All Films

Frosty Pattern

1974 • 5 min • Soviet Union

How Morozik decorated a rainy day with sparkling snow.

Chuchulucos y arrumacos para burgueses

1974 • 16 min

1974 Mexican experimental film

Disturbances

1974 • 11 min

Disturbances extends Jonas' investigation of mirrored surfaces and spaces, as she explores reflections of movement and images in water. The tape begins with Jonas, like Narcissus, leaning over a reflecting pool. Throughout this lyrical exercise, the viewer sees only reflected images and inversions, disturbances of the water's surface. Figures walking at the edge of the pool are seen as abstracted shimmers, upside down and backwards; shadowy figures move underwater and swim through the pool as in a choreographed dance. This simply rendered, evocative work is a phenomenological study of reflection, as Jonas draws a parallel between the spatial and mirroring effects of water and video.

Luz Externa

1974 • 31 min

"Luz Externa was one of the most ambitious productions of the Mexican super 8. The script is based on the monologue of Ernesto, a jipiteca machín, who tells a friend of his mystical adventures with his girlfriend [...] What was probably the super 8 film that best portrayed the countercultural world of the first half of the seventies in Mexico was not seen in its time, despite the expectation that its filming caused in the press." - Álvaro Vázquez Mantecón, El Cine Súper 8 en México

Animals Running

1974 • 21 min

A continuous stream of animals from bison to splinters of fishes. "[A] serenely beautiful... study of animal life in continual movement - bees swarming, birds in flight, deer running. Photographed in high-contrast black and white, ANIMALS RUNNING is like a series of engravings come to life and its sense of delicacy is heightened by what sounds like rippling xylophone sounds." -Kevin Thomas, The Los Angeles Times.

The Struggle of the Meat

1974 • 3 min

When I was editing my last film, ANIMALS RUNNING, a collection of images grouped themselves together but refused to be included in the film. I spliced them together and put them aside. At the same time I was experimenting with sound loops, inspired by John Lilly's work with dolphin language. Briefly, he discovered that when exposed to a repeating loop in a relaxed atmosphere, a subject would begin to hear sounds or words other than those recorded. I made some loops and found that the phrase "the struggle of the meat" was a particularly evocative one.

Memories of Prince Albert Hunt

1974 • 29 min • United States of America

Relatives of the Texan fiddler Archie "Prince" Albert Hunt tell stories of his life and untimely death.

Naim and Jabar

1974 • 50 min • United States of America

The hopes, fears, and aspirations of adolescence are expressed in the close friendship of two Afghan boys. As their acceptance of the filmmakers leads them to express their feelings more and more openly, the film grows rich in fact and themes of universal concern. Filmed in the Balkh Province, an area inhabited by Tajik and other Central Asian peoples. The town of Aq Kupruk is approximately 320 miles northwest of Kabul.

Moving Up to Amateur Radio

1974 • 12 min • United States of America

Short film designed to introduce CB oeprators during the '70s to the wonders of Amateur Radio

Flesh Flows

1974 • 6 min • United States of America

“[T]he sense of moving forward [in space or time] alternates with a sense of expansion and contraction, as the finished cycle [of movement] returns to itself and rushes to catch up with its successor.” (Gadassik) Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with iotaCenter and National Film Preservation Foundation in 2007.

Krasner, Norman: Beloved Husband of Irma

1974 • 6 min

Norman Krasner, to all appearances an average businessman, finds himself taxed to his breaking point by a simple trip to a public restroom. Is it merely a combination of bad luck and incompetence, or has fate itself taken a hand? Will Norman even survive?

Dog

1974 • 3 min

United States / Mexico 1974, Super 8 transferred to digital, colour, silent, 3 min

Body Tracks

1974 • 1 min • United States of America

United States 1974, Super 8 transferred to digital, colour, silent, 1 min

Silueta del Laberinto (Laberinth Blood Imprint)

1974 • 3 min

United States / Mexico 1974, Super 8 transferred to digital, colour, silent, 3 min

Ocean Bird (Washup)

1974 • 4 min

United States / Mexico 1974, Super 8 transferred to digital, colour, silent, 4 min

Sensitométrie II

1974 • 11 min

First film made outside of pure animation, with all that it is possible to put and omit in a first film essay, which contains authoritatively - and without knowing it at the beginning - images made by others long before and not the least, with trifles that make a whole.

Tonübungsfilm

1974 • 12 min • Germany

Neumann made this film as a young lecturer with some students in the visual communication department at the Hamburg Art University. A film about the areas of application of the various microphones.

My Friends in My Address Book

1974 • 3 min • Japan

A conceptual film in which Ando has assembled plans, and duration of his friends as they are listed in the address book. This is a gallery of happy friends of the filmmaker.

Catfilm for Katy and Cynnie

1974 • 3 min • United States of America

Made for Intercat '73, Pola Chapelle's Cat Film Festival in New York. In the early 70's, a New York cat-lover and film-maker named Pola Chapelle produced a "Cat Film Fesitval:" which was shown in a large downtown NYC auditorium to an audience of more than a thousand cat-lovers. At the time, I lived with my wife Ursula and our daughters Katy and Cynnie, together with many, too many cats. I loved my family but not the cats. -SL. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.

A Lesson in Astronomy

1974 • 20 min • Soviet Union

A young man and a young woman spend the evening by the campfire. The girl asks about the starry sky and the photometric paradox, and the young man answers her with lyrical statements of great people about the infinity of the Universe. Frustrated, she rides off on a motorcycle with another young man.

The Tenancy Rights of Safer the Miner

1974 • 14 min • Yugoslavia

The film's subject is the distribution of workers' housing. The right of residence, which Safer Korlatovic, salt-mining champion, received, is reason enough to make a poetic document from a moment of ordinary everyday life. Short, human joys are recorded, even in the moments when the main characters are unaware of what is happening around them.

Arbitrary Limits

1974 • 30 min

Arbitrary Limits is a documentation, and a documentary, of the making of itself, a self-reflexive narrative that encompasses the relationship between film-maker and sound recordist, and their relation to the ongoing film, a commentary on the film’s production, and the gradual exposition, through asides, and partial explanations through the film, of what the film set-up, and its eventual notional outcome should be.

Palmistry

1974 • 10 min • United States of America

a) a fat girl singing about not wanting to get thin just to please men. b) the first time for her and him. c) at the fortune-teller. A confrontation of horrible science and horrible superstition.

The Hothead

1974 • 6 min

A welder has an explosive temper. Part of a series of 1970s era workplace safety shorts from the National Safety Council of America.