All Films - Short Movie Database

Firefly

1974 • 5 min

Superimposed images of a woman dancing.

Nitrato

1974 • 19 min • Brazil

Nitrato expresses the ambiguities and contradictions of the Cinemateca Brasileira. The film deals with the richness of its collection, the recognition of international entities, and explores what its relationship to the general public was like. Nitrato also portrays the neglect with which the institution is treated, as seen in how precarious its building infrastructure is, how politicians neglected to communicate with the institution’s staff, and the aftermath of another fire in the building.

Alternatim

1974 • 15 min

A part of Werner Nekes' lyrical anthology DIWAN.

Women

1974 • 13 min • United States of America

A sardonic film about the clichés laid on women.

Weather Balloon, Feathered Balloon

1974 • 4 min

United States 1974, Super 8 film transferred to digital, colour, silent, 4 min

Grass Breathing

1974 • 3 min

United States c.1974, Super 8 film transferred to digital, colour, silent, 3 min

Quneitra 74

1974 • 21 min • Syrian Arab Republic

Quneytra 74 begins with shots of people on the edge of the blasted city of Kuneitra. A woman breaks away from the crowd, makes her way towards the city, speeds up the step, as if to escape from the camera. Filmed on behalf of Syrian TV, the accuracy of Malas' light, shadow, silence and soundscape as essential elements of his cinematic language is evidenced here, as well as his interest in the issues of civil war, territorial war and identity destruction.

Easter Is

1974 • 24 min

Benji and Waldo in Easter Is

“He was born, he suffered, he died.”

1974 • 8 min • United States of America

"The quote is Joseph Conrad answering a critic who found his books too long. Conrad replied that he could write a novel on the inside of a match-book cover, thus (as above), but that he "preferred to elaborate." The "Life" of the film is scratched on black leader. The "elaboration" of color tonalities is as the mind's eye responds to hieroglyph." - S.B. (Note: it seems possible that Brakhage misattributed this quote, which appears to be from William Faulkner and/or W. Somerset Maugham). Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2006.

Cross

1974 • 42 min • United Kingdom

John Du Cane’s rarely shown films are amongst the most pure and radical of their period. In Cross, he uses the drawing of a cross (made without lifting the pencil) as a model for the camera movements and a score for the film. “The films are very physical, they are polyrhythmic and they are patterned in a manner designed to create a very definite way of seeing, of experiencing ... The films are silent to the extent that there is no soundtrack ... I believe films’ light capable of creating sound ... the films are there to be listened to. They are there to be felt." (John Du Cane)

Numen Lumen

1974 • 4 min

Meditations on light and a window fan for Jerry Hiler and Nick Dorsky. "Warm regards from the West Coast -- I only wish I had seen your films much sooner than I did because we are so much closer as filmmakers than I ever could have expected." - Jerome Hiler

Woman from Kihnu

1974 • 48 min • Soviet Union

Kihnu is a small island in the Gulf of Riga. Soosaar looks at the islanders from the point of view of an explorer, just like his filmmaking hero Robert Flaherty once did. Their traditional lifestyle unfolds in front of his camera: customary songs and rituals, and heartfelt images of people’s daily lives.

São Luís

1974 • 10 min

Documentary about the capital of Maranhão.

The Boy Who Didn't Listen

1974 • 11 min • United States of America

Jimmy learns to listen

Free Inside

1974 • 12 min • United States of America

8mm/Super 8 early silent short films by the Chiodo Brothers, inspired by Ray Harryhausen, included on the 4K remastered Arrow Video Blu-ray of ‘Killer Klowns from Outer Space’

Two Sides to Every Story

1974 • 11 min

Two 16mm films are projected in a loop on a thin painted aluminum screen hanging in the middle of a room. We can hear the projectors at each end of the room, which project images on the central screen. We can see the same scene on each side of the screen: a woman, seen from the front and front back depending on the side of the screen, painting it with spray paint. A man then tears up the screen and goes through it, followed by the woman. We can see Michael Snow sitting further away, giving instructions to the woman. We can also see the cameras filming the scene from each side. Visitors in the room can walk around the screen and thus watch the scene from one angle or another. Both films are projected in synchronicity on the two sides of the screen.

Götterdämmerung

1974 • 10 min

Kuwait - Kuwait

1974 • 23 min

Documentary on various aspects of Kuwaiti life, the contrasts between a backward society that lives in the desert and a very modern society that lives in the city.