All Films

Earthworks In Harmony

1974 • 32 min • Canada

Based on four ancient elements: Earth, Air, Fire, and Water, this four-tape, multi-monitor piece was presented on sixteen monitors at the Burnaby Art Gallery’s Video Bag show and was the main installation.

Circles of Confusion

1974 • 15 min

In this film, circles of colored light (red, green, blue) pulsate and flicker as they move around the frame. Where they intersect, they display a variety of secondary colors. The term, circles of confusion belongs to the physics of the lenses. Here it has to do with the focus of light. Here it refers to the focus of mental and emotional energies as an irrational system for composing a film.

Fluides

1974 • 8 min • France

An early experiment by Dominique Belloir and Rainer Verbizh on Marcel Dupouy's Movicolor synthesizer, from footage of waves recorded a few weeks earlier from the top of a rock on the pink granite coast in Brittany: "A small research unit had been installed by Marcel Dupouy, CNAV [...] I was responsible for receiving artists or directors interested in this new electronic image synthesizer. Jean-Luc Godard was one of the first visitors..." -Belloir

Hand

1974 • 3 min • Poland

A male figure on the screen is lost in thought. He hides his head in large hands clasped in the foreground. Suddenly, one hand moves towards the viewer and grabs a small figure from the other side of the screen.

Lady Shiva, oder: “Die bezahlen nur meine Zeit

1974 • 40 min • Switzerland

Portrait of Zurich's sex worker, mother, model, singer and actress Irene Staub. Better known as Lady Shiva.

Excursion on a Bright Sunny Day

1974 • 26 min • Iran

Gholamabbas lives in a house with his father and his old cook. The father is busy with his own small business, and the child is obsessed with the old man's stories, which he listens to at night after reading the Qur'an.

A Film About Film Editing

1974 • 15 min • United States of America

A primer on the craft of editing a film workprint. Techniques used by professional editors are highlighted while examples are shown in the form of a slapstick silent comedy.

Stampedoo

1974 • 10 min

Spectacular images of international snowmobile competitions that are reserved only for expert owners of the most powerful machines.

Playing Catch and Playing Catch Again

1974 • 2 min • United States of America

Two early experiments from Ernest Gusella.

Dude Defending A Stare-Case

1974 • 2 min • United States of America

A feedback homage to the works of Duchamp.

The Plaint of Steve Kreines as Recorded by His Younger Brother Jeff

1974 • 47 min

Jeff Kreines shot the compassionately humorous The Plaint of Steve Kreines while still living at home with his parents and older brother, Steve, during the summer Steve got a job, bought himself a car, and moved into his first apartment.

Heidi

1974 • 3 min

A young woman sits on a bench in a baroque park. The motion of the wind in the leaves, in her hair, and also the flutter of her eyelashes, the opening of her lips, her imperceptible smile are all made visible with the absolutely static camera. A large baroque birdcage symbolizes a hopeless emotional situation. (Friedl vom Gröller)

Cartoons: It Dawn Down

1974 • 6 min • United States of America

In It Dawn Down an ordinary take-up reel spins to make colorful and delicate patterns even though the film is black and white.

Cartoons: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

1974 • 4 min • United States of America

Flickering flames viewed through air vents of a wood burning pot belly stove resemble the shutter of a film projector.

Ritratti di Rose

1974 • 7 min • Italy

Contrast between different portraits of women, between the public and the intimate.

Spartito Per Cello

1974 • 13 min

Short by Michele Sambin.

Fly

1974 • 9 min • Japan

A Threnody For The Town Of Szydłów

1974 • 10 min • Poland

The lyrical portrait of Szydłów, formerly a town and now a village in the region of Kielce, was yet another step on the filmmaker’s way in search for his own artistic focus and style.

Being Women in Japan: Liberation within My Family

1974 • 30 min

Being Women in Japan documents the recovery of Michishita’s sister from brain surgery, which hospitalized her for four months. Michishita's interest was not only in the personal struggle of her sister to regain her health, but also in how this crisis caused a major rupture in the daily life of her sister's family.

Demonstration '68

1974 • 4 min

Anti-war demonstration, 1968, New York City march to Sheep's Meadow, shows Vets against the war, Yippies, arrests, and flags of a half-forgotten revolution.

Nachtarbeiter

1974 • 13 min • East Germany, Germany

Documentary reports on night workers in the German Democratic Republic in the fall of 1973. The camera provides insights into the difficult and often bleak work during the night hours. Examples of work in a large bakery, in a police call center, in a railroad signal box, in a steel and coking plant and finally in a power station show that the city must continue to live at night. Apart from two short commentaries at the beginning and end of the documentary and a few musical sounds, the atmosphere of the workplace captured in each case is only rarely underpinned with speech.

This Is A Video Monitor

1974 • 15 min

This is a Video Monitor is an attempt to construct a wholly ‘videological ‘ experience, and is built on an initial take of a woman describing the paradox of the real and imagined functions of the monitor on which her image appears…

Aforism

1974 • 5 min • Sweden

Hedman’s first films that are preserved (the early production on Super-8 is lost) are graphic-rich audio-visual studies, eg. 'A Semiotic Study of Unlogic Figure Codification (1973, together with H.P. Andersson) and Aforism (1974). These two, as well as most of Hedman’s films, were made with the support of Filmverkstan. Hedman also came to assist several animators at Filmverkstan, among others. Lilian Domec in her early animation Höghuset. (Filmform)

The Old Man's Ice Present

1974 • 8 min • Soviet Union

Georgian Morozko tried to freeze a boy who came to the forest for firewood. But the hardworking guy passed the test, and in the end he was awarded.