Cinematic Era: 1975 Vintage

A first experiment in diachronic motion: the simultaneous presentation of an action from several different perspectives in time.

Between 1974 and 1976, while researching for his filme "S. Bernardo", Leon Hirszman shot three documentary shorts produced by the Brazilian Ministry of Education on the chores of the men who worked in the sugar cane fields in the town of Feira de Santana, in the cocoa fields of Itabuna, and in the efforts of building households in Chã Preta.

1975 Czech experimental short by Petr Skala

This PIF cleverly uses the threat of a knock from the Old Bill to deter would-be vandals. However, if we recall the urban landscape of 1970s Britain - smashed up phone boxes, broken windows, vandalised bus shelters, and so on - perhaps it may not have been an altogether effective deterrent.

Directed by Khairy Beshara.

A teenager encounters five everyday situations in which the expectations and resistance of the environment become a problem. Only the fantasy device Hilmi provides a remedy.

An interpretation of The Confessions of Saint Augustine featuring an ordinary middle-aged man who undergoes a conversion experience whilst watching an experimental film. - Harvard Film Archive

An Oscar Nominated short film about the adventures of a red pair of legs. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.

Documentary produced by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in 1975 giving an overview of the Apollo manned space program, including the landings on the moon.

Exercise testing, with the constraint of being an independent film production and risky, is a very free version of the classic Greek myth, and has its best supplement in Contestatarios (Poemágenes 1) short film shot during the French May '68, whose exhibition was banned and which until now has not offered ever in a movie theater.

When "Billy the Liar" kidnaps a young girl's dog, she calls on her friends and the local child sheriff. He sets off in pursuit but is waylaid by Indians but manages to capture Billy who is sentenced to a severe whipping.

movie depicts melancholic, nostalgic genre images of the bustling streets of old Tbilisi.

Roads designed for cars, concrete overpowering the rustic building that was a sign of a house somehow possessed, not a trap. Hard-packed gardens, good only for motorcycles. Brescia: reality or nightmare? The public housing is faded, sad. Blocks left there, a neighborhood without connection. Kids slide on mounds of dirt and garbage. Man, where are you going? (Luciano Spiazzi)

A group of rebellious young men living in Baghdad in the 1950s are consumed by feelings of frustration. Among them are Saeed, who is arrested for leading a workers' strike; Sharif, who sacrifices his life defending his principles; and Hamid, who is in love with his colleague Salma and dreams of marrying her. Life unfolds for these young men amidst their challenging circumstances.

Sketch reel by Bruce Wood

The film tells the story of the relationship between two brothers: good and evil.

This amusing "Boerewors-western" will remind viewers of the Terence Hill and Bud Spencer spaghetti westerns, to which writer CF Beyers-Boshoff alludes in this movie's credits (which are a comic treat and not to be missed). It's 1930 and a gang has been terrorizing the locals for what seems like forever. But it's finally about to come to end with the arrival of Dingetjie and Daan, two mismatched brothers who aren't too bright, but can shoot and fight. They get a job looking after cattle for a local matriarch, but the gang gets Daan framed for bank robbery so they can steal the cattle. Dingetjie blows up the jail to spring Daan from captivity, and the local sheriff sets off after them, with a big shoot-out ensuing in the town square. Apart from its outrageous humor, savor Hal Orlandini's stand-out performance as the curiously fastidious villain.

The array was the basic image upon which I performed a variety of operations. The Rutt/Etra synthesizer allows one to alter the height, width, depth, and the horizontal and vertical amplitude of the raster. The resultant image is displayed on a cathode ray tube and rescanned by a black and white camera which then enters a video switcher for adding outlines, color, wipes, or other images. I chose outlines and color for Temple , for simplicity but also because I only had two hands and could not modify everything at once.

The girl was planting beans in the garden when a goose suddenly attacked her. Out of fear, the girl shrank to the size of a bug.

Live performance with two projectors. Human beings become shutters, if you flutter two fan in front of the lens. According to the movement, the eyes wink on the screen.

Alchemy of the Word is a hand-made film in which I applied Zip-A-Tone patterns directly to 16mm clear film stock, including upon the optical edge, so that the dancing shapes onscreen created their own soundtrack when projected. The film also features my friend, the artist David Saunders, playing the 19th-century French Symbolist poet, Arthur Rimbaud, as he reads from one of the poet’s most famous works, Alchemy of the Word. The film, as well as the poem, are about synesthesia: the artist’s transformation of one sense into another, turning light into sound, sound into emotion, and words into images.

A Deputy Dawg short.

A portrait of Zomo, the second of Damouré Zika’s many children. Employed at the zoo of the National Museum of Niger in Niamey, he offers us a tour, showing us the animals he takes care of. Then, when the work is finished, he invites us to an impromptu concert by “Jeunesse Gawey,” the “popular music” orchestra he forms with his brothers and sisters, who sing and dance for us pretty songs about their lives, their family, and Nigerien youth.

A 16mm black and white remake of an 8mm color film done years earlier, this time with students enrolled in a 'dramatic narrative' summer workshop. Deep shadows dominate this spooky saga dealing with reincarnation and revenge.

Puppet animation. Uses a story about animals to demonstrate and motivate safe behavior walking, playing, and bike riding, with special attention to the unpredictability of automobiles, trains, and pedestrians. For primary grades.

Made up of excerpts from animation films made at the Cape Dorset animation workshop, interspersed with live-action footage of modern-day Cape Dorset. The contrast is uncomfortably evident.

Recovered Zulueta short.

Ghosts abound in Britain. Thousands of people have seen and heard what they believe to be phantom footsteps, abnormal phenomena, and ghosts of all shapes and sizes, sometimes even moving above ground level. Here, Hugh Burnett visits some of the people who have tried to track them down, or heard and seen things they cannot explain. The film ranges from a haunted house, a haunted inn, even a theatre haunted by a butterfly - to Borley Church where many strange occurrences have been recorded.

Een "Thrilla in Manila: The Philippines Under Martial Law

Avant garde film, made in 1975. Exhibited in venues such as Anthology Film Archive, Berlin Arsenal Kino, Filmoteca de Catalunya, Royal Belgian Film Archive/Cinematek, San Francisco Cinematheque, Walker Art Center, and many others. It's a film about seeing, and experiencing that.

Ryszard Cieslak and other members of the Polish Laboratory Theater demonstrate exercises designed to prepare the mind and body for performance.

A social comedy play that tries to ask a question: Can love combine an educated man from a rich society with a girl from the public and a world full of poverty, ignorance and misery? Could this relationship succeed? مسرحية اجتماعية كوميدية، تحاول طرح سؤال هل يمكن أن يجمع الحب بين رجل مثقف من مجتمع ثري مع فتاة من وسط وعالم يعج بالفقر والجهل والبؤس؟ وهل يمكن لهذه العلاقة أن تنجح؟

"With a sly nose-thumbing attitude for the tired rigors of documentary sociology, LA FEMME, L’HOMME sees the filmmaker asking women from a variety of personal backgrounds for their opinions on the future of femininity – anticipating the interviews with working-class women that formed the backbone of her second theatrical feature MON CŒUR EST ROUGE." - Spectacle Theater

Two kids, Zana and Miri, play every afternoon in the garden by their house. They are often careless and damage the flowers of the garden.

A 1975 work, Butterfly makes use of polarized graphic effects as Ana Mendieta's spectral body sprouts iridescent wings.

1975 Czech experimental short by Petr Skala

A breathtakingly beautiful film loaded with laughs. Travel from the American Rockies to the uniquely picturesque scenery of the European Alps. Catch scenes of the Bugaboo Mountains of British Columbia; Vail, Colorado; Switzerland; Japan; Australia; and Russia. Highlights include Stein Eriksen, Norwegian world Champion skier, performing among the gum trees and irrigation ditches of Australia as well as skiing among the crevasses of the Tasman Glacier in New Zealand.

The struggle of fishermen in Portugal after Salazar's tyranny.

The people of the L'íl'wat First Nation record their personal narratives about their culture, history, education, and the impact of residential schools.

This film aims to portray the circus as a nomadic way of life, to give viewers a deeper insight into aspects of circus life, and to show the circus as a form of theatre where the clown is king.

When New York was about to go bankrupt, all construction had stopped and an architect tried to become a wrecker. This is the story of the demolition of a large factory building on 23rd Street and 6th Avenue. Meanwhile daily business - grimy or funny, money or no money - goes on as usual.

Deliriously kitsch recruitment ad for the implausibly glamorous world of coalmining.

The boys from the Young Naturalists Club received a package from Africa. There was an egg in the package. Soon, a crocodile hatched from the egg. And as it usually happens, the crocodile ran away. The boys posted notices about the missing crocodile all over the town. And there was a panic in the town.

In the shadowed streets of Salamanca, the infamous libertine Don Félix de Montemar pursues pleasure without remorse, leaving behind betrayal, despair, and death. When the ghostly figure of the woman he ruined appears before him, he follows her through the night in a feverish procession that leads beyond the boundaries of life itself. In this dark romantic vision inspired by José de Espronceda’s poem, seduction, guilt, and supernatural fate converge in a haunting journey toward the ultimate reckoning.

In the Chincha Valley, the historic center of slavery in Peru, a group of children discover the history of their race through music and an elderly villager.

Vienna, March 18, 1863: the poet Friedrich Hebbel, weakened by fever, spends his fiftieth — and final — birthday confined to bed. In feverish reverie, he recalls his life and work. The two blend with each other as well as with the present. A demanding reflection, filmed mostly in monochrome images, on this "ardent man" (a description by Eduard Mörike) and his work.

Pilot film for a series of programs on the condition of women of color in Europe. Here, the famous black beautician and hairstylist from Paris, Josepha. Josepha talks about her job, her problems, explains the action she takes at the aesthetic level to disalienate her clients of color, who are too often tempted to refuse their blackness and imitate Europeans.

Short film by Ana Mendieta.

This film is about family conflict.