All Films

Las calidades de la vida

1974 • 28 min • Spain

An industrial documentary on the Euskadiko Kutxa (Caja Laboral Popular).

I'm Feeling Happy

1974 • 8 min

Presents vignettes which illustrate situations that make people feel happy, encouraging children to talk about and understand their feelings.

Sections for Screen, Performers and Audience

1974 • 8 min

“I was always fascinated by music scores and often imagined how concerts might be changed if performers were not hidden behind music on stands. In the 1960’s, I made several films that used oscilloscope imagery and, in doing so, learned to ‘play’ various synthesizers to generate images. For this film, I used colored gels while filming and chose to optically print a few visual phrases, allowing for repeated sections. I also super-imposed hi-contrast notation over the film. So, Sections became a kind of feedback piece: sound generated the images for the score and performers created new sounds and a new piece from these images.” (Richard Lerman)

Jeux d'Ombres et de Neige dans une Forêt

1974 • 2 min

Experimental film by Jean-Pierre Bertrand.

I'm Mad at Me

1974 • 8 min

Vignettes illustrating situations in which children feel angry at themselves.

Raining

1974 • 3 min

Experimental film by Jean-Pierre Bertrand.

Murales

1974 • 25 min • Italy

Documentary film shot in October-November 1974 on the occasion of the "Freedom in Chile" event promoted by the Venice Biennale.

Bricola

1974 • 2 min • Italy

"I have always been fascinated by this strange object: a sculpture in the middle of the water." (MS)

Carrera de chasquis

1974 • 18 min • Peru

The Revolutionary Government of the Armed Forces of Peru wanted to promote active recreation and sports activities that reclaim the past and project the country towards modernity. Thus, the Chasquis Race was organized to rescue the ancestral figure of the Inca's personal messenger who, through a system of posts, transported information throughout the Tahuantinsuyo.

Trois exercices sur l'écran d'épingles d'Alexeieff

1974 • 5 min • Canada

Animated short film made in three parts on the pin screen by Alexeieff-Parker. With these three exercises, director Jacques Drouin experiments with the play of light and shadow alone. Original, this experience presents us with a reality that is not truncated although it may appear as follows: the faculty of wonder will be able to create the necessary link between everyday life and the way it was rendered.

From A to B and back to A

1974 • 7 min

Wasko analyses the relationship between space, sound (the microphone), and image (the camera). In this film/performance, the viewer becomes an active participant of the projection by making it possible to translocate sound from the visible space to the invisible space, and back.

La fiancée

1974 • 26 min • France

In an Afghan village, a young Moslem girl gets ready for her wedding.

Ars moriendi

1974 • 13 min • Italy

My video work Ars Moriendi from 1974 came to my mind during a night with a strong storm charged with electricity. Electric discharges and continuous thunder, flashes of lightning in the short term. In the video performance, the electric wire in which I was wrapped was connected to a button that I held in my fist, thus causing the light to turn on and off.

April Carnations

1974 • 28 min

Early in the morning on April 25, 1974 Ricardo Costa is awoken with a phone call from his friend Ilidio Ribeiro, his partner in publishing activities, announcing that a revolutionary coup was just taking place and that he would soon pick him up with his car. Costa owns a Paillard-Bolex 16mm movie camera, running with a manual wound spring motor. He has two color Eastman 120 meters (390 feet) rolls stored in the frig. Their publishing house, MONDAR editores, has in press a book with drawings by the French humorist Maurice Sinet (Siné), entitled CIA.[1] The publishers are watched by the police, the PIDE/DGS, since their books disturb good order and subvert the rules of the fascist regime which has been governing Portugal for about fifty years.

Remous

1974 • 4 min • France

Corpulent, proud and devastating machines... here, mountains are moved.

Super Broccoli

1974 • 1 min • United States of America

Public information film about healthy eating.

Video Inn Feedback

1974 • 12 min

In the unauthored Video Inn Feedback, members of Video Inn explore the cosmic, seemingly limitless potentials of a camera and a monitor, pushing legible images into abstract plays of light and shape.

Against video

1974 • 6 min

This video is the first in the trilogy The Cologne Tapes, which Davis made in Cologne in 1974, and which was realized in cooperation with the Lijnbaancentrum. On the pavement somewhere on a street, a video camera lies on a light cushion. It lies there staring invitingly at the passers-by.

Wiping Cloth

1974 • 2 min • South Korea

Single-channel video, no sound, 2 min 7 sec

Lúcia e Conceição

1974 • 25 min

The Steel-Work in the Cybernetic Era

1974 • 10 min

" The electronic computer - with its many possibilities of fast data processing - is not strictly used in scientific and economic fields anymore, it now plays a direct part in the production process. Filmed at the Galați Steel Mill, the film shows the ways in which the computer conducts the production of steel, making fast decisions in as little time as possible, in raport to the variety of situations which may occur. "

Un jour comme un autre

1974 • 5 min • Switzerland

The day begins. Characters live their lives, animals theirs, a gentleman takes off his hat, a lady smokes a cigarette and the sun sets.

The Antiquated Bride

1974 • 11 min • Iran

An Iranin Film

The Sakuddei

1974 • 52 min • United Kingdom

The Sakuddei are a small and ethnically separate community living on the island of Siberut off the west coast of Sumatra in Indonesia. Their distinctive way of life and elaborate religious ceremonies, centred on the umah (ceremonial house) are under threat from the Indonesian government which wishes to ‘civilise’ the Sakuddei. These people are also threatened by a timber company from the Philippines which has been granted a logging concession in the Sakuddei’s territory.