All Films

Note to Colleen

1974 • 4 min

1974 (R8, 7m)

Birthday

1974 • 14 min • Soviet Union

The hooligan dog Polkan, finding himself in trouble, understands how bad it is when there are no friends and therefore no one comes to his birthday.

Bingo/Ninths

1974 • 10 min

In August 1974 Matta-Clark carried out a ‘cutting’ in a house at Niagara Falls, New York. The artist divided the north façade into nine parts. In the film you hear him ask the builders to postpone the demolition. Hence the word play Bingo/Ninths, which became beagone by ninth. The house was demolished an hour after he had finished. The segments were transported to Art Park, where some of them were dumped to be gradually swept away by the Niagara River.

Val del Omar Sur-Norte

1974 • 7 min

1974 super8 short documentary using footage of artist Jose Val del Omar, compiled by Mario Sáenz de Buruaga

Mao Gillette

1974 • 3 min • France

Experimental film consisting entirely of flickers.

The Desert People

1974 • 44 min

This fictional documentary film about a Native American reservation critiques the practice of film production itself.

Motherhood

1974 • 41 min • Hungary

The subject of a Roma settlement gains an almost metaphysical dimension as we watch a long, slow shot of a silent 15-year-old Roma mother.

Four Motion Studies

1974 • 13 min

Charlemagne Palestine, holding a cheap black-and-white video camera, rides four of the rides at Coney Island, including the world-famous Cyclone roller coaster and, with his voice, keens his trademark drones while the rides progress, which, combined with the cacophony of sound that emanates from the rides, creates another version of the walls of sound for which he is known.

Melbourne Sharpies

1974 • 4 min

Rare 1974 insight to Sharpies in Melbourne. Location: Melbourne Showgrounds.

Walkabout 1974

1974 • 24 min • Australia

Well-known Australian anthropologist CP Mountford narrates his experiences on a journey through central Australia with a group of Aboriginal people. Mountford's films are an irreplaceable ethnographic record of the life of the Pitjantjatjara people of this area, before extended contact with European culture. It records food gathering and preparation, hunting, fire making and family life as well as scenes near and on the sacred rock formation, Uluru. This film was made from unrestricted footage shot by Mountford in 1940 and 1942 for his two 1946 films, Walkabout and Tjurunga.

Tattoo

1974 • 14 min

A series of men narrate their BDSM fantasies while giving each other tattoos.

Mississippi Delta Blues

1974 • 18 min

Bill Ferris writes…”This film was originally edited by Josette Ferris and me from super-8 and 16mm footage that I shot in 1967 and 1968 in Lorman, Leland, and Clarksdale, Mississippi." A film documenting traditional blues styles in Mississippi.

Feelings: I'm Feeling Alone

1974 • 7 min

What does it mean to feel alone?

On Guard - Bunco!

1974 • 25 min

Alerts and informs the audience about criminals who prey upon the unwary through fraudulent schemes such as those dramatized.

Sonnet

1974 • 7 min

A woman stands up in front of a bay window, walks, turns her back to us, smokes a cigarette, lingers overlooking the view of trees ... She uses a reflection in the window to create a mnemonic trace. The figure weaves the embryo of a story, between surrender to ennui and waiting (for someone who does not arrive?), but the actual aim seems to capture the viewer's interest to the point where the window's mirroring effect can perform its function: here she's beyond the reach of the camera's gaze, but even there she's inaccessible yet present. Sonnet evokes sound, only to deny it. Its literary title sets the tone for a formal appraisal of the work. The expectation of regularity, of density and form that produces meaning is maintained to the extreme brevity of the work combined with its slow pace.

In the Dark

1974 • 31 min

This film came after Arbitrary Limits, and expanded the aspect of the social context of the film’s production to essentially dominate the latter half of the film, and derail the initial formal plan for filming almost completely. Although this was unlikely to have been the initial purpose, it became the narrative subtext.

The Forgetter

1974 • 6 min

A factory worker constantly forgets proper safety procedures. Part of a series of 1970s era workplace safety shorts from the National Safety Council of America.

Super huître

1974 • 20 min • Belgium

A cheeky political pamphlet.

La Opera del Mondongo

1974 • 12 min • Colombia

Elijah Pierce: Wood Carver

1974 • 18 min

Elijah Pierce was born the youngest son of a former slave on a Mississippi farm on March 5, 1892. He began carving at an early age when his father gave him his first pocketknife. As time passed, Pierce found work as a barber and began to carve wood seriously. Through his carvings Pierce told his own life story and chronicled the African-American experience.

V.W. Vitesse Women

1974 • 36 min • France

Claudine Eizykman with VITESSE WOMEN, presents a torrent, dazzling film that intersects several sequences according to various rhythms, sometimes close to the perceptive thresholds, allowing the deregulation of the senses desired by Rimbaud, opening the way to another mode of perception. —Michel Nuridsany, Le Figaro

Asnaviram

1974 • 20 min • France

Le Corbeau

1974 • 17 min • France

When the Film Gets Hot

1974 • 38 min

A film eroticized by prolonged baths in silver salts. Complete exposure of reclining bodies and their lascivious perambulations. Licentious characters in incestuous copulations of carnal metamorphoses and abnormal couplings. The transformations of their bodies in totemic visualizations of a uniquely local rite. Made up of fantastical phallic doublings and entanglements of purely fantastic flesh in dissolution. The entropy of a gymnastic grotesque. A film of smiles and happiness.