All Films

Sostituzione

1974 • 12 min • Italy

A "performative" Super8 film in which the artist progressively takes control of the XX Century greatest revolutionary man's identity.

Tribute to the Rolling Stones

1974 • 5 min • Germany

A surrealist tribute to The Rolling Stones.

The Search For My Identity

1974 • 8 min • Italy

The film was made with successive images of La Pietra’s face realised from 1938 to 1974, all continually compared with his face as was at that moment (1974). Through this sequence we have the sensation that for thirty-six years he has doggedly and slowly tried to reach some “final model” (his face in 1974).

The World of Miss World

1974 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Director Tony Palmer exposes the harsh underbelly of the famed Miss World beauty contest, going beneath the glamour to reveal a hotbed of bullying, and sexism. At once tragic, funny, and deeply moving, this document of gender power dynamics remains as relevant today as it was upon its release in 1974.

President Nixon Resigns the Office of the Presidency

1974 • 15 min

President Richard Nixon made an address to the American public from the Oval Office on 08 August 1974, to announce his resignation from the presidency due to the Watergate scandal.

Isso é Que é

1974 • 6 min • Brazil

At a time when the censorship scissors even advanced on amateur films in Super-8, the short film “Isto É Que é” can be seen as an attempt to speak through metaphors and suggestions.

Entering

1974 • 7 min

The imagery and sound in Entering were performed 'live' by Donebauer and composer Simon Desorgher, and recorded in real time, using a colour TV studio at the Royal College of Art. Later Donebauer and Richard Monkhouse developed the Videokalos synthesiser, as an image-sound performance instrument. Entering was transmitted by the BBC in 1974.

Alchemy Blues

1974 • 10 min

Animation painted directly onto film. Olga Spiegel was an original member of Women Artist Filmmakers (WAF 1974-1981)

Look Park

1974 • 10 min • United States of America

Look Park presents close up shots of a country stream viewed in bright sunlight. The film opens with wide shots of the park to establish the location of the water, then focuses in very tight on the abstract reflections and shadows.

Intern

1974 • 21 min • Soviet Union

Sasha Kazarinov, an oil college student, is undergoing an internship at one of the drilling rigs in the northern taiga. At first, his relationship with drilling foreman Leushin did not work out. Leushin does not trust the city boy and does not put Sasha on the winch, although it is the topic of his thesis. But gradually, with his diligence, the intern wins the trust of the master.

Claude Gauvreau - Poète

1974 • 57 min • Canada

A moving documentary about a poet not far from being a legend.

I'm Painting a Red Forest

1974 • 16 min • Soviet Union

A fairy tale for little ones about the adventures of a kitten artist.

Mirror

1974 • 5 min

Then the sun begins to set in the mirror and the entire screen erupts in violent explosions of orange lens flares. Slowly the background sky goes black leaving only the mirror to show twilight. Then everything is dark. This piece is similar to Hand Held Day. The endurance aspect is especially important because I am entirely visible.

Harriet At Butlins

1974 • 27 min

Documentary about Butlins

Chornobyl Nuclear Station

1974 • 11 min • Soviet Union

A documentary film about the construction of the first atomic power station in Soviet Ukraine in Chornobyl. In the film, schoolchildren, public servants and inhabitants of villages of the Chornobyl region try to answer the question "What is the atom?" Their naive and unsure answers illustrate the vague but decidedly trusting perception of the atomic phenomena. In Soviet cinema of the 1970s, the "production of drama" is popular, a genre in which factory or office routines are presented in a romantic light. The film uses all of these new aesthetic trends in a documentary approach. The ambitious construction plans of the power station are shown through a number of personal stories, one of them is about an engineer's dream of a river port in the "atomohrad", and river shuttles which will travel from Pripiat to Kyiv.

Niagara Gorge

1974 • 8 min • United States of America

A filmed "landscape bodydwelling" by Charles Simonds.

Situation

1974 • 11 min • Japan

A static image of a rock next to a curb is overlaid with the deformed reflection of light and shadows from pedestrian and vehicular traffic. An alternatively whispy and shrill, irregular slide whistle soundtrack is occasionally punctuated by a male voice saying "this is," culminating in an insistent string of "this is, this is, this is." Once the soundtrack falls silent, the camera begins to haltingly zoom out, revealing the reflection to have been caused by the slick surface of the glossy photo of the curb, and the picture itself to have been one of a series of photos of urban details placed in a grid in an exhibition space.

España de los contrastes

1974 • 39 min • Spain

A luminous journey through Spain in search of the sun and the many commonalities and differences that for millennia have united and divided the inhabitants of that land of many landscapes, many cultures and many ideas.

Harambee: Pull Together

1974 • 19 min

Harambee is a traditional Swahili chant meaning heave-ho or pull together the slogan for a united Kenya. Harambee Day or Independence Day is celebrated in this small town in North Kenya with political speeches and an auction at the native school. The film shows how North Kenya- isolated for years- tries to adapt to the new concept of nationhood. Government officials from South Kenya are appointed as ambassadors to spread the idea of national unity to a people unaccustomed to it.

Green Willow for Delaware

1974 • 15 min • Canada

"it continued to rain all day for some reason people started to talk about Delaware no one knew anything about it no one had been there or knew anyone from there..."

Día de México

1974 • 12 min • Mexico

During the six-year term of President Luis Echeverría, a Mexico-United States coexistence day was organized in Washington. American children and adults flocked to the cathedral, where Mexican dancers performed regional dances. It was a day of folk music, dances, Mexican crafts and food exhibitions.

Inimeste maja

1974 • 19 min • Soviet Union

Portrait film about Šarl Piel, a brigadier of builders who is demanding a lot both from himself and others and who is able to overcome the difficulties encountered at work.

Being Women in Japan: Living with the Ocean

1974 • 51 min

A part of Michishita’s two-part series Being Women in Japan, Living with the Ocean alternates between footage of men and women fisherman harvesting kelp, and interviews with both about their lives and their work.

Évolu

1974 • 7 min

Uses animation without narration to show the painting of a man's face--a face that is continuously metamorphosing into different types. The film's title indicates an artist's evolution, as well as the evolution of man in relation to society and to his innate potential.