All Films

Agua Salada

1974 • 10 min • Peru

Agua Salada is born from a dream, where a fish speaks and a cave is the scene of the drama of Passion.

They Do Not Exist

1974 • 25 min • Palestinian Territory

Shooting under extraordinary conditions, the director, who worked with Godard on his "Ici et Ailleurs" ("Here and Elsewhere") - this film was shot on the same 16mm camera - and founded the PLO's film division, covers conditions in Lebanon's refugee camps, the effects of Israeli bombardments, and the lives of guerrillas in training camps. "They Do Not Exist" is a stylistically unique work which explodes at the intersection between the political and the aesthetic.

Summer Solstice

1974 • 33 min

"The operations that dislocate a film like Summer Solstice– I hope irreparably– from being a movie about the locomotion and eating habits of cows, a dairy farm document, or what have you, are finally of a whole lot less concern to me than the following things: how it looks, the sense that probably it was done deliberately, the pleasure or displeasure– the intrigue, possibly– of attempting to retrieve the manner in which it was done while one is watching." -HF

Pokol - Inferno

1974 • 56 min

Dante goes down to Hell with the guard of Vergilius.

Baton Lounge

1974 • 16 min

Footage documenting a toy drive – “Toys for Tots” – held at a leather bar / motorcycle club in Chicago, called the Baton Lounge. The club was originally located at 436 N. Clark St., but moved to 4713 N. Broadway in 2019. The owner is Illinois native Jim Flint, who along with Irv Kupcinet helped to inaugurate the club’s most well-known tradition, “The Top of the Nation Revue,” which popularized the art of female impersonation and lip syncing – some of which can be seen in this film.

Propaganda Message

1974 • 14 min • Canada

A cartoon film about the whole heterogeneous mixture of Canada and Canadians, and the way the invisible adhesive called federalism makes it all cling together. That the dissenting voices are many is made amply evident, in English and French. But this animated message also shows that Canadians can laugh at themselves and work out their problems objectively.

Pispisa-khanum and Mouse-bey

1974 • 9 min • Soviet Union

The animation was based on Abdulla Shaig's "Tig-tig khanum" fairytale published in 1910.

J. Roy: New and Used Furniture

1974 • 11 min • United States of America

Buba introduces us to a Braddock entrepreneur who has failed at twelve businesses and is busy teaching would-be entrepreneurs self-confidence.

C-Trend

1974 • 8 min

Circus World

1974 • 25 min • United States of America

A vivid, behind-the-scenes look at the Big Top, the Greatest Show on Earth as presented by Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey. Seen from the performers’ point of view, Circus World is a wonderfully human look at the tensions and harmony of families living in a circus environment, complete with The Flying Gaonas, exhilarating highwire acts, clowns, and the amazing feats of Gunther Gebel-Williams, the famous wild-animal trainer. "Circus World" was shown exclusively at the 600-seat IMAX theater at the Circus World theme park in Central Florida.

Alan Price: Between Today and Yesterday

1974 • 58 min

In this documentary from 1974, Alan Price visits the North East of England, including his home town Jarrow, and talks about his musical career. In London he rehearses, records and performs some new songs, which reflect the changes in his life and attitude brought by his ten years as a professional musician.

The Snare

1974 • 11 min • Yugoslavia

Short documentary written, directed and edited by Aleksandar Ilić. It won the Special Jury Prize at the Krakow Film Festival.

Boomerang

1974 • 11 min

Originally broadcast on public television in Amarillo, TX, Richard Serra’s BOOMERANG features Nancy Holt framed in a medium shot with a pair of headphones on her ears. We observe her as she speaks and then hears her words relayed back to her through a delayed transmission. Remarkably eloquent for one caught in such a feedback loop, Holt provides a monologue on experiencing time, thought, and oneself through technology. She remarks, “I have a double take on myself. I am once removed from myself … we are hearing and seeing a world of double reflections and double refractions.”

Gebet für die Linke

1974 • 28 min

Voted for in the 2012 Sight & Sound poll

Vila Boa de Goyaz

1974 • 19 min • Brazil

Oral memory, artists from the region and expressions of popular culture tell stories about Vila Boa, in Goiás, and its transformations over time.

The Egg

1974 • 1 min • United States of America

A young woman eats raw eggs.

Ivan Lins: MPB Especial

1974 • 53 min • Brazil

Ivan Lins performing at TV Cultura in 1974.

Memory of the Summer of ’74

1974 • 9 min • Hungary

Screenplay Written by, Painted and Directed by György Kovásznai Music Compilation and Sound Editor: Péter Bársony Music Performed by Gábor Presser, Levente Szörényi, Zsuzsa Koncz, Kati Kovács, Máté Viktor, the LGT and the Hungária Bands Collaborators: János Czipauer, András Osvát, Miklós Papp, Béla Zsebényi, Katalin Kaim, Klára Kassai, and Frigyes Janotyik A subjective interpretation of the everyday life of the 1970s’ Budapest . It is an intriguing mixture of popular culture (music) and high art (composition of images). Kovásznai is not interested in telling a story; there is no linear narrative, the structure of the film is defined by the movements and transformations of the paintings to the rhythm of the music, generating a fundamentally audiovisual sensory experience.

Pan 4

1974 • 1 min • United States of America

A series of papers flutter in the wind.

There Was A Tram The Tenth Number

1974 • 15 min • Soviet Union

Mom

1974 • 38 min

“My mother decided to go back to school when she was 47 years old. Her four children had all left for college, and she felt now was the time to re-start her career in fashion design, so she enrolled in the Fashion Institute of Technology. I was auditing a film class at MIT’s Film & Video section and made this documentary about her. […] This film turned into a double portrait of her and of me.” –Mark Rance

Adventure in Venice

1974 • 23 min • United States of America

This film presents aspects of day-to-day life in Venice, a city that is most renowned for its historic sites and large tourist trade. It tells a story about a boy who loses a prized model ship on the waterways of his city.

Martha

1974 • 57 min • Netherlands

Martha overhears Bernard and John talking about blackmail. Jacob has come up with a plan that includes a mysterious key. Brothers Bobby and Arnold, eternal rivals, both fancy Martha, but also have a soft spot for Leonie. The latter gets tasked to learn more about Jacob's plan. A dead man is discovered lying in Bernard's office late at night by somebody else searching the premises. When the main conspirators all gather at the Zevenhuis villa, John declines to cooperate...

Willi, Wally, Werner und das Schweinchen Wurstel fahren zu den Weltfestspielen

1974 • 42 min • East Germany

Three kids from a small village in Mecklenburg decide to sneak away to East-Berlin in order to gift Angela Davis a lucky pig.