couple is two singulars, one singular, one double, two doubles, and one triad. Sometimes they are separate, sometimes coupled, and sometimes collasped upon each other and the world. My intrusion is the film."-M.K

A funny solution to a scientific puzzle. The animation presents an alternative version of the extinction of mammoths. A certain female mammoth could be blamed for that. It consistently did not want to spend time with a male mammoth.

A short from The Deputy Dawg Show.

Based on an Alan Watts Zen-Buddhist parable about the creation of the universe and the nature of God -- a platform for surrealist animation and transformation of abstract, non-representational forms. Live-action, rotoscoped, and cutout characters frame the abstract animation of the main body of the film as a story told to a grandson -- a creation story that eventually gets out of control. Ink and paint on cels, drawing on paper, rotoscoping, cameraless, drawing under the camera, and cutout animation. Made while a full-time science student at the University of British Columbia during an elective arts course in animation with Al Sens, 1975. First prize (post-secondary) & "Best of Show" - 7th Annual British Columbia Student Film Festival, 1975 [prior to going to film school]. Given name was Stephen Arthur Bowlsby, legally changed to Stephen Arthur in 1994.

A film by Andrea Granchi

Two projectors pulse in tandem

Early Abigail Child feature, 51min

Short film.

A film about the conditions of social struggle, when the capitalists, their henchmen and their state frantically try to maintain power, with workers' blood as the price. Italy 1969-1974.

Sky and earth. The image begins to move slowly. The sound of water moving in and out of the distance. The image begins to fluctuate, while rotating, it will come off the frame. Everything swings. A moment when you just drop by. Installation and performance work.

Midas's World, a documentary depicting Phrygian art and culture, is the second installment in the "Traces of Anatolian Civilizations" series, produced by Suha Arın as a cultural service of the Turkish Touring and Automobile Association. The product of a year of intensive work, the documentary reveals that ancient Greek art and culture, known as the cradle of civilization, are actually rooted in earlier civilizations in Anatolia, particularly the Phrygians. For Midas's World, produced by Suha Arın and four students from Ankara University's School of Press and Broadcasting, all relevant sources, including museums displaying Phrygian artifacts and Phrygian settlements, were individually scrutinized.

taiwan film

Consists of a fragment from an off the air recording an interview with President Richard Nixon that is looped by a very physical rewinding, forwarding , and rewinding via the control knob of a ½ inch video tape player.

Six short 16mm films shot by Adaora "Zora" Lathan during her time as a film student at the University of Illinois.

Terrifying production of Halloween skits, songs and dance routines. Featured segments include "Mr. Ghost Comes to Town," "Whistle a Happy Tune," and, "Dry Bones."

Recovered Zulueta short.

About a commune of hippies in the village of Hveragerði and their views on a different kind of lifestyle.

8mm film by Swiss artist Roman Signer.

A BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at the production of motor oil and the qualities needed to ensure long an effective performance.

A pseudo-documentarian essay observing the proliferation of "fast food" and "junk food" everywhere in contemporary middle-America.

City lights at night – and maybe dreams

Stephen Dwoskin's personal impression of West Berlin before the Berlin Wall went down.

September 23, 1973: A motion picture camera shooting through a portal in a church began accumulating images of an adjacent Arlington, Texas shopping plaza at the rate of 1 frame per hour, 24 hours a day. September 22, 1974: The camera was stopped. Meteorological fluctuations, this planet's revolutions (solar and axial), and the palpable presence of human cycles are transposed from slow daily change into rapid visual rhythms. The act of metamorphosis during the year visually displaces the pictorial arena in which the year transpires. Space, the image frame, becomes a manifestation of time.

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. Rosa Canina was always show in the bottom right-hand corner

A 1974 Serbo-Croatian language drama film written and directed by Paolo Magelli, starring Branislav Jerinić, Rastko Tadic and Miodrag Andrić (Ljuba Moljac).

This film talks about the overthrow of Salvador Allende in Chile.

Children growing up in poverty is the subject of Smashing Kids, 1975. John Pilger meets the Hopwoods, of Liverpool, where hunger has become a way of life during father Harry’s unemployment as his family of five survive on £1 a day. The wallpaper in their council house is torn and there are no clothes in the couple’s wardrobe and no sheets on their bed. The family have never had a holiday and Harry tells Pilger: “It would be easier to serve time than to put up with this.”

Bollywood 1975

The man who loved literature

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

A documentary about the ancient Tarikhane Mosque of Damghan

Stories of Italian emigrants in Berlin declined without an ethic of sacrifice and goodism but through a sense of the ferocity necessary to wrest survival from the miserable life that capitalism has offered and continues to impose on us.

Four part experimental film, with sequences concerning dance, Edweard Muybridge's studies of motion, and an addict discussing sobriety.

L'Opéra de Paris Orchestra & Chorus Conductor: Charles Mackerras Stage Director: Jorge Lavelli Theatre National de l'Opera de Paris, 1975

Devotion ("bhakti") is a way of communicating with the Divine. Béjart's work interprets the concept through dance. Three scenes honor the most important Hindu deities: Krishna, Rama and Shiva - and tell their love stories.

It's a staging of The Maids, which, set in the 1930s, tells the story of two sisters working in the house of an abusive woman. Genet's film begins with a ritual: the lighting of candles. It's a black and white film with complex lighting design.

The meaning of being a man's spouse and a mother swan in the world is shown through the life of Tumur's wife Naran, a work that shows how precious love and marital happiness develops amid the conflicts of old and new ideas.

BBC documentary that led James Kenelm Clarke to quit making documentaries and start producing exploitation films. Includes Pete Walker, David McGillivray, Hazel Adair, Bachoo Sen and a woman who never wears knickers.