All Films

Men's Lives

1974 • 43 min

A documentary film about the men in our culture: denying their fears, playing tough, performing—performing not just in order to provide, own, consume, but in order that these activities signify manliness.

Paragon's Paragon

1974 • 30 min • United States of America

Paragon's Paragon is a fan film that was initially completed in 1974 and shown at conventions. It is an unofficial adaptation of the TOS novel: Spock Must Die!, changing the identities of the ship and characters.

Canadian Pacific I

1974 • 9 min • Canada

Canadian Pacific I is made up of a series of slowly dissolved shots done from the same framing over several months. The camera frames a window with a railway yard in the foreground, a bay in the space behind it, and misty mountains in the extreme distance. Trains occasionally pass by in the foreground. Huge ships move across the bay. Blue mists hover over the mountain heads.

Interspersions

1974 • 15 min

Two girls are living and a hippy lifestyle in a country house.but soon the walls between reality and fantasy start to blend until no one is sure what’s really happening.

At Eltham, a Metaphor on Death

1974 • 24 min • Australia

Corinne Cantrill’s film At Eltham from 1974 explores her fascination with Australian landscapes and introduces her interest in playing the 16mm camera functions as a musical instrument. In an essay, Corinne notes she subtitled the film ‘A Metaphor on Death’ referring to their despair, at the time, about their future as filmmakers in Australia and their decision to leave the country temporarily.

Ultrarouge-lnfraviolet

1974 • 30 min • France

The movement in this film only consists of variations in color operating on a fixed image based on a Pissaro painting, Les Toits Rouges.

Der Turm

1974 • 10 min • Germany

Farewell to Steam

1974 • 10 min • Poland

A young man lives constantly in a fantasy world, until he starts working for a railroad company.

These Savage Cowboys

1974 • 10 min • Poland

Bill and John, two old cowboys, try to fight a duel. They are still distracted by many different things: a sneeze, a beautiful smell from the kitchen, a lady’s voice. The duel is postponed.

The Middle Dog's Day

1974 • 7 min • South Korea

shows visual and metaphorical representation using rope as a motif through various rope images and meanings.

Diary

1974 • 8 min • Yugoslavia

Souvenirs, memories, nostalgia, alienation, the ephermal quality of life ...these are the subjects of this animated diary. The film is not made in the usual way (screenplay, storyboard) and was born at the moment when the author sat at his desk and began animating.

Jefferson Circus Songs

1974 • 16 min • United States of America

In a fantasy world, life-size cardboard animations interact with children clad in clown wigs, monkey masks, and princess costumes. Together, they host a carnival of surreal goings-on.

Farce

1974 • 10 min • Yugoslavia

A short puppet animation.

Mirror People

1974 • 5 min • United States of America

To a sound-track of fun-house screams and cackles, Mirror People, a tribe of Halloween hallucinations, fuse into each other and get absorbed into their reflections and their environments in a universe where all is flux and nothing is stable, except for the constant delights of metamorphosis. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2008.

Sagan om Siv

1974 • 43 min • Sweden

About a woman and her boring life, based on haiku poems by Sonja Åkesson.

Reminiscence

1974 • 5 min

This tape was created when Woody visited his native Moravia with a Portapak camera. In the course of signal modulation an alteration in the field of raster lines is taking place, in which the lines are being vertically deformed and gain the contours of objects (with the use of a Rutt/Etra synthesizer).

Noodle Spinner

1974 • 11 min • United Kingdom

Noodle Spinner takes some basic documentary footage of a Chinese noodle spinner and then loops, split, reduces and staggers it to present a series of multiple-image collages in motion: in an inventive way the film's form thus resembles the process it was seeking to represent.

Lost for Words

1974 • 4 min

A summer afternoon lying in a field. Slight breeze. Friends in the distance sit talking. Looking at a book sometimes I see them. - AN.

Vidéo-Cortex

1974 • 6 min • Canada

A Chinese Farm Wife

1974 • 17 min

A Chinese Farm Wife gives us a peek into the life of Mrs. Li, a Taiwanese woman whose husband is a salaried factory worker. Along with the help of her eldest daughter and her neighbors, Mrs. Li runs their 3-acre farm, cultivating crops of tobacco and rice. She also supervises the children's education and manages the household, and is a full participant in community activities.

Reserved for Animals

1974 • 29 min • United Kingdom

A look at Woburn Safari Park.

Himno al Sol

1974 • 9 min • Peru

Documentary directed by Armando Robles Godoy.

Film sur Hans Bellmer

1974 • 32 min • France

Documentary short about Hans Bellmer.

Ваня Датский

1974 • 17 min • Soviet Union