Cinematic Era: 1975 Vintage

The Estonian Jubilee Song Festival is shown as a source of creativity that influences the creation of a painting. The documentary material is linked to the animation.

A woman close to things asks about the ways of existing. the body, the name, the house, the thickness in which the subject is inscribed and daily modeled.

Still at Work, a self-portrait of the artist in his places of work: the studio in Lower Manhattan and Sarah Lawrence College, the school where he taught. The film animates a still photograph through a grid of random dots.

The broken pump is left by the astronauts in space. When ant-like aliens find it on their planet they launch it, beggining the disaster.

"The title is a play on words about light and the pleasures of light phenomena. Images of reflections and shadows punctuated periodically by real objects or people." –Sheila Pinkel

An 8mm film by Lee Krugman.

Experimental film on 16mm by Romulus Budiu as part of Kinema Ikon.

A Very Easy Death is a profoundly moving end-of-life account of Stephen's mother passing away in a hospital. Taking inspiration from Simone de Beauvoir's masterpiece, Stephen's finely nuanced portrait of bereavement, takes the viewers metaphorically through songs and images.

Media Burn integrates performance, spectacle and media critique, as Ant Farm stages an explosive collision of two of America's most potent cultural symbols: the automobile and television. On July 4, 1975, at San Francisco's Cow Palace, Ant Farm presented what they termed the "ultimate media event." In this alternative Bicentennial celebration, a "Phantom Dream Car"—a reconstructed 1959 El Dorado Cadillac convertible—was driven through a wall of burning TV sets.

English and Korean words appear on the screen, a mouth forms the shape of an "O," then opens and closes. Is this the beginning of language? In this early videotape, Cha isolates and repeats a simple, physical act — a mouth forming the eight Korean vowel graphemes — so that this ordinary action becomes something primal and riveting.

Film about a cozy household.

"'Shade' is a near exhaustion of the possibilities between camera (aperture, focus) and nature (sun, wind). It is a beautiful study-poem on the undying presence that renders the world perceptually. In this minimal area, the variations are pursued with quiet doggedness, each frame revealing the secret of the next." —Mike Reynolds

This short documentary introduces us to the McKeevers, who care for injured owls. They live in the country and have built special cages for different purposes and species. There are many ways of being wounded, yet many ways of being cured

A boy and his pets try to comfort a wee harmonica player after losing his tool to a fat grump.

Gerson Tavares interviews fishermen and observes the traditional fishing activity in danger of extinction.

This documentary shows Elaine Dart's success in dealing with cerebral palsy. Through perseverance and patience, she learns to use her feet to accomplish such intricate tasks as threading a needle, stringing beads, and knitting.

Begins with rocks, tree trucks, plants in glow of light, ends with green and gold forest scene.

"Comfortably, as in its natural element, a camera swims coolly in the moltitude of the crown. It stares at an urban 70's America. An insistent melody in slow-motion gives a melancholic aspect to the show of these passers-by crossed and lost, the human crown of the time." -Cyril Hurel

A mixture of ethnography, ravings and a vampire film, La Umbría tells the story of a family, dressed permanently in black and afflicted by tuberculosis, who live shut away in a mansion in a valley on Gran Canaria (the home of the painter Pepe Dámaso, who directs this film). An immersion in rural life and its people, imbued with extravagant visions midway between auteurist cinema and Hammer productions, ghosts of ancestors, imposing landscapes and impossible soirées.

A documentary that describes the life and problems of one of Portugal's most celebrated agricultural cooperatives in the second year of the Carnation Revolution.

A young boy auditions for a position in a choir academy; he is turned down. He returns home with his mother and father where the father is met with the news that his father has just died, and he must leave immediately for the funeral. Upon his arrival at his parents' home, he finds he is too late for the funeral. Later that evening, over coffee, he tries to reconcile himself with his sense of loss in a brief talk with his mother. This narrative framework serves as the jumping-off point for numerous digressions and reminiscences utilizing both "found" and originally photographed imagery.

This continuation of my autobiography is composed of film photographed by many people: Bruce Baillie, Jane Brakhage, Larry Jordan and Stan Phillips, among others. Most of the footage is drawn from some 20,000 feet of "home movies," "out-takes" and the like, salvaged from my photography over the years. It is of the Brakhage family's coming into being.

About fighters of a special combined battalion, who on the Victory Parade threw the banners of captured fascist German troops to the foot of Lenin's Mausoleum. In the center of the film the fate of two soldiers: Stepan Smolyakov, who passed with his own gun to Berlin, and Stepan Krivko, a participant in the Parade.

A 16mm documentary based on fieldwork that William Ferris conducted with African American folk artists throughout Mississippi. Footage includes Richard Foster at the "dog trot" house he grew up in, basket maker Leon "Peck" Clark, quilter Amanda Gordon, floral gardener Esther Criss, cane fife maker Otha Turner, painter and cane maker Lester Willis, and sculptor James "Son" Thomas. The artists discuss their informal training, artisic motivation and vision, and the value they attach to their art while working on their crafts.

Ten poems from Hubert Korneliszoon Poot from the Dutch farmer and poet Hubert Poot, who lived in the 18th century -declared by Donald de Marcas [actor]. (Wim Schlebaum)

The fisherman's son Christian, called Spinner, has a lively imagination. When he is sailing with his pirate sailboat, he feels like the sailor Magellan on the oceans.

In the land of Grammeria, a young lad learns how to construct sentences while a background monkey watches in silence.

Experimental performance piece in which Ulrike Rosenbach turns to the waltz "I Dance with You in the Sky" in a circle until she falls over, scene through a supervision perspective through mirror hanging from the ceiling.

Large visual elaborations of Kirchhofer means most simple devices and childish in cinema archeology, Thaumatrope the Praxinoscope, all optical toys. This fundamental investigation of the batch becomes particularly clear in Sensitométrie III (Sensitometry III), where work on the range is very pure because it is accentuated by the open opposition between positive and negative. But the difference is that, where other devices seeking forms of regularity and stability to swallow motionless in the mobile, film Kirchhofer rather explore all possible rhythms, so to enhance the irregularity, difference, discontinuous. The parade always comes up against the still image, continuity serves monumentalize Meanwhile, the optical illusion is stripped and the beauties of the irregular explode. Nicole Brenez - Portrait Arte - May 2006

A parodic homage to the song "Bravo" by Olga Guillot, "the Queen of the Bolero," film in Horacio Vallereggio's garage in Buenos Aires in 1975.

Light Music is a classic work of expanded cinema. Formed from two projections facing one another on opposite screens, Light Music is Rhodes’ response to what she perceived as the lack of attention paid to women composers in European music. She composed a ‘score’ comprised of drawings that form abstract patterns of black and white lines onscreen. The drawings are printed onto the optical edge of the filmstrip. As the bands of light and dark pass through the 16mm projector they are ‘read’ as audio, creating an intense soundtrack that proposes a direct relationship between the sonic and the visual. What you hear is equivalent to what you see.

DEFA documentary about various summer workers in Siberia.

Shot in 1974 by Danny Lyon and a single audio person, in twenty days in Santa Marta Colombia. The film shows the daily rhythms of a gang of boys who live on the city’s streets. Their survival skills and errant lifestyles are in evidence as they beg for scraps to eat, wheel and deal with storekeepers and street vendors, and play together.

The Gelsenkirchen coal mine housing estate Flöz Dickebank became famous in the 1970s due to the residents' resistance to the planned clear-cut redevelopment. In 1974, the Gelsenkirchen city council and the owner of the workers' housing estate founded in 1868 (Rheinisch-Westfälische Wohnstätten AG) decided to demolish Flöz Dickebank.

Beydler performs the ultimate SoCal shade-tipping, satirizing LA art-cool with comic pixillated effect. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.

The story of a friendship between a little boy and his mechanical nanny.

"A journal of change in pattern of living and seeing as determined by an often misfunctioning but faithful camera."-M.K

For 50 minutes or so Pictures presents a series of static, or gently swaying images which are sometimes bucolic landscapes but more often industrial ones (sludgy harbours, power lines, abandoned railway stations or deserted factories). The interplay between the two sets of imagery is not simple. Wyborny photographs his modern ruins at their most ravishing – at dawn or sunset, partially reflected in the water or glimpsed through the trees. Shots recur throughout, optically printed into brilliant colours or else, given the washed out quality of fifth generation Xeroxes. As there are few people shown, one’s impression is of a planet that is populated mainly by cows, barges and hydraulic drills.

A scene of a street corner transformed through the use of a single gradual filter change and a superimposed shot of the position of the midday sun on 27 consecutive days.

A hand-processed film of the filmmaker's sister showing a hand-puppet to her two young children.

It is difficult for Heo Mu-Tae, a minor clock, to prepare his wife's hospital expenses with his salary. Without losing courage, he gets a second job at dawn and night saying nothing to his company because he needs money to buy the battery of an artificial heart to expand his wife's life

Myeong-ae loses both her parents during the Korean War and her sister dies soon after. She wanders to Seoul and takes a job in a bar. There she meets, Hak-su, a university student and the two live together. Myeong-ae gives birth to Hak-su's daughter, but soon after, Hak-su is killed in an explosion. Giving up her infant for adoption by an American family, Myeong-ae takes the name 'Anna' and becomes a prostitute for American soldiers.

In May 1972, Matta-Clark worked on an abandoned pier in New York for two months, where he cut sections of the door, floor, and roof. Camera: Betsy Susler.

How Willingly You Sing revolves around Simon Dore (director Garry Patterson), a young architecture graduate, cartoonist and stage actor. In the guise of an eccentric with an absurd comic view of the world, he appears throughout, whether carrying out his misguided psychiatrist's advice, playing the banjo, being advised by an astrologer, searching for the Wandering Jew who holds the key to the world's salvation, or taking a holiday in the country.

Focusing on the characters of those involved, this French drama explores a political campaign in a small town and the corruption which enters into it. Sex education gets the countrified locals all roused up against a citified school reformer, even though it is actually a side issue. The farmer whose concerns are picked up as a theme by the right-wing politicos figures out that he is being used.

A Third Reich consists of visual and acoustic phrases from the time of National Socialism. They were taken seriously in such a way that reveals their ridiculousness and then their deadly meaning.

In this short compilation, Chris Burden introduces and narrates selected clips from his public art performances including 'Shoot', 'Bed Piece', and 'Fire Rolls', among others.

Part of BFI collection "Worth the Risk?"

Part of BFI collection "Worth the Risk?"

Celebrating the circulation of the waters of the world, this homage to James Broughton's favorite sage Lao-tsu is illustrated by the dance of sunlight on the sea. Accompanying poem (read and written by James Broughton) was composed to the music of Corelli, from his Concerto Grosso No. 9 in A, performed on the harp by Joel Andrews.

A hunter disappears when searching for a wounded rogue bear that has been terrorizing the dwellers in a remote area. When the local rangers fail to locate him, his stepson is persuaded to venture into the wild to find him.

The filming of Ventana began as a test of the rewind and superimposition functions of the Single 8 camera: a crescendo of added layers. The space is a camera obscura in which the cameraman's movements convert a line of light into multidirectional rays. Toward the end there are up to eight unique superimpositions and single frames. The music was added in 1989, with an anaogue synthesizer and digital delay.

„Kiss“ brings to mind the contemporary GIF graphic format, which nowadays enjoys massive popularity – a moving image suspended halfway between photography and film. It features a single gesture – originally intimate and sensual – that with time and repetition becomes absurd and unreal.