1975 Movies

"Light Shaft" diagonally crosses the screen with a wedged light formation, usually on the diagonal. Its variations are rendered through arrangements o...

"'Shade' is a near exhaustion of the possibilities between camera (aperture, focus) and nature (sun, wind). It is a beautiful study-poem on the undyin...

"Catch is a fragmented observation on hidden reflective surfaces, the corner of a dormant television screen, a window..." —Mike Reynolds

One of the major works by South Korean feminist film collective Kaidu Club, this short is a dynamic, idiosyncratic, and mosaic-like portrait of Korean...

A close-up of a woman mouthing the words "I hate you" with increasing intensity.

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...

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

30 Sound Situations is a performance which maps the acoustic properties of numerous divergent environments. In each situation, the artist stands in fr...

This film is a continuous take outside a tigers cage in Regents Park Zoo. During the first five minutes the camera moves independently of the tiger be...

COCHENGO MIRANDA is a portrait of a farmer and his family living in the Pampas region of Central Argentina. Made by Jorge Preloran, Argentina's best-k...

A narcotics detective is kidnapped by gang members in front of his girlfriend, Mary. In order to find him, Mary recovers the drugs seized by the polic...

Mommartz films his friend Brigitte talking about her life.

The only film to emerge from France’s Groupe d’Information sur les Prisons was this collaboration between filmmaker and writer Hélène Châtelain and he...

Documentary film.

Begins and ends with flashes of scratched 'lighting'. A small portrait of one of the Brakhage kids is sandwiched in between light studies and scratch-...

This frenetic, abstract work, created during Beams’s MacDowell residency, pairs direct rubbings of baby grand piano keys with Super8 footage of the pr...

Reflecting on this deconstructed family portrait, Beams writes, “This film taught me a lot about Time, as I rotoscoped my family at our summer cottage...

Beams wrote of Solo, “This was a game of cycles I set up for myself on 4 × 6″ index cards. I made a grid, and drew a cycle to fit that grid, and then...