All Films

Zöglinge

1974 • 37 min • East Germany, Germany

The documentary focuses on a children's home in East Berlin. In 1953, the largest children's home in the GDR was established in Königsheide. Initially built to house war orphans, the educational institution quickly became the GDR's model home and was given the name "Kinderkombinat A.S. Makarenko." From the mid-1960s onwards, "state children" were to be raised here according to the slogan "Ideal home in an ideal state."

Black and Light

1974 • 8 min • Canada

This film was directly produced on a diverted computer without the involvement of any film equipment. Originally, this film was not in black and white, but in absolute black and full light. Indeed, initially, the screenings were only made with originals in which absolute black was achieved through the use of a totally opaque tape, while absolute white was generated by computer perforation (thus allowing all the light to pass through without the slightest opacity of film material). This film is not the transcription of a movement, but a succession of constructed composite facts which the projection device translates for the eye into impression of movements. It does not refer to any external reality, but is meant to be its own reality.

Tree

1974 • 4 min

The camera was placed on the flexible branch of a tree in a strong wind. The composition included both stationary and moving trees (a wooded landscape). The relationship of this landscape to the vertical and horizontal plane was maintained as much as possible. The camera ran continuously until all the film was exposed. The world is seen from the point of view of a tree as its branches sway to the rhythm of the wind.

Corduroy

1974 • 3 min • United States of America

Abstract direct animation film made by JoAnn Elam.

F2

1974 • 45 min • France

Spirals

1974 • 2 min • United Kingdom

A film made without a camera in which both image and sound are the result of the same chemical process. Raw film was spooled onto a spiral and partially submerged in developer, so that only half the film is developed, leaving the trace of a time spiral in the image and (optical) sound. The film can be projected in either direction. Outwards, from the centre of the spiral, we hear a decelerating sound like someone regaining their breath. G.S.

Düsseldorf - Balanced Urban Growth

1974 • 56 min • Canada

Individualized for profit, yet harmonious in its whole, Düsseldorf has met and largely conquered the conflicting demands of economic growth and human environment.

To Be Aware of Death

1974 • 14 min

Young people take a look at death and give observations and personal insights from their experiences with death in their families, school, and neighborhood.

Sun-A-Mul

1974 • 16 min

A part of Werner Nekes' lyrical anthology DIWAN.

Moutier-d'Ahun

1974 • 11 min

Experimental documentary that takes its source on the banks of the Creuse and we discover the baroque sculptures of the abbey in a fantastic atmosphere.

A Kiss of Death

1974 • 9 min

A film by Toney W. Merritt.

Shut Up Barbie

1974 • 14 min

The film is a reaction to the obsession a seven-year-old girl has with her many Barbie Dolls. The world of Barbie is pushed to its innocuous and tragic conclusions. Ann Knutson plays the role of the mother. "Shut Up Barbie" was pixilated in Tiburon, Ca.

Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, Junior Wells ‎– Messin' With The Blues

1974 • 50 min

Electric Blues, Chicago Blues

Apalachee

1974 • 13 min • United States of America

Apalachee is a beautifully impressionistic study of a couple interacting with the foliage of the forest and the water of the stream. They touch and embrace each other, "neither making love nor not making love."

Judith

1974 • 11 min • Norway

A young girl perishes in a life of drug use

Isolation

1974 • 5 min • United States of America

"I feel that some of the silent pieces might be seen as visual music. Perhaps a bit pretentious to say that, but such pieces as ISOLATION are something of the sort. This is a film that every time I see it I want to re-edit it, just for fun. Its like a jazz improv, and could be different during the next set – the rhythms, the pauses, perhaps with longer passages and variations in visual tonality, theme and variation, recapitulations – all sorts of musical terms might be applied. There is no real narrative development here. The film suggests that a boy in a rowboat sees glimpses of the world around him. The boy whose image you see is our son, Darmon, and long ago I was a similar boy as well." –Abbott Meader

Phonoptic

1974 • 8 min • Canada

Roll 'em Lola

1974 • 5 min • United States of America

A short animated feature which Fred Burns created with 2,000 inked, painted, and photographed images.

Enjoy Yourself (It's Later Than You Think)

1974 • 20 min

Filmmakers Tom Palazzolo, Jeff Kreines, and Bernie Caputo attend the annual Chicago Senior Citizens Picnic hosted by the Democratic Party. Shot in the style of direct cinema, they spend the afternoon in a Chicago park following the seniors as they have a musical revue, hula dance, listen to speeches, play organized games and generally seem to have an all around fabulous time.

Babalorixá Mário Miranda, Maria Aparecida no Carnaval

1974 • 29 min • Brazil

An interview with Babalorixá Mário Miranda, a black religious leader in recife, Brazil, who enjoys carnival dressed as a woman.

Right to the city

1974 • 25 min • France

Lefebvre's Le Droit à la Ville as visualised by Jean-Louis Bertucelli

Full Circle: The Work of Doris Chase

1974 • 15 min

A documentary focusing on Doris Chase's creative process. A pioneering filmmaker of expanded cinema and early computer technology.

Caminhos da Liberdade

1974 • 45 min • Portugal

Documentary about the Portuguese Revolution of April 25th, 1974 which focuses on events like the siege of the Carmo quarters and the release of the political prisoners at Forte de Caxias.

City Pasture

1974 • 38 min

A snow storm – Disney World – self important New York – ox-pull in Maine – a special old man – strip tease – an ant in the woods –wild 14th street – a mugging survived – the end.