Cinematic Era: 1975 Vintage

This Czech TV film adaptation of Dvorak's opera uses double-exposed, dreamy, layered looks for the watery-woodsy scenes, complete with transparent Dryads.

A man sits drinking beer in front of his TV. The program that he occasionally glances at is a montage of popular culture images: old movies, commercials, and news clips. Accompanying the fleeting images is a loosely synchronous narrative on the evolution of man's belief systems. The man's behavior watching television becomes a commentary on contemporary culture; the relationship between public information and private consciousness, and the nature of reality.

The Junker, whose base of operations is beneath a junk yard in Good Haven, creates robots that "eat" metal. The Junker's robots consume cars, bridges and other structures. The Mighty Heroes attempt to contain the damage and eventually follow the robots back to the Junker's lair. But the villain traps the heroes inside a metal container, which he then crushes. Now, the Junker sicks his robots, saying they're free to consumer a "hero sandwich." But the heroes prevail, destroying the robots and capturing the Junker.

Win Oo is the youngest of six brothers. Before his father died, he told him to visit his older brothers’ homes and observe their wives before deciding to marry.

Dóra Maurer's six-minute short film creates different portraits by playfully shifting them around.

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 man has fallen in love with a prostitute. He's struggling with an inner conflict between love and guilt.

Recovered Zulueta short.

This corporate documentary was filmed on the sands of the south coast of Iceland and describes the construction of the road and the bridge over the great glacial river Skeidará, the last obstacle impeding the completion of the road around Iceland. Riders demonstrate how the river used to be crossed, and take us on the old route over the glacier, which was used when the river was in spate.

8mm film by Swiss artist Roman Signer.

Atmospheres from Poul Dissing, Benny Andersen and their group's journey from place to place to perform, seen through the painter Søren Hansen's gaze. The film is typically an experimental film and has no intention of reporting from Dissing's tour. It makes use of e.g. double exposures (multiple images copied on top of each other) and fragmentary sound clips to capture the moods of the traveling musicians.

Reminiscences and explanations by Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, Bob Clampett, and voice artist Mel Blanc, illustrated by many excerpts from their work.

"This film was made in an effort to illustrate briefly the parody of life as a series of conflicts. For example the initial conflict between innocence and social convention, as seen in the confusion of a child. I have tried to project the subconscious conflict-contradiction-of life and inevitable death. Thus the film is in two movements as it were. In the first, a figure dressed in white to symbolise life, moves through and explores a series of structures and objects. In the second movement the figure is replaced by a figure in black, who wanders back through the wreckage of the structures. As death, she controls life until they write into nothingness." - Elaine Shemilt

16mm film close-up of a ballet shoe being untied.

Mexican feature film

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.

A performance film.

“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

Senior citizens reminisce about their childhoods. One finds a magic seashell and the devil appears, who agrees to make them "kids again" in return for their souls. A magical, musical adventure ensues.

Dancing, cavorting, wasting time. "First Community film after establishing the film class at the Art Academy Münster, Germany [...] all white dressed and with white makeup against black background." (LM)

The practice of Structural/Materialist Film is defined in...process, construction, displaced reflexively...not displaced uniformly into the pattern of a narrative bound up for the stable subject-centred image. Structural/Materialist film has no place for the look, ceaselessly displaced, outphased, a problem of seeing, it is anti-voyeuristic.

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

Short documentary film by Lauro António.

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 ...

After being away from home for quite some time, Wong returns to his old stomping grounds to see some of his friends, only to find that a band of kung fu-trained thugs has a serious bone to pick with him and his companions. When the group tries to attack Wong and his buddies, they quickly learn that they're messing with the wrong man, as Wong, too, is a skilled martial artist. Whose expertise will prevail in this battle for honor?

Magomed Abdurakhmanov, known as Parang, was born in 1889 in the village of Tindi, Tsumadinsky District, Dagestan. During his life, he made a significant contribution to the development of his native land, establishing himself as a dedicated builder and public figure. Parang single-handedly built 17 bridges, laid 10 kilometers of roads for automobiles, and 36 kilometers of pedestrian paths.

Documentary about children's toys, past and present.

Short film.

It's so frustrating! I can't stand it! My wife's body is writhing and pleading!

Young people aged 15 to 18 dramatize the class divisions and racism that tear apart and alienate a group of friends.

"The content of my work has been the realization of the imprint, the inscription etched from the experience of leaving, the experience of America," Cha wrote, reflecting on her diasporic existence as a Korean immigrant to the United States. In this series of photographs, each T-shirt is stamped with a play on the term Americanism. The various phrases range from spirited individualism ("A / merry / can / ism") to disfiguration ("A / marr / can / ism"), evoking a fractured and multivalent experience of America.

A discussion on technological education and its impact on promoting better wages and improving workers' quality of life.

Revolutionary Palestinian film.

Maryam (Simin Ghaffari) and her friends (Jamshid Mehrdad, Ali Zahedi, and Hassan Raziani) have a great fight.

Lucia has left her native Chile and is now living in Montréal, Canada. Here, she tries to start a new life as an art teacher while also dealing with the painful memories of the coup d'etat that overthew the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende and drove many Chilean into exile.

A Puerto Rican boy is invited to a prestigious conference in LA.

Inspired by Cliodhna Cussen, Cloch is an evocation of the art of stone-carving, drawing on the work of James McKenna and on the Kilkenny sculpture workshop of 1975. Bob Quinn said about the project, “The main aspect that interested me was the physical relationship between a person and inanimate material.”

The girl Milka was found at the Zagreb airport while trying to escape from Yugoslavia to her aunt in Germany. A social worker tries to place her in a home for neglected children, and then gives her back to her divorced parents.

One of the major changes in agriculture after the “25 of April” was undoubtedly the new Rural Lease Law. This documentary, which is naturally dated, shows a little of what life was like for tenant farmers.

Experimental animation film about the adventures of a little bunny.

Explored the very personal experiences of an attractive, educated and well-spoken woman who has achieved commercial success, public recognition and personal satisfaction as an actress in pornographic films.

About the heroic past of Soviet soldiers in the days of the Great Patriotic War and the military everyday life of the soldiers of our days.

Animated film in which diverse teens commenting on sex, family, substance use, peer pressure, friendship and more.

A 1975 film sponsored by Mobil Oil Company. James Beveridge spent a year in Japan making this film about the National Living Treasures of Japan. Beveridge completely abandoned the use of narration and it created a huge split with his funders. He insisted on completing the film his way, with an austere sound track using “Noh” music and song, no narration, and a mix of natural sounds including those of the artists making their crafts. Crafts featured include pottery, weaving, paper making, and blacksmithing.

Documentary following James Thompson, a teenager with Down's Syndrome, as he attempts to adopt to independent life, and how his family supports him.

This movie is "Foal". "I'm not a millionaire" consists of two parts. In the first part, rural life is more interesting to Sukhbold boy than urban life and opens a new world for him. In the second part, his grandfather, who works at the museum, brings home a reed trumpet and repairs it, because he heard the story that in the olden days, reed trumpets were made from the bone marrow of an eighteen-year-old woman. In his opinion, the child's naive but generous love for people, and his desire to know the world's phenomena are highlighted.

A lyrical sketch in the style of a silent film, telling the story of an artist carrying a large, long roll of paper across the city.

The mole finds a carpet.

A journey into the nightmare of a paranoid schizophrenic, running from buried memories, humiliating betrayals, and herself.

A provocative documentary kaleidoscope of Berkeley wit, defiance, insight, mania, obsession, and delusion ...

A Second Quarter is decidedly European; the “place” (Berlin) is the catalyst for the “action” (the work). The works recited in the film are concerned with barriers and borders, physical and geophysical phenomena. The characters also translate, count, and recite the alphabet. They build a narrative that is not a story to be followed dogmatically but rather a pattern from which to extract one’s version of what is seen. The scenes are set in an old bourgeois apartment, in an office near the West Berlin train station, and at the ruins of the Anhalter Bahnhof and its vicinity, with the Berlin Wall in the background.

1975 DCI World Championships held in Philadelphia, PA on August 16, 1975 1. Madison Scouts (1st Place 92.50) 2. Santa Clara Vanguard (2nd Place 91.00) 3. Blue Devils (3rd Place 88.60) 4. 27th Lancers (4th Place 88.05) 5. Blue Stars (5th Place 87.50) 6. Oakland Crusaders (6th Place 86.00) 7. Kilties (7th Place 85.30) 8. Cavaliers (8th Place 82.95) 9. Royal Crusaders (9th Place 82.40) 10. Phantom Regiment (10th Place 81.30) 11. Garfield Cadets (11th Place 80.55) 12. Troopers (12th Place 76.20)