All Films

What Are You Doing Tonight?

1974 • 19 min • Soviet Union

About mass forms of youth recreation. The object of the film was one of the evenings of rest in a working dormitory.

Isolation ist transparent

1974 • 39 min

"Isolation ist Transparent" manifested the concept of my video performance work. The video camera hung from the ceiling and transmitted the action from above into the auditorium, which was separated by a transparent wall. The audience saw me acting and, at the same time, they saw the camera's video recording from above. From a perspective they certainly couldn't capture in person – two simultaneous and different views of one action. I maintained this concept for my performance actions until the early 1980s. https://www.ulrike-rosenbach.de/lebenslauf/texte/videokunst-und-performance-aktion-im-werk-von-ulrike-rosenbach/

Police Attack — People Fight Back

1974 • 17 min • United States of America

Activist documentary by the Atlanta Anti-Repression Coalition on Black resistance to police violence. Includes footage of police beating striking meat-packing workers in Atlanta in 1971, the police killing of Brandon Gibson in 1974 and protests in its wake, and South Boston school busing desegregation. The narrators call on progressive white and working people to join with Black people in revolutionary resistance to the ruling class.

Adopción

1974 • 5 min • Argentina

Documentary short about the adoption process and its benefits to society.

ACE Number 5

1974 • 8 min

The one called ACE Number 5 was the first, made when I was a grad student at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. It was the breakthrough which led to the rest of them. -Bruce Wood

The Good Photo

1974 • 15 min • Iran

A young photographer who took a picture of a father and son returns to them to give them the photo, only to find the son alone.

The Quiet Land

1974 • 24 min • United Kingdom

A rare portrait of Northern Ireland in a time of conflict as "a land where the pace of life is more friendly, where everybody cares and nobody minds". Travel from dawn until dusk and delight in the rhythms of nature and traditional crafts. The only hint of dispute is an architectural battle between a classical husband and gothic wife, giving birth to Castle Ward.

Pan 1

1974 • 1 min • United States of America

A pendulum swings by until it comes to a complete stop.

The Great Canadian Puberty Rite

1974 • 21 min • Canada

This lyrical film diary chronicles a westward “pilgrimage” Stephen made, together with her partner John Cressey, at the end of her studies in Montreal, in the summer of ’74. As she contemplates the impetus for the journey, her camera surveys a variety of side-of-the-road attractions, snowy mountain vistas, and grassy knolls studded with cheerful fellow roadtrippers.

Makimono

1974 • 36 min • Germany

Makimono is an Asian roll painting depicting a landscape. The subject of the film is the language of film itself, its mutability and its influence on the viewer's vision and thinking. While the film gradually progresses the viewer is gently invited to reflect on the development of the film in its expressive potential.

Exploratorium

1974 • 15 min

An Oscar-nominated film with no narration showing the Exploratorium (The Palace of Arts and Science) in San Francisco. It shows many of the exhibits and the reaction of visitors to many of these. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.

Hynningen

1974 • 20 min

Hynningen (Swedish for ‘honey roof’) begins with long multiple exposures of a landscape with a clearing, opening up to the horizon.

Procol Harum - Live Beat Club & MusikLaden

1974 • 52 min

Led by pianist / singer Gary Brooker, this 1971 Beat Club Workshop showcases the band at the height of their career. The show features BJ Wilson on drums, Chris Chopping on organ, Dave Ball on guitar, Allan Cartwright on bass, and Gary Brooker on piano and vocals. Superb musicianship and artistry come blazing through in these rare and exciting performances of artists and groups of the 60s, 70s, and 80s. These are the international stars that were part of the televised monthly music show Beat Club and MusikLaden. Filmed in Germany at the television studios of Radio Bremen, MusikLaden (originally known as Beat Club) became a TV classic not only for the fans, but also for the artists who took part. There was no time limitation on song length so artists were able to perform live concert versions of their most popular hit songs.

Kaskara

1974 • 21 min • Germany

An experimental film where a particular space is constantly "present" : there is a complex usage of superim- position, and of split-screen effects. The place shown is a part of a house in the country. Doors and windows are continually shown, emphasizing the film's concern with framing. Other images are present: city-scapes of a particularly sinister nature, implying a sense of ruin, and shots of a chorus on a stage. These shots begin and end the film which is accompanied by a vocal chant on the soundtrack.

With the Blood of Others

1974 • 50 min

A famous documentary about the Peugeot factory in Sochaux in the 1970s. In this region, everything is owned by Peugeot: homes, stores, schools and leisure - there is no escaping it. The production line dictates the rhythm of everyday life: a horrible machine, draining workers' energy and hope.

Script

1974 • 50 min

Script is the opposite of an improvisational exercise. Seven couples, all amateurs, are handed pages from random movie scripts and instructed to enact the absurd text through force of imagination, without direction or knowledge of what the others are doing.

Autobiográfico 2

1974 • 5 min • Argentina

In a forest, a woman is bound by rope and string to the trees. Gradually, she begins to remove the bindings.

Adland

1974 • 58 min • United States of America

TVTV turns its critical eye to the world of advertising in Adland, subtitled Where Commercials Come From. Focusing on the reality behind the image, and specifically on the strategies of Madison Avenue, they interview prominent 1970s admen such as George Lois and Jerry Della Femina. They also go behind the scenes of commercial shoots, where such figures as Ronald McDonald and the precocious child actor Mason Reese are put through grinding routines, only to reveal themselves as jaded pros off-camera. In this clear-eyed look at the manipulation inherent in advertising, the TVTV crew meets its match in the relentless cynicism and masculine braggadocio of the seasoned admen; ultimately, TVTV conveys respect for the savvy and skills of these shrewd veterans.

Shosh

1974 • 7 min

1974 Gitai super8 short film

In the Grass

1974 • 11 min • Poland

The second animated work from filmmaker, sculptor and painter Jerzy Kalina. Using multi-plane techniques mixed with paper animation and coloured grains (an element found in his first film, ...i stała się światłość, W trawie is a fantastical exploration of the world beneath our feet.

Soundgated Images

1974 • 10 min

The Multikeyer and Scan Processor are used for creating the pulsating abstract composition showing six different cases of audio-video interface with the simultaneous generation of sound and image.

Open Book

1974 • 10 min

Acconci's open mouth is framed by the camera in an extreme close-up, bringing the viewer uncomfortably close. A desperate sense of strained urgency comes across as Acconci gasps, "I'll accept you, I won't shut down, I won't shut you out.... I'm open to you, I'm open to everything.... This is not a trap, we can go inside, yes, come inside...." Acconci continues to plead in this way for the length of the tape, his mouth held unnaturally wide open. The pathological psychology of such enforced openness betrays a desperate struggle to accept and be accepted by others. The sustained image of Acconci's open mouth also evidences a sinister, vaguely threatening streak that is more or less evident in much of Acconci's work.

Train Landscape

1974 • 3 min

It's a painter's approach to filmmaking, to putting painting in motion. Shown at the Cannes Festival 1976

Objection

1974 • 17 min • United States of America

Begun as a document for insurance purposes, OBJECTION catalogues the contents of a house with ever-increasing horror. The soundtrack carries the voices and sounds of the family unseen.