All Films

Look Again

1974 • 10 min

Look Again yes

Landscape Bodydwelling

1974 • 8 min • United States of America

Burckhardt collaborates with artist Simonds to produce a portrait of the artist as a foundation.

Breakdown

1974 • 3 min

A 360 degree pan breaks down as the narrator's memories of the house in which she sits by the fireplace breaks down.

Dervish 2

1974 • 16 min

A film by Amy Greenfield.

Apache Fire

1974 • 46 min • United States of America

This is a dramatic story set in modern times of a Native American man and his friends who run afoul of the law.

The Kidnapping

1974 • 8 min • Finland

Albert the Caterpillar and his girlfriend Albertina visit Filbert, the inventor. During a walk in the woods, Albertina disappears, kidnapped by Olfert the Crook. Filbert and Albert find Olfert’s hiding place and rescue Albertina.

Tea Spoon

1974 • 2 min

Film by Wojciech Bruszewski

Tamás Cseh: The First Photo

1974 • 37 min • Hungary

In March 1974, Hungarian television recorded a concert by Tamás Cseh and Ad Libitum as a live concert for two days (16-17) in the largest lecture hall of the Budapest University of Technology in front of a crowded student audience. The recording was made in black and white on magnetic tape by a car that drove up to the building.

Three Winters

1974 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Poetic and heartfelt documentary about a small rural school and the life around it in Vastse-Otepää, Estonia.

Mejbi

1974 • 15 min

Animation short.

Cells and What They Do

1974 • 11 min • United States of America

Examines cells in plants and animals, explaining that each cell has a different job to do. Uses drawings and microphotography to observe the details of cell structure. Shows the process of cell division for both growth and reproduction.

The Flag of Stars

1974 • 11 min • Australia

The battle of Eureka Stockade was an event of great significance in Australian history, in which gold miners from around the world rebelled against an unfair Miners' Tax and the way in which it was administered by the colonial government. In 1973, to commemorate its 119th anniversary, the original Eureka flag was unveiled by the Prime Minister Gough Whitlam at the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery in Victoria. In his speech Mr Whitlam identified the Eureka Stockade with the birth of democracy in Australia and Immigration minister Al Grassby read verses by the people's poet Henry Lawson in honour of the occasion.

The Austrian Tapes

1974 • 17 min

In his video »The Austrian Tapes«, Douglas Davis examines the medium of television. It was realized for a video symposium and the exhibition »Art as Living Ritual« curated by Horst Gerhard Haberl at the P.O.O.L Gallery in Graz.

Soldiers

1974 • 9 min • Soviet Union

In the victorious year of 1945, the Belarusian women of the village of Vyoletovo planted birch trees in memory of those who did not return from the war. These women preserved the memory of their dear and beloved husbands—who had gone off to war still so young and never came back.

Naine täna

1974 • 20 min • Soviet Union

The film tries to make sense of the role of women in 1970s Estonia. The activities of men and women in different spheres of life are compared, the woman as a mother, caregiver and worker is examined, as well as the woman's aspirations for beauty and goodness.

Italiques: Roland Topor

1974 • 54 min • France

Roger Boussinot directed this episode of the French television show Italiques, which features an overview of the art and career of Fantastic Planet illustrator Roland Topor. It aired on August 8, 1974.

Atlantis

1974 • 9 min • Germany

Travels in Sicily, Stromboli and Vulcano

Baroque Statues

1974 • 16 min • Austria

In an associative montage statues of saints in rigid and rapt poses are cross cut with those of real actors until the two can no longer be told apart. Gradually the real bodies break away from the constraints of their wooden models through increasingly improvised dance. A successful act of liberation from (Catholic) convention, which the material celebrates in an acstasy of multiple exposures and psychedelic colors.

Sic Transit Gloria Mundi/Heraklea

1974 • 10 min • Yugoslavia

The film introduces the history of one of the oldest towns in Macedonia: Heraklea Linkestis, which has been built in the IV century B.C.

Sleepers

1974 • 20 min

A succession of images, overlaying, repeating, banging together around the figure of the filmmaker who crosses his work like a conductor over his orchestra. He brillantly conducts a concerto for a pasted life in a divine future!

Brighton Belle

1974 • 12 min • France

The real life and the parallel life of two women. A delirium that results from their confusion and their expectation. The mixture of reality and imagination ending in emptiness.

Good Old-Fashioned Cartoon Violence

1974 • 2 min • United States of America

A cartoon character falls victim to various traditional pratfalls for no particular reason.

Simiterio do Adão e Eva

1974 • 20 min • Brazil

A Film for Log Hill Dogs

1974 • 2 min • United States of America

An elegant depiction of landscape and domestic space. One of two films based on David and Diana's life in their house in Colorado, which had just burned down. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2008.