All Films

Hassani

1974 • 33 min • Iran

The short movie "Hassani"

Spirit Possession of Alejandro Mamani

1974 • 27 min

An old Bolivian man nears the end of his life. He has property and status, but not contentment. Believing himself posessed by evil spirits, he opens his heart to reveal his anguish. His personal tragedy brings us close to every man's confrontation with the unknown, old age, and death.

Solo for 3

1974 • 4 min

In this early formal experiment with analog image processing, the Vasulkas investigate multiple camera set-ups and keyers to articulate spatial, temporal and sound/image manipulation. Solo for 3 is a playful technical exercise in which three cameras were trained on three different images of the number three. Image planes are layered, arranged and sequenced; the result is a multifaceted choreography of numbers.

What’s Tops

1974 • 19 min • United Kingdom

British Rail's wagon control system and how it works, concentrating on the information most useful to the specific wagon operating staff.

The Little Mole and the Music

1974 • 6 min • Czechoslovakia

This story tells how the little Mole's favourite record got broken and how his friends, birds and mice, helped him to find a new one.

Secret LSU

1974 • 10 min • Soviet Union

About the benefits of playing sports. LSU stands for “light-handed, spirited, unique.”

Sykes

1974 • 13 min • United States of America

Portrays the life of Sykes, a proud, blind pensioner who lives in Chicago, capturing his life style in a positive statement.

The Cockerel and The Sun

1974 • 7 min • Soviet Union

The little rooster imagines that he is waking up the sun with his crowing, and all his friends believe him. But the sun rises without the rooster's crowing.

Rays of Hope

1974 • 12 min • India

The documentary film is about the Film and Television Institute of India including the views expressed by students, staff and Ex-Director Shri Jagat Murari. The filmmakers from the institute are 'Rays of Hope' for the alternative or New Indian Cinema.

Taina

1974 • 6 min

A lyrical short film (from Artūras Barysas-Baras), with an aura of subversive irony.

Backyard Economy 1

1974 • 4 min

Set in the arch-American "home movie" context of a sunny suburban yard, Rosler's early Super-8 film Backyard Economy I documents the products of mundane domestic chores. Silently depicting scenes of laundry hanging out to dry in a suburban backyard, Rosler points up the labor that allows leisure and interrogates its underlying "economy."

Going Places Fast

1974 • 14 min • United Kingdom

Aimed at the overseas market (and with one or two references that would not be acceptable as politically correct today) this film extols the virtue of using rail services for travelers visiting Britain.

Speeding

1974 • 21 min

Short educational film by Mitchell Block (1974)

The Rook

1974 • 10 min • Iran

The Rook made in 1974 is the establishment of sadeghi’s style in reference to Persian painting and miniature. The chess board act as witness to a game in progress. The players move their pieces until two kings remain and the game back to continue from the beginning which represent ongoing metaphor of political power games. The humorous piece of animation looks at the absurdity of war, politics and stance of society in between these notions.

Man in Search of Man

1974 • 21 min • India

In the summer of 1974, the Indian government organized an expedition to the Andaman Islands. What you are about to see is the first ever released film about the native peoples of these islands. After a brief review of Port Blair's history, the expedition leaves to meet the Onge people on Little Andaman Island, then to meet the Jarawa people on Interview Island, and finally to Sentinel Island where the Sentinel people have been filmed for the very first time.

Super Carrot

1974 • 6 min • United States of America

UCLA Student Animation Workshop. A violinist charms a snake and then both are eaten by the monster, which also eats a frog, a bricklayer, a dribbler, and a bird. Super Carrot conquers the monster by flying into his mouth, but then Super Carrot is eaten by the rabbit.

Smokey Wears Pantyhose

1974 • 9 min • United States of America

Fast -paced film works its way through American culture in a crazy quilt of images and wild sounds including truckers’ CB radio banter and arcade machine gun fire. A theme of give and take is established as a young man tries to get rid of a coconut head, visits a carnival peep show, dances and twirls batons with a dog, and finally hops a truck to somewhere.

Pan 3

1974 • 1 min • United States of America

A journey through a field of corn.

Mr. Rossi in Venice

1974 • 12 min • Italy

Mister Rossi goes to Venice.

Pan 0

1974 • 1 min • United States of America

Clouds roll by in a static haze.

Bedsitters

1974 • 17 min • Netherlands

Set on the landing and the stairs of Zwartjes’ new house, then still empty, in The Hague. The filmmaker suggests a mysterious and complex space by using a ‘floating’ camera to film a number of crawling, creeping personages. (MUBI)

Eureka

1974 • 38 min • United States of America

"This is a film that not only documents a place in time, but a modern spatial vision, a look and technology that makes this street the sort of place it is. And here in this preserved piece of history, one also sees the chemical dance of film grain that makes up the material of Gehr’s own History. We do not simply see Market Street circa 1902, but a film of Market Street, and it is as fascinating as the site itself. Film may in some sense exist indifferent to emotions, objects, beings, or ideas. But early in his work Gehr realized that film, even conceived as a thing in itself, can never exist outside of history. The very dance of grain on the screen acquires a history of its production, its screenings, its viewings. History is the place no place can avoid.” - Tom Gunning

A Film of Their 1973 Spring Tour Commissioned by Christian World Liberation Front of Berkeley, California

1974 • 12 min

A radical Christian group's lecture tour of US colleges was filmed in the cinema verité tradition, with hand held camera, sync and wild sound. To avoid making a conventional documentary, the filmmaker created a dynamic collage by stroboscopically editing together pairs of scenes using a rapid rhythm of three-frame units.

Launch

1974 • 10 min • United Kingdom

Activities leading up to the launch of a large ship built at the Swan Hunter's Wallsend shipyard.