Cinematic Era: 1975 Vintage

Film about the Hamburg district of Ottensen and the resistance of the residents against the planned renovation. It was shot from 1972 to 1975.

A famous politician and his son face each other.

An anniversary special celebrating Columbia Pictures and what made it a great studio during the period of 1925-1975, with segments hosted by some of the studio's greats.

a travelogue of Peru.

In his film studio, Patrick BOKANOWSKI talks about his research (audiovisual and animation techniques) for his new project ("L'Ange" which will be released in 1982). Filming scenes, and excerpts from his short film "Lunch in the morning," punctuate the interview. On a film set, Patrick BOKANOWSKI describes some scenes of his project, notably "the attack of the castle of the egg"; it evokes the influence of the painter Henri DIMIER, of which he was the apprentice, his research on photographic printing, optical systems of shooting, and objectives. - He comments on a sketch of preparation explaining the image sought, and the means implemented. - Images of the shooting of scenes of characters in the darkness and light beams, accompanied by music, punctuate the interview.

Third part of a French TV series about town-planning in which Éric Rohmer and Jean-Paul Pigeat look into the l'Arlequin neighbourhood of Grenoble-Échirolles and the new town of Évry.

"Like Los Ojos, Glass Face shows off Beydler's more whimsical side, but his consistently fresh approach to the transformation of still frames into motion pictures is nevertheless on its usual breathtaking display here. This time, the material being animated is the filmmaker's own face, resulting in a truly strange and funny example of self-punishment as self-portraiture." - Mark Toscano. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2009.

A student film by a fledgling master––a single-shot "research report" on Berliner's experiences as the Harpur College Film Society projectionist.

A shadowy man in black warns viewers of the perils of forgetting to follow the simple two second rule - that is, keeping a sufficient distance from the car ahead when driving. Directed by John Krish, who made numerous similarly macabre films, this is one of three public information films produced as a series on public road safety. The images from the series may no longer be familiar to everyone, but the slogan is still in use today.

An attempt to portray a laborer gives rise to an account of his harsh daily life and his expectations for the future.

Festival of the Virgin Mary, Mamacha Cocharcas, in the province of Sapallanga-Junín.

Short film.

Documentary about the work of firefighters and their fight against fire.

Shot on 16mm film, this experimental piece is inspired by a short story by Ango Sakaguchi about a doomed romance set against the backdrop of blooming cherry trees. Michishita dispenses with the lovers and retains only the cherry blossoms. Caught from every angle, they bloom and fall, communicating a sense of enrapturement with this local and eternal cycle. The music is by Toshi Ichiyanagi, a major figure in postwar Japanese music.

Pink film by Satoru Kobayashi.

Made by Film Australia in 1975. Directed by Michael Edols. The scene is Sydney's famous landmark, Paddy's Market. Selling fruit, vegetable and all things second hand it was captured by Film Australia before it was demolished and rebuilt

An overview of the career of the great Soviet violinist Leonid Kogan.

Program featuring interviews with young people from Moimenta da Beira about their daily lives, the generation gap, lack of freedom, communication between boys and girls, and the mentality and culture of a region in the interior of the country.

DUET uses a horizontally extended screen, effected by employing two standard 16mm images projected adjacent to one another. Two vertical bars move back and forth across the width of half the frame. Through these apertures a girl is seen walking back and forth, in a similar manner to the bars. The movement of each of the bars is fairly constant whilst that of the figure is erratic. Each section of the film, i.e. right and left hand images, was shot entirely at random - the matte being moved by hand and the figure's movement being decided by herself. DUET was preceded by two earlier forms; both of which were abandoned. The first (Summer 1974) used a single image, the camera panning constantly between two points whilst the figure moved at random within, and without the frame. In the second version the camera described a circle, the figure moving along the circumference of circles at varying radii.

It’s a deceivingly simple clash of image and music: You are so beautiful counterposes the Joe Cocker song of the same name with a much less accessible visual. The beautiful woman in question is immediately blocked from view by a man’s hand, which slowly approaches the camera until it blocks the entire field of view. Quite literally obscurantist, it’s a playful provocation and a sharp, ironic audio-visual quip.

Rex, influenced by music, begins to sing. He can recognize a harmony of sounds. The dog decides to sing by the window of a neighbor who plays the piano beautifully. She is better than a boy whose violin is out of tune. However, playing with a stick is not so great when you are a singer.

A portrait of an unknown soldier, published in the memoirs of Marshall Zhukov, provoked a massive response in readers. In the dour face covered in dust, many recognized their sons, fathers, brothers. Sobolev brings the face described in the letters to life and each allows us to experience the transformation of his perception.

Women walk in protest against executions of Basque militants by Franco regimen.

Filmed in West Berlin, WARM-UPS, by the American conceptual artist Allan Kaprow, is a recreation of a performance originally enacted in Boston, in which individuals assess the flow of body heat from hands, torsos, and feet to adjacent surfaces. As the film’s voiceover itself notes, “Using words and pictures it condenses the times and spaces of the real event into a graphic illustration of what happened.”

Zulueta short

Review of what “Huando” (Lima) was doing, before and after the Agrarian Reform (1969) carried out by the military government of General Juan Alvarado. Images of the hacienda considered in its time as an organization model, due to its productivity and efficiency.

1975, b/w, sound, 3 min. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015.

Short film about as little girl that suddenly disappears.

Mike de Leon's short film from 1975, partially lost.

Celebrates the music and influences of contemporary Asian American culture on Dan Kuramoto, June Okida Kuramoto, and Johnny Mori — three musicians who make up the core of the jazz fusion band Hiroshima. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Visual Communications in 2011.

Macedonian TV drama.

A young man returns home to a mother from whom he ran away as a child. Since she doesn't know what he looks like, a fugitive sees the opportunity of impersonating him.

Tucked away in the North-Eastern Himalayas, Sikkim with an area of 7300 sq. km has traditionally been looked upon as abode of spiritual tranquillity. Hinduism is the religion of the vast majority of its inhabitants. Lepen has and Bhutias professing Buddhism form the next dominant group. A protectorate of India, since 1890, this special relationship continued after independence. The Sikkim ruler, known by convention as the Maharaja was permitted to call himself the Chogyal in 1965. The Indian Parliament passed the 38th Constitution amendment bill on April 23rd, 1975 which declared Sikkim as the 22nd state of Indian Union. This film narrates the political history of Sikkim right from 1890.

A short film by Keiichi Tanaami.

Directed by David Sims, A Train For Christmas follows the Kingston Flyer as it chugs through the farmland of Southland from Lumsden to Kingston, where on the shores of Lake Wakatipu it meets with the steamer TSS Earnslaw. With the driver as narrator, this poetic, and sometimes fantastical (the train talks at one point) celebration of steam transportation evokes a bygone era when the train “would stop at every crossing, hedge and house.” The steam train is cast as an integral part of a vast landscape and the communities that it travels through.

A series of shots of animals killed on our highways.

A work of Video Earth Tokyo, it is an interview with a homeless who lived in the Aoyama cemetery. Photography by Michael Goldberg.

In this unique film work you will experience things that have never been published anywhere before. Man is at the extreme limits to control the things in the universe - or do the things already control him? Also for the phenomenon hypnosis there is still no explanation. Shouldn't we search less in the universe than not better in the human psyche?

The film is in three sections each dealing with a different manifestation of the relationships between colors and shapes and their effect on our perception of movement through light.

You can, in fact, trace my life through my films. The first one was called Paris Chausey -- a love story about an island. I was desperate to find a place where I could breathe, and at the time I was completely under Godard’s influence -- I needed to break free from it. And to escape an influence, it’s important to take it as far as your admiration goes: it’s wonderful to admire a writer or a filmmaker, to watch all their films, to fall asleep with their book, but in the end, it suffocates you. My first film was my way of breaking out of the Nouvelle Vague that had shaped my childhood, when I spent all my nights and days at the Cinémathèque.

A short film by Kent Smith included on the "Taking Tiger Mountain" home video release.

The farming practices of residents of the Líl̓wat Nation near Mount Currie, B.C., are presented in a series of snapshots that illustrate the fertility of their territory and the people’s deep connection to their land. This short is part of the L’il’wata series. In the early 1970s, at the outset of her documentary career, Alanis Obomsawin visited the Líl̓wat Nation, an Interior Salish First Nation in British Columbia, and created a series of shorts that provide personal narratives about Líl̓wat culture, histories and knowledge.

A grammatical approach to landscape, based on a daily temporal event. –L. K.

The Pink Panther and Popeye get into silly misadventures while battling gangsters.

The artist sows the word 'Brasil' into the sole of her foot.

Peng is a Chinese gangster boss. Arai is a Japanese gangster boss. Both have strong fighting supporters and gang members. Peng buys heroin for 1 million, hiding in a teddy bear. But the heroin is not real and the dollars are not. And, to make matters worse, a secret policeman emerges: Reason enough for the most magnificent fights of all kinds.

Documentary about three outstanding internationally recognized and awarded young professionals: sculptor Levon Tockmadjian, violinist Rouben Aharonian, Chess International Grand Master Rafael Vahanian. The film discovers some aspects of creative process.

Cara Devito’s intimate portrait of her grandmother who recounts the abuse she suffered at her husband’s hand