All Films

Jaraslawa

1974 • 10 min

A film about a Ukrainian woman who was an ardent supporter of the Soviet Union. She bakes pirogi and speaks of her life. She was the cook at a popular Ukrainian cafeteria on the Lower East Side for years and later ran a boarding house on the Burlingham Road near Bloomingburg, New York. Music by the Penny Whistlers.

Passagens II

1974 • 6 min • Brazil

A being without a face goes through infinite stairsteps.

Monumentalism

1974 • 13 min • Italy

The film, shot ‘inside and outside’ Milan’s central station, uses this particular architecture as a model for discovering that within the environment we inhabit and work in, there almost never exists a relationship between space and its use. It pinpoints the ‘detachment’ which means expressing one’s own critical attitude towards the kind of architecture that refuses to accept any ‘vital’ aspects but reduces itself to a ‘monumental structure’ that is not able to contain the dynamics of human relationships.

What Do Gypsy Children Do?

1974 • 46 min • Hungary

Pál Schiffer's film reports on the injustices of the education system of the 1970s, the lies of the Kádár system, and the everyday life of Roma children.

The Bomb Disposal Men

1974 • 50 min

First transmitted in 1974, this is a documentary about bomb disposal teams, their training, and the problems of maintaining a family life in one of the most dangerous jobs in the world. It follows three Ammunition Technical Officers in the British Army.

Arts et traditions populaires au Yémen

1974 • 33 min

The Yemen Arab Republic, its people and their day-to-day activities, as discovered on a tour through town and country.

Arise Ye Workers

1974 • 23 min • United Kingdom

A campaign film supporting the dockers’ fight against redundancy, lay-offs and wage cuts caused by containerisation. The film charts the struggle against ruthless rationalisation, profiteering and land speculation, police harassment of pickets and finally the enforcement of the Industrial Relations Act by the arrest and jailing of the Pentonville 5. A series of massive solidarity demonstrations followed which freed the pickets and effectively destroyed the Act. The film includes footage of police harassment, dockers successfully calling on Fleet Street printworkers to strike in solidarity and the release of the five jailed dockers.

Smile

1974 • 9 min • Soviet Union

The collection consists of 2 cartoons: "Newlyweds". The story is about young spouses who, in pursuit of external comfort, lose both themselves and their love. "Portrait". The film is about a man who, in order to admire his photograph, destroys the house in which he lives.

Two Songs

1974 • 7 min • United States of America

With the singer/song-writer James Taylor (aka James McCandless), an extended music video set above and below Florida rivers, and in a ruined monastery. Features "You Shouldn't Have to Fell Such Pain" and other Taylor songs.

Para qué tractores sin violines

1974 • 34 min • Costa Rica

The film gives us an idea of how the Youth Symphony Orchestra operates, which was created taking into account a young member and a future violinist named Iván, who alternates soccer with violin exercises.

Vellberg

1974 • 22 min • Germany

In addition to historical facts based on the presentation of monuments, the short film primarily points out today's lifestyles of the medieval town of Vellberg, Germany

Arrow Game

1974 • 6 min

A short documentary film by ethnographic filmmaker Tim Asch that shows young members of the Yanomamo Indian tribe sharpening their arrow-shooting skills.

Sob as pedras do chão

1974 • 23 min

Liberdade, located in the center of São Paulo, is better known as "the Japanese neighborhood". The film shows immigration, the first Japanese settlements, the daily life of the community and the relationship between tradition and cultural assimilation.

Reel Success

1974 • 14 min • United Kingdom

Amateur film about a young man who joins the Edinburgh Cine Society to improve his film-making skills, which he achieves with prizewinning success.

Till frågan om kvinnans rösträtt

1974 • 8 min

In the spring of 1939, AB Radiotjänst was hit by one of its first public storms. A woman, Astrid Kindstrand, had read the daily news for the first time.

Intermission

1974 • 2 min

A black mass spoof that entices the audience to visit the theater snack bar during intermission

White Houses

1974 • 22 min • Soviet Union

A lyrical story about builders and a pianist.

Breeze

1974 • 16 min • Japan

It was a moment in the apartment I lived in at the time. The breeze was coming in through the window every now and then. I shot the footage on 8mm film, stopped it, and reshot each frame. I changed the camera direction and zoom for each frame, so while the people's movements are continuous, the screen is cropped for each frame.

Sleep Comes

1974 • 26 min • Japan

In order to see that a sequence of photographs is a film, I made various experiments within a single uninterrupted film. This work was the starting point for my work from "Dutchman's Photographs (8mm version)" which I made after interrupting this work, to "Emotion Boat" in 1976.

Cane

1974 • 20 min • Japan

I took this photo in Uraga. I was carrying a tripod with an 8mm camera on it, so it was a selfie from behind. The tripod is always in the frame, so it has a strong presence. The film was then projected and each frame was re-shot at different zoom ratios, allowing viewers to alternate between looking at the entire screen and the center, frame by frame. In the second half, I re-photographed the screen so that the tilted landscape on the screen was returned to a horizontal position, expressing the idea that the landscape is stationary and it is the viewfinder that moves.

Rex The Detective

1974 • 9 min • Poland

Hens ask Rex to investigate the case of their missing eggs. The dog catches a fox red-handed. He follows the traces of the fugitive. It turns out that the fox breeds chicks in its cave. Rex finds the pit and frees the chicks.

Terek the River of Friendship

1974 • 54 min • Soviet Union

A documentary film by North Ossetian television about how a river flowing through several republics of the North Caucasus unites people living in them. Together they build bridges, work in production, create the famous Tersko-Kuma irrigation canal, and a state farm where grapes are grown.… This is a film about the friendship of many generations of peoples inhabiting the shores of the buiny Terek, and about the benefits that the river gives to man.

Valentina Tereshkova

1974 • 31 min • Soviet Union

Valentina Tereshkova's journey from a peasant girl to the first woman in space. After factory work and technical studies, her parachuting hobby led to joining the cosmonaut program, making her a Soviet hero.

Fernando21

1974 • 21 min • Cuba, United States of America

The graffiti covered walls and trains of the New York City subway, superimposed on the images of a woman ultimately claimed by the graffiti artists.